South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT will strengthen technological cooperation with major countries in AI and ICT and share the results of international joint research.

The ministry will hold the '2027 AI and ICT International Joint Research Conference' on Nov. 13 in Seoul with the Institute of Information & Communications Technology Planning & Evaluation (IITP) at the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The event marks its 11th year. It began in 2016 as the Korea-EU Joint Research Conference and expanded into a global joint research conference from 2021. At the event, AI and ICT policies and technology cooperation strategies of Singapore and Germany will be introduced.

Eleanore Kang (엘레노어 강), a counsellor at the Embassy of Singapore in Seoul, will present Singapore's research, corporate and innovation ecosystem and key R&D support programmes. Wolfgang Klassen (볼프강 클라센), chairman of the Internationalisation Working Group at Germany's Plattform Industrie 4.0, will share Germany's AI and ICT policies, the status of Korea-Germany strategic technology cooperation and its future direction.

The conference will also feature presentations on best cooperation cases in international joint research. Sungkyunkwan University and Singapore Management University will introduce deepfake detection and blocking technology that achieves high accuracy in real-world environments. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Politecnico di Milano will share results from research on next-generation AI devices using AI-based neural signal analysis and processing technology.

Korea University and U.S. group MITRE will present cybersecurity technology that tracks digital asset transactions to prevent malicious financial activity. Kyung Hee University and New York University will introduce medical AI technology that analyses clinical information and medical data for emergency patients to support decision-making across the entire emergency care process.

The ministry also plans to present next year's direction for new global R&D projects and a cooperation roadmap, and to introduce the European Union's research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.

Separately, the ministry plans to raise the budget for its Digital Innovation Technology International Joint Research programme to support securing next-generation core technologies in AI and ICT and help domestic companies expand into overseas markets. It plans to increase the budget by about 28 percent to 12.4 billion won next year from 9.8 billion won this year.

Park Tae-wan (박태완), director general for information and communications industry policy at the ministry, said strategic national-level support for international joint research in AI and ICT is very important. He said the ministry will continue to focus its efforts on global R&D cooperation and support for innovative research so South Korea can leap to become one of the world's top three AI powers.