Deepening cooperation through Korea-Czech Smart City Export Cooperation Forum, consultation sessions, and institutional visits
Discussing participation in smart city projects with Czech local governments, public institutions, and companies
KOTRA held the 'Korea-Czech Smart City Export Cooperation Forum and Consultation' on September 2024.9.26-27, XNUMX.
As part of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport's smart city export support project, this roadshow saw the participation of eight leading domestic companies, who discussed cooperation plans with around 8 Czech companies through forums, consultations, and visits to institutions.
Our participating companies include 8 domestic companies in the fields of AI-based facility management solutions, construction service digitalization platforms, security solutions, firewall automation solutions, and smart surveillance equipment.
In the Czech Republic, about 40 companies, including the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, the Ministry of Regional Development, major local governments such as the City of Prague, public enterprises and innovation centers under local governments, and private companies related to smart cities, participated and held about 90 consultations with our side.
▲At the Korea-Czech Smart City Forum, our Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, the Czech Ministry of Regional Development, the City of Brno, and the City of Prague presented trends in smart city projects, promising areas and plans for our participation, and our participating companies
Presented solutions for individual companies.
▲ In the individual consultation sessions that followed, Korean and Czech companies held approximately 90 B2B meetings based on prior exchanges of information and interests. Czech public institutions and companies showed great interest in Korea’s AI-based facility surveillance, cybersecurity, AI surveillance monitoring solutions, and flood and global warming prevention monitoring solutions.
▲ The next day, I visited the Center for Regional Development (CRR) under the Czech Ministry of Regional Development and checked out the Czech Republic’s smart city system and major projects.
Since establishing the '2030 Smart City Action Plan', the Czech Republic has been promoting smart city projects centered on four major cities: Prague, Brno, Ostrava, and Plzen.
In particular, with the promotion of ▲smart buildings and energy efficiency ▲future mobility ▲data integration ▲zero waste city projects, the potential for our companies to participate in the market is increasing in areas such as eco-friendly energy utilization, introduction of digital technology, and infrastructure construction.
This smart city road show provided an opportunity to form broad partnerships with our companies, with the central government, many local governments, public institutions under its jurisdiction, and companies participating as the main players in promoting smart cities.