Gyeonggawon Holds First Strategy Meeting to Foster AI, Startups, and New Businesses

Kang Seong-cheon, President of the Gyeonggi-do Economic Science Promotion Agency, is presiding over the "2024 First Strategic Meeting for AI, Startups, and New Industry Development at Gyeonggi-do Economic Science Promotion Agency" held on the 24th.

The Gyeonggi-do Economic Science Promotion Agency held its first strategic meeting to foster artificial intelligence (AI), startups, and new businesses.

On the 24th, the agency announced on the 25th that it held a lively discussion meeting on strategic technologies to be focused on in the future, chaired by Director Kang Seong-cheon, with about 20 executive staff members at the agency's conference room in Gwanggyo Technovalley, Yeongtong, Suwon.

At the meeting, Director Kang Seong-cheon stated, "At CES 2024, we confirmed the full-scale advent of the AI era and the trend of technology spreading comprehensively beyond industrial boundaries," emphasizing, "It is necessary to integrate and spread AI in Gyeonggi-do startups and new industries."

Accordingly, the agency will actively promote AI projects such as supporting the growth of AI startups, fostering AI companies, nurturing core AI talents, developing AI technologies for public service innovation, and solving social problems.

Additionally, plans were prepared to support and nurture startups by creating innovation spaces by region, fostering entrepreneurial awareness, supporting overseas expansion, and attracting investment, aiming to make Gyeonggi-do a "startup paradise."

The agency also discussed measures for the global expansion of small and medium-sized enterprises in the province, including the establishment of the G-Fund, strengthening global networks, and enhancing digital sales channels.

Director Kang Seong-cheon emphasized, "We will focus on fostering AI growth support and the strategy to create a startup paradise in Gyeonggi-do so that it can become a new growth engine for the province," adding, "We will concentrate all the agency's capabilities on preparing for Gyeonggi-do's future by establishing a sustainable implementation system."

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