SKT Expands Win-Win Partnerships With Startups
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SK Telecom said CEO Jeong Jae-heon met with 8 startup CEOs on the 16th.
The meeting was arranged to hear the challenges involved in moving businesses forward and exchange views for mutual growth.
SKT operates "SKTCH" and is pursuing a goal of nurturing 500 innovative companies and achieving joint growth over the 5 years through 2030.
SKT is strengthening its sustained, ongoing communication-based "Win-Win" partnership with startups. SK Telecom announced that CEO Jeong Jae-heon met with 8 startup CEOs on the 16th.
During the meeting, they listened to the challenges involved in moving businesses forward and exchanged views on mutual growth. The meeting was arranged to hear field-level feedback directly from the startup nurturing and collaboration process and to jointly explore ways to enhance synergy.
SKT employees who are directly advancing joint projects with startups also attended. The participants introduced how large companies and startups are collaborating on the ground and exchanged insights on creating synergy.
The case introduced that day was SierraBase. SierraBase has technology for drone-based AI infrastructure safety inspection solutions.
CEO Kim Song-hyeon explained that SierraBase is working with SKT in the field of small autonomous drones to automate, with AI, safety inspections of communication towers that had previously been carried out by people. Kim said he expects the collaboration to advance the technology and help uncover real business models.
SKT has been discovering and supporting startups across a range of sectors since 2013, and this year it is upgrading its startup nurturing programs with the goal of strengthening mutual-growth partnerships. This direction is focused not only on supporting startups, but also on making the collaboration structure more sophisticated.
To that end, SKT operates a startup collaboration platform called "SKTCH." "SKTCH" provides expert mentoring, supports the discovery of collaboration opportunities with SKT and business advancement, and also offers support for participation in domestic and overseas exhibitions as well as opportunities to secure investment.
"SKTCH" plays a role in connecting startups' innovation capabilities with SKT's AI technology and business capabilities. Based on this, SKT is pursuing a goal of nurturing 500 innovative companies and achieving joint growth over the 5 years through 2030.
CEO Jeong emphasized that combining startups' technologies and ideas with SKT's AI, infrastructure, and marketing capabilities could create new business opportunities and value in the AI era. He also stressed that startups are important partners for SKT as it creates new business opportunities and success stories in the AI era.
Jeong Jae-heon also said he would continue to listen to on-the-ground feedback. He added that SKT would expand collaboration so that practical growth can be achieved on the basis of linking each side's strengths.
Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407043
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