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eGlobal Systems Inc

Looking for: Channel partner/reseller, partnership

eGlobal Systems specializes in DBMS (Database Management System) by providing high performance DB encryption solutions. They have extensive experience in database security, management, and tuning. Their clients include high profile companies such as Hyundai, Samsung, Volkswagen, ING Insurance as well as Korea's Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology.

Main Product:

  • CubeOne
    • Encrypts data by column, not the entire table
    • Allows index search for encrypted column
    • Manages large volume of data with average function degradation under 5%
    • Separate access can be assigned to DB and security administrator

Ahope Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Business development, Partnership, production development team of game development companies

AHOPE Co.,Ltd.

Looking for: Business development, Partnership, production development team of game development companies.

Ahope is a mobile network security expert group, specializing in cryptography, PKI systems development and network-related security system development. They provide solutions, such as mobile platform protection, secure corporation networks, and security consulting penetration tests.

Main Product:

  • APP Shields
    • Protects mobile app from reverse engineering and detects forgery
    • Protects mobile app from security threats using apk-shield and ipa-shield
    • Self-monitors the integrity of its own app through two-way authentication using pureapp
    • Monitors history and status of security issues reports whenever there is a threat of forgery
    • Supports Android, iOS and Unity

DATA SOFT

Looking for: Cloud solutions, FinTech marketing, business model cooperation, data backup solutions, security solutions

Data Soft specializes in consulting and development of data related solutions. Their services include data backup, server virtualization and security solutions for big data and cloud platform. They also provide 24/7 technical support in clustering, file and DB sharing, data backup and data loss prevention (DLP) consulting.

Main Products:

  • Big data. Cloud. Security
    • Data backup, cloud center, server virtualization, security solutions, clustering, file and DB sharing, DLP in big data and cloud platform
  • FinTech
    • Finance technology, social media and mobile payments

JiNi Co., Ltd

Looking for: Banks, restaurants

JiNi is a mobile payment service solution developer. JiNi Pay, a wearable POS, was awarded Certificate of New Excellent Technology (NET) by Korea's Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in 2015.

Main Products:

  • JiNi Pay
    • First global wearable POS watch or scarf pendant
    • Acquired EMV L1 and L2 Certificates
    • Bluetooth OS: iOS, Android, Windows
  • JiNi Order
    • Electronic restaurant order system, which allows customers to order/cancel order using tablet
    • Electronically manages orders, sales, etc.
    • Can be used with JiNi Pay

TrueCut Security, Inc.

Looking for: Strategic marketing, new product developers of IT security companies

TrueCut Security develops and manufactures cyber security software to protect against Trojan horses, cyber attacks, data breaches and ransom attacks in real time. TrojanCut uses TrueCut Security's patented human-interaction based COA (Cut On Active) algorithm.

Main Product:

  • TrojanCut
    • Protects against Trojan horses in real time using Cut On Active algorithm
    • Protect against data breaches, ransom attacks, DDoS attacks, data destruction and monitors all outbound traffic

Robocare

Looking for: Fellow robot companies

Robocare, the first venture company financed by Korea Institute of Science and Technology, holds 7 patents in the field of intelligent robotics and intelligent robotic services. They develop robotic hardware and software for education, entertainment and the elderly.

Main Products:

  • Intelligent Companion Robot "Silbot-3"
    • Provides elder care services
    • Effective for English language instruction and college tutoring
  • Companion Robot "Mero-3"
    • Interacts with people using colorful facial expressions, real time lip sync and easy motion creation based on Motions Editor
    • Effective for providing public information, education and emotional interaction

CIMIENT Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Distributors, sales representatives

Cimient develops, manufactures and supplies door lock components such as tubular, cylinder and reduction motors. They also developed a smart lock that can be connected to a WiFi communication device using their own patented Globalnology - Synchronized Orthogonal Multi Polarization Antenna.

Main Products:

  • Wireless Bridge System (Digital Door lock Components)
    • Zoom Tubular, Cylinder and smart lock
    • Globalnology Antenna transmits up to 200 km
  • Wi-Fi AP System Reduction Motor
    • Small geared motor is equipped with clutch slip-structure and secure power consumption

Seahyun Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Electric car related companies (electric car maker, electric charging or parking control system for protecting EMI/EMC)

Seahyun specializes in optical communications systems and bio-3D printing. Their optical communication system uses glass and plastic optical fiber to prevent electromagnetic interference (EMI/EMC) as well as physical security problems. They also developed bio-3D printing material using bio-ICT convergence technology. Their product, Bio ink, is composed of stem cells from plants and humans as well as hybrid polymer (Hydrogel).

Main Products:

  • Optical Transmission System with GOF & POF
    • Plastic and glass hybrid L2 switch up to 1Gbps at 50m, with SI-POF and optolock. POF Media converter and USB
    • Glass optical ring industrial L2 Switch for green buildings
  • Bio-Ink Material for Bio-3D Printing
    • Bio-Ink materials from plant based stem cell and hydrogel compound used with 3D printing for medical regeneration of organs and injuries and anti-aging

AMADAS Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Engineering, acrchitecture, interior design companies

AMADAS produces smart handle electronic door locks for the DIY market. Smart handles work on all doors and installation is simple, allowing owners easy access to smart technology.

