Jensen Huang Wins 2026 Van Fleet Award, Says the U.S. and South Korea Are Building the Future Together
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Nvidia announced on the 1st that CEO Jensen Huang had won the 2026 Van Fleet Award.
The award was presented at The Korea Society's annual gala in New York on September 28, and the honor recognized his contribution to advancing U.S.-South Korea relations.
Huang highlighted his long ties with South Korea and emphasized the country's role and competitiveness in the AI era.
Jensen Huang has won the 2026 Van Fleet Award. Nvidia announced on the 1st that CEO Jensen Huang had received the honor. The award was presented at The Korea Society's annual gala in New York on September 28 local time.
The Van Fleet Award is given to individuals and organizations that have made major contributions to the development of U.S.-South Korea relations. Huang was recognized for his contribution to advancing those ties.
The award comes amid Nvidia's continued cooperation with South Korea's technology and industrial ecosystem. Nvidia has worked with Korean partners in artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors and computing.
In his remarks, Huang recalled that Nvidia had long had ties with South Korea dating back to the company's early days. He also expressed his expectations for South Korea's role in the AI era.
He said that after first connecting with South Korea during Nvidia's founding and the early days of the new computing industry, he had witnessed the country grow with South Korea over decades. He described South Korea as having transformed from a technology consumer into a country at the forefront of the global technology industry.
CEO Jensen Huang called South Korea's transformation over the past decades an astonishing miracle. He highlighted the resilience of the Korean people and their desire to make a greater leap forward, and said he felt proud to stand at the point where the two countries meet at a time when the importance of U.S.-South Korea relations has reached its peak.
A dialogue session followed the ceremony. CEO Jensen Huang emphasized South Korea's competitiveness in the AI era, saying the country has the capability to actively use AI and the ability to export AI-related technologies. He cited South Korea's strong interest in new technologies and its rapid adoption as key strengths.
As structural change spreads across industries through AI, the benchmark for competitiveness is shifting from simply developing new technologies to the ability to quickly diffuse them across society and industry as a whole. The ability to rapidly adopt technology and apply it on the industrial front line could become a differentiated competitive edge for South Korea, he said.
This trend has been interpreted as something that could serve as a core competitive advantage in the future. AI is expected to provide growing momentum across countries, societies and companies.
CEO Jensen Huang described AI as the new infrastructure after electricity and the internet. He also underscored South Korea's manufacturing capabilities and said Nvidia is working with South Korea to build an Intelligence Factory that powers society and industry with AI.
This is interpreted to mean that combining South Korea's strong manufacturing base with AI technology could enable new changes across industries. Nvidia presented a direction for pursuing that future together with South Korea's industrial ecosystem based on AI computing technology.
CEO Jensen Huang said he stood at the intersection of the two countries and called it a great honor to be taking part in the process of building the future together.
Source: TECHWORLD · Park Gyu-chan
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=407684
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