At its "IMAGINE AX 2026" conference, held under the theme "Beyond AI: The Agentic Enterprise", the SK Group IT services arm showcased its in-house transformation experience and gathered executives from manufacturing, finance, telecom and retail to swap stories of AI-driven reinvention.
"A company's competitiveness lies not in adopting better AI, but in creating new growth value through enterprise-wide optimization powered by AI," Chief Executive Kim Wan-jong said in a keynote address.
He warned that the gap between firms that have achieved AI augmentation and those that have not is already showing up in earnings, and will only widen.
Kim said companies hoping to stay ahead must move beyond mere adoption to master core capabilities spanning strategy, technology, data, operating systems, talent and change management.
Partners echoed the pitch. Firms including OpenAI, SK hynix, and Mercer have each teamed with SK AX on projects ranging from autonomous semiconductor fabs to "one employee, one financial agent" workflows, weaving AI agents into real operations.
"The yardstick for technology choices is shifting from adoption itself to the question of how to make AI actually work," said Cha Ji-won, SK AX's chief AI innovation officer, adding that genuine business results demand a precise meshing of internal data, systems, processes and industry-specific domain knowledge.
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