Operated ‘Incheon/IFEZ Promotion Hall’ at CES, the world’s largest IT exhibition, promoting 34 startup products, etc.
Accelerating startups’ entry into the global market and city brand promotion
At next year's CES, 10 startups will receive the Best Innovation Award and 1 Innovation Awards in one category.
○ The Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority (hereinafter referred to as 'Incheon Free Economic Zone Authority') will run an exclusive promotional center to showcase the products and technologies of companies supported by Incheon Startup Park and the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ) at 'CES', the world's largest information technology (IT) exhibition, next year. ) Smart city promotion begins in earnest.
○ ‘CES (Consumer Electronis Show)’, hosted by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), is an exhibition that provides a glimpse into the flow of innovative technologies around the world and is held every January in Las Vegas, USA.
○ The Incheon Economic Office plans to operate the ‘Incheon Promotion Center’ with an area of 132.23㎡ (40 pyeong) in the artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics zone of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), the main exhibition hall. The core technology trend of 'CES 2024' is artificial intelligence (AI), and AI technology that is shown in convergence with various industries is expected to become a hot topic. The 'Incheon Promotion Hall' will exhibit technologies that enrich urban life through AI and robots. The plan is to promote the products and technologies of 28 startups through a PR center run exclusively among local governments across the country, and also conduct online briefings on the global media stage to widely publicize the achievements of each company.
○ In relation to this, the Incheon Economic Office allocated an additional budget starting this year, selected a total of 25 companies with the Incheon Creative Economy Innovation Center, and supported their participation in CES 2024. Among them, 16 companies were approved for participation by the US CTA, the organizer. These companies plan to set up exhibition booths at ‘Eureka Park’, a national and startup exhibition hall.
○ The reason Incheon Economic Office began promoting startups through participation in CES is to accelerate startups’ entry into the global market and promote city brands. Shim Soon-ok, Smart City Manager at the Incheon Economic Office, said, “At the world’s largest expo, we will not only showcase Incheon City’s smart city technology to overseas countries, but also ensure that Incheon is recognized as an internationally competitive city,” adding, “In particular, we will promote the innovative companies and startup technologies that Incheon is fostering.” “We will promote it and use it as a bridgehead for global expansion,” he explained.
○ In February 2021, the Incheon Economic Office, in cooperation with Incheon Techno Park, opened Incheon Startup Park, claiming to be Korea's first 'Korean version of Silicon Valley', and achieved many achievements by fully supporting startups' verification, investment, and entry into the global market. is reaping.
○ According to the Incheon Economic Office, through the Incheon Startup Park support program, the products and technologies of 10 domestic startups will receive the Best Innovation Award in 1 category and Innovation Awards in 2024 categories at CES 1 to be held in Las Vegas, USA in January next year. received. The CES Innovation Award is an award given annually by CTA to corporate products that demonstrate the most innovative technology in various consumer technology product categories. This year, 11 Best Innovation Awards and 29 Innovation Awards were awarded in a total of 36 categories.
○ Looking specifically, first, Road System (CEO Jang Yang-ho) was selected for the Best Innovation Award and the Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy Innovation Award in the Financial Technologies category for its 'Trip Pass Mobile Passport Platform' technology, and won 2 He won the crown. Trip Pass is a tourism and financial ‘O2O (Online to Offline)’ service for domestic and foreign tourists based on ‘mobile passport’, a digital identity authentication technology. It provides services such as simple payment, transportation card, tax exemption, shopping, facial recognition access authentication, and hotel fast check-in.
○ Microsystem (CEO Jeong Sang-guk) was also selected for the Innovation Award in the Cyber Security & Personal Information category for its ‘DFS (Drop Free Screen)-aided Cyber Security Camera’, achieving a meaningful achievement of winning the Innovation Award for 5 consecutive years. These products protect the user's personal information and confidentiality by opening the camera lens only when necessary, and have a function to quickly remove contamination caused by rainwater, moisture, and dust on the camera lens, providing error-free video control in various indoor and outdoor environments. Make it possible.
