The AI Frontier: The Future of Scalable AI Across Industries and Research
Join us for an evening of in-depth discussion and networking, co-hosted by Akamai and FuriosaAI, exploring how AI can be scaled to deliver real-world impact with efficiency, performance, and sustainability at its core. The event brings together thought leaders, researchers, and enterprise innovators to examine the design, deployment, and operational strategies that make AI both powerful and responsible.
Big thanks to KIST, One Way Ventures & KICDC for their generous support in making this event possible!
AGENDA
05:30 - 06:00 PM : Registration & Refreshments.
06:00 - 06:05 Remarks by KIST.
06:05 - 07:00 PM : Panel I : Scaling AI Sustainably for Real-World Impact.
07:00 - 07:05 PM : Break.
07:05 - 07:35 PM : Panel II : Bridging AI Research and Enterprise Applications.
07:30 - 09:00 PM : Networking & Dinner
Panel I: Scaling AI Sustainably for Real-World Impact
As AI adoption accelerates across industries, organizations face critical challenges in scaling solutions that are efficient, high-performing, and responsible. This panel brings together thought leaders from enterprise and AI hardware to explore strategies for designing and deploying AI that delivers measurable and sustainable impact.
Panelists:
June Paik is the CEO of FuriosaAI, setting the company’s vision to build a new foundation for AI compute. Since co-founding the company in 2017 with just $1 million, June has overseen the launch of two AI accelerators, for computer vision tasks and for language models and agentic AI deployments in data centers, and the raise of over $100 million in funding. Drawing on his background as both a hardware and software engineer at Samsung and AMD, June has directed a hardware-software co-design at the core of Furiosa. This holistic approach led to the company’s novel Tensor Contraction Processor (TCP) chip architecture, which overcomes the limitations of GPUs to deliver both elite performance and sustainable economics. June chose the name "FuriosaAI" as a placeholder, but it's come to signify the company's relentless determination in charting its own path to solve the world’s need for a new kind of AI compute.
Dr. Robert Blumofe is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Akamai. As CTO, he guides Akamai’s technology strategy, works with Akamai’s largest customers, and convenes technology leaders within the company to catalyze innovation. Previously, he led Akamai’s Platform organization and Enterprise Division, where he was responsible for developing and operating the distributed system underlying all Akamai products and services, as well as creating solutions for major enterprises to secure and improve performance. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science from Brown University.
Dr. Ashoka Madduri is the Global Head of Scientific Strategy and Intelligence at Sanofi's mRNA Center of Excellence, where he guides strategic decision-making across various technology verticals. Previously, he co-founded and led a biotech company at Yale Ventures, and provided strategic insights to early-stage life science startups. Ashoka has extensive biotech industry experience in business development, corporate strategy, and consulting across a wide variety of therapeutic drug modalities and novel delivery technologies for diverse indications. He holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, a Ph.D. in Bio-organic Chemistry from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and completed a PostDoc in Immunology at Harvard Medical School.
Jin Chun is Senior Vice President, Head of AI Solutions Engineering and Applications, and an IT Fellow at Fidelity Investments, where he leads enterprise-wide AI and data transformation initiatives. His work integrating conversational AI, machine learning, and large language models spans digital channels including voice, web, mobile, and IVR across multiple business lines. He pioneered Fidelity's first API management platform, AWS cloud implementations, and modern DevOps practices, establishing technology strategies that continue to shape the firm's digital evolution. Prior to Fidelity, Jin served as Chief Architect at State Street Global Markets, where he led the design and development of real-time trading systems across various asset classes—including FX Connect (a global institutional foreign exchange trading platform), Equities, and Fixed Income—and helped to spearhead State Street's China Global Delivery Center in Hangzhou. Jin serves on the Advisory Board of KKoom, a 501(c)(3) charity providing educational access for Korean youth through preschool funding and college scholarships. Jin holds seven U.S. patents in AI and natural language processing, with innovations spanning multimodal interactions, intent classification, and knowledge graph generation. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Jin immigrated to the United States at age three and is a graduate of Yale University.
Panel II: Bridging AI Research and Enterprise Applications
AI research is advancing at an unprecedented pace, yet translating breakthroughs into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions remains a key challenge. This panel brings together leading researchers and innovators to explore how innovations across the AI infrastructure stack, from hardware to software, can move technologies from the lab into real-world deployment.
Panelists:
Dr. Ava Amini is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA. Her research focuses on developing new AI methods to understand and design biology, with the ultimate aim of realizing precision biomedicines that improve human health. In addition to research, Ava is passionate about AI education and outreach — she is a lead organizer and instructor for MIT Introduction to Deep Learning, an in-person and global course on the fundamentals of deep learning, where she has taught AI to 1000s of students in-person and over 100,000 globally registered students online, garnering more than 11 million online lecture views. Ava completed her PhD in Biophysics at Harvard University and her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Molecular Biology from MIT and has been recognized by the National Academy of Engineering, the National Science Foundation, TEDx, Venture Beats, and the Association of MIT Alumnae, among others, for her contributions.
Dr. Chansoo Kim is an Assistant Professor at the University of Science and Technology (UST) and a Senior Research Scientist at the Computational Science Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST). He leads the AI/R (AI, Information & Reasoning) Lab, which explores the theoretical foundations of artificial intelligence and machine learning, information science, and complex adaptive systems. His research focuses on non-Gaussian behavior, particularly heavy-tailed and leptokurtic dynamics, across learning, inference, finance, and inequality. His academic lineage traces back to C. F. Gauß. Professor Kim’s work spans AI ethics and risk alignment, optimization, decentralized AI, and causal AI, with applications in climate change, human resources, defense, governance and justice, public health, and pharmaceuticals. His group has conducted national-scale policy research, including AI-driven, large-scale agent-based modeling and optimization to support Korea’s CDC (KDCA) and the Office of the President during the COVID-19 pandemic. His academic collaborators include MIT, Harvard, and Columbia University, and his applied partners include POSCO, Daewoong Pharmaceutical, and the Kyunghyang Shinmun. Professor Kim’s current work advances dependable AI aimed at achieving lasting, real-world impact.
This insightful discussion will be facilitated by Rhie Lim, is a former CNBC reporter turned entrepreneur and tech investor. As co-founder of LifeCanvas Technologies, Inc., a company revolutionizing 3D bioimaging, Rhie helped grow the startup from inception into a sustainable, profitable business. She led a cross-functional team across science, AI/ML, finance, sales, marketing, and HR, and secured over $17M in funding from institutional investors and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Rhie also spearheaded MIT’s first Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp in Seoul, South Korea, which fostered a network of 1,200 alumni and led to the launch of 100+ ventures that have collectively raised over $70M. Prior to her work in startups, she was a financial news reporter for CNBC Asia, where she covered South Korea’s leading companies, including Samsung, and conducted exclusive interviews with global opinion leaders such as Warren Buffett. Passionate about bridging market gaps and supporting visionary founders, Rhie is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build impactful, scalable solutions. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and hosts Kendall On Air, a YouTube series spotlighting innovators, technologies, and founders from the world’s most innovative square mile - Kendall Square.