LG CNS, KDDI to Collaborate on AX and DX in Asia-Pacific, Jointly Pursue AI and Smart City Projects
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LG CNS has signed a memorandum of understanding with KDDI for AX and DX businesses in the Asia-Pacific region.
The two companies will collaborate in AI, smart city, telecommunications, and systems operations management.
The target markets are Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and China, and they have formed a working-level consultative body to concretize new business opportunities.
LG CNS said on the 14th that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with KDDI for AX and DX businesses in the Asia-Pacific region. Through the agreement, LG CNS and KDDI have begun building a cooperation framework aimed at expanding business opportunities.
The two companies will collaborate in AI, smart city, telecommunications, and systems operations management. The partnership is intended to expand business opportunities in those areas.
KDDI is one of Japan’s leading telecommunications companies and one of the country’s top three comprehensive telecom providers. In B2C, KDDI offers mobile and internet services, while in B2B IT it provides AI, cloud, and telecom network services. KDDI has also expanded its B2B global business across 19 bases in 15 Asia-Pacific countries.
A commemorative photo from the signing ceremony for the agreement included LG CNS Executive Vice President Park Sang-kyun, head of the Telecommunications, Distribution and Services Division, and KDDI Deputy Division Head Matsuura Kentaro of the Business Growth Division.
The cooperation centers on combining LG CNS’s AX and DX capabilities with KDDI’s telecommunications infrastructure and global network capabilities to jointly identify new business opportunities in AI, smart city, telecommunications, and systems integrated operations management services. The two companies will focus on combining their strengths to find new business opportunities across multiple areas.
To this end, in AI business cooperation, they will explore developing localized agentic AI services tailored for KDDI’s Asia-Pacific business applications based on LG CNS’s agentic AI platform, Agentic Works. They will also consider cooperation on physical AI-based work automation services, and plan to provide robot integrated management services for customers using robots at industrial sites in manufacturing, logistics, and distribution by leveraging LG CNS RX platform, Physical Works.
In the smart city area, the two companies will seek synergies in Southeast Asian smart city projects. As urban modernization projects are active in the region, they plan to build a business model that combines LG CNS’s smart city solutions, such as integrated city control systems and intelligent transportation systems, and its global smart city execution know-how with KDDI’s telecommunications infrastructure technology and business capabilities. Through this, they aim to secure an early foothold in the rapidly growing local smart city market in Southeast Asia.
KDDI and LG CNS plan to broaden the scope of their existing cooperation to include telecommunications and systems integrated operations management, which are KDDI’s core business areas, and will review additional areas for collaboration while sharing each company’s core technologies and know-how. Based on this, they plan to expand joint business initiatives.
To carry out these efforts, the two companies have formed a working-level consultative body. They have initially designated Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, and China as target markets and are working to concretize new business opportunities in those regions.
Matsuura Kentaro, deputy division head of KDDI’s Business Growth Division, said the purpose of the partnership is to create a new industrial foundation based on the convergence of AI, telecommunications, and data. He explained that the goal is to work with diverse partners across the Asia-Pacific region to build a digital ecosystem that supports companies and social infrastructure. Park Sang-kyun, executive vice president and head of LG CNS’s Telecommunications, Distribution and Services Division, said he expects the agreement to help the two companies combine their capabilities and create new business opportunities in the Asia-Pacific market. He added that LG CNS aims to achieve tangible results in global AX businesses with KDDI.
Source: IT DAILY · Yang Seung-gap
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