Location: Seoul
Date: 2 November 2020
Time: 11:00 KST
Session: UNCONTACT and Digital Transformation Strategies in the Convention Industry

Kim Yong-sub, a director at Institute of Keen-eyed Imagination since 2006, dedicated his sharp analistic capability in reading the trend of today and develop it further to study and present ‘Trend Insight & Business Creativity’ to various enterprises and organizations in Korea. As an analyst and a consultant, he performed thousands of educational sessions and workshops and hundreds of consulting projects with major companies including Samsung, Hyundai, LG, GS, CJ, SK, Lotte and more large incorporations as well as central and regional government agencies. For more than twenty years, he has been sharing his productive insights and projections learned from thorough research in current trend, management strategy and business creativity to read the global and local society and utilize the knowledge to prepare the future business.

Location: Seoul
Date: 2 November 2020
Time: 13:30 KST
Session: New Normal Convention Case Study

Being in the tourism industry for 30 years, Jihyun Kim was able to gain background knowledge and experience to bring practical improvement to Seoul Tourism Organization since 2008. With these understanding and knowledge, she revised the MICE support program and initiated branding marketing for it by giving it a title, PLUS SEOUL support program when appointed as a director at Seoul Convention Bureau in 2019. She has dedicated her work towards bringing innovative working environment in MICE industry and strengthening SCB’s capabilities in digital world, especially in response to challenging climate due to pandemic, based on the past working experience in Tourism Marketing and Information department as well as Smart Tourism department.

Location: Seoul
Date: 2 November 2020
Time: 13:30 KST
Session: New Normal Convention Case Study

After graduating from Seoul National University in 1987, he joined KDB Life in 1988 and retired as an executive for 30 years, through the finance, management, risk management, human resources and sales departments of the company. Based on his experience with an insurance company, he has been serving the Secretary-General of the Institute of Actuaries of Korea since July 2019 in order to contribute to the development of the insurance industry in anticipation of the change in IFRS17 scheduled to take effect in 2023.

Location: Seoul
Date: 2 November 2020
Time: 13:30 KST
Session: New Normal Convention Case Study

Korea University’s global research director, Yong Sik Ok, director of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Sustainable Waste Management programme, is chairing a conference series on engineering sustainable development, organized by The American Institute of Chemical Engineers, together with William Mitch (the programme co-director), a professor at Stanford University. Academic researchers, industrial practitioners, and government departments, will gather to discuss the development of integrated solutions to realize the UN’s 17 SDGs.

Location: Seoul
Date: 2 November 2020
Time: 13:30 KST
Session: New Normal Convention Case Study

Gary has over 30 years’ experience in the convention industry. In 2004, he founded GainingEdge, a global consulting company that offers advisory services in relation to destinations, convention bureaus and convention & exhibition centres. Gary has consulted at the local and national level on over 100 projects in all parts of the world. Previously Gary was the CEO of convention and visitor bureaus in Melbourne (Australia), Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA) and Portland (Oregon, USA). He has also served as Vice President for the Boston (Massachusetts, USA) bureau. His convention centre consulting experience includes market feasibility, demand analysis, facility scoping, design review, site review, and operational consultation for convention centre developments. He also served on the London International Convention Centre Commission.
Gary was one of the lead consultants on DestinationNEXT, a global study for Destinations International (formerly DMAI) which defined the future of destination marketing. He is a former Chairman of the Board of DMAI and was one of the first six inductees into the inaugural DMAI Hall of Fame in 2014. He also received the Asia Pacific IMEX Academy Award in 2007.