Korea Artificial Intelligence Data Science Association (KAIDA) said on the 17th that former Seoul Regional Office of Food and Drug Safety head Kim Young-chan will take office as the second president on the 22nd at Suwoon Hall in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Korea Artificial Intelligence Data Science Association traces its roots to the Seoul Data Science Research Society, which has held a big data artificial intelligence study group every Saturday since fall 2018. About 600 members are active, including more than 50 former public officials and professors such as former Human Resources Development Service of Korea President Song Young-jung, Venture University Professor Yang Jin-seol, and former Ministry of the Interior and Safety Vice Minister Kim Nam-seok, as well as more than 80 executive-level managers from corporations.
The association plans to systematically organize knowledge in the field of data science so it can be used in practice and provide guidelines, while leveraging members' networks to build a body of application cases. It also plans to provide education and consulting to help small and midsize enterprises and small business owners understand data science and artificial intelligence, and to give researchers opportunities to work with real-world data.
President Kim Young-chan said, "With the advent of the artificial intelligence (AI) era, government budget support is increasing dramatically, but seeing the reality that it is not being applied in practice, I felt the need for a systematic approach to narrow that gap," and added, "We will be an association that goes beyond a learning community to contribute to industrial and economic development related to data and artificial intelligence, and further to digital transformation and AI transformation."