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LG Electronics Speeds Up AI Development Shift by Gathering Affiliate Developers

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LG Electronics SW Center Head Kim Dong-wook, executive director, delivering the welcome remarks.

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According to AI TIMES, LG Electronics has been holding LG AI DevCon 2026 at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul, since September 15 to accelerate…

According to AI TIMES, LG Electronics has been holding LG AI DevCon 2026 at LG Sciencepark in Magok, Seoul, since September 15 to accelerate innovation in AI-based software development. More than 1,500 developers from LG affiliates are taking part both online and offline, sharing development know-how and results. The event, restructured from a software developers’ conference into an AI-centered one, is focusing on lectures on technology trends, showcases of the latest technologies, and sharing of on-site application cases. LG Electronics is introducing the experience it has accumulated in the development process of webOS, while other affiliates are presenting cases of improving development productivity and enhancing services. Management systems for responding to growing security threats from AI expansion and for improving service reliability and transparency are also being discussed as key agenda items. Linked with separate development competitions and group-level technology and culture events, the gathering appears aimed at broadening developer exchange and speeding up internal efforts to connect AI with real service innovation.

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This issue shows that the center of gravity is shifting from keeping AI at the research or experimental stage to changing the way development organizations actually work. In particular, because this is not a single-company effort but a structure that pools and shares experience across affiliates, it can be seen as a signal that competition in development productivity is expanding beyond the introduction of individual tools into competition over organizational standards and operating systems. Ultimately, the important change is that the ability to develop and validate AI functions stably and connect them to service value is becoming the benchmark that determines corporate competitiveness.

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