Gyeonggi Province met with a delegation from Flanders, Kingdom of Belgium, who visited Korea to attend the 2024 Gyeonggi Global Transformation Forum held at KINTEX in Goyang City on October 24 and 25.

On October 23, a delegation from Flanders, including Annelies Vanderhoydonks, Head of AI Policy at the Center of Excellence for AI under the Ministry of Digital Strategy of Flanders, visited the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Complex to discuss ways to strengthen international AI cooperation between the two local governments.

Flanders is one of the members of the Disruptive Emerging Technologies Alliance (DETA), a council of local governments that Gyeonggi Province joined in January to strengthen international policy exchange on artificial intelligence (AI). This was the first face-to-face meeting after several video conferences.

At the meeting, Kim Ki-byeong, Director General of AI for Gyeonggi Province, introduced the current status and tasks of AI policy promotion in Gyeonggi Province, and pledged cooperation between the two regions in policy exchange in the field of artificial intelligence and support for the advancement of the field by research institutes, universities and companies.

The Belgian delegation visited Mind AI and Naver in Seongnam City, Gyeonggi Province, to learn about the companies’ AI technologies and related services.

“If you are interested in visiting Belgium, we will introduce Belgium’s AI technology and policies, and also arrange meetings with various companies, schools and research institutes,” said Wouter Vanhees, Trade and Investment Counselor for Flanders in Korea.

“We hope that this meeting will be an important opportunity for further cooperation between the local governments of the two countries in the application of human-centered AI, and we will continue to work together to achieve common results through close AI cooperation,” said Director General Kim.