Jung-Hee Ryu (Future Play)

Name: Jung-Hee Ryu (Future Play)
Start: 2014-09-24T19:00:00+09:00
End: 2014-09-24T22:00:00+09:00
Location: Maru 180

Sep 24, 2014, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM (UTC)

Seoul

Maru 180, 180 Yeoksam-ro, Seoul, Korea

Jung-hee is an inventor, entrepreneur and investor with 19 years experiences in business and academia. He founded of Iconlab and Olaworks. He worked as CEO until Intel’s acquisition in 2012. Now, he is Partner and CEO of FuturePlay. He got his Ph.D from EECS in KAIST, and he was adjunct professor at KSIM and GSCT in KAIST until 2010.

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About this event

Jung-hee is an inventor, entrepreneur and investor with 19 years experiences in business and academia.

He was a co-founder and CTO of Iconlab Inc., and invented “InterCode” which is 2D barcode optimized for mobile camera phone scanning and de-facto standard for Korean operators. He founded Olaworks Inc. in 2006 and worked as CEO and CSO until Intel’s acquisition in 2012. He created “ScanSearch” in Olaworks, the mega-hit mobile augmented reality service with over 2mil users. He worked as Strategic Planner in PEG-IPG-ICG, Intel Corp after the acquisition until 2014. Now he is Partner and CEO of FuturePlay Inc., which builds and invests tech-centric startups innovating human-computer interactions.Also he is a partner of Primer, first startup accelerator in Korea founded by serial entrepreneurs.

He got his Ph.D from EECS in Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and he was adjunct professor at Graduate School of Information and Media Management (KSIM) and Graduate School of Culture Technology (GSCT) in KAIST until 2010.