Driving into the Future from Autonomous to AI
The automotive industry is in the process of great transformation. Connective technology, autonomous systems, and...
How the Global Advertising Industry is Navigating Change
New technologies, shifting demographics, atomized markets, pinpoint personalization all have made reaching highly mobile, media-saturated...
Interview with Dr. Luc Julia, Légion D’honneur Recipient
Dr. Luc Julia is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Samsung...
BioTech: Accelerating Innovation in Healthcare
Rafaèle Tordjman of Jeito Capital discusses how advances initiated by biotech start-ups, aided by new...
The Cloud of Everything: Taking the Lead in the Time of Transition
Young Sohn sits down with VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to discuss the network virtualization giant’s...
Factory Berlin: Empowering Innovation, Startups and Diversity
Although the tech world aims to be free from human biases, the start-up scene still...
Transforming the Banking Experience for the On-Demand Economy
Digitalization is disrupting banking as we know it, a change primarily driven by shifting customer...
Digitizing Insurance – The Risks & The Rewards
How can we trust the use of big data when personal data is still handled...
Building a Company to Grow in Turbulent Times and Beyond
This week we feature a throwback edition of The Next Wave from our CEO Summit in 2015 -- with advice more relevant than ever. Young Sohn's guest is renowned entrepreneur,...
The alternative to Dr Google
It’s not only medics and the internet that can offer us medical guidance; smart apps...
Meet the startup fighting to erase hunger with AI
Millions of people worldwide suffer from famine and hunger, while a large proportion of our...
Will AI Become the New Standard in Medical Care?
The expertise of medical professionals is irreplaceable, but what if an average person had a way to discern health information and get a reliable, accurate diagnosis from home? That’s the...
How Schoolab Is Inspiring Eco-Innovation
In a past blog post, we’ve talked about our involvement in “Deplastify the Planet”, an...
Can AI Save the World’s Food Supply?
A staggering 1.6 billion tons of food is wasted every year – one third of all food produced for human consumption on the planet. The cause: centuries of systemic inefficiencies...
Augmented Human in a digital age
This episode of the Samsung interview series "The Next Wave", features President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung, Young Sohn, in conversation with Armin Schmidt, Co-Founder and CEO of German...
Extreme Tech Challenge 2020 Global Finals
At Samsung, we are excited to be a founding member of the world’s largest start-up competition focused on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC).
Where Digital Media meets Innovative Tech
The first episode of "The Next Wave with Young Sohn" features Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE, Europe’s leading digital publisher. Both heads of global corporations, Sohn and Döpfner...
World-Changing Startups Set to Face Off in XTC Global Finals
XTC announces seven outstanding category winners of this year’s competition that will go on to compete in the Global Finals on July 15th.
“Deplastifying” the Planet
At Samsung, we are always looking for opportunities to give back to the community through...
Luc Julia, CTO of Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center, Elected to French National Academy of Technologies
In recognition of his influential work in artificial intelligence (AI), human-computer interactions, digital media, and...
Fortune Global Forum — Why Startups And Investors Are Succeeding In Europe
The 2019 FORTUNE Global Forum was held on November 18 and 19 in Paris. There, President...
Samsung, Yahoo and Zoom Energize Entrepreneurs to Scale Their Innovations Globally
Over the past 30 years, only a handful of figures have helped define the technology...
Seizing Opportunities to Scale in Europe
Visionary leadership has the potential bridge divides across industries, borders, and cultures. At a time...
Samsung President & CSO Young Sohn and Yahoo Co-Founder Jerry Yang Discuss Innovation with Purpose
At The 20th World Knowledge Forum, Young Sohn, Corporate President & Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung...
Bridging From IT to the Convergent Future
Corporate President & Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung Electronics As an IT person, I’ve had an...
Convergence in The Era of Autonomous Mobility
Lessons learned from the IT industry can help shape our autonomous future. Watch Young Sohn, Corporate President & Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung Electronics and Chairman of the Board, HARMAN, outline the challenges and promise of Mobility 2.0 as we enter the convergence wave of innovation.
Inside-out: How the Combination of AI, Quantum & Brain Interfaces will Change Us
Dr. Olaf Groth from Cambrian.ai discusses the significant breakthroughs in quantum computing, AI, and brain-computer interfaces that will enable machines and humans to model and understand entirely new dimensions of the world.
CALCALIST “IT TECH TWO TO TANGO” Conference in Tel Aviv
Representatives from leading venture capital firms discussed the challenges facing the high-tech industry, the recent wave of Israeli growth companies, strategic fields of investment, and investment strategies for the coming years.
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Opened in 2015, the Samsung Device Solutions America campus, known as "Samsung@First," is home to Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center.
Historic Le Centorial is home to SSIC's initiatives in Europe, with a focus on VC investments and M&A, as well as cutting-edge developments in AI, especially in the area of automated mobility.
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