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Redrob CEO Felix Kim Delivers Keynote at Korea-India Talent Exchange & Startup Fair During Presidential Summit

Authors:

Felix and Research Team

Date:

May 3, 2026

Invited by Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups to address hundreds of Indian professors and students at The Leela Palace, New Delhi – held in tandem with President Lee Jae Myoung's summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

NEW YORK / NEW DELHI - April 20, 2026

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Felix Kim, CEO of Redrob Inc., delivering the keynote address at the Korea-India Talent Exchange & Startup Fair, The Leela Palace, New Delhi, April 20, 2026.

Redrob Inc. (redrob.io) today announced that its CEO, Felix Kim, was invited as the keynote speaker at the Korea-India Talent Exchange & Startup Fair, held at The Leela Palace in New Delhi on April 20, 2026. The event was organized by Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development (KISED), and held in tandem with Korean President Lee Jae Myoung's bilateral summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Hundreds of professors and students from universities across India attended the fair. Redrob operated a dedicated booth where attendees experienced the company's AI platform firsthand - including Llama-Redrob (LoRA-finetuned for 22 Indian languages), Redrob HR's adaptive skill assessments, and Redrob Passport, which translated attendees' own credentials into globally comparable context on the spot.

Felix Kim addressing attendees at the Korea-India Talent Exchange & Startup Fair, organized by Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups and the Korea Institute of Startup & Entrepreneurship Development (KISED).

Connecting Indian Talent with Korean Innovation

Kim's keynote addressed the structural mismatch at the center of Korea-India economic relations: Korean companies are scaling their India operations faster than they can hire for them. LG Electronics is preparing an Indian unit IPO. Hyundai Motor India completed a $3.3 billion listing in 2024. Samsung, Kia, POSCO, and Krafton are all expanding. Yet India produces 5 million graduates a year with only 54.8% considered employable by industry - and Korean hiring managers have no way to evaluate Indian credentials, navigate 29 states of labor compliance, or recruit in 22 languages.

"The Korea-India talent corridor is one of the most consequential in the global economy right now," Kim said. "But it has no infrastructure. A Korean CEO cannot read an IIT transcript. An Indian engineering graduate has no idea what Robostar or Hanwha Vision is. Redrob exists to build the bridge - AI that speaks both sides."

The fair itself served as a live demonstration. Indian professors explored how Redrob's AI tools could be integrated into university curricula to close the employability gap. Students used Redrob Passport to see their own degrees and work experience translated into context that Korean employers could immediately understand. Korean companies at the fair connected with qualified Indian candidates through the platform in real time.

The Presidential Summit Context

The fair was one of several bilateral events held alongside President Lee's state visit to India. The summit agenda included expansion of the Korea-India Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), defense technology cooperation, and a new bilateral framework for talent mobility and startup exchange. Bilateral trade between Korea and India reached $27.5 billion in 2024, with Korean FDI into India exceeding $12 billion cumulatively. Kim's invitation to deliver the keynote reflects Redrob's position at the intersection of all three summit priorities: Korean investment flowing into India, Indian talent flowing into Korean companies, and AI as the connective infrastructure between the two.

Redrob partners with 500 Indian universities, departments, and colleges to provide free AI access to students. Its enterprise customers include Robostar (LG Electronics) and Hanwha Vision (Hanwha Group), both of which use Redrob's AI-powered Employer of Record services to hire in India. The company has raised $14 million from Korean institutional investors including Korea Investment Partners, KB Investment, Kiwoom Investment, KDB Capital, DS&Partners, Murex Partners, Daekyo Investment, and Wanted Lab.

About Redrob

Redrob (redrob.io)

is an AI research company building proprietary large language models and AI-powered applications for emerging markets. Headquartered in New York, with teams across the US, South Korea, and India.

Redrob LLM –

Proprietary 5-Model Ensemble on AWS Bedrock, including Llama-Redrob (LoRA-finetuned for 22 Indian languages) and FLUX image generation. On-device AI, 1M-token context, deep research, real-time web retrieval. The Android of LLMs.