"√ Declares ‘Space Beyond Imagination’ Vision

√ Unveils ‘GeOnAI’, a Geo AI Specialized for Spatial Information

√ Establishes a Company-wide Strategy Headquarters and Strengthens Execution Capabilities through Talent Recruitment

▲ WAVUS Vice President Kwon Woo-seok (CEO of WAVUS subsidiary Specialty) heralded new changes and a leap forward for WAVUS as a sustainable global Geo AI specialized company (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

(Connect Daily = Reporter Kim Young-do) WAVUS, which has built the foundation for South Korea's national spatial information, has declared its vision to turn value beyond imagination into reality by completing a Geo AI platform that encompasses its proprietary platform ecosystem.

With the competitiveness as a spatial information platform company built over the past 20 years and the technological prowess accumulated during that time, WAVUS has perfected its independent Geo AI technology, securing global national competitiveness in the era of AI sovereignty.

WAVUS, Opening the Era of Strategic Assets

▲ WAVUS held the ‘WAVUS Vision Declaration Ceremony’ at the Eliena Hotel on the 17th (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

WAVUS (Co-CEOs Kim Hak-sung and Park Chang-hoon) held the ‘WAVUS Vision Declaration Ceremony’ at the Eliena Hotel in Gangnam-gu, Seoul on the 17th, and unexpectedly declared its ‘Space Beyond Imagination’ vision, aiming to achieve 150 billion won in sales by 2030 and preempt the global Geo AI platform market.

At the event, CEO Kim Hak-sung decorated his commemorative speech with a profound message that penetrates the history of WAVUS.

CEO Kim Hak-sung began by saying, ""I am very pleased and overwhelmed with emotion to be here with you at this vision declaration ceremony, which sets a new milestone for WAVUS to move forward.""

He evaluated, ""Our WAVUS has silently led the spatial information industry in South Korea and has grown into its strongest pillar,"" and gave credit by saying, ""All of this was possible because of the passionate dedication and commitment of our executives and employees, so I would like to take this opportunity to express my deep gratitude.""

▲ WAVUS Founder and CEO Kim Hak-sung (Chairman of the Korea Geospatial Information Industries Cooperative) © Connect Daily

He made it clear that the growth and development of WAVUS was not simply a result of technological advancement, but the power of its people.

He also redefined the status of spatial information, emphasizing, ""The spatial information we handle has become a core strategic asset and the most important infrastructure that connects the digital era and supports intelligent decision-making and industrial innovation.""

He did not hide his confidence in future technologies.

CEO Kim Hak-sung stressed, ""From digital twins, smart cities, and UAM to Geo AI, WAVUS's technological prowess is already marching proudly toward the center of the approaching AI era,"" adding, ""A vision should never end as a mere slogan. It is a firm promise to ourselves and a pledge to leap forward as a top technology company.""

Furthermore, he encouraged, ""Each and every one of you here is a First Mover who will turn this vision into reality and the protagonist of the future,"" adding, ""Ahead of a new leap, let us move forward toward a great tomorrow with excitement rather than fear, and with one united heart.""

Leaping Forward as an Intelligent Space Designer

▲ WAVUS CEO Park Chang-hoon declared a vision that brightens the future of WAVUS (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

CEO Park Chang-hoon, inheriting the philosophy of founder CEO Kim Hak-sung, presented concrete management strategies that will lead WAVUS to a 'dimension beyond imagination'.

CEO Park diagnosed the current market situation as being in the midst of a revolutionary evolution where the very way of working is completely changing, going beyond simple technological development.

His analysis is that while spatial information in the past was a tool for recording and verifying location information, it has now entered a stage where it predicts the future and optimizes itself by fusing reality and virtuality in real-time.

To respond to these changes, CEO Park presented a multi-dimensional growth roadmap to achieve 150 billion won in sales and 15 billion won in operating profit by 2030, centered on WAVUS's four core visions: ▲ Challenges that Cross Boundaries ▲ Technology that Accelerates the Future ▲ Value that Shines Together ▲ A Stage that Expands Myself.

▲ WAVUS CEO Park Chang-hoon presented the vision and four major task strategies that will brighten the future of WAVUS (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

First, through 'Challenges that Cross Boundaries', he expressed his strong will to break away from the inertia of settling in the existing public market and boldly expand the territory of growth into the global market and the private B2B sector.

This is a strategic move to diversify the business model through domestic and international strategic alliances and to make WAVUS's platform function as a core engine across various industries such as autonomous driving, national defense, and disaster management.

In addition, to secure 'Technology that Accelerates the Future', CEO Park emphasized that WAVUS will secure market-leading technological leadership by completely internalizing Geo AI and advanced solutions within the company, going beyond simple technology adoption.

This leads to the 'Value that Shines Together', which drives shared growth across the industry by creating a platform-based ecosystem of coexistence.

Lastly, by providing 'A Stage that Expands Myself' where individual employees can expand their capabilities, he presented a concrete blueprint to increase the proportion of new businesses to 30% by 2030 by establishing an aggressive organizational culture that intensely ponders ""How can we do it?"" instead of saying ""We've never done it.""

Completing the Intelligent Agent and AX Era

▲ Vice President Kwon Woo-seok disclosed in detail the reality of ‘GeOnAI’, the technological pinnacle of WAVUS, and the AI Transformation roadmap (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

Vice President Kwon Woo-seok, who oversees technology strategy, disclosed in detail the reality of ‘GeOnAI’, the technological pinnacle of WAVUS, and the AI Transformation roadmap.