Main Products:

  • Touch Lever Lock: recharge by smartphone flashlight
    • 100% hard stainless steel/DIY - easy Installation
    • Dual type switch, touch sensor, gloved and wet hands-bottom switch, auto recognition algorithm
    • IOT, beacon lever lock

Woorin Co., Ltd

Looking for: Distributors, sales representatives

Woorin has developed and manufactured the thinnest and lightest Bluetooth keyboard with their patented technology. It uses a combination of semi-conductor and nanomaterial engineering. Moving beyond pre-existing "membrane" and "pentagraph" types, Woorin developed new keyboard technologies and deployment of wearable devices.

Main Products:

  • Wekey
    • Thinnest (2.5 mm) and the lightest (150 g) wireless Bluetooth keyboard
    • Supports multi-pairing function which allows operation of 3 devices with 1 keyboard
    • Compatible with all Bluetooth enabled devices supporting Windows, iOS, and Android
    • Lithium polymer battery lasts up to 270 hours
  • Tablet Stand/Pouch
    • Stores Wekey keyboard and any tablet under 10''. Can also be used as a tablet stand

JnK Science Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Dry Cell buyer, innovative/IT products distributor and investment company

JnK Science develops and manufactures innovative, eco-friendly products for IT and IoT sectors. Their latest product, Monster Battery, is a rechargeable battery that charges by plugging a USB cable into the side of the battery.

Main Products:

  • Monster Battery (rechargeable USB Battery)
    • Rechargeable AA and AAA batteries that recharge by plugging USB cable into battery
    • Rechargeable up to 500 times
    • Compatible with all USB cables
  • Wireless Charging Battery & Wireless Pad Charger
    • Reaches to a distance of 5 cm based on three-dimensional magnetic resonance of the A4WP type
    • Compatible with any battery powered device

Heabora

Looking for: Telecommunication company, tablet/cell phone manufacturer, distributors

Heabora developed wireless Bluetooth earbuds called RippleBuds, featuring built-in noise-blocking microphone and clear sound. The built-in microphone eliminates all environmental noise, making conversations clear and improving voice recognition on services like Siri.

Main Product:

  • RippleBuds
    • Wireless Bluetooth earbuds with built-in microphone
    • Stereo and Mono Ripplebuds
 

Graphene Square

Looking for: Distributors, sales representatives

Graphene Square Inc. is a pioneer in the commercialization of graphene material and graphene films for use as a transparent conductor and in other electronic applications for both rigid and flexible electronics market. They hold 58 graphene related patents and are spearheading the advancement of graphene related technologies.

Main Product:

  • Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition Synthesis Systems
    • TCVD equipment for R&D in graphene applications and other 2D materials
    • IP Licensing & Consulting

PARTRON Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Distributors, sales representatives

Partron develops and manufactures smart technology to improve user's health. Smart Band and Smart Thermometer monitor activity, temperature and heart rate. Partron has applied for FDA and CE certificates.

Main Products:

  • Smart Band
    • Monitors heart rate, activity, calories, temperature, barometer
    • Three modes (Urban / Extreme / Measure)
  • Smart Thermometer
    • Monitors body temperature with earbud device

TRAIS Co., Ltd

Looking For: Smartphone manufacturers

TRAIS Co., Ltd. provides touch screen and mobile flash modules for mobile and large applications. They manufacture mobile touch screen modules, digitizer modules with palm rejection capabilities, using their own internationally patented technologies. They also produce flexible and fine touch modules at competitive prices to clients including LG, SAMSUNG, Sony and Hyundai Motors. Main Product :
  • T-digitizer with stylus pen
    • World's first digitizer module without PCB sensor board
    • With patents for state-of-the-art digitizer technology and manufacturing system
    • Pen gradient measurable digitizer module
    • Middle distance Hovering Size: 30 inches
    • Digitizing method: Capacitive Panel with Passive Pen
    • 70% cheaper than W-company module (including the stylus pen)
    • Implemented in the capacitance-type TSM with a fine pitch
    • Palm signal rejection only by hardware function
    • Low power technology (80% lesser than EMR type W-company module)

SOSO H&C

Looking for: Healthcare distributors

Soso H&C develops wearable devices and apps measuring multi-biometric signals for next generation healthcare service, mental health research to prevent and treat ADHD, dementia and depression, and user emotion customized IoT and Smart Home services.

Main Products:

  • BRAINNO III
    • Brain wave: Device measures 256 brain signals per second from left and right brain and then analyzes concentration, stress and balance of left and right brain
  • T-Coach App
    • Analyzes brain rate and stress
    • Provides customized user health condition solutions

Fit.Life Inc.

Looking for: Electronics distributors

Fit.Life develops products and solutions to improve healthcare. Fitmeter creates a customized exercise program based on users health conditions and the American College of Sports Medicine exercise guide.

Main Product:

  • Fitmeter
    • Monitors activity and creates customized health program
    • Fits on wrist, ankle, waist or in pocket

Donut System LSI

Looking for: Wearable device distributor and R&D

Donut System develop and manufacture the world's first revolutionary smartphone-based portable body fat analyzer that can be linked with Bluetooth communication device using their own patented technology.

Main Product:

  • iLucir' Bluetooth 4.0
    • Four-finger electrode device that can be connected to a smartphone
    • Uses app to measure body fat mass, muscle mass and BMI in less than a minute
    • High accuracy (99.8%) compared to other body composition devices used in gym

Danuon Corp.

