[DiaryPoint = Reporter Eom Ju-yong] NVIDIA AI Day Seoul 2026 opened at COEX in Seoul on Nov. 9 for a two-day run. Twenty partners, including Samsung Electronics, SK hynix and LG Electronics, are presenting industrial applications of physical AI, agentic AI and AI infrastructure.
The event is hosted by NVIDIA; it is not a joint event by Samsung and Google. The first day features a keynote and 15 sessions across three tracks. On Nov. 10, paid hands-on workshops for developers will take place. Advance registration has closed.
Training robots in virtual factories before deployment
In his keynote on Nov. 9, Deepu Talla, NVIDIA’s vice president of robotics and edge AI, described how factory robots can be trained and tested in digital twins before they are deployed on the factory floor. “Robots going into Korean factories need to learn their jobs in a virtual replica of the facility before they touch a car door,” he said.
Talla said building a digital twin once took dozens of engineers and artists several months, but AI agents using NVIDIA’s simulation libraries can make the process about 100 times faster. NVIDIA also presented an example of a Hyundai Motor Group factory recreated as a digital twin, where hundreds to thousands of experiments can be run faster than in real time.
Samsung and SK sessions focus on design and process simulation
Samsung Electronics’ session will cover using physics-based AI to speed up fluid, thermal and structural analysis, as well as automating design exploration with AI agents. SK hynix will present examples of accelerating semiconductor device and process simulations with NVIDIA CUDA-X and PhysicsNeMo.
The presentations focus on semiconductor design and manufacturing, along with enterprise AI development. This is not an event centered on new features people can switch on immediately in their phones or appliances, or on product launch dates. Videos of major sessions are expected to be posted on NVIDIA On-Demand after the event.
The Nov. 10 workshops will cover deploying and optimizing AI inference, robotics with NVIDIA Isaac, and developing secure AI agents. General registration has closed, and the second day’s program will continue with developer workshops and invitation-only events.