AI Ready Data: Why Does AI Look for Data First? — Haklae Kim & Jeongyun Lee | AI Summit Seoul & Expo 2026

AI Ready Data: Why Does AI Look for Data First?

Session Overview

The success of an AI project is no longer determined by the model — it's determined by the data. With the rise of generative AI and AI agents, ontologies and knowledge graphs are drawing renewed attention.

But what AI actually uses isn't the ontology itself — it's AI Ready Data: data prepared so that AI can understand and act on it. This talk shows how data quality, standardization, ontology, and knowledge graphs connect into a single data-readiness pipeline.

Through a live demo, the speakers will present the data preparation strategy and implementation approach needed for the age of AI agents.

Speakers

Haklae Kim
Haklae Kim
Professor, Dept. of Library & Information Science
Chung-Ang University
Knowledge Graphs Ontology AI Ready Data Data Standardization

A researcher of meaning and relationships. Professor Haklae Kim is a professor in the Department of Library and Information Science at Chung-Ang University and the author of Knowledge Graphs for Ontology Scientists.

He has built a research career around semantics-based data using ontologies and knowledge graphs, and his current work focuses on AI Ready Data for AI agents, data quality, standardization, and public data.

Jeongyun Lee
Jeongyun Lee
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Library & Information Science
Chung-Ang University
Ontology Knowledge Structuring Data-Centric AI

A PhD researcher. Jeongyun Lee is currently pursuing her PhD in the Department of Library and Information Science at Chung-Ang University's Graduate School.

She is a researcher at HIKE Lab, where she studies ontology and knowledge structuring through a data-centric approach.