Shipping with Agents: A Builders Night
Shipping with Agents: A Builders Night on Agentic Coding & AI Agents in 2026
Hosts
ZVC: The corporate venture arm of LY Corporation, managing ~$1.2B across Korea, Japan, the US, and Southeast Asia, with offices in Seoul, Tokyo, and San Francisco.
(https://zvc.vc)Bay K-AI: The AI group within Bay Area K-Group, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit community of around 7,000 Korean and Korean-American high-tech professionals based in the San Francisco Bay Area. (https://bayareakgroup.org)
(https://www.linkedin.com/company/bakg-k-ai/)
Event
ZVC CEO Talk (1 session):
A featured session by the CEO of ZVC exploring the latest AI trends in Asia, and how they are reshaping corporate culture and leadership.
Bay K-AI Talks: Agentic Coding & AI Agents in 2026 (4 sessions):
Bay K-AI members will share real projects from AI seminars, study groups, networking programs, and hands-on activities, showcasing practical uses of agentic coding and AI agents in 2026 across scientific discovery, professional workflows, project-based learning, onboarding, and early productization/monetization.
Open Discussion, Dinner & Networking
A grounded discussion on current capabilities, limitations, and practical value, followed by dinner and open networking.
Program Flow
6:00-6:30 pm: Check-in, Dinner, and Networking
6:30-8:30 pm: Opening Remarks & Five 20-Min Talks/Demos
8:30-9:00 pm: Closing Networking
Seminar Sessions & Topics
ZVC CEO Talk: AI Trends in Asia & the Future of Leadership
Exploring the latest AI trends in Asia and how they are reshaping corporate culture, leadership, and the next wave of AI adoption.Agentic Coding & AI Agents for Bio & Drug Discovery
Protein design, drug discovery, workflow automation, knowledge organization, and scientific research acceleration.Agentic Coding & AI Agents for Materials & Math Discovery
Material/math discovery, experiment loops, and agentic research. Featuring AlphaEvolve and Kissing Number (d=11).From Courtroom to Codebase: How a Lawyer Built a Real App with AI
A case study in agentic coding and what actually blocks non-engineers from building software.Agentic Coding for Zero-to-Production App Development
Building a food-logging iOS app with no prior app development experience, from prototype to production.
Speakers
In Joon Hwang: CEO at ZVC, Senior Executive Officer & CGIO at LY Corporation, Chairman at LINE Bank Taiwan, Former CFO at NAVER and LINE (https://zvc.vc/en/member/d4julxpc-068/)
Woosang Lim: AI Leadership, Former Science Leader at Amazon AGI, VP at POSCO Holdings, Principal Scientist at Apple, Microsoft, Google (https://www.linkedin.com/in/woosanglim/)
Eunkwang Joo: CEO, WASD3R (https://wasd3r.com), SFvibe (https://sfvibe.fun), Former CTO at Block Crafters, Lead Engineer at Nextdoor and Enuma, Salesforce (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekjoo/)
Jongmin Sung: Senior Knowledge Engineer at Sailplane, Former Roche (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jongmin-sung/)
Jaeyoung Kim: Senior Data Scientist at Walmart Global Tech (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jae-young-kim1/)
Who This Is For
Students, engineers, researchers, founders, product builders, and AI professionals, from first-time explorers to experienced practitioners.
Come to learn, share field notes, exchange questions, and explore practical uses of agentic coding and AI agents.
Logistics
Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM PT
Venue: ZVC Office, San Francisco
RSVP: (https://luma.com/577kne1w) Required.
Capacity is limited, and organizers may confirm attendance based on the answers in the RSVP responses (Important!) to keep a balanced mix of builders, learners, researchers, founders, and practitioners.