Korea's industrial conglomerates—chaebols like Samsung, SK Hynix, Hyundai, LG, and POSCO—operate the most sophisticated manufacturing ecosystems on the planet. Behind the scenes, each utilizes thousands of highly proprietary, heavily siloed Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) systems resulting from decades of organic growth and acquisitions. Currently, engineers waste weeks manually extracting, normalizing, and correlating data from these isolated environments before any advanced AI analysis can even begin. This session explores the transformative role of the Model Context Protocol acting as a universal, cloud-native translation layer. We will reveal how manufacturing giants are utilizing Kubernetes-hosted MCP platforms to seamlessly bridge legacy industrial control systems with modern AI agents, radically accelerating industrial intelligence.
