ICML 2026 Seoul: Opening Reception
Come join this 100-person reception bringing together researchers and founders flying in for ICML Seoul.
Researchers and engineers from:
Anthropic • AWS • Carnegie Mellon • Cornell • DeepMind • EPFL • ETH Zurich • Georgia Tech • Harvard • Hebrew University of Jerusalem • IBM • IIT • KAIST • KAUST • Kakao • Meta • Microsoft • MIT • Mistral • National University of Singapore • Naver • OpenAI • Oxford • Peking University • POSTECH • Princeton • Samsung • Seoul National University • Stanford • Technion – Israel Institute of Technology • Tsinghua University • UC Berkeley • UIUC • University of Cambridge • University of Montreal • University of Toronto • University of Washington • Vector Institute
Schedule
4:00 PM - Doors Open
4:30 PM - Guide to ICML Seoul Week and AI Ecosystem in Korea
4:45 PM - Reception Social
Location
📍 Hashed Lounge - 1 min walk from Gangnam station
Hashed
When the boundaries between industries collapse, Hashed is already there. We back founders building the next paradigm in AI and frontier tech, with offices across the key regions of the AI supply chain: Seoul, San Francisco, Singapore, Bangalore, and Abu Dhabi.
Day zero to global scale.
Goodwater Capital
Goodwater Capital is the world's largest venture capital firm focused exclusively on consumer technology, with over $5 billion in assets under management and a portfolio of more than 700 companies across 50+ countries. The firm backs visionary founders building products that improve lives at scale—across housing, healthcare, food, finance, education, entertainment, and transportation.
Goodwater pairs deep consumer insight with a proprietary data and machine learning platform that surfaces the best companies in real time, empowering exceptional entrepreneurs everywhere.