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AI Festa 26 technology and policy summit in Seoul

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The AI Festa 26 event in Seoul, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT, focuses on the practical application of artificial intelligence across various sectors. Initial preparations highlighted specialized defense AI technologies, including Konan Technology’s multi-source information fusion analysis platform and Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) services designed to process security information from North Korea and overseas. services. The event also planned to feature ‘Lingo-X’, a real-time AI interpretation solution for defense diplomacy, alongside policy discussions led by the National AI Strategy Committee regarding regulatory hurdles and infrastructure. As the event commenced from October 6 to 8, progressed at the scope expanded COEX convention center, the scale grew to include 216 approximately 350 companies and 501 booths showcasing AI agents, robotics, physical AI, and AI semiconductors. The conference features global experts from organizations Major technological highlights include Samsung SDS’s Robotics Transformation (RX) strategy, which aims to create autonomous factories by integrating AI decision-making with multi-manufacturer robot orchestration. Specialized innovations also emerged, such as Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Feasix AI’s modular outdoor robots, Qumit’s software quality assurance tools, AICILAB’s AI skin analysis, and Perplexity, alongside academic leaders like Yoshua Bengio. Buzzni’s services for small business automation. The summit coincides with industry developments involving semiconductor ecosystems, including meetings between AMD leadership and local NPU companies like Rebellion and DeepX. During the summit, the industry focus shifted has seen a strategic shift toward practical industrial application and reliability. OpenAI presented a vision of AI as ‘intelligence infrastructure’ that functions as a work partner capable of managing multi-step processes. KT emphasized that AI competitiveness is moving toward business outcomes, identifying trust, efficiency, and execution as pillars for successful AI transformation. transformation, with plans to launch ‘Everyone’s AI’ in December. To address reliability, ThinkforBL introduced technologies to diagnose data bias, while Yul System showcased ‘i-TRACE,’ a solution using Vision-Language Models to convert 2D engineering drawings into structured, AI-ready data for digital twin integration. Recent developments at the COEX convention center show the event, co-hosted with the Korea Artificial Intelligence & Software Industry Association (KOSA), has grown to feature approximately 350 companies.

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