The Incheon Free Financial Zone Authority (IFEZ) introduced that it’ll host the “International Prime 10 Metropolis Week 2025” from December 1 to 4 at Songdo Convensia and Gyeongwonjae by Walkerhill.
This world innovation week integrates IFEZ’s core strategic areas together with good cities, bio, and sustainability, designed to current a mannequin for “AI-based future cities” the place AI and superior applied sciences converge throughout city, industrial, and environmental sectors, and to create an industry-academia-research cooperation ecosystem.
IFEZ formally declared the world’s first “AI Metropolis Initiative” on the opening ceremony on the morning of December 1. The AI Metropolis Initiative is a global declaration to steer the transformation into “AI cities the place AI operates because the core mind of the town.”
This goals to construct an AI-Pushed City Ecosystem the place AI predicts, judges, and decides on site visitors, vitality, setting, security, and administrative providers in real-time, based mostly on an AI Metropolis Platform that integrates and analyzes knowledge from throughout the town.
The important thing elements embrace ▲AI-Based mostly City Mannequin Structure ▲AI-Bio Trade Enablement System ▲AI Startup Empowerment System ▲AI-Pushed City Service and Operation Heart System.
IFEZ plans to develop this right into a “world customary mannequin the place AI learns and operates cities,” and to transplant and broaden efficiently constructed methods to different cities.
Specifically, IFEZ plans to kind a consultative physique with cities collaborating within the IFEZ Sensible Metropolis Summit and pursue AI metropolis technique and expertise sharing in addition to joint tasks with cities in Asia, Center East, and Africa.
IFEZ Commissioner Yun Received-sok stated, “The AI Metropolis Initiative is a brand new city administration philosophy the place cities be taught knowledge by themselves and predict and enhance residents’ lives,” including, “IFEZ will function a hub for innovation and cooperation.”
International Prime 10 Metropolis Week 2025 serves as an essential alternative to unfold AI-based future metropolis innovation worldwide and place Incheon as a hub for cooperation, consisting of assorted periods and subject applications together with Sensible Metropolis Summit, ESG-AX Discussion board, and Johns Hopkins College-Korea Bio Innovation Summit.
The “IFEZ Sensible Metropolis Summit 2025,” held on the mornings of December 1 and a couple of, is a world summit-level occasion below the theme “From Sensible to AI Metropolis,” the place representatives from main cities and organizations worldwide take part to debate city innovation and AI expertise convergence methods.
On the opening ceremony, IFEZ Commissioner Yun Received-sok introduced “IFEZ’s AI-based City Innovation Imaginative and prescient,” and started the full-scale transition to AI cities, beginning with the declaration of the IFEZ AI Metropolis Initiative and cooperation with companion cities.
Within the coverage session, representatives from main cities and financial zones from 4 nations collect to share “IFEZ AI Metropolis Cooperation Technique” and focus on cooperation measures. Within the efficiency sharing session, varied abroad cities current instances of good metropolis cooperation tasks based mostly on the IFEZ metropolis mannequin.
The keynote session introduces future good metropolis instructions, whereas the expertise session introduces AI expertise improvement and instances of constructing good inexperienced environments based mostly on digital twins. Members will go to main amenities together with the IFEZ PR Heart, Sensible Metropolis Operation Heart, and Bio Course of Human Assets Improvement Heart to expertise AI expertise and good infrastructure.
Within the afternoon of December 1, the “2025 IFEZ International ESG-AX Discussion board” can be held. That is designed as a global occasion to discover the sustainability of future cities by means of the mixture of ESG and technological innovation. Home and worldwide consultants from academia, firms, worldwide organizations, and analysis establishments current new paradigms for sustainable cities and superior expertise convergence.
Within the keynote speeches, Dr. Sapna Poti from India’s Principal Scientific Advisor (PSA) and President Han Tae-jun of Ghent College will current on good cities and blue economic system respectively. The panel dialogue will embrace worldwide consultants from Incheon Analysis Institute, UNESCAP, UNDRR, GCF, and others to debate sustainable progress challenges and cooperation methods together with carbon neutrality, ESG, AI-based city administration, and blue economic system.
The “Songdo Bio Open Innovation Roundtable” to be held at Incheon Startup Park on December 3 is designed as a venue to discover the path of open innovation within the Songdo Bio Cluster along with resident corporations and establishments.
International bio corporations together with Celltrion, Samsung Biologics, Lotte Biologics, Merck, Sartorius, and Cytiva, together with resident establishments akin to Yonsei Science Park, Incheon Technopark, and Incheon Inventive Financial system Innovation Heart, will share success instances and focus on cooperation methods below the theme “The Way forward for Songdo Open Innovation.”
On the fourth day, December 4, the “JHU-Korea Biotechnology Innovation Summit” hosted by Johns Hopkins College can be held.
Co-hosted by Johns Hopkins College in the US and main Korean establishments, it should focus on AI-based bio knowledge evaluation, precision medication, and cooperation measures for world joint analysis and expertise improvement.
IFEZ will use this occasion as a chance to actively pursue ▲establishing an AI-based city operation testbed platform ▲increasing the AI-bio convergence {industry} ecosystem ▲fostering a world AI startup hub (Startup Park 2.0) ▲constructing a global AI governance cooperation system.
By way of this, the Incheon Free Financial Zone plans to place itself as a world chief in AI cities and a global customary metropolis for city innovation, and to steer the unfold of AI-based sustainable metropolis fashions and the institution of moral AI governance by means of cooperation with worldwide organizations akin to APEC, UN, and OECD.
Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok stated, “This ‘International Prime 10 Metropolis Week 2025’ is a vital turning level for IFEZ to steer AI-based future metropolis innovation,” including, “We’ll unfold sustainable and clever future metropolis fashions worldwide based mostly on world cooperation and superior expertise.”
