LY Corporation recently hosted its tech conference, "Tech-Verse 2025", focusing on artificial intelligence (AI). The event spanned two days, June 30 and July 1, 2025, and attracted over 1,200 attendees, more than 7,000 website visitors, and over 6,000 video views, marking a successful conclusion.
The conference kicked off with a keynote and featured 131 sessions across 12 categories. Presentations highlighted achievements, insights, and cutting-edge technologies from various LY Group companies, supported by case studies. The venue was designed to provide an immersive experience under the theme "Change and Change", engaging attendees' senses throughout the day.
Keynote
Euivin Park, executive corporate officer and chief technology officer (CTO) of LY Corporation, discussed the background of hosting Tech-Verse 2025 and the topics covered in the keynote.
Platform integration
Nobuhiro Tomikawa, head of the service infrastructure group, introduced the platform integration following the merger of two companies.
- Why have our own cloud?
- Significant cost advantage, averaging about four times less
- Address common elements across LY Corporation's diverse service scale
- Eliminate duplicate environments from overlapping platforms and infrastructure due to the merger
- Enhance security and accelerate innovation to ensure greater peace of mind for customers
Tomikawa concluded, "With this platform, we can pursue technological innovation more safely, quickly, and boldly. We aim to create a future where these challenges enrich the lives of our users".
AI strategy
CTO Euivin Park introduced LY Corporation's AI strategy.
- AI agentization of all services
- Approximately 44 services have already implemented generative AI
- Potential to create tens of millions of agents
- Implement personal agents to support each user's individual needs
- Dramatically evolve the development environment
- Provide AI development solutions, with full-scale implementation for all engineers starting in July
- Leverage internal knowledge accumulated in RAG for higher quality outcomes
- PoC results show achievements like Code Assist with a 96% accuracy rate and Auto Test achieving a 97% time reduction
Euivin Park concluded, "By dramatically improving the environment, engineers can focus on service improvements and deliver superior services more quickly. Our ultimate goal is to provide users with a 'WOW' life platform and an everyday life filled with '!' moments".
For more details on the keynote, please see the presentation slides or watch the archived video on YouTube.
Global CTO session
In the Global CTO Session, alongside CTO Euivin Park, LINE Plus CTO Snow Kwon, LINE Taiwan Limited CTO Hung-Chia (Marco) Chen, and LINE Company Thailand CPO/CTO Weera (Ball) Kasetsin took the stage.
They discussed how LY Group's global companies collaborate and deploy services in different countries, with examples like the localization of "LINE Premium" in Thailand, "LINE OA Shop", "OA Plus", and global collaboration on "LINE Messenger".
CTO Euivin Park concluded the Global CTO Session by stating, "Creating synergy among engineers from different countries and languages is by no means an easy task, and I want to sincerely applaud our engineers who have continued to take on this challenge".
For more details on the Global CTO Session, please see the presentation slides or watch the archived video on YouTube.
Other sessions
We conducted 131 sessions across categories such as AI, security, server side, private cloud, infrastructure, data platform, AI use cases, frontend, app, design, product management, and engineering management.
For more details, please see the presentation slides from Tech-Verse 2025 on Speaker Deck or watch the archived videos on YouTube.
Product Street
We set up a Product Street featuring introduction panels for services, allowing direct interaction with the developers. Many participants were seen eagerly engaging in conversations with the booth representatives.
Other highlights from the venue
At the networking event on Day 1, attendees enjoyed meals curated by renowned chefs, and the Best Speaker Award recipients led a traditional sake barrel opening ceremony. Additionally, there were many exciting attractions for attendees, such as receiving luxurious novelties by participating in a stamp rally and surveys conducted through the official LINE account.
In conclusion
We plan to release more videos on YouTube and articles on the Tech Blog in the future. To receive notifications about new content, please follow @lycorptech_jp on X.
We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who participated in the event. Thanks to you, we were able to share a wonderful time together. We are delighted to have organized the event. We will continue to strive to provide even better events in the future, so we appreciate your continued support.
Overview of "Tech-Verse 2025"
- Date: June 30 and July 1
- Format: Online (Zoom webinar) and offline (invitation only) at Kioi Conference
- Languages: Japanese, English, and Korean
- Official website