Looking for: Game publishing company

Danuon develops products to improve quality of life for blind people. Mobile rhythm action game makes smartphone games accessible and wearable braille navigation can help the blind walk or exercise outside.

Main Products:

  • Mobile Rhythm Action Game & Wearable Braille Navigation
    • Linked to the mobile games on the smartphone, making games accessible to the blind
    • Increases mobility and outdoor exercise
 

SPACOSA Corporation

Looking for: Platform business in transportation

Spacosa developed a platform that provides real time location information to ensure safety of loved ones and products. Tracking device can be worn by pets, elders, children and attached to valuable possessions. Real time information is sent to smartphone.

Main Products:

  • FAMY
    • Famy is a smartphone app that tracks location between smartphones. It uses a combination of Wi-Fi and GPS
  • LINK
    • iBeacon allows location tracking without a smartphone or internet data. Using the FAMY app and LINK device at the same time allows monitoring the location of people and valuables
  • CATCH LOC
    • Real time locating system that uses beacon, scanner and smartphone. It identifies precise location

IMMERSIVE KOREA Co.,Ltd.

Looking for: Platform business, joint R&D, new business models

Immersive Korea provides location based services called Geofence.  The service is a technology that allows an organization to select a geographic point using latitude and longitude information and then to create a virtual "fence" around that point of a given radius. When customers/students/patients enter or exit a geofence, the device receives a generated notification. It has many uses and potential as a marketing tool as well as response to emergencies or natural disasters.

Main Products:

  • Smart City Service using Geofencing Technology
    • Sends emergency alerts to smartphones within the selected grid of geofence (ex: code amber, tsunami alert)
  • O2O Service using Geofencing Technology
    • O2O (Online to Offline) Service attracts potential customers within 100m radius of a store by providing coupons, discounts and ads

Companies of offering O/S: Google, Apple, etc.

Telecommunication Companies: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc.

IT companies: CA technologies, etc.

Haeden Bridge.,Ltd

Looking for: Telecommunication company, carriers

Haeden Bridge provides video communication software systems They've developed platforms supporting global scale immersive telecommunication on PC, iOS and Android, including first ever Multiple Voice Activated Switching and Virtual Reality on Video Communication technology.

Main Product:

  • TOM FACTORY
    • Allows 60 live video participants and more than 1000 connections in a video session for PC, iOS and Android

SMART B2M Co.,Ltd

Looking for: Office supplies distributors

SMART B2M CO., Ltd is leading South Korean company that develops an OCR (optical character recognition) relative product with our own domestic technologies and deals in the product online and offline. They supply the human resource (or business cards) management system to public organizations,enterprises, and universities. SMART B2M is also developing the solution for real-time lecture translation jointly with the ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) for overseas students, they planning on providing this solution to universities starting next year. Main Product:
  • Business Network System
    • Business Network System to support and effectively manage business contacts through platform of customer information DB 
   

Kokkos

Looking for: Broadcasting companies and stations

KOKKOS is a total entertainmentent based ICT providing audio cartoon. They provide services in audio comicbook, comicbook based creative musical and sound editing.

Main Product:

  • Audio Comicbook
    • Contents of the comic books (Sound & Sound Effects) & the motions (Visual Effects) is a new way to increase the fun and liveliness of the comic books.
    • Audio cartoon will be spreaded to end user by platform companies(Telecoms, portal, professional e-comic book site, IPTV, cable TV etc.) have already contracted.
  • Musicals bsaed on comicbook
    • Based on the 13,000 e-comic books owned by KOKKOS, creative musicals are created by professionals from the music industry
    • Contents of the musical can be provided to 2nd end users through various platform companies KOKKOS has already contracted
   

Datastreams

Looking for: System integrators, BI solution and service providers, banks, insurance, credit card industry

DataStreams offers comprehensive data management solutions for big data management and analytics including data integration, unified big data platform, and data governance for data-driven business innovation.

Main Products:

  • TeraStream BASS
    • Big data processing and storage based on in-memory indexing technology
    • Data collection speed 10-15 Gbps
    • Data can be stored in Memory Cluster and HDFS (Hadroop Distributed File System)

Big 52

Looking for: Sports related business

Big52 uses IoT manufacturing technology to provide big data analysis solution. Big52 also developed Big SASS, a decision making system based on big data analysis that improves the performance of soccer teams.

Main Product:

  • Big SASS - Big data Sports Analysis and Strategy System
    • Big SASS IOT Sensor collects data
    • Analyzes accuracy of the movements of the players and the ball
    • Makes the best decision based on big data

IT Telecom Co.,Ltd

Looking for: IT and Security Companies

IT Telecom (ITT) is a leading ITS (Intelligent Transport System) solutions company in Korea, specializing in DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) technology. ITT has provided ITS systems (DSRC RSE & OBU) for many metropolitan cities in Korea and developed the next generation ITS communication technology, WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicle Environment).  ITT is excited to launch WAVE V2X radio environment test equipment and prototype product that will come out at end of this year.

