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Samsung AI Forum 2026

September 30, 2026



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Speakers

  • Jun Young Hyun
    Younghyun Jun
    Vice Chairman & CEO, Samsung Electronics
  • Richard Ho
    Richard Ho
    VP, Head of Hardware, OpenAI
  • David Green
    David Green
    AI Technology Leader of APJ, AWS
  • Ranjay Krishna
    Ranjay Krishna
    Professor,
    University of Washington
  • Yoonhyung Kim
    Yoonhyung Kim
    Corporate VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics
  • Juan Carlos Niebles
    Juan Carlos Niebles
    VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

Schedule

09:00 - 09:05

Opening Remarks   >>

Opening Remarks

Younghyun Jun|Vice Chairman & CEO, Samsung Electronics

09:05 - 10:05

Opening Keynote   >>

Chatbots to Agentic Workflows
Transforming Productivity with ChatGPT, Codex, and Frontier Models

Richard Ho|VP, Hardware, OpenAI

10:05 - 10:55

Keynote1   >>

From Individual Productivity to Enterprise Wide Impact
How to scale AI in production, measure outcomes, and deliver results for the customers of our customers

David Green|AI Technology Leader of APJ, AWS

10:55 - 11:05

Break Time

11:05 - 11:30

Keynote2   >>

Visual Reasoning: will be bigger than language reasoning
Introducing a sketch-based reasoning paradigm for high-performance robotics AI with smaller models

Ranjay Krishna|Professor, University of Washington

11:30 - 11:55

Keynote3   >>

Architectures for Agentic Intelligence
Architectural Innovations to Strengthen Agent Capabilities and Broaden Their Scope

Yoonhyung Kim|Corporate VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

11:55 - 12:25

Panel Discussion [Keynote Moderator]   >>

The Convergence of Agentic AI and Physical AI
Future outlook and paths to real-world product applications

Moderator Juan Carlos Niebles|VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

12:25 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:50

Session 1 Efficient AI

Toward Human-Level  Efficiency in AI

Inchul Hwang|Corporate EVP, MX Business, Samsung Electronics

On-Device AI Platform of Samsung

Yunsu Lee|Corporate EVP, MX Business, Samsung Electronics

14:50 - 15:00

Break Time

15:00 - 15:50

Session 2 Physical AI

World Modelling: Promise & Perils

Timothy Hospedales|VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

The Promise and Limitations of Robot Foundation Models for Massive Robot Scaling

Kris Hauser|Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

15:50 - 16:00

Break Time

16:00 - 16:50

Session 3 Continual Learning

Self-evolving AI

Kangwook Lee|Corporate VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

Personalizing AI without Forgetting

Juan Carlos Niebles|VP, Samsung Research, Samsung Electronics

16:50 - 17:00

Closing Remarks   >>

Closing

14:00 - 14:50

Session 1

Business Value Creation Cases through External AX
Beyond AI PoCs to company-wide AX: How to Build an Enterprise AI Factory

Deepak Waghmare|CTO, APJC, Dell Technologies

14:50 - 15:00

Break Time

15:00 - 15:50

Session 2

Putting Claude to Work Safely
Designing Trustworthy Agent Systems for Engineering and R&D

Sangkeun Choe|Tech Lead, Anthropic

15:50 - 16:00

Break Time

16:00 - 16:25

Session 3

Toward AI-Native DS
Automation and Intelligence: The Two Axes Driving the Next Leap in Semiconductors

Jaejoon Han|Master, AX/PI Center, Samsung Electronics

16:50 - 17:00

Closing Remarks   >>

Closing