Alright. Hello, everyone. Thanks, Claire, for amazing introduction.Vice versa happy to be here and so honored to be as a keynote speaker for the launch of the Women in Tech Korea. I mean, I met Valerie a few months ago and so grateful to invite me to this, valuable opportunity. And, yes. And I'm I'm happy to share some of my story. It's not great, wonderful, like all other famous, but I'm just happy to share with my true experience, working in international and global company. I think that you may know the Airbus as a leading aerospace company, which is actually quite high technology leading and, continuously working on this innovation.

So, feel free to connect me, email or LinkedIn or message today. I'm so happy to connect to all the, future women leaders or the current leaders about really having, yeah, the constrict constrict conversation. We can help each other to grow and to develop, each other. Yeah. I I also like to thank you, Valerie, all the team organizing amazing, the forum in Asia Pacific. I think we all needed this kind of the forum to really connect each other and to exchange our experience and failure or the lessons learned. And I believe this kind of the forum is really expedite the growth of the each other no matter what which industry or area you are belong yeah.

It belongs to. So let me yeah. So most interesting part about myself. So let me begin, by introducing myself. I grew up in Korea and, study up to university, yeah, one of the leading technology science university. I think I have been passionate science and technology since I was kid and, also see all the innovation was one of the my interests. So this passion eventually, I think leading my academic side as well as the yeah. Lead me into the aerospace and the defense industry for last seventeen years. And, my latest role was the working on business development director in Airbus. Yeah, really bringing the new business and the technology cooperation with our Korean partners and the government, which was quite challenging and also very valuable jobs, for, yeah, your home country as well as for the for the for the world.

On the personal level, I'm a person who always been very curious and, fascinated by diversity. And that's probably why I decided to leave, Korea, which is quite homogeneous society. And I'm the person who are very, action oriented. So if I'm I tend to plan and then I'm yeah, I try to really stick on and do something, like, really action, focus. So I think these kind of traits lead me, all these travel the world and, yeah, living in seven different countries and different cities and, and, living in the in really global environment for last, six to seventeen years. Yeah. As you see the Airbus, I think, I was lucky to join this company, and, really give a lot of opportunity to involve in very different high-tech area from the very commercial large aircraft program to, yeah, all these, yeah, complex, products, including, like, a satellite and space, business.

So, all this journey, I think it was, amazing. Of course, I wouldn't say it was not easy, especially when you are facing out of your home nation and facing of different cultural. And typically, Airbus, it was a multinational company that you work with a very French cultural environment or sometimes British, sometimes German, sometimes Spanish, Italian. So you you really have to be extremely adaptable and to really culturally connect with your colleagues and team. But I think it all worked out, despite of all the challenges and failure that everybody has kind of a common goal to really developing, yeah, new solutions and, the value. Everybody is really working together. So it was a beautiful experience, across mainly Europe and Asia.

And I also based in, I see I see couple of, audience who based in South Asia. I also I was also based in Singapore and Thailand and working closely with all my, ASEAN colleagues, from, yeah, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, yeah, Philippine. And, it was also for me, incredible experience to really understand diverse how Asia is so diverse, so dynamic, and how we can actually do something really together. So it was really great, time to before I really come back to Korea after, say, twelve years being being outside. Yeah. So today, I think I'd like to, focus on more how all this journey was developed, by some important, capabilities. I think it doesn't matter what, yeah, knowledge or experience you are, but I think there is a core capabilities that really shaping, myself and also, really, see how other, amazing leaders and amazing woman leaders have seen in Europe and also sometimes Asia.

They really, have those core, capability inside. So let me see. Yeah. So I think because, unlikely, our previous amazing, speaker, I'm on unfortunately, was was only involved in corporate or aerospace defense side for last seventeen years. And, so I like to have maybe some more of my perspective, my perspective based on a, aerospace and defense mainly. Unfortunately, I don't have, yeah, diverse industry experience, but, only this field. But I think the aerospace defense area enough tell all this confidence and courage and credibility, all these, capabilities. This is the, really important, that matters, to make it really successful, program and the product, in the world. Yeah. So, so let's see. So and now yeah. So yeah.

Sorry. So let's time. Yeah. So first, let me talk about the confidence. And when you say well, when you you put me some people, like, look confident, charismatic, and some people say I'm very confident in my decision. And when I was when I joined the company and see those people make a really decisive decision, I was wondering where this confidence coming from. Yeah. And over the time, being in a company, working with different colleagues, and all going through all this, journey, I think the confidence is not really about how much your knowledge about about product or technical knowledge and expertise you are. It is part of the, of course, confidence bringing. But I think, the core is about really your passion and really the value you bring into the organization and the clarity exactly what you know what you are doing, what you want to do it.

I think those, the value inside it inside of you is really, yeah, bringing to the forward and then also bringing forward with your convictions. And, yeah. And I think yeah. Aerospace, I think area is industry. Failure is very common because, I mean, you probably see all the media and, all the local launchers. Failure is, everyday actually life. And, so people are really have those inner passion and the confidence. I think they are not often frustrated because of their multiple failures and whenever they face the obstacles. I think it's about your passion that the and the purpose of your work, that you are committed to creating really the value for the world and for the society and then really, pushing some pushing, the the work that you're really believing, it's, really valuable for the for your for your life as well as as, for your, for for for the world.

So I think, yeah. I mean, often some people think aerospace is very challenging to join as a woman, but I disagree. I think anybody can join if you really have, the value which is matching with, those field, bringing those, common value together. Yeah. So I think in also Asia, I think, women are still very minority, in this aerospace field. I see in Korea, it's very few, women. Yeah. Especially engineering field, not only engineering, but also commercial, generic, generic, this kind of heavy engineering side. It's very, male, dominate, and a lot of, you see mostly the male leaders in this field. But I think this it has it is not easy to be minority because it's just beginning of the era, the woman, leadership and the capability is rising.