Main Products:

  • DSRC WAVE OBU
    • Wirelessly transmits data and video up to 200 km
    • Uses the IEEE 802.11 a/n wireless standard and 5 GHz ISM Band Frequency
    • WPA/WPA2 (WPA-PSK, WPA-EAP), Mac filtering, TKIP, Tunneling and VP
  • DSRC WAVE TEST EQUIPMENT

Wow Venture

Looking for: Corporate operated cafeterias

WOW Venture created a response based mobile application, MUGLAU, to determine the efficiency of company cafeterias. The use of MUGLAU is expected to result in 50% reduction of food waste and waste disposal costs.

Main Product:

  • MUGLAU
    • Delivers information about cafeteria menu to users, collects their opinions and accurately forecasts the amount of food that will be consumed
    • Based on user data of food preferences, provides DB management service that can be linked to SNS
    • Can be easily linked/expanded to other platforms (food, concerts, events)

Art and Technology Holdings

Looking for: contents provider, food tech company, mobile reservation system company

As mobile S/W development specialist, Art and Technology Holdings' business areas range from software development to consulting services, new media business, contents production and service. Art and Technology Holdings started the world's first "Reservation Payment Voucher" service and developed other mobile services for face recognition, fashion magazines and travel magazines.

Main Products:

  • Captionator
    • Offers subtitles-sharing service on your smartphone
  • VIKI
    • Provides a market for subtitle community, VIKI is the first service to be on mobile
  • Gormey
    • Most reliable food and dining guide with over 28,000 highly acclaimed restaurant recommendations. Currently available in San Francisco, New York, LA, Chicago and Seattle

1aopen

Looking for: IT Service providers, solution developer with focus on Cloud Service Platform, enterprises and IT vendors

Ilaopen developed S/W solutions to provide best integrated IT and Data Management services for Cloud Services using solutions from MS, IBM, VMWare , Lenovo and etc. Their latest solution "nTree” offers cloud services in various areas for enterprises and Ilaopen would like to partner with Cloud Service Providers. Main Product:
  • nTree
    • Offers cloud services in various areas extending virtual desktop infrastructure environment using hypervisor and cloud infrastructure, physical server, logical server, middleware, web server and application

PSPACE

Looking for: IT & security companies serving enterprises with cloud storage solution, provider of EMC's Isilon storage solution to adopt Securage as add-on feature, government, banks, defense contractor

Pspace provides a scale-out Storage and Cloud Storage Platform service using a POSIX-compatible Distributed File System for De-duplication, Hybrid-tiering, Disaster Reocvery and etc. Securage is add-on feature for storage system with Data-Leak-Prevention technology and can be easily applied to Isilon by EMC, widely used by government agencies and banks.

Main Products:

  • InfiniStor: Scale-Out NAS Storage System
    • POSIX -compatible distributed file system mainly used for Scale-Out NAS Storage systems
  • Securage: DLP enabled NAS Storage System
    • Securage is world's first Data Leak Prevention (DLP) enabled NAS System

Twinword Inc.

Looking for: Contents management solution providers, marketers

Twinword is a software company focused on developing APIs that analyze and understand human input and online behavioral patterns. Twinword developed a wide range of APIs for word graph dictionary, e-commerce recommendations, document topic detection, and more through a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, and advanced API.

Main Products:

  • Twinword Finder: Chrome Extension
    • Semantic search tool for browsers
    • Reduces search time by providing related search results based on searcher's intent and the contextual meaning of terms
    • Results are returned in highlighted paragraphs
  • Language Processing API
    • Human text understanding API for developers: Word Associations, Topic Tagging, Category Recommendation, Sentiment Analysis

Cloud4u

Looking for: Cloud service providers

Cloud4u is a leading Cloud Software Company with rich experience in cloud software and service development. Founder of the company had developed major portion of software and service of “KT ucloud” which is leading Cloud Company in Korea. Based on this experience, Cloud4u is currently take part in research and development of PaaS software for government. The core software and service of Cloud4u is orchestration of multiple cloud. Currently, the software supports AWS(Amazon), KT(Cloudstack), and Openstack. Main Products:
  • Cloud Atlas - Cloud Designer
    • Visual design software for cloud user
    • Various cloud resource can be drag and drop or select and drop to blueprint
    • User can deploy and manage his/her cloud from Visual design
    • Support multiple cloud platform stencils, AWS, OpenStack, and KT(CloudStack)
  • Cloud Chamber - Cloud Orchestrator
    • Multi Cloud orchestrator, which deploy cloud to multiple cloud platform such as AWS, OpenStack and KT
    • Using its own descriptive language, chamber can expand to any cloud service platform
    • Can coordinate with existing orchestration service such as AWS cloudformation and OpenStack Heat
    • With Atals, cloud user can easily design and deploy cloud to any cloud platform

Divii

Looking for: Curriculum development and strategy department of language institutes, education related VC

Divii is a software development company operating from different parts of the world like India, South Korea and others. It is presently involved in the development of DIVII and English video dictionary app.

Main Product:

  • Divii - English Video Dictionary
    • Unlimited Video Dictionary: find video examples for words/phrases from YouTube with Divii's world's first search engine
    • Curated videos: watch interesting videos with Divii's unique video player with language learning features
    • Personalized history: includes all previous searches
    • Educational Contents: learning from every country's most respected teachers

Victony

Looking for: Product developement, test analizing department, strategy alkiance department of educational institution

Victony develops educational apps for teachers and students. TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) Checker allows students to mark their answers on the app instead of OMR paper and get automatic grading service. ACADEMY Checker eliminates unnecessary grading time for teachers and helps them manage students' grades efficiently.

