Talent as a platform: how Yanolja built a data culture across its workforce.
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Talent as a platform: how Yanolja built a data culture across its workforce. Overview. | Experience | In Person | | Track | Data Strategy | | Industry | Travel & Hospitality | | Technologies | AI/BI | | Skill Level | Beginner | A modern data platform without data-ready people is a stranded asset. Yanolja, Korea's leading travel-tech unicorn, learned that scaling AI-driven innovation required building a talent strategy as sophisticated as its technical architecture. When Yanolja partnered with Databricks, the breakthrough was not technology deployment but C-suite commitment to train more than 1,000 employees out of a workforce of roughly 2,000. That scale of organizational investment created a cultural shift that changed how leadership, engineering, and business teams collaborated around data. In this session, data engineering leader Youngho Song, and Head of Data Sooyoung Lee share the "assess-and-architect" methodology they used to identify skill gaps, the enterprise-wide data capability framework that created a shared language across the organization, and the measurable platform ROI that followed. For CHROs, CTOs, and CDOs who understand that the bottleneck to AI maturity is human, not technical - this session is the strategic playbook you need. Session speakers. /Head of Data NOL UNIVERSE /Data Engineering Lead Yanolja NEXT