With the powerful message, ""Your question becomes a map,"" Vice President Kwon demonstrated through a presentation the disruptive innovation that occurs when the existing GeOnPaaS and GeOnDT platforms are combined with Geo AI.

When a user asks a question in natural language, the Geo AI agent identifies the spatial intent within the question and directly operates WAVUS's core engines built over 20 years, ‘GeOnPaaS’ (administrative/attribute information) and ‘GeOnDT’ (spatial/coordinate information), to edit and display specific data as layers in just a few seconds. This process has completely reorganized the traditionally complex spatial analysis paradigm.

Vice President Kwon emphasized, ""These technological achievements should not stop at the level of simply introducing a tool, but must lead to an AX (AI Transformation) that reconstructs the entire company's way of working around AI.""

To this end, WAVUS has already made preemptive investments, such as completing orders for GPU and NPU infrastructure.

According to the roadmap to reflect AI processes in all projects by 2027, junior developers will verify AI coding results, and seniors will be reborn as leaders who optimize architectures.

In addition, managers will streamline resources through an AI-based performance management system, ultimately establishing an advanced work environment where the entire process of deliverable production and testing is done in collaboration with AI, revealing a concrete execution plan.

Securing Future Sustainability through Enhanced Planning and Design Capabilities

▲ Vice President Kwon Woo-seok disclosed in detail the reality of ‘GeOnAI’, the technological pinnacle of WAVUS, and the AI Transformation roadmap (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

This vision of WAVUS is based on thoroughly calculated organizational restructuring and human resources innovation.

In an interview, Vice President Kwon Woo-seok stated, ""To integrally execute the company's strategic business, we have newly established the Strategy Headquarters as a company-wide organization.""

WAVUS's Strategy Headquarters is a core brain group that goes beyond the existing business structure to discover WAVUS's future growth engines and build technological moats.

Within the Strategy Headquarters, experts are positioned around the 'Solution Group', which is responsible for platform advancement, the 'Strategy Team', which researches and disseminates future technological directions, the 'Future Aviation Group', which pioneers new markets such as UAM and aviation facilities, and the 'Geo AI Group', which is exclusively in charge of the Geo AI business.

In particular, to strengthen human capabilities, WAVUS unexpectedly recruited executive-level AI experts at the end of last year and infused 5 additional experienced AI professionals, adding depth to its technological expertise.

The most encouraging change is the role of the 'Strategic Planning Team'.

To overcome the limitations of focusing heavily on technological implementation in the past, an advanced process has been established where the Strategic Planning Team preemptively plans and designs new businesses and public contest projects, which are then executed by the Business Division or Research Institute.

This is a point that shows WAVUS has evolved beyond a simple system-building company into a 'business design and planning company'.

The internalization of a company's planning capabilities guarantees strong sustainability capable of presenting a locally optimized business model when entering overseas markets.

The Future of Technology-Intensive Platforms Opened by GeOnAI

▲ Executives leading WAVUS (Photo = Reporter Kim Young-do). © Connect Daily

The true value of WAVUS's declaration goes beyond a simple increase in sales; it lies in a fundamental transformation of the industrial structure.

Especially, it is the universal ripple effect in the global market of the upper-level engine GeOnAI, which embraces GeOnPaaS and GeOnDT—platforms specialized in domestic spatial information—as subordinate concepts.

First, an overwhelming export strategy for the global dissemination of K-spatial information standards can be read.

While the existing export method incurred massive customizing costs while trying to adapt domestic platforms to local environments, WAVUS can now put the intelligent layer called GeOnAI at the forefront.

Regardless of the spatial information format of the local country, GeOnAI learns it on its own and transforms it into an intelligent infrastructure. Through this, it is expected to minimize additional costs while guaranteeing the data sovereignty of foreign countries and establishing WAVUS technology as a Global Standard.

In particular, WAVUS's global territorial expansion aims for consulting-based platform exports that redesign the local country's digital foundation.

Through the organizational reshuffle, WAVUS placed experts with prior experience in global business at the front lines of the Strategy Headquarters.

Their expertise is not to dictate localization (Customizing), but to lead the conceptual design of the business by analyzing the policy environment and spatial information infrastructure level of target countries, such as the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

If the reason domestic companies struggled in overseas markets in the past was because they were too busy trying to technically implement local requirements, WAVUS has chosen a method where experts first set up the market framework and then place the intelligent engine called GeOnAI on top of it.

The combination of expert capabilities and intelligent engines is observed to be the core driving force of a technology-intensive export model that maximizes profitability while minimizing local manpower deployment.

Second is breaking through the limitations of manpower efficiency.

Traditional GIS businesses were trapped in a manpower-intensive (Man-month) structure where a large number of professionals had to be deployed every time digital maps were inspected or basic designs were made.

However, once GeOnAI, which accurately grasps the intent of the question and automatically runs the engine, begins to automate this process, WAVUS will completely transform from a labor-intensive model into a technology-intensive platform company with soaring operating profit margins.

WAVUS's vision declaration ceremony this time is the essence of the future value drawn while full-scaling the Geo AI era, and the prelude announcing a seismic shift in South Korea's spatial information industry.

The insight of founder Kim Hak-sung, the execution power of CEO Park Chang-hoon, the overwhelming technological prowess of Vice President Kwon Woo-seok, and the strategy-centric organizational restructuring that supports them are evaluated to have put WAVUS on track to proudly compete with global companies not as a technology supplier, but as a leader in the intelligent platform ecosystem.

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