But I think being minority is always, challenging, but also it has a great advantage to bring the new value to the organization. And once you are bringing new value to the team, the, an organization, I think you your passion, your confidence will be eventually recognized by, yeah, any any organization even if these are male, dominate. So I experienced this, and, of course, it was very challenging at the beginning. And, sometimes the opportunity doesn't comes to you. It goes naturally to men. But sometimes you have to fight for it. You have to really, prove that you can also deliver, you have equal responsibility, also equal, deliverable to the to the organizations. So I think confidence is not about being loud, how smart I am, how good I am, how, you know, how long I've working in this organization. I think it's about really standing, for me behind the value you are bringing to your, organization. Trying to mix. Yeah.

And the second core, I think capability, is the, the the courage. Yeah. I think in in industry where there are high technology is really driving, including aerospace, the courage is really, really, critical, the the capabilities. So especially, it's, in aerospace, there is no short term success visible, and you have to continuously, stand up and really, to to to commit. And, every day, there is a lot of uncertainties. So, I mean, you probably know the famous story of the Elon Musk in the in the left photo that he failed, so many times for his rocket development. And eventually, he burned all his capital. He's about to bankruptcy, from all the revenue who he developed from this PayPal business. So that was the photo.

He looked like a frustrating and sitting, more or less, a loser. But, eventually, this picture is actually, representing courage. He actually tried one more time to succeed, his final test of the rocket launch. And eventually, he succeeded it and then also really changing the world how the rocket launcher is gonna be operating in the human society. So this is, one of the a great story to the how people continuously fail, but also keep your courage to really make it happen. If you believe in, those, yeah, those kind of, dream and that your your your, your fantasy. Yeah. Yeah. I think also in the second phase of courage is, yes, techno technologically, people are continuously challenging themselves, but also in terms of the your, your inner side.

I think the courage also means having, to say have a confidence, I don't know, when you you really don't know. I think in, in in Asia, I experienced that people somehow to be polite to each other and to say yes. I mean, somehow they pretend they know, just to, you know, just to help not to lose face of your counterparts. But I think in in high-tech area, those, kind of a cultural, I think, this kind of, way of thinking can really lead a highly critical, yeah, damage or the risk for the product and the and the comp and the company eventually in the long run. So I think we need to courage to say, when you say we don't know, don't don't hesitate to ask questions. And also to really suggest, what you think is right or what you think is innovative enough.

Because at the end, what I learned is in this field, even if the expertise in ten years, twenty years in this field doesn't know everything. So there's always, the courage is required to raise your voice and to asking questions and to really bring up your new idea. That's how we develop society and also the woman can bring, those kind of value to the new era of the, this kind of, high technological industry. Yeah. The last is the the credibility. I mean, there's no question about the credibility is matters to many other industry. At least in aerospace, depends what I observe and experience. This is not really negotiable. You probably know, the the famous accident of the Boeing, yeah, the MAX crisis, couple, I mean, couple of years ago. And the company really suffer, and a lot of credibility issue found, between the engineers and all the management leadership in the organization.

So and the the company has a high one of the highest credibility in world of the decades, in the most safe safe, airplane and really financially very robust company, really guaranteed company over decades. But I think one yeah. The the accumulated mistake and the credibility was, underestimated, and it really bring the fatal extent and, and tragedy of the humanity, what we observe, as as a passenger. So so, I see those credibility is really credible in this high technology. What we're handling, it can really affecting others' life and the world and the safety, and the security of the society. So it's really, the we are one of the critical, really, value and capability.

We have to carry on, working and and then really develop ourself in the high technology side. I think it's also individual level, not about the product. The credibility is also built through mastery of your field and then, like, strategy thinking and the market understanding and also consistent delivery of the result. So, yeah, in this technological side, I think, same as for every other industry. You nowadays, we need to continuously study and developing the expertise because it's also merging of technologies from the very different industry nowadays. So all the manufacturing side is merging with AI technology and go to the unmanned echo solutions. There are those kind of knowledge of what you're doing, what you're developing, what you are really bringing to the society.

I think, this is, really critical, for your credibility and also credibility for the society. Yeah. Yeah. And, also credibility, I think it's also about your, soft skill and your proactive communications. Your expertise and achievement must be also visible. So, for personally, over the years, I try to share my insight through participating in several lectures and the leadership program, try to speak up. And it's not to promote myself, it's more to really contribute knowledge and then build a trust, within the community, the industry you are belonging to. So comes to the conclusion. So, yeah, I like to conclude, my, keynote speech today. Reflection conclude with a reflection inspired by one of the famous, the woman, the pilot in the in our history.

So she was the first woman, the Emily at large is the first woman who fly alone across the or an Atlantic Ocean. So this shows that also what woman can deliver, also even exceeding the records of the what men actually deliver in this time of the time. So I think there is now no limit what men can do, what what women cannot do these days. I think it's not questionable. And, also, I have one of the great memory, a time in India. It is in Himalaya that we do a lot of flight test in the top of the mountain in the in the in the wintertime. There's a lot of snowstorm, and there's no oxygen. But we need to deliver, the flight test, to pass the, code exam of our customer.

So there, I was working with a group of the, yeah, the mail group of the engineers and test flight engineers and test pilots, and we deliver the result in two weeks, yeah, and and together. And so it it this experience really shows me there is no, yeah, no limit and there's no, it's about how you build your confidence and also courage to work in this environment. Also, the credibility you re you really obtained from your colleagues, and your