Main Products:

  • ACADEMY Checker
    • Helps teachers manage grading and student progress
  • TOEIC Checker
    • App allows testers to mark on app and get automatic grading service

CEMWARE

Looking for: Education related VC to learn about the local venture culture and status, MOOC lecturer

CEMWARE has developed MathFreeOn. This SaaS, Math FreeOn is based on Cloud Technology. People can write scripts to solve engineering problem, anywhere, on any device without hassles of installing software. MathFreeOn launched a beta version early this year and over 20,000 people used the service.

Main Product:

  • MathFreeOn
    • Script based Mathematical Data Analysis online service
    • MathFreeOn service provides many university level examples
    • MatLab Code compatible : users can check results of scripts anywhere and anytime with any device

Genius Factory Inc.

Looking for: HR deaprtment fo any comapny that need staff training manuals, marketing department, sales department to introduce GPAC for thier inner system

Genius Factory is an ed-tech venture company commercializing ‘GPAC’, a Neo mind map-based education system authoring tool.GPAC mind map is an info-graphic tool intuitively customizable to users’ choices and learning levels.

Main Product:

  • GPAC
    • Recognizes and connects knowledge, allowing users to see the relationships between individual pieces of information
    • Integrates mind maps with multimedia
    • Can embed images, audio, video, SNS, notes, and search features
    • Fully customizable so every user can edit the content to see only the information that is relevant to them

Codigm

Looking for: software developer, marketing department of education company, curriculum development department of education center, cloud service companies

Codigm provides a development environment in the cloud that allows developers to get started with coding immediately and collaborate with their coworkers easily if they are allowed access to any web browsers. They have developed a cloud coding service called Goorm (means cloud in Korean) which allows users to develop and learn SW anytime, anywhere at a moment’s notice.

Main Product:

  • Goorm IDE
    • Allows direct access to a development environment through your web browser from anywhere and at any time
    • Supports a range of programming languages and a consistent development environment
    • Enables building, debugging and running online to improve concentration
    • Ensures compatibility with existing development environments (i.e., GIT and Subversion)
  • Goorm EDU
    • Facilitates the development of educational/teaching materials (i.e., allows the use of existing educational resources, supports PDF and SlideShare.net and provides features for the development of new materials)
    • Provides a range of software learning environments (all languages available)
    • Features Instructor Mode for effective student management (student and record management), programming test service, automatic grading and source code similarity test

Classting Inc.

Looking for: Investment, Venture Capital

Classting was launched as social network service for schools. Classting is used by 2M users and more than 200,000 classes in Korea. Based on this successful traction, Classting has raised $4.5 million from Softbank ventures and partners' investment. Now Classting is trying to expand its business to US, Japan, China and Taiwan with global members and partnerships with local universities such as UCLA CRESST. Classting wants to create not only a social network service but also social based adaptive learning platform.

Main Product:

  • Educational communication tool and learning platform

Conference Speakers

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Kyoung Yul Bae

Professor, Sangmyung University

Kyoung Yul Bae

Professor, Sangmyung University

Dr. Kyoung Yul BAE is professor of information security at Sangmyung University and Chairman of KORAIL’s Information Security Committee. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Assistant Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government. He graduated from Old Dominion University majoring in information science in 1980 for a bachelor’s degree, followed by master and doctoral degree in information science in 1982 and 1990 at Alabama University. He was professor at Stillman College from 1989 to 1990 and at Alabama University from 1990 to 1991. Dr. Lee also worked in Hyundai (Halla) Heavy Industry from 1991 to 1993 as CIO.

Rodney Brooks

Founder, Chairman and CTO, Rethink Robotics

Rodney Brooks

Founder, Chairman and CTO, Rethink Robotics

A mathematics undergraduate in his native Australia, Rodney received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1981. From 1984 to 2010, he was on the MIT faculty, and completed his service as a Professor of Robotics. He was also the founding Director of the Institute’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and served in that role until 2007. In 1990, he co-founded iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT), where he served variously as CTO, Chairman and board member until 2011. Rodney has been honored by election to the National Academy of Engineering, and has been elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association of Computing Machinery, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Rodney is also an accomplished presenter, and speaks regularly to promote the value of robotics and artificial intelligence in venues throughout the world.

Steve Cousins

Founder & CEO, Savioke

Steve Cousins

Founder & CEO, Savioke

Steve Cousins is passionate about building and deploying robotic technology to help people. Before founding Savioke, he was the President and CEO of Willow Garage, where he oversaw the creation of the robot operating system (ROS), the PR2 robot, and the open source TurtleBot. In the last three years of his tenure there, Willow Garage spun off 8 companies including Suitable Technologies, Industrial Perception, Inc., Redwood Robotics, HiDOF (ROS and robotics consulting) and Unbounded Robotics. Steve is an active participant in the Robots for Humanity project. Steve has been a senior manager at IBM's Almaden Research Center, and a member of the senior staff at Xerox PARC. Steve holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, BS and MS degrees in computer science from Washington University, and earned a micro-MBA while at IBM.

