Naver Seeks AI Ecosystem Cooperation in Mexico, Reaches Out to Government and Companies
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Naver said on the 29th that it is seeking to expand digital cooperation with the Mexican government and local companies in areas including AI, public AX and data centers.
Naver executives, including CEO Choi Soo-yeon, CFO Kim Hee-cheol and CDO Kim Gwang-hyeon, visited Mexico for two days starting on the 24th and met with government ministries and Softtek officials to discuss cooperation measures.
Naver is reviewing possible cooperation with the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, and Querétaro, and also introduced its direction for building an AI ecosystem at the Korea-Mexico Business Forum.
Naver announced on the 29th that it is seeking to expand digital cooperation with the Mexican government and local companies in areas including AI, public AX and data centers. Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon, CFO Kim Hee-cheol and CDO Kim Gwang-hyeon, among other executives, visited Mexico for two days starting on the 24th, in connection with the schedule of the presidential economic delegation.
During the visit, they met successively with officials from the Ministry of Economy, the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (SECIHTI), the Digital Transformation and Telecommunications Agency (ATDT), and Softtek to discuss cooperation measures. In the process, Naver executives made back-to-back contacts with Mexican government ministries and local IT companies to gauge the potential for expanded digital cooperation.
CEO Choi Soo-yeon met with Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Mexico's Minister of Economy, and introduced Naver's public AX capabilities, sovereign AI strategy and AI infrastructure business. In the meeting, the two sides discussed the potential for cooperation in helping Mexico's public sector transition to AI and in strengthening competitiveness across industries.
The Mexican government is seeking to broaden exchanges with global AI companies while also nurturing its domestic AI industry. Minister Ebrard expressed interest in ways to strengthen the local AI ecosystem and enhance digital transformation capabilities through cooperation with Naver.
In response, Naver is reviewing possible cooperation with the central government. Naver examined possible collaboration on AI infrastructure with the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, and CEO Choi met with Minister Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez. The meeting covered cooperation measures related to building a national-level high-performance computing (HPC) and AI cluster in Mexico.
Naver is also pursuing regional business opportunities in parallel. The company is reviewing possible cooperation with Querétaro, a state with a dense concentration of data center infrastructure, and is also discussing how to implement a digital twin pilot project targeting two major local cities.
Against this backdrop, CDO Kim Gwang-hyeon presented the direction for building an AI ecosystem to business leaders from both countries at the Korea-Mexico Business Forum on the 25th. Kim emphasized the need for an AI ecosystem that reflects each country's language, data and industrial characteristics, and also outlined cooperation measures that would combine Mexico's manufacturing competitiveness with Korea's AI technology and experience.
With this visit, Naver made a full-scale review of local business opportunities by contacting both the government and companies in Mexico. Naver executives visited Mexico and discussed cooperation measures with AI-related Mexican government and corporate officials, marking the first time Naver executives have held AI cooperation discussions locally in Mexico.
This move is part of Naver's effort to expand its points of contact in Latin America. Last August, CEO Choi met with executives from Brazil's AI infrastructure company Scala Data Centers, as well as executives from Tecto Data Centers and Chilean telecom operator Entel, and discussed possible cooperation with each of them.
Source: TECHWORLD · Kim Seung-gi
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