How pycon KR contributed to AX in IT-less industry
In South Korea, much of the economy still relies on traditional industry — manufacturing, steel, oil refining, construction. Yet only a handful of these companies use software or AI to its full potential. I've encountered firms with over $100M in revenue spending less than $3,000 a year on software — where, in practice, the only tool is KakaoTalk.
Over the past two years, I've found that community — especially one built by members from diverse backgrounds, including non-technical people — can play a crucial role in national-scale AX (AI transformation). In this talk, I'll share what I've experienced firsthand: real cases of community-driven AX, the limits I ran into, and how we worked to overcome them — and how Python and its community make these cases actually work in practice.
Tell us about your own experience with this topic
I've worked on adopting AI and software to various industries for past 5 years - 3.5 years as a freelancer, 1.5 years as a CEO of my own company. I was a NLP researcher before than, focusing on adopting formal logic to describe formal semantics of natural language.
For past 1.5 years, I have lead ai transformation and operating AI-based systems in various non-IT industry, including Samsung Global Research, Samsung Electronics, GS Caltex, etc,.
What discussions can you have with attendees through this talk?
I want to discuss with attendees who are experiencing similar problem with me - which is adopting software, AI, and AI-driven workflows to traditional enterprises. Also, I would definitely love to talk with policy makers if possible; government, enterprise doesn't matter.
Also I want to experience how pycon jp is organized and want to feel the vibe, so any conversation that I can understand is highly welcomed!!
More than welcome to talk about AX and DX in Japan and Korea.
Open to every coffee-chat (I prefer matcha though)
Korean native, fluent in English / Novice in Japanese, but will be more than happy to talk in Japanese :)
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