As the most representative academic conference at home, this forthcoming June's IT 21 Conference to be hosted by the Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS) promises to be a successful one thanks to prominent foreign experts' presentations and a number of domestic corporations' sponsorship including Korea Telecom (KT), Samsung SDS, and the Korea Digital Communication Corporation (KDC)..
Such conviction was confirmed through a previous interview conducted by the Korea IT Times on the occasion of the IT 21 Conference with Professor Yang Hae-sool, PhD of Hoseo University Graduate School of Ventures who is responsible for its organizing committee.
Touching upon the fact that success or failure of this forthcoming IT 21 Conference depends on budget to a considerable degree, he said that he takes charge of the most important position for carrying out this IT 21 Conference successfully.
For this year's IT 21 Conference to be held on June 21 to 22 at COEX, Seoul, Korea, approximately 180 million won (US$194,100) will be used to invite distinguished experts from foreign countries or to allow it to make progress successfully including program book dispatches, conference venue contracts, and homepage manufacturing according to Yang.
In consideration of the fact that last year's IT 21 Conference was a little fragile and its hailing was few, Yang said: "The organizing committee attached importance to inviting IT heavyweights including the MIC Minister, multinational IT corporation chairman and various circles' experts, selecting next-generation IT growth engines such as enabling Technology, Digital Convergence, and New Industry Fusion as the Conference's main theme."
With regard to an opinion that IT 21 Conference must attach importance to educational-industrial collaboration, the software quality expert pointed out that because in some academic conferences, the steam of breath from the academic world is strong, original purport for facilitating educational-industrial cooperation is being transmuted.
In view of the importance of such educational- industrial collaboration, he emphasized: "The main theme for this year's IT 21 Conference is Industrial Survival Strategy for Next Generation Information Technology." In that context, its host purpose also is to maximize corporate competitiveness improvement through mutual exchange and opinion interchange regarding information technology development direction along with new information technology dissemination which is being deemed as a pivotal part of industrial survival strategy, he said.
Citing the Graduate School of Ventures at Hoseo University Seoul Campus as a good example of an educational- industrial collaboration, Yang explained: "Its Graduate School education of Ventures holds a big significance nationally or socially in that the Graduate School reeducates IT or venture start-up executives and confers a good quality degree for master's courses or doctoral courses on them, rating their industrial on-the-scene experience high."
In reference to a desirable development direction of this IT 21 Conference in the future, he has committed himself to do his best so that the Conference can develop in a direction which comprises up to fields Korea didn't secure its superiority in world IT market by teaming up with the industrial world. In connection with this, he pointed out: "Since most academic societies' conferences are operated with a professor-oriented form, some academic conferences don't accept the latest IT trend and paradigm swiftly."
In closing, he furthermore underlines the importance of budget backing so that IT 21 Conference may develop more internationally including inviting globally- renowned scholars without worrying any budget shortage.
