DMS 2026 — Featured Panel | Chihoon Lee, Sunghee Ahn & Ilse Lee

Preparing for the Era of the AI-Native Marketer: How Marketers Can Ride the Latest Technology Waves

Session Overview

As generative AI spreads across industries, marketing is moving beyond simple tool adoption into a phase where the way teams work and make decisions must be fundamentally redesigned. In this session, leaders from CJ Group, Shinhan Card, and LG Electronics will share the new capabilities required of AI-native marketers, the organizational changes now underway, and practical strategies for turning emerging technology trends into real business outcomes.

Across industries, marketing is moving beyond the traditional campaign-centered model into a new stage. AI is no longer just an automation tool or a content-generation aid. It is reshaping how buyers discover information, how brands create content, and how marketers measure and improve performance.

This session explores how AI is transforming industrial marketing from three perspectives. The first is discovery. Buyers now rely on AI-powered search before making purchase decisions, following increasingly non-linear research journeys.

The second is content. AI allows marketers to produce more sophisticated, adaptive, and context-aware content at speed for different audiences and situations.

The third is performance. AI goes beyond simply displaying dashboard metrics — it helps marketers understand why certain campaigns worked and how they can optimize more quickly.

The core message of this session is clear: the true value of AI lies not in one-off campaigns, but in building a continuous marketing learning loop — from content creation to signal collection, AI analysis, insight generation, and optimization.

In this new environment, the competitive advantage will belong not to the teams that produce the most campaigns, but to the teams that learn what works the fastest.

Speakers

Chihoon Lee
Chihoon Lee, Ph.D.
Vice President & Chief AI Officer
CJ Group
Dr. Chihoon Lee is a leading expert in artificial intelligence and machine learning, with extensive experience across global technology companies in Silicon Valley including Yahoo, eBay/PayPal, Nokia, Apple, and Meta.

He currently serves as Chief AI Officer of CJ Group, where he leads the group’s AI innovation agenda and oversees the development of large-scale AI systems and models.

His research spans natural language processing, computer vision, and generative AI, and his work has been presented at leading international conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, and KDD.
Sunghee Ahn
Sunghee Ahn
Managing Director
Head of AX Research Institute, Shinhan Card
Sunghee Ahn leads Shinhan Card’s AX Research Institute, where he drives customer experience advancement and workplace innovation through financial data and AI.

During his tenure leading the A&D Research Institute, he spearheaded major AI initiatives including the customer 상담 automation project “AI 5025,” the AI modeling platform “SAMM,” and the generative AI 상담 support system “AI-SOLa.”

Having also served as Head of the Life Business Division and Chief Customer Information Officer, he has built deep expertise in both data-driven business strategy and customer information management.
Ilse Lee
Ilse Lee
Korea Sales AX Lead
LG Electronics
Ilse Lee is a digital transformation leader with experience in strategy consulting and data-driven growth strategy across the telecommunications and financial industries.

Since joining LG Electronics in 2022, he has led Korea AX (AI Transformation), approaching AI not simply as a technology adoption initiative but as a business model redesign effort.

His work focuses on fundamentally rethinking both customer experience and internal operations through customer-facing AI, sales support AI, agent-based operating systems, and personalization frameworks.