/ About this event
Entering the US used to take a 30-person GTM team and two years of burn. Some teams are now doing it with a handful of people and an AI stack. Five operators open their real screens, ten minutes each: the actual tools, workflows, and numbers behind their US entry.
Then the mic goes to the room. If you're running your own cross-Pacific playbook, bring one workflow that worked. If you're about to start, bring your hardest question. Korean food and drinks after, and we're not rushing anyone out.
THE NIGHT
- 5:00 · Doors, coffee - 5:30 · Five lightning talks, ten minutes each. Real screens, real numbers, receipts required. - 6:20 · Open floor. Bring one workflow that worked, or the question you're stuck on. - 6:50 · Korean food, drinks, and the people who actually ship this stuff - 7:30 · Out the door, straight into party hour
ON STAGE (5-7 min each)
- Luke Ahn, CEO at Claythis, "My workflow to bring interactive K-Drama to US" - Snow Lee, CEO at SearchD, "How we secured AI visibility in 3 weeks in the US" - Simon Lee, Head of US GTM at Vessl, "What AI can and cannot do in 0 to 1 GTM" - Taeyong Kim, CEO at EO, "How AI Changed EO and Media" - Lucy Park, CPO at Upstage, "How Wins Travel" - Ryan Lee, CEO at Jigo, "AI head of workplace - automating office lease projects"
Every talk is a workflow walkthrough, not a product demo. Nobody on stage is selling anything, and we'll say so from the stage.
WHO IT'S FOR
Operators running US go-to-market from Asia, or about to start. Founders, country managers, brand leads, and the two-person teams carrying a whole market. If you have real traction at home and nobody in America has heard of you yet, this room is yours.
Questions or intros: snow@runbear.io
Hosted by Upstage (upstage.ai), EO (eo.team), and SearchD (searchd.ai)
About HAC
Hanwha AI Center (HAC) is a private membership for all those dedicated to AI. As an innovation hub, HAC brings together passionate entrepreneurs, researchers, and visionaries to explore the societal and technological impacts of AI on human life.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
