This year's IT 21 Conference will be the most substantial conference, according to professors responsible for this conference's comprehensive proceeding.
In hopes of illuminating the mega trends of IT technology in the 21st century and securing national IT technology and industrial competitiveness, the Korea Information Processing Society (KIPS) has been holding the yearly IT 21 Conference as a ground in which opinions from the industrial world, the academic world, the research world, and governmental circles can be garnered.
For the remaining period till the Conference, Professor Kim Byung-Ki of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Chonnam National University who serves concurrently as KIPS chairman, said: "For the purpose of its publicity maximization, the Society will unfold the Conference introduction activity and publicity through KIPS homepage, KIPS member mail and through sending pamphlets to information and telecommunicationrelated universities, research institutes and corporations."
Through this IT 21 Conference, he notes: "The Conference is eager to present its strategy and vision about the next-generation growth engine industry after the year 2008 to the nation, introduce industry competitiveness security way for corporations, and the core technologies to enable the next-generation growth engine for the academic world."
In relation to last year's Conference outcome, Kim assessed: "Last year's IT 21 Conference has been propelled with the aim to collect the latest information about u-infrastructure technology, u- Application technology, and u-Business technology besides forming a human network at home and abroad and grasping the present condition for the sake of associated technology industrialization."
Regarding Korea's next-generation IT growth engine outlook, the chairman emphasized: "Provided we don't intensively nurture Enabling Technology, Digital Convergence, and New Industry Fusion fields, our growth engine has no choice but to stop." In particular, he stressed that related business circles must unearth and create next-generation IT growth engine technology by nurturing diverse fields and by securing the core technology ranging from soft infrastructure, Open System Architecture, HCI to broadcasting communication convergence, virtual reality, information technology, biotechnology, nanotechnology and intelligence-model robotics.
In reference to its publicity plan for the remaining period at home and abroad, Professor Yang Young-kyu of the College of Software at Kyungwon University who is on the Conference's publicity committee, stressed: "The basic of its publicity is the best to select themes befitting their interest and to secure prominent speakers so that participants are interested."
It is of no use if themes can't attract the interest of the audience, he pointed out. He said that this Conference's academic committee has composed today's substantial for reflecting on the urgent problem of the next full growth of the Korean IT economy.
Industrial survival strategy The 2007 IT 21 Conference's main theme is Industrial Survival Strategy for Next Generation Information Technology. Such a theme is to maximize corporate competitiveness improvement through discussion regarding mutual exchange and opinion interchange of information technology development direction along with new information technology's dissemination which is being deemed to be an important part of a survival strategy for corporations, explained professor Kim Byung-ki.
With regard to the outlook about digital convergence and new industry fusion, Professor Kim epitomized: "The movement to switch over to a Ubiquitous society breaks down greatly into u-Korea, uinfrastructure construction, u-technology development, u-industry nurturing and usociety foothold preparation."
Regarding the internationalization efforts for the 2007 IT 21 Conference on the other hand, Kim said: "By absorbing ubiquitous technology-related conferences at home and abroad into this IT 21 Conference, we will make efforts for the internationalization of this conference."
He further explained: "I suppose that established conferences remain at the level of the mere introduction of technology and its outlook in the future whereas this IT 21 Conference will play an important role to pinpoint national growth engine technology and vision since the year 2008 through substantial opinion exchange of an educational-industrial-laboratorial complex." Thus, we will develop this IT 21 Conference into something which can discharge a pivotal role so that Korea may lead worldwide IT industry in the years to come, he committed.