Patrick Egan

Host & Executive Producer, sUAS News

Patrick Egan

Host & Executive Producer, sUAS News

Patrick Egan is the editor of the Americas Desk at sUAS News and host and Executive Producer of the sUAS News Podcast Series and Drone TV. Patrick's experience in the field includes assignments with the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Battle Lab investigating solutions on future warfare research projects. On the airspace integration side, he serves as director of special programs for the RCAPA (Remote Control Aerial Photography Association), on the ICC (International Coordination Council) which inputs to the EUROCAE wg-73, and the President of the Silicon Valley Chapter of AUVSI (Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International).

Brian Gerkey

Founder & CEO, Open Source Robotics Foundation

Brian Gerkey

Founder & CEO, Open Source Robotics Foundation

Brian is a strong believer in, frequent contributor to, and constant beneficiary of open source software. Since 2008, Brian has worked on the ROS Project, which develops and releases one of the most widely used robot software platforms in robotics research and education (and soon industry). He is founding and former lead developer on the open source Player Project, which continues to maintain widely used robot simulation and development tools. For his work on Player and ROS, Brian was recognized by MIT Technology Review with the TR35 award in 2011. Prior to joining OSRF, Brian was Director of Open Source Development at Willow Garage. Previously, Brian was a Computer Scientist in the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI, and before that, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at Stanford University. Brian received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2003, his M.S. in Computer Science from USC in 2000, and his B.S.E. in Computer Engineering, with a secondary major in Mathematics and a minor in Robotics and Automation, from Tulane University in 1998.

Dongman Han

San Francisco Consul General, Republic of Korea

Dongman Han

San Francisco Consul General, Republic of Korea

Agenda Congratulatory Remarks Han Dong-man has been serving as Consul General of the Republic of Korea since May 2013. Consul General Han received his Bachelor’s at Yonsei University in Korea and his Master’s in International Organization Law at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University in Paris, France. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985 and has held Secretary posts in Algeria, the United Kingdom, and Australia as well as in the Office of the President in Korea. In 2002, he served as the Director of the Security Policy Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and as Consul at the Korean Consulate General in New York. He also served as the Minister-Counselor at the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. Prior to his post in San Francisco, he served as the Director-General of the International Economic Affairs Bureau of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2011 – 2013). Consul General Han received the Order of the Service Medal in 2012 and he has written four books, including The Next 10 Years of Korea (ISBN 9788959753666), an insightful look at the future of Korea on the international stage for the next decade to come. He is married and has two sons.
San Francisco, CA

Mike Honda

Congressman, 17th District of California

Mike Honda

Congressman, 17th District of California

Since 2001, Congressman Mike Honda has represented the 17th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House of Representatives. His district includes Silicon Valley, the birthplace of technology innovation and the leading region for the development of the technologies of tomorrow. First as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, then as an educator for over three decades, later as a San Jose Unified School Board member, Santa Clara Board of Supervisors, and California State Assemblyman – Mike’s commitment to public service is unparalleled and unwavering. Along with serving as a member of the House Appropriations Committee, Mike is Chair Emeritus of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, after having served as Chair for an unprecedented seven years. As an appropriator he continues to champion educational equity by securing funding to convene 27 of the nation’s foremost leaders in education to serve on the Equity and Excellence commission.

Frankie James

Managing Director, GM Advanced Technology Silicon Valley Office

Frankie James

Managing Director, GM Advanced Technology Silicon Valley Office

Dr. Frankie James is the managing director of GM’s Advanced Technology Office in Silicon Valley, where her team is focused on identifying new technologies and trends within the Silicon Valley business ecosystem that may be of benefit to GM. Her particular focus is on human-machine interactions (HMI) and driver experience. Prior to joining GM, Dr. James was the program manager for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) at SAP Research. Her research there included non-desktop interactions, accessibility, and cross-cultural interaction design. She has also worked for RIACS (the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science), a NASA contractor, where she developed voice interfaces for semi-autonomous robots. Dr. James received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University in June 1998 for her research on audio HTML interfaces for blind users, and is a member of ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI). Frankie's expertise is in human-computer interaction (HCI), with experience related to interfaces and interactions involving audio, voice or multimodal output and input, as well as accessibility.

Catherine Jhung (MC)

Vice President, Hercules Technology Growth Capital

Catherine Jhung (MC)

Vice President, Hercules Technology Growth Capital

Catherine Jhung is a vice president in the Technology and Energy Technology Groups at Hercules. Before joining Hercules, Jhung spent over 10 years in senior operational roles within startup companies, including sales, business development, research and product management. At Cleantech Group, Jhung ran the company’s data business, where she lead the product, engineering, research and sales teams. Prior to Cleantech Group, Jhung was the Director of Sales at edo Interactive, a firm developing digital marketing technologies leveraging pre-existing global, point of sale payments infrastructures along with modern social networking communities. Prior to edo Interactive, Jhung spent over five years on the executive team at Equilar, the leading research firm for benchmarking executive and board compensation. There, she built and managed the business development and client services divisions from the ground up, growing the business to over 600 clients. Jhung received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, a bachelor’s in Agricultural Economics and a minor in Computer Information Systems from UC Davis.

Wendy Ju

Executive Director, Interaction Design Research Center for Design Research, Stanford University

Wendy Ju

Executive Director, Interaction Design Research Center for Design Research, Stanford University

Wendy Ju, PhD, is Executive Director for Interaction Design Research at Stanford’s Center for Design Research, and an Associate Professor in the Graduate Design Program at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Her research is primarily focused on the design of interactive devices, particularly human-robot interaction and autonomous car interfaces. She received her Master's degree from the MIT Media Lab in 2001, and her doctorate from Stanford University in 2008. She is the author of the book The Design of Implicit Interactions, which is available from Morgan and Claypool.

