Program

Date: 14 April 2024
Venue: COEX Convention & Exhibition Center, GRAND BALLROOM, Room 101 (First floor)

Local Time (GMT+9) Session
8:30 AM–10:00 AM

Welcome and Keynote Presentation

Speaker: Prof. Kai Yu, Director of Cross-media LANguage IntelligenCE (X-LANCE) Lab
Theme: Scaling Heights, Grounded Solutions: Navigating Practical Problems with Scientific Innovation

10:00 AM–10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM–12:00 PM

Panel Discussion
Theme: Bridging the Gap from Research Lab to Startup Company

Panel Members:
Prof. Kazuya Takeda, VP in charge of startup, Nagoya University, co-founder and former representative director, TierIV Inc.
Dr.Jaesik Lee, Co-Founder and President of Technology, Navitas Solutions
Dr. Midia Yousefi, Senior Research Scientist, Cloud and AI organization, Microsoft, USA
Dr. Zhaojin Lu, Director of the Tellhow AI Research Institute and the Chief Scientist at Tellhow Creative Technology Group

Moderator:
Prof François Ladouceur, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia

12:00 PM–2:00 PM Lunch Break
2:00 PM– 3:30 PM Pitching Session
3:30 PM–4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM–6:00 PM

Entrepreneurship Training

Prof François Ladouceur, B.Ing, MSc, PhD, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Theme“What is Entrepreneurship? How to Create a Startup?”

6:00 PM–7:00 PM Drinks and Informal Networking
6:45 PM

Announcement of Pitching Competition Results and Official Forum Close – Prof. Min Wu, SPS President

Entrepreneurship Forum Organizing Committee

Sanghoon Lee
Yonsei University (Korea)

 

Eliathamby Ambikairajah
UNSW (Australia)

Shoko Araki
NTT Communications Science Laboratories (Japan)

Siqi Cai
National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Haizhou Li
National University of Singapore (Singapore)

Jiwoo Kang
Sookmyung Women’s University (Korea)

Taewan Kim
Dongduk Women’s University (Korea)