{"slug": "lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace", "title": "Lotte pushes AI agents across workplace", "summary": "Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin participated in the group's CEO AI Academy, creating an AI agent and AI-powered services to accelerate the conglomerate's AI transformation. Lotte plans to roll out AI-agent development training for all employees this year and introduce external generative AI tools next month, aiming to boost productivity by automating routine tasks.", "body_md": "Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin took part in the group's \"CEO AI Academy\" earlier this month, building AI-powered services and developing an AI agent himself as the conglomerate accelerates its artificial intelligence transformation.\n\nThe two-day program, held June 5-6, brought together the CEOs of 50 Lotte affiliates to review the group's AI transformation strategy and discuss future business applications of AI.\n\nDuring the training, Shin created AI services using vibe coding and developed an AI agent, underscoring the group's push to embed AI more deeply across its operations.\n\n\"To bring innovative changes to the workplace, we will support all employees in developing skills to create AI agents,\" Shin said, emphasizing the need to accelerate AI transformation.\n\nLotte plans to roll out AI-agent development training for all employees this year. The group expects AI agents to handle routine tasks such as data analysis and report writing, allowing employees to focus on higher-value work and improve overall productivity.\n\nTo further encourage workplace adoption, Lotte will introduce external generative AI tools next month and host a groupwide \"Lotte AI Hackathon\" and challenge to showcase AI use cases across affiliates.\n\nAs part of its broader AI push, Lotte will gather about 150 AI and IT executives from across the group for a two-day AI transformation camp on Thursday and Friday.\n\nUnder the theme \"Core Value, Powered by AX,\" participants will share successful AI implementation cases and discuss business strategies for the emerging era of AI agents.\n\nstlee0329@heraldcorp.com", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace", "canonical_source": "https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10772804", "published_at": "2026-06-16 05:41:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 05:53:31.942474+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai", "ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Lotte Group", "Shin Dong-bin", "Lotte", "CEO AI Academy", "Lotte AI Hackathon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/lotte-pushes-ai-agents-across-workplace.jsonld"}}