Andra Keay

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Andra Keay

Managing Director, Silicon Valley Robotics

Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group supporting the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. Andra is also founder of Robot Launch, global robotics startup competition, and cofounder of Robot Garden, a new robotics hackerspace. Andra is Director of Industry & Startup Relations at Robohub.org, the global site for news and views on robotics and operates a well regarded AngelList syndicate for seed stage robotics startups.

Sangbae Kim

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sangbae Kim

Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. Sangbae Kim is the director of the Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. His research focuses on the bio-inspired robotic platform design by extracting principles from complex biological systems. Kim’s achievements on bio-inspired robot development include the world‘s first directional adhesive inspired from gecko lizards, and a climbing robot, Stickybot, that utilizes the directional adhesives to climb smooth surfaces featured in TIME’s best inventions in 2006. The MIT Cheetah achieves stable outdoor running at an efficiency of animals, employing biomechanical principles from studies of best runners in nature. This achievement was covered by more than 200 articles. He is a recipient of King-Sun Fu Memorial Best Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2008), DARPA YFA (2013), and NSF CAREER award (2014).

Yong-soo Kim

Assistant Minister, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning

Yong-soo Kim

Assistant Minister, Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning

Yong-soo Kim is currently assistant Minister of ICT Policy Office of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Prior to this position, he served as a Secretary of Communications of Cheongwadae(the Blue House). After passed the 31st Civil Service Examination, he has been working in ICT and telecommunication sector for a long time include senior officer of Communications Promotion and Strategy at Korea Communications Commission and Chief Executive Officer at the Office of President. Yong-soo Kim majored in Law at Seoul National University and has obtained his Master’s degree in International law at Georgetown University.

Vikas Krishna

Vice President & Business Unit Executive, IoT and Mobility CA Technologies

Vikas Krishna

Vice President & Business Unit Executive, IoT and Mobility CA Technologies

Vikas is responsible for all aspects (strategy, product management, engineering, GTM, etc.) of the launch and success of Mobility and IoT business as CA Technologies, a top 10 global enterprise software provider. Prior to CA Technologies, Vikas directed R&D at Ricoh, a $25B Japanese company with an innovation hub in Silicon Valley and later served as its Chief Software Architect leading a large software initiative that brought together many Ricoh and multi-brand products towards higher value services, while providing software strategy and technology guidance to Ricoh teams in the US, Japan, and India. Before Ricoh, Vikas worked at IBM’s prestigious R&D labs in senior technical and management roles in the areas of net mining, B2B information exchange, intelligent content processing, and smart contact center technologies. There, he received a corporate award for driving a technology to an ‘IBM Outstanding Accomplishment’ with significant impact on IBM’s services business along with several ‘IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement’ and ‘IBM Outstanding Innovation Achievement’ awards. Vikas is a frequent speaker at key events such as Mobility USA, Super Mobility Week, CA World, Gigaom, TechTarget, CTO Forum, MoneyToday K.E.Y. Platform of Korea, and SRII. He has co-edited two books on Service Science and System Systems by Springer, which were rated among the top 25% in their category. He in an inventor on over 30 patents and an author of over 25 publications. Vikas holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology and two Masters degrees in Engineering from North America. In his spare time, Vikas follows the evolution of commercial aviation and is an avid tennis player.

Jaiyong Lee

Professor, Yonsei University

Jaiyong Lee

Professor, Yonsei University

Dr. Jaiyong Lee is a professor of electrical and computer engineering department. Dr. Lee has been in the academia since 1987, 7 years at POSTECH and 20 years at Yonsei University. As a director of the government sponsored Center of Advanced RFID/USN Technology from 2004 to 2012, he led the technology development in his field by obtaining various patents and contributing to scientific journals, as well as promoting collaboration between academia and industry through technology transfer. As a member of advisor to Korea IoT Association (KIOT) since 2005 and as the president of Korea Institute of Communication and Information Sciences (KICS) in 2012, he led government policies and boosted ICT industries, especially in IoT areas. Dr. Lee also led many international workshops such as World Forum-IoT 2014 as a co-chair. As a president of Giga Korea Foundation since 2013, he is leading the technology development for next generation ICT technology in Korea including 5G and IoT for future services. Dr. Lee also served as the dean of college of engineering and president of Industry- Academy Collaboration Foundation of Yonsei University. He holds the Ph.D. in computer engineering from Iowa State University, USA.

June Sup Lee

Software Development Center Head, KT Corporation

June Sup Lee

Software Development Center Head, KT Corporation

June has been working on designing and building middleware systems for over 20 years. He is currently leading KT’s Software Development Center to build platforms and other software systems for monitoring and controling building facilities, automobiles, and many other things based on analyzing big data from a large amount of various sensors. Before joing KT, June was in charge of building and maintaining SKTelecom and SKPlanet’s big data processing platforms from 2006 to 2013. He built a Hodoop based big data processing platform called SPADE and also built a real-time analytics platform called RAPID which were in use for years. Before coming back to Korea, he worked on Grid computing project called Globus which was a de facto standard in early 2000s. In that project, he was in charge of designing and implementing MDS (Monitoring and Discovering System) at ISI (Information Sciences Institute) in Marina del Rey, California.

