LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol: 'People Are What Change the Future' — Company Goes All Out to Recruit U.S. R&D Talent

LG Electronics is accelerating efforts to secure global R&D talent to lead its future growth businesses. The target areas are AI, robotics, mobility, and HVAC, and LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol said the people who change the future are talent.

LG Electronics held the 'North America Tech Conference' in San Francisco, California, on the 29th local time, and disclosed the event on the 31st. The 'North America Tech Conference' is an event that invites overseas R&D talent.

The event was designed to invite experienced R&D professionals and doctoral-level specialists in the U.S. to introduce LG Electronics' future business vision and technological competitiveness, and to link that to hiring. Through this, LG Electronics has moved to secure R&D talent to lead its future growth businesses.

More than 100 people attended the event. Participants included Ph.D. holders and researchers from major U.S. universities and research institutions such as Stanford University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and UC Berkeley, as well as R&D veterans working at local big tech companies and startups.

At the event, which was attended by a large number of business and technology leaders, LG Electronics highlighted the growth potential and importance of talent with technical expertise through CEO Ryu Jae-cheol's career story. Attendees included CEO Ryu Jae-cheol, CTO Kim Byeong-hun, CHO Song Sang-ho, Jungi-hyeon, head of the HS Platform Business Center, O Se-gi, head of the ES Research Institute, Lee Sang-yong, head of the VS Research Institute, Kim Yeong-jun, head of the AI Research Institute, Kim Dong-wook, head of the SW Center, Song Si-yong, head of the Robotics Business Center, Park Gi-beom, in charge of LG Data Factory, and Baek Seung-min, head of the Robot Advanced Research Institute.

CEO Ryu Jae-cheol introduced his own career path, saying he majored in mechanical engineering, joined LG Electronics as an engineer, and grew into CEO through roles as a business division head and business unit head. Based on that, CEO Ryu emphasized the importance of talent with technical expertise.

CEO Ryu Jae-cheol said LG Electronics is a company where talent with technical expertise can grow into core leaders who drive the future. He also said LG Electronics does not rest on its global competitiveness in home appliances, OLED TVs, and telematics.

LG Electronics said it is pushing to secure future growth engines centered on HVAC for commercial spaces, mobility, and physical AI. It also laid out a strategy to foster robotics, AI data center cooling solutions, and mobility as core pillars of future growth based on physical AI.

LG Electronics is advancing physical AI-related businesses in three areas: robotics, AI data centers, and mobility. In robotics, it is seeking business competitiveness by combining robot platforms, robot intelligence, and data capabilities. In AI data centers, it is expanding its cooling solutions business against the backdrop of high-density, high-heat environments. In mobility, it is pushing to build an intelligent vehicle platform based on AIDV and software-defined vehicles (SDVs).

LG Electronics said it has strengths in data, a key element of physical AI competitiveness. As evidence, it pointed to decades of accumulated manufacturing and production data and know-how, as well as an understanding of home spaces and customers based on hundreds of millions of products worldwide. LG Electronics said this data and understanding are differentiated competitive advantages. It also emphasized that, on the technology side, it can extend the capabilities accumulated in HVAC and vehicle electronics businesses into the physical AI domain.

LG Electronics has manufacturing capabilities for more than 1 billion core components, and it is also pursuing collaboration among group affiliates and robotics subsidiaries, as well as strategic partnerships with global big tech companies. The company plans to expand the related ecosystem by combining core component manufacturing capabilities, collaboration among affiliates and subsidiaries, and partnerships with global big tech.

CEO Ryu said that even when discussing future technologies, the key to future change is talent. He said LG Electronics is pursuing meaningful change with talent that is not afraid of bigger challenges.

In line with that, LG Electronics will expand its recruitment program for securing global top talent in connection with this North America Tech Conference. Starting on the 9th of next month, it will hold recruitment information sessions at major universities in North America in sequence, with stops including MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, Purdue University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In South Korea, it has been conducting recruitment for new employees for the second half of the year since last month.

The focus areas for domestic hiring are robotics, manufacturing technology, and electrical and electronics, with the goal of securing the next generation of talent to lead future growth businesses. LG Electronics has made recruiting global R&D talent its policy.

This is part of a plan to strengthen R&D capabilities in future technology fields such as AI, robotics, and mobility, while accelerating the discovery of new growth engines by pushing ahead with the combination of AI and existing businesses in manufacturing, home appliances, vehicle electronics, and HVAC.

Source: TECHWORLD · Park Kyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=406262

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