○ Banff (CEO Seonghan Yoo) was selected for the Innovation Award in the Vehicle Tech and Advanced Mobility category for its next-generation smart tire technology ‘BANF iSensor’. BANF's iSensor is installed inside the tire to analyze and collect tire and road conditions in real time, and the collected data is analyzed to provide various solutions such as accident prevention, tire life prediction, and improvement of driving fuel efficiency.
○ Gore Robotics (CEO Lee Dong-min) was selected for the Innovation Award in the Robotics category through ‘AIR-AMR’, an autonomous robot that automates material transportation and unmannes labor-intensive work. With functions such as efficient material transportation and autonomous construction site exploration, it can reduce labor costs and minimize management difficulties at construction sites, and its robust design has been evaluated as a product that shows excellent stability even in harsh environments.
○ Naughty Defense Force (CEO Kim Kyung-ha) was selected for the Innovation Award in the Mobile Devices, Accessories & Apps category for its no-code-based mobile application (app) development and operation service ‘ohmyapp’. Oh My App is a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solution that allows even non-experts to build and operate an app in just two weeks. The mobile app development process requires an average of 2 to 3 months from planning to launch. Time can be saved dramatically.
○ Human safety solution company Safeware (CEO Shin Hwan-cheol) was selected for the Innovation Award in the Human Security for All category through ‘Best Personal Mobility Airbag’. This product detects the personal mobility user's actions through a motion recognition sensor built into the wearable airbag, and in the event of an accident, the electronic inflator inflates the airbag in 0.2 seconds to protect vulnerable areas such as the user's head, neck, and spine. It was recognized for its practicality and innovation.
○ Sheco (CEO Ki-seong Kwon) won the Innovation Award in the Drones & Unmanned Systems category and the Human Security category for its 'Sheco Arc-M' platform, which encompasses underwater drones and unmanned mobile systems that remove environmental pollutants from seas and waters. were each selected. The underwater drones of these platforms reflect real-time contaminant separation technology, showing immediate and efficient water purification effects.
○ Little Cat (CEO Kim Dae-yong) was selected for the Innovation Award in the Digital Health category for its ‘INPET’ platform, which focuses on monitoring cat body composition. It collects and obtains eight types of biometric data, including the cat's muscle mass, using a patented sensor and system, and provides the results of a more visible and intuitive analysis through the user's smartphone app. It received excellent reviews in that it can prevent obesity and other complications in cats, which are rapidly increasing recently.
○ Music tech startup Versys (CEO Seong-wook Lee) was selected for the Innovation Award in the artificial intelligence (AI) category for its ‘Beat-based AI Music Video Generator’. Their software connects an interaction engine to multiple music and video sources created through generative AI to display different music and video results depending on user behavior. It provides the convenience of creating natural short-form music videos without any additional tools. received high scores in
○ Pablo Airlines (CEO Kim Young-jun) was selected for the Smart City category innovation award through UrbanLinkX, an AI-based traffic management platform. In particular, UAM (Urban Air Mobility), also known as Air Taxi, is a next-generation transportation method to solve traffic problems in dense urban areas and requires a traffic management platform for its operation.
UrbanLinkX is a platform developed to meet these demands and provides real-time information required for UAM operation, such as flight plan reception and approval, traffic flow management such as collisions and route departures, and airspace communication quality management, visualized in 3D graphics.
○ In addition, Nubi Lab (CEO Kim Dae-hoon), a food tech company supported by Incheon Startup Park, operates an exclusive exhibition hall within the LVCC North Hall digital health hall.
Nubi Lab's core solution collects and analyzes food data from group cafeterias to reduce wasted food, identify users' satisfaction and preferences, and link it to personal healthcare to help operate meal services effectively.
In addition, at CES2024, a newly designed 3rd generation AI food scanner and a mobile app for type 2 diabetes patients are scheduled to be unveiled for the first time, so expectations are high.
○ Kim Jin-yong, Commissioner of the Incheon Economic Bureau, said, “The awards at CES are very meaningful in that they have proven that the products and technologies of many domestic startups have world-class innovation,” and added, “We will continue to support Incheon companies through participation in and support of CES.” “We will actively support you so that you can take a leap forward.”