A panoramic view of the SKT 4YFN booth (Photo = SKT)
SK Telecom (CEO Youngsang Yoo) hosted 15 AI startups under the slogan ‘Global AI Company, Collaborate with Startups’ at the ‘2024 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2024)’ side event ‘4YFN (4 Years from Now)’ in Barcelona, Spain It was announced on the 28th that it showcases cases of collaboration and innovative ideas and technologies.
4YFN is an expo to discover promising startups with enough potential to participate in the main MWC exhibition four years later, provide a venue for exchange, and help start a business. It will be held for 4 days at the Gran Via 8.1 Fair Hall, where MWC is held.
SKT set up an exclusive booth at the 4YFN exhibition hall and presented various cases of collaboration with 15 AI startups discovered and nurtured through the startup program.
In particular, it focuses on innovative AI-based technologies and services that can be easily accessed or used in everyday life, such as voice-based sleep diagnosis, visual aid voice guidance, and medical care.
▲’Sullivan Finder’, a visual aid voice guidance service that strengthens the ability to convey practical information by applying SKT’s multimodal technology ▲’A-Sleep’, a voice-based sleep diagnosis platform installed on ‘Adot’ ▲ Improve memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment Voice-based cognitive therapy software ‘Cogterra’ ▲ Hudson AI multilingual AI-based dubbing solution, which has been supporting the production of AI dubbing content for films provided by SKB since last year.
In addition, they introduced ‘Inhand Watch’, an AI smartwatch-based remote patient monitoring solution that won the Innovation Award for two consecutive years at CES, and ‘Guight Studio’, an on-device AI solution for early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease through gait imagery.
Various ICT solutions and start-ups were also introduced to promote global AI companies.
Introducing various services and companies to improve environmental and social issues, such as ‘Dolittle’, an IoT (Internet of Things) pet monitoring medical system, Parastar Entertainment, an entertainment agency specializing in entertainers and disabled content, and Watervation, an air purification solution company uses water.
In addition, ‘BB’, a Korean AI-based education platform for foreigners that received ESG fund investment through SKT’s innovative start-up support program, and ‘STEGO’, a driving-based 5G autonomous mobility robot platform service, were also introduced.
Eom Jong-hwan, who is responsible for ESG innovation at SKT, said, “We will continue to discover and nurture AI startups that are innovative and useful for social development, and we will prepare for the age of a global AI company through collaboration and growth. support.”
Reporter Jang Se-min semim99@aitimes.com
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