The ‘6 World IT Show (WIS 2023)’, hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT (Minister Lee Jong-ho), co-hosted by six organizations including the Korea Information and Communications Promotion Association and the Korea International Trade Association, and sponsored by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, is ‘Daily Life in the World’. It opened at COEX in Seoul on the 2023th (Wednesday) with the slogan ‘Changing our life, K-Digital’.
The ‘World IT Show’, which started in 2008, is Korea’s largest ICT exhibition, celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. It checks the latest domestic and international ICT trends and technology industry trends and prospects every year, and is a B2B event aimed at achieving practical business results from startups to large corporations. It’s an event.
This year’s exhibition, which will be held for three days until Friday the 21st, will be held with an expanded scale compared to last year along with Endemic. Over 400 companies and organizations, including large domestic ICT companies as well as small and medium-sized enterprises and startups with promising technologies, will participate with at least 1,300 booths, filling COEX Halls A, B, and C.
Global ICT companies such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics, major telecommunications companies, and intelligent mobility conglomerates, as well as mid-sized and small businesses in the ICT field, innovative startups, and public institutions and organizations related to information and communication will participate. ▲AI platform, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, ICT convergence services ▲Smart home, office, home appliances and smart healthcare ▲Intelligent mobility and robots such as autonomous driving, UAM, drones, etc. ▲Digital Twin & Metaverse (XR technology) ▲Cloud and software ▲Security software & blockchain (NFT) ▲ We will exhibit and introduce cutting-edge new technologies and business models that are attracting attention in the global market, including in the field of quantum information science.
A new event program introduced this year is the ‘Mingling Zone’, a business connecting program that discusses new business discovery, partnership investment, etc. with promising startups with innovative public-private cooperation technologies for buyers and investors participating in the exhibition. This is attracting attention. With the global economic and financial situation being severe, it is expected to be a blessing in disguise for the 130 startups participating in this event (selected from representative companies that have been directly fostered and invested by various public and private companies).
In addition, this World IT Show features a variety of side events that provide practical help to companies struggling to respond to rapidly changing global technology trends.
The ‘Global ICT Outlook Conference’ held on the 19th (Wednesday), the first day of the opening, will feature not only the space industry and quantum information science and technology fields that big tech companies are recently entering, but also the latest AI platforms such as Chat GPT, which is a hot issue recently, and UAM. , robot sector response strategies and market outlook are shared. On the 20th (Thursday), the ‘Korea ICT Export Strategy Conference & Innovative Technology Company Presentation’ will be held to share measures to revitalize domestic companies’ overseas expansion and share insights from companies that participated in the UAE economic mission in January and received the CES1 Innovation Award. .
The ‘Global ICT Buyer Export Consultation’ hosted by the Korea International Trade Association will be held for two days on the 19th and 20th and is expected to be an opportunity to promote practical business cooperation and transactions between domestic companies and overseas invited buyers. At this consultation, which is being held face-to-face for the first time in three years, buyers from over 3 companies in 11 countries, including European IT companies from France and the UK and the largest local telecommunications company in Indonesia, will participate and conduct one-on-one consultations with 40 domestic companies.
In addition, the ‘New Product/New Technology Presentation’, where the innovative products and technologies of the eight selected technology companies and startups are revealed, will be held on the afternoon of the 8st (Friday), and on the 21th (Wednesday), notable companies among the participating companies will be held. The ‘World IT Show Innovation Award’, which awards excellent technologies, will be announced, and the ‘Korea ImpaCT-ech Grand Prize’, an award event in the ICT field that marks its 19th anniversary this year, will be held on site.
In addition, the ‘ITRC Talent Development Exhibition 2023’ is a citizen-participatory exhibition hall designed to easily experience the research results of university IT research centers, and the ‘2023 ICT’ supports technology transfer, joint research and collaboration by business field of participating companies (institutions). The ‘Technology Commercialization Festival’ will be held simultaneously in Hall A.
Minister of Science and ICT Lee Jong-ho said, “Considering the recent trend of digital becoming closer to our daily lives with the emergence of ChatGPT, the ‘World IT Show’ is an opportunity for the public to experience the excellent digital innovation products and services that are permeating our daily lives and to promote them to the world. “It is very important as a widely publicized platform,” he emphasized, adding, “The government plans to continue providing various policy support so that Korea can leap forward as the world’s best digital model country and enable domestic excellent digital companies to lead the global market.”
Meanwhile, the ‘World IT Show’, a one-stop platform for digital transformation, is a representative exhibition leading the next-generation high-tech industry. The 2023 World IT Show, with the slogan ‘Changing our life, K-Digital’, will feature ▲AI platform, Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, and ICT convergence services ▲Smart home, office, and home appliances. and smart healthcare ▲Intelligent mobility and robots such as autonomous driving, UAM, drones, etc. ▲Digital Twin & Metaverse (XR technology) ▲Cloud and software ▲Security software & Blockchain (NFT) ▲The latest technologies and products in the field of quantum information science Exhibited and introduced. In addition, the ‘WIS 2023 Innovation Award’ and the ‘2023 Korea ImpaCT-ech Grand Prize’ will be awarded to the technologies and products that attract the most attention among participating companies.
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