SK AX, leveraging its experience in fostering practical AI transformation (AX) talent within the company, announced on the 26th that it is expanding the ‘AX way of working’ across customers and the entire industry.
This year, with its name change as an opportunity, SK AX is transitioning to an ‘AI Default Company’ structure, applying AI as a default in all company operations. From the early stages of a project, the company examines the potential for AI adoption, and at the execution stage, it has embedded a structure throughout the organization where humans set the direction and AI performs the tasks.
At the core of this transformation is SK AX’s independently designed and operated practical talent development system, the ‘AI Talent Lab.’ This program is a practical training platform that supports members in defining problems themselves and designing and implementing AI agents optimized for their tasks. It goes beyond mere technical education, enabling even non-developers to create AI models and directly apply them to solve business problems.
During the introductory course, participants freely handle generative AI, developing prompt composition skills and measuring their abilities through an ‘AI Literacy Certification System.’ Following this, the ‘AI Bootcamp’ offers intensive training, allowing non-developers to implement comprehensive AI agents. The ‘AI Master Project’ assigns exercises using real project data to solve real-world problems.
Through this AX talent development system, SK AX is expanding beyond an AI-utilization culture centered on internal members to spreading practical AI execution capabilities to customers, partners, and society at large. Particularly noteworthy is the ‘Coexistence Academy for SMEs and larger companies,’ which has produced over 600 practical talents in just two months and has been designated as an exemplary program by the Ministry of Employment and Labor. The K-Digital Training program ‘SKALA’ targeting young job seekers also completed its first course last month, with 88% of graduates successfully securing employment.
Cha Ji-won, head of SK AX AT Services 1, stated, “Among the client company developers who participated in actual projects with us, there have been continuous requests for ‘AI Talent Lab’ training, and we are using this as a starting point to actively propagate externally.”
Kim Min-hwan, in charge of SK AX Talent, mentioned, “AI should be used as a tool to implement and solve problems directly, rather than something to be learned,” and emphasized, “We are creating an AX implementation ecosystem across industries under the philosophy that members and customers cultivate practical AX capabilities together.”