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KIRC-Wisconsin Joint AI Research Roundtable

Wednesday, June 3 | 5:00pm – 8:00pm

Connecting Academia and Industry to Advance Impactful and Responsible AI Research

Artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally reshaping competition, innovation, and organizational design, but its greatest potential lies at the intersection of academic rigor and industry application. This joint roundtable, organized by Korean Innovation Research Center (KIRC) and the Wisconsin School of Business (WSB) at UW–Madison, brings together industry leaders and innovation scholars to explore how collaboration with industry can advance impactful AI research while preserving theoretical depth.

As organizations extensively deploy generative, predictive, and agentic AI across business processes, they face challenges around governance, intellectual property, ethics, and transformation. These issues create opportunities for scholars to engage with real-world problems, access novel data, and develop research that both informs practice and contributes to theory.

At the same time, industry benefits from the methodological rigor and long-term perspective of scholarly research. Bridging these perspectives requires new models of collaboration that balance openness with confidentiality and speed with rigor.

This roundtable aims to spark dialogues, identify shared research agendas, and build lasting partnerships: all to help shape a more integrated and impactful ecosystem for AI research.

Register today

Registration required by May 29.

Location

Westin Seoul Parnas
Amber Room
524 Bongeunsa-ro
Gangnam District (COEX)
Seoul, South Korea

Industry Speakers

Soonmin Bae
Soomin Bae
Former Senior Vice President and Director, AI Future Lab, KT
Kangwook Lee
Kangwook Lee
Chief AI Officer, Krafton
Dylan Ko
Dylan Younghyuk Ko
CEO, Gonnector

Academic panelists

Page Moreau
Page Moreau
Associate Dean of Research and John R. Nevin Chair in Marketing, Wisconsin School of Business, UW–Madison
Yongwook Paik
Yongwook Paik
Associate Professor, KAIST College of Business
Min-Seok Pang
Min-Seok Pang
Karen A. and William S. Monfre Professor in Business, Wisconsin School of Business, UW–Madison (moderator)

Schedule

All times are subject to change. Dinner will be served during the program.

5 p.m.
Welcome remarks and introductions

5:10 p.m.
Talks by industry leaders

7 p.m.
Academic panel on developing mutually beneficial academia-industry collaborations

7:40 p.m.
Open discussion and next steps

8 p.m.
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