KT won the Stratygy Digital Transformation Award outright at Stratygy World Seoul 2026, a global data and AI analytics conference held in Seoul on July 9, as announced on July 10. The award recognizes KT’s ability to combine its own data platform and AI technology to innovate its companywide data-use system and expand it into AX projects for corporate customers. KT currently operates about 200,000 business intelligence (BI) reports used by about a quarter of its employees. Based on its experience running a traditional on-premises environment, KT modernised its companywide data analytics environment based on its own data platform, MAGMA, a next-generation integrated data platform built on Azure Databricks that supports data collection, storage, analysis and AI use. KT built an open data and AI platform by combining global technologies such as data integration, a data lakehouse and AI analytics, improving data consistency and operational efficiency while securing cost efficiency and scalability. Lee Ho-jae, an executive director in charge of platform development at KT, said the award showed KT’s data platform technology and AI capabilities have been recognised globally. Jeong Gyeong-hu, head of Stratygy Korea, said KT is a digital innovation case that successfully applied an AI-based data analytics environment to a large organisation and spread a data-driven decision-making culture.