Decoding AI: A Historical Perspective, Industry Impact, and Educational Innovation at GLOBIS
with Kelvin Song, YuanHung Kuo
Curious about AI and how organizations and companies are currently incorporating its use to stay competitive in this new landscape? Join our hybrid seminar as we break down AI’s historical development and how it has transformed into a revolutionary asset that is vitally important to corporate and organizational strategy going forward. We will look at how it’s being utilized in various industries and how GLOBIS is currently incorporating AI for business education.
Kelvin Song, GLOBIS MBA Program director and faculty for Technovate and analytics courses, leverages extensive IT and AI related experience to share his views on how business leaders should leverage the powers of AI.
YuanHung Kuo, product manager and researcher at GAiMERi, GLOBIS Corporation’s AI Research Institute, joins this seminar to provide a window into how we are actively developing and applying AI towards innovation in the education industry.
Kelvin and YuanHung will then have a dialogue discussion and field questions from attendees participating from both in-person and online.
Join us to explore insights into:
- AI Fundamentals: What is AI and how does it function?
- AI’s historical development
- How to leverage AI for businesses
- GLOBIS approach to AI
- AI going forward
This seminar is suitable for audiences throughout the spectrum of AI familiarity. Whether you are a casual user of generative AI or actively involved in AI research and development, this event will provide you with useful knowledge and takeaways to consider now and for the future.
If you are in the Tokyo area, we’d love to welcome you to join in-person and network with our speakers and other event attendees for continued discussion after the conclusion of the main event!
Overview
| Date: | Friday, August 22, 2025 |
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| Time: | 12:30 - 14:00 (Central European Summer Time) (19:30 - 21:00 JST) |
| Where: | Hybrid |
| Registration Fee: | Free of charge |
| Language: | English |
Agenda
| 12:00 | Reception Time |
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| 12:30 | Event Start |
| 12:35 | Seminar (40 min) |
| 13:10 | Panel discussion |
| 13:30 | Q&A |
| 14:00 | Closing and Networking (for on-site) |
Kelvin Song
Kelvin is the program director of English MBA programs at GLOBIS University, where he overseas and manages the English MBA programs. He is also a member of the University’s executive committee. As a faculty member, he teaches courses in technology and analytics. He is the lead faculty for the course, AI and Data Science.
Prior to joining GLOBIS, Kelvin spent more than 8 years at Toshiba Corporation, Japanese conglomerate. He started his career as a software engineer and was the lead engineer for Toshiba’s PC’s flagship image-enhancement technology, Resolution⁺. Kelvin was also a key member of the team that developed 3D multimedia solutions, including the world’s first glasses 3D laptop, the Qosmio F750. After completing his MBA online, he moved into product planning and marketing as a product manager for Toshiba’s Canvio brand of storage products.
Kelvin holds a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University and an MBA from IE Business School, where he was awarded a place on the Dean’s list.
YuanHung Kuo
YuanHung Kuo is the product manager of the GLOBIS AI Management Education Research Institute (GAiMERi) at GLOBIS Corporation. In this role, he spearheads initiatives that create AI-powered services to boost learners engagement and projects workflows, from case-method optimization to human workflows, from case-method optimization to human <-> AI learning flows.
Prior to join GLOBIS in 2023, YuanHung built a diverse track record across Asia’s technology scene. He led computer-vision product lines as a project manager at medical-AI start-up AetherAI, drove business development at Taiwan AI Labs, headed Incubit’s Taiwan branch, and managed clout-IoT platforms at ThroughTek, giving him end-to-end insight from R&D to go-to-market strategy.
YuanHung earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from National Taiwan University, an academic foundation that informs his human-centered approach to product design.
