The Kyunghyang Forum

Program

The Kyunghyang Forum 2025

Time(KST)	Program	Speaker
08:30 ~ 08:40		Opening
08:40 ~ 09:00	Opening Remarks	KIM Seok-jong CEO of Kyunghyang Shinmun
08:40 ~ 09:00	Congratulatory Remarks	VIP
		SESSION 1. A RAPIDLY CHANGING WORLD: A CIVILIZATIONAL TURNING POINT
09:00 ~ 09:30	Lecture	Jeremy RIFKIN American economic and social theorist
09:30 ~ 10:00		Gina NEFF Executive Director of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge
10:00 ~ 10:30		LEE Kwang Hyung President of KAIST
10:30 ~ 10:40		Break
10:30 ~ 11:00	Dialogue	Jeremy RIFKIN, Gina NEFF, LEE Kwang Hyung, 지나 네프, 이광형 [Moderator] LEE Jung-Dong Professor, College of Engineering, Seoul National University
12:00 ~ 13:00		Luncheon
		SESSION 2. AI CHANGING THE WORLD: INNOVATION AND CHALLENGE
13:00 ~ 13:30	Lecture	Bo AN President’s Chair Professor in Computer Science, Nanyang Technological University
13:30 ~ 14:00		BAE Kyunghoon President of LG AI Research
14:00 ~ 14:30		MOON Byung-Ro Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
14:30 ~ 14:40		Break
		SESSION 3. THE AGE OF HYPER-ACCELERATION: TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS FOR ALL
14:40 ~ 15:10	Lecture	XIANG Biao Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
15:10 ~ 15:30	Lecture	KIM Jae-YinProfessor, Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University
15:30 ~ 15:50	Special Lecture	CHUNG Serang Writer
15:50 ~ 17:00	Discussion	Bo AN, XIANG Biao HA Jung-Woo Head of AI Innovation Center (EVP), Naver Cloud KIM Hyo-eun Professor, Hanbat National University; former member of the IEEE AI Ethics Guidelines Committee [Moderator] KIM Jae-Yin

※ Program is subject to change.