President Sang Hyun Lee was invited by Pacific Forum to participate in the Operationalizing Integration in the Indo-Pacific conference, sponsored by the United States Indo-Pacific Command(USINDOPACOM), on January 16-17. President Lee presented on "Security Situation and Integrated Response in the Indo-Pacific Region" in the Security Environment session. 

The conference was attended by more than 200 important stakeholders, including diplomatic, security, defense, and military experts, as well as many of the world's leading defense contractors, to discuss integrated deterrence in the region, which has been discussed at the level of rhetoric. Vice President, Jungsup Kim and Sungwon Lee, Research Fellow at Sejong Institute also attended the conference. 

On the first day, the conference held a variety of sessions ranging from policy issues to specific defense military technologies, including analysis of the security situation in the Inthae region, identification of core missions, core military technologies for these missions, integration of military policy planning, and battlefield management and networking. The second day's sessions addressed very specific and specialized issues, including C2-related lessons learned from recent battlefield situations (especially in Ukraine), overcoming barriers to data sharing, overcoming defense industry regulations, and restructuring the defense industry for integrated deterrence.

On January 18, President Sang Hyun Lee visited the Daniel Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (DKI APCSS) to host an expert roundtable to discuss ways to strengthen integrated deterrence in the Indo-Pacific region. The meeting was attended by Professor Vuylskeke, Professor Rami Kim, Dr. Sung-min Cho, and Research Fellow Alex Park.​