korea future forum 2016 MAY 31, 2016

ORGANIZERS

NEWS 1 Korea Go to Website >

News1 Korea is one of the influential news agencies in South Korea established by MoneyToday Media group. It covers politics, business, entertainment, technology, culture and local news for readers who need fast and precise information. Around 17 million people visit News1's website per month, and this website records 40 million page views per month. News1 provides news contents and photos for Korea's leading newspapers such as Donga-Ilbo and Hankook Ilbo, etc. it is also a Korean partner of Reuters and AFP. It professes to be a pioneer of the news agency market by applying a new way of in-depth coverage technique and using manpower from more than 300 professional journalists. As a news agency which has no hesitation in adopting the new social trends, it will open and lead the new age of news market in Korea and worldwide.

Baekkyu Lee

Baekkyu Lee is a CEO of News1 Korea who originally worked as a journalist for 10 years in Hankook-Ilbo. He started his career in MoneyToday Media group since 2001 as one of the founding members. He worked successively as a head of editorial department, a NYC correspondent, the chief editor, the vice-president and the president. In early 2016, he moved to News1 Korea as a CEO. Also he now serves as a member of Financial Supervisory Commission, an advisory committee member of Nonghyup bank and a expert member of the Hope Institute etc.

The UN Future Forum Go to Website >

The UN Future Forum is the Korean Node of The Millennium Project established in 2004 under the Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance. The Millennium Project connects futurists around the world to improve global foresight. It was founded in 1996 after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution, Futures Group International, and the American Council for the UNU. It is now an independent non-profit global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities. The Millennium Project manages a coherent and cumulative process that collects and assesses judgments from over 3,500 people since the beginning of the project, selected by its 58 Nodes around the world. The work is distilled in the annual "State of the Future", "Futures Research Methodology" series, special studies, and integrated into its Global Futures Intelligence System.

Youngsook Park

Youngsook Park has been a bold and brave pioneer personally and professionally in changing Korean perceptions of how a Korean woman should think and act in Korean society. Prof. Park became the first Korean woman to be an Information Officer at the British Embassy and served for 20 years, founded the Korea Foster Care Association against opposition, started the World Future Society in Korea, assisted many Koreans from ordinary backgrounds to study abroad, been a member of many community organizations, participated in many multi-culture activities. She has been the Chair of south Korean Node of The Millennium Project and the World Future Society in Korea since 2004. She represents 18 different global futures research organizations from the world including WFS, MP, TechcastGlobal, etc. She teaches futures studies at Yonsei Human Ecology College for the last 11 years, as well as Ewha Woman's University Design Graduate School for the last 3 years.

MODERATOR

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  TaeJin(TJ) Kang

  TaeJin(TJ) Kang, now working as IT Strategy Advisor of CJ Corp. has worked for many software companies. In 1999, he moved to Silicon Valley and co-founded ThinkFree with the mission of delivering desktop software as a free Internet service. In a 2001 magazine interview, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer mentioned ThinkFree as a potential threat to his company second only to Linux. In 2007, ComputerWorld selected it as the best online office over Google Docs and Time magazine named it one of the 50 best websites of the year. TJ also served on the Unicode technical committee and represented Korea at international standardization meetings on character encoding. He was instrumental in including full Korean language support in the Unicode character encoding scheme used by computers around the world. TJ served as the head of the Service Incubation Office at Korea Telecom and then in 2010 joined Samsung Electronics to lead the company's media service business. He joined CJ Group in 2015, where he is helping the group formulate digital transformation strategy.

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  Youngsook Park

  Youngsook Park has been a bold and brave pioneer personally and professionally in changing Korean perceptions of how a Korean woman should think and act in Korean society. Prof. Park became the first Korean woman to be an Information Officer at the British Embassy and served for 20 years, founded the Korea Foster Care Association against opposition, started the World Future Society in Korea, assisted many Koreans from ordinary backgrounds to study abroad, been a member of many community organizations, participated in many multi-culture activities. She has been the Chair of south Korean Node of The Millennium Project and the World Future Society in Korea since 2004. She represents 18 different global futures research organizations from the world including WFS, MP, TechcastGlobal, etc. She teaches futures studies at Yonsei Human Ecology College for the last 11 years, as well as Ewha Woman's University Design Graduate School for the last 3 years.

SPEAKERS

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  Ben Goertzel

  

  Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of financial prediction firm Aidyia Holdings and robotics firm Hanson Robotics; Chairman of the Artificial General Intelligence Society and the OpenCog Foundation.
  He actively promotes the OpenCog project that he co-founded, which aims to build an open source artificial general intelligence engine. He is focused on creating benevolent superhuman artificial general intelligence; and applying AI to areas like financial prediction, bioinformatics, robotics and gaming.
  His research work encompasses artificial general intelligence, natural language processing, cognitive science, data mining, machine learning, computational finance, bioinformatics, virtual worlds and gaming and other areas.

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  Jerome Glenn

  

  Jerome C. Glenn is the co-founder (1996) and director of The Millennium Project (on global futures research) and co-author with Ted Gordon of the annual State of the Future of the Millennium Project for the past twelve years. He has over 35 years of Futures Research experience working for governments, international organizations, and private industry in Science & Technology Policy, Environmental Security, Economics, Education, Defense, Space, Futures Research Methodology, International Telecommunications, and Decision Support Systems with the Committee for the Future, Hudson Institute, Future Options Room, and the Millennium Project. He invented the "Futures Wheel" a futures assessment technique, Futuristic Curriculum Development, and concepts such as conscious-technology, transinstutions, tele-nations, management by understanding, definition of environmental security, feminine brain drain, just-in-time knowledge and learning, information warfare, feelysis, nodes as a management concept for interconnecting global and local views and actions, and coined the term futuring in 1973.

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  Jose Cordeiro

  

  José Luis Cordeiro, one of the world-famous futurists, teaches futures studies at Singularity University. He studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, where he received his Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) and Master of Science (M.Sc.) degrees in Mechanical Engineering, with a minor in Economics and Languages. During his studies, Prof. Cordeiro worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna, Austria, and with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, USA. He started his doctoral degree at MIT, which he continued later in Tokyo, Japan, and finally received his PhD at Universidad Simón Bolívar (USB) in Caracas, Venezuela. At present, he is chair of the Venezuelan Node of the Millennium Project, Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE – JETRO) in Tokyo, Japan, and Founding Faculty and Energy Advisor at Singularity University (SU) in NASA Ames Research Park, Silicon Valley, California, USA. He is also an independent consultant, writer, researcher, professor and “tireless traveler”. He has lectured as an Invited Professor at several major institutions, such as MIT in the USA and Sophia University (上智大学) etc.

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  Byung-Ro Moon

  

  School of Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University.
  Professor Byung-Ro Moon is a widely known expert in computer algorithm and optimization and he is also leading Optus Investment Inc. In 2000, He extended his research to the area of stock investment as one of the hardest optimization application domains. In 2009, he started his own commercial investment company. Since then, he has been showing a surprising return. He consistently outperformed KOSPI for the seven consecutive years and showed 187%p of excess return over KOSPI: profits 256% vs. 69%. Optus now became a seminal company in Korean algorithm trading and aims to be a world-best company in this field.

LECTURE

• A Conversation with Ben Goertzel on AI and the Singularity Ben Goertzel

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVXQUItNEDQ

• Ben Goertzel | Beyond AGI: Imagining the Unimaginable Ben Goertzel

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYlKrHzknBE

PROGRAM