David Merrill

VP of Enabling Technology, 3D Robotics

David Merrill

VP of Enabling Technology, 3D Robotics

David Merrill is the VP of Enabling Technology at 3D Robotics, where he finds and evaluates technology for the creation of future flying robots. 3D Robotics, based in Berkeley CA is the largest American maker of drones for consumer and professional use. The company recently released Solo, a first-of-its-kind drone that makes it easy for novices and experts to capture beautiful, cinematic aerial video. David was formerly president and co-founder of Sifteo, a San Francisco hardware+software startup spun out of his research at the MIT Media Lab. He has built multiple award-winning interfaces and technologies that reshape how people use computers. Dave and his work have been featured at TED, MoMA, the Discovery Channel, Popular Science and Wired. David holds a BS in Symbolic Systems and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an MS and PhD from the MIT Media Lab.

Erin Rapacki

Director of Marketing, Suitable Technologies

Erin Rapacki

Director of Marketing, Suitable Technologies

Erin is the Director of Marketing at Suitable Technologies, the makers of the Beam+ and BeamPro telepresence devices. Beam combines user-controlled mobility with telepresence for teammates, guests, family, and friends who wish to interact from afar. She is a product storyteller with robotics experience in material handling, assistive devices, telepresence, and automation. Erin takes a vested interest in finding ways to catalyze the robotics market by identifying unique value propositions for new robotic products, and by creating community and cooperation between companies and thought leaders. Erin has her Masters in Mechanical Engineering from UMass Lowell and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University.

Curtis Sasaki

Vice President of Ecosystems and IoT General Manager, Samsung Electronics

Curtis Sasaki

Vice President of Ecosystems and IoT General Manager, Samsung Electronics

Curtis Sasaki is the vice president of ecosystems and IoT general manager for Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center (SSIC). He leads new business creation and is responsible for driving growth and innovation through product, technology and ecosystem development. He works with entrepreneurs and startups in Silicon Valley and other global technology hotspots, focusing on Smart Health, Big Data and the Internet of Things. Prior to SSIC, Curtis was Senior Vice President of Samsung Media Solutions Center America (MSCA), where he oversaw the development of Samsung’s media services that work with Samsung Smart TVs, smartphones, tablets and other connected devices to deliver the best apps and content to the connected consumer. At MSCA, he also lead the Innovation Lab, a team that focuses on developing pioneering cloud services, the Developer Relations team that drove the Samsung Developer Conferences, as well as the North American Content Services team, which focuses on content partnerships and strategic partner relations. Curtis has appeared at a number of prestigious conferences as keynote/invited speaker including CES, JavaOne Conference, Blackberry Developers Conference, and Apple Developer Conferences. He is the recipient of more than 7 patents for innovative technologies.

Kyung Chul Shin

President, Yujin Robot

Kyung Chul Shin

President, Yujin Robot

Dr. Shin was the President of Korea Advanced Intelligent Robot Association between 2003 and 2006. And also he is the member of The National Academy of Engineering of Korea since 2010. He is appointed as the Chairman of KOSDAQ Listed Companies Association in 2015. Dr Shin is specifically interested in developing various service robots that contributes to utmost convenience and betterment of lifestyle. He is currently serving as the President of Yujin Robot Co., Ltd, which has been developing various service robots.

George Willman

Partner, ReedSmith

George Willman

Partner, ReedSmith

George Willman practices in the areas of technology transactions, intellectual property counseling, and patent prosecution. Representative transactions include licensing, development, service, distribution, manufacturing, electronic commerce, FinTech and corporate partnering agreements. He has counseled on intellectual property issues raised by merger and acquisition transactions and initial public offerings. George is a registered patent attorney and has assisted clients in obtaining patents in addition to counseling on infringement avoidance, strategic patenting, and developing U.S. and international patent portfolios. Prior to his legal career, George worked as a software and telecommunications engineer for ROLM, IBM, and Siemens in Silicon Valley and Munich, Germany. George serves as a mentor at the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tim Wilson

General Partner, Artiman Ventures

Tim Wilson

General Partner, Artiman Ventures

Tim Wilson focuses on early-stage technology investments and currently represents Artiman on the Boards of Crossbar Semiconductor, Kaybus, Mossey Creek Technology, Prysm and Nutrinsic. From 2001 to 2011, Tim worked as a General Partner at Partech International.  Between 1997 and 2001, he served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD, acq by Cable & Wireless), a Partech portfolio company. Tim graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Bowdoin College. His Bachelor of Arts degree is in Physics. Following this, he completed his MBA from Duke University.

Jong-Lok Yoon

President, NIPA

Jong-Lok Yoon

President, NIPA

Jong-lok Yoon is currently the President of NIPA, National IT Industry Promotion Agency, an affiliated organization of Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Prior to this position, Jong-lok Yoon has been a Vice-Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning.

He also worked in private sector like Bell Laboratories as a special researcher and took up multiple positions at Korea Telecom which is among top 3 Telecommunication Company in S. Korea. He has been one of the front-runners in the development of the IoT market in Korea and strives to foster growth of new technologies for the world.

Jong-lok Yoon has completed his CEO courses in Seoul National University and has obtained his Master’s degree in Electronics at Yonsei University.

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