On the 7th, President Yoon Seok-yeol held a meeting with Daejeon science technology and digital innovation entrepreneurs under the slogan ‘Dreams nurtured in the region, flowers bloom in the world’ with the Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups participating in the KAIST Startup Institute.
The meeting was attended by President Yun, Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups Young Lee, Minister of Science and ICT Jong-ho Lee, KAIST President Kwang-Hyung Lee, CEO of 8 technology innovation companies in Daejeon, Yeul Kim, CEO Satrek, Park Yong-geun, CEO of Tomocube, Yoo Seung-soo, CEO of Multics, and Weflat About 50 people attended, including CEO Cha Sang-hoon, Smoretalk CEO Hwang Hyun-ji, Chief Enigma CEO Cho Gyeong-min, Data Director Tov Jeon Su-ji, and Tweenie Co-CEO Cheon Young-seok.
On this day, President Yoon emphasized that the Daejeon region, where Korea’s best science and digital technology institutions and educational institutions are constantly moving, is a model of the local era through science technology and university education, while many technology companies innovative science and digital rooted in the region The government expressed its will to firmly support the Republic of Korea by making it the world’s best innovation hub so that young people can advance to the global stage and showcase their abilities.
This meeting was prepared to meet and encourage innovative entrepreneurs who start from the local area and go global, as well as entrepreneurial students who have recently started a business, and to discuss ways of spreading technology and science start-ups and technology/digital based. innovation in the region.
Before the meeting, President Yoon visited exhibition booths where the technologies and products of eight participating companies were displayed, including ultra-high-resolution satellite imagery, 3D image measurement microscopes, and artificial intelligence civil complaint guidance systems for the visually impaired / hearing / wheelchair. .
In the meeting that followed, after a presentation by the President of KAIST on the topic ‘Current Status and Challenges of the Start-up Innovation Ecosystem in Daejeon’, entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial students present promoted the challenge of local young people for start-ups in the field of technology and advanced science. , technology, and digital-based Various perspectives on building an ecosystem where local innovative companies can grow targeting the global market were frankly shared.
Minister Lee Jong-ho of the Ministry of Science and ICT emphasized, “This conversation with Daejeon science technology entrepreneurs and digital innovation shows the President’s strong will to stimulate balanced regional development focused on science, technology and digital .” To this end, we will expand digital education in connection with local universities and companies, and support innovative educational courses such as the Innovation Academy to spread to the states, while planning large-scale digital projects led by local governments in collaboration with governments local.” revealed
The Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Start-ups, Lee Young-young, heard about difficulties in entering the market in the early stages of business through innovative start-ups and the situation where the expansion of new technologies and start-ups is hindered due to existing regulations, We will do our best to reform barrier regulations and support workforce and market, which are essential for sustainable growth.”
Overview of companies that took part in the conference
▷Setrek-I (SPACE EYE-T. CEO Kim I-eul) participated in the development of satellite systems such as Uribeol, Arirang, Naroho, Science and Technology Satellite, and Collian Dubai-Sat (UAE), and has been involved in projects related to space technology with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) We cooperate with joint research and technical training. In particular, its subsidiary SAI (CEO Tae-Gyun Jeon) stands out domestically and internationally as a satellite image analysis artificial intelligence company.
▷Tomocube (CEO Park Yong-geun) is developing the world’s first 3D holography microscope to measure and analyze living cells in 3D without staining. ▷Mults (CEO Yoo Seung-soo) is an AI civil complaint guidance system company that provides public service kiosks for the visually and hearing impaired that recognize and provide visual information in Korean sign language for the hearing impaired using AI technology for civil complaints. , traffic, and tourism information public institutions. Audio available for people with disabilities.
▷Weflat (CEO Cha Sang-hoon) is an intelligent water leak detection solution company that detects the location of water leaks through AI analysis when the leak sound data collected from the high-precision listening IoT sensor is transmitted to the cloud with AI- based leak management system.
▷SmoreTalk (CEO Hwang Ji-ji) is a platform development company that allows users to easily search for media materials such as images and videos necessary for text-only content production, and is further support the creation of pleasing images and videos with text.
▷ Enigma (CEO Cho Kyung-min) is a 3D motion generation AI solution company. It is a technology that can automatically create moving images of virtual characters by inputting a few lines of code, which could previously be produced mainly by motion capture. by professional actors is developed by AI and entertainment companies.
▷ Twinny (CEO Cheon Young-seok) has commercialized a logistics transport robot equipped with a 3D lidar that can estimate its own location and drive autonomously. ▷TOV Data (CEO Park Hyo-jin) is a data breach and risk management solution company that supports data-based companies to use data securely so that they do not violate laws related to the protection of personal information due to lack of legal knowledge in the process of collecting and using personal information.
