Samsung CEO Summit 2019
Find out more about what happened at our 5th annual CEO Summit. The theme was the Convergence Era, in which atoms and bits—the physical and digital realms—are merged to yield new innovations to tackle global challenges in life sciences, global sustainability, and more.
IonQ: An Investment in our Quantum Future
Even with Moore’s law and a relentless pace of innovation, certain computational tasks will always remain out of reach for classical computing architectures. That’s where the promise of quantum computing begins. In this blog post from Samsung Catalyst Fund SVP Francis Ho, learn more about the potential of quantum computing—and why we have co-led a $55 million funding round in pioneering QC leader IonQ.
Building a Better Future with Technology
Watch former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung Electronics Young Sohn, and Chairman of Maekyung Media Group, Chang Dae-whan, in a discussion on how innovators and global leaders can work together in addressing the greatest challenges facing humankind.
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 industry. Now, two of those figures are paving the way for a new generation of entrepreneurs: Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo! and a founding partner at AME Cloud Ventures, and Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom.
Seizing Opportunities to Scale in Europe
Visionary leadership has the potential bridge divides across industries, borders, and cultures. At a time when the global technology industry is thriving, innovators have an opportunity to forge new, international partnerships that bring the world together.
Samsung President & CSO and Yahoo Founder Discuss Innovation with Purpose
At The 20th World Knowledge Forum, Young Sohn, Corporate President & Chief Strategy Officer, Samsung Electronics, and Chairman of the Board, HARMAN, and Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and Founding Partner of AME Cloud Ventures, talk about technology for purpose and innovation.
Bridging From IT to the Convergent Future
As an IT person, I’ve had an inside view of fast-paced innovation. In 1983, as my IT career began, the PC was new and exciting. In hindsight, those early PCs seem almost comically limited. They weighed 20+ pounds, had tiny 5-inch black-and white screens displaying only ASCII text, used floppy drives, and had a mere 64k of memory. Plus, they cost more than $9,000 in today’s dollars.
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.
The Autonomous
Young Sohn, Samsung Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer and HARMAN Chairman, joined other leading influencers from the autonomous ecosystem at The Autonomous event in Vienna to discuss the main hurdle to autonomous mobility: safety.
Tech for Good: A Global Movement to Shape Our Future
What does ‘leading with purpose’ toward a better world look like? For Samsung, our commitment to open collaboration is taking form through the new Samsung Global Goals app and our support for the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC). Find out how you can join us in the global Tech for Good movement.
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
On June 18, Israel’s most prominent high-tech investors met at the invitation-only “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.
Tech for Good: An Urgent Movement to Shape Our Future
Last month, a group of 150 global leaders convened at the Tech for Good Summit in Paris to discuss how we can use technology to benefit society and build a more sustainable, equitable world.
2019 Tech for Good Summit - Co-Chair Findings & Roundtable
Young Sohn, Samsung’s Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer, was among the prestigious group onstage at #VivaTech for a roundtable discussion, moderated by Maurice Lévy, chair of the advertising and communications company Publicis Groupe. Here is a video of the inspiring discussion.
Powering the Future with Purposeful Technology
Listen as Young Sohn, Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung, exhorts fellow technologists at #VivaTech to collaborate with government, support standards bodies, and fund entrepreneurs in the application of the newest technologies for the good of the world.
Samsung at #VivaTech
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Robots: What’s Real and What’s Research
It’s easy to believe that the robot revolution is upon us when we watch amazing robot/AI videos. What are the real impacts of Alpha Zero or Boston Dynamics? What new robot companies are disrupting entire industries?
DNA Testing 2.0: The Near Future of Population Genomics
Consumer DNA testing kits were the best-selling non-Amazon branded product on Cyber Monday for the second year in row with Ancestry having sold more than 14 million DNA kits worldwide.
Data Movement at Speed & Scale
The world faces exponential data growth. As a result, modern IT needs a new pillar of support: data movement at scale and speed, in addition to the familiar three: storage, computing, and networking.
Formative Self-Leadership & Self-Care
Peter Drucker stated the obvious, “Leadership is responsibility.” We can take responsibility as leaders to continually and relentlessly improve, from the inside out.
Understanding Trust in Technology
In this talk from Samsung Forum, Greg St. Claire discussed the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer California Supplement and takes a deeper look into the minds of the Golden State’s residents.
If Not You, Who? How to Crack the Code of Employee Disengagement
Organizations in the top tier of employee engagement outperform their peers by 147% in earnings per share and have a 90% better growth trend than their competition. However, only 30% of U.S. workers are engaged.
Introducing a New Nexus for Samsung Catalyst Fund Business
Samsung Catalyst Fund has expanded its global team with a new resource for innovators, entrepreneurs, and VCs throughout North America’s East Coast. SVP and Managing Director Shankar Chandran explains what to expect from the New York office.
Deep Learning, Vision and Speech - an update from the trenches
Spectacular successes by deep learning platforms in computer vision, speech and other pattern recognition tasks are capturing the attention of software developers and system architects across many applications. In this talk, Chris Rowen outlines the key ideas of deep learning...
Baker Botts SXSW AI & IoT Panel
Baker Botts is a full-service, leading global law firm, recognized for their deep understanding of the industries they serve. As part of SXSW 2019 in Austin, Baker Botts is hosting an immersive panel discussion and emerging company showcase focusing on Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things.
Hardware Design Automation for Efficient Deep Learning
The mismatch between skyrocketing processing demand for AI and the end of Moore’s Law highlights the need for Co-Design of efficient ML algorithms and domain-specific hardware.
Meet our team at #MWC19
Will you be at Mobile World Congress (#MWC19) in Barcelona 25-28 February? If so, and if you are with a startup that might be a good match for Samsung Catalyst Fund, let’s meet.
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked
On February 20, 2019, Samsung unveiled its stunning new line-up of Galaxy mobile devices at the Unpacked event in San Francisco. The headliner was the all-new Samsung Galaxy Fold...
Agile Hardware Design with a Generator-Based Methodology
Arguably worse than the end of Moore's Law is the crisis of SoC NRE costs, which bottleneck time-to-market and limit app-specific chips to billion-dollar markets.
What's Driving Tomorrow's Semiconductors
Over the next few years semiconductors will be used in new applications and remain strong in existing ones, while the semiconductor market can be expected to...
Green Technology: Innovation, Impact and Growth
As we move into a world with increased environmental challenges, the shape of our ecosystem is rapidly evolving.
Solomon’s Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines
We are entering the Cognitive Era in which decisions will increasingly be made by humans and machines in concert, each – ostensibly – relying on their specific strengths.
Computer Vision and Therapy for Children with Autism
Children with Autism struggle to identify social cues in people's faces. Catalin Voss developed a machine learning system that uses wearable glasses to recognize facial expressions and provides real-time therapy for children with autism.
Samsung Catalyst Fund: The Sherpa for Your Startup Journey
Samsung Catalyst Fund was founded to help entrepreneurs and innovative startups with world-improving technologies to reach the summit of their goals.
Samsung Recognized as Champion of Young Companies in Europe
Samsung Electronics was honored in Brussels at an official ceremony with EU Vice President Katainen as the company “most active in open innovation” by the European Commission’s Startup Europe Partnership (SEP) initiative.
RISC-V and the CPU Revolution
Dr. Yunsup Lee presents today's chip design economics, introduces the free and open RISC-V instruction set architecture, and describes how RISC-V, open source hardware, and SiFive are changing chip design strategies.
Artificial Intelligence, Innovation & the Future
In his keynote speech at Web Summit 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, Young Sohn, President and CSO of Samsung Electronics and Chairman of HARMAN International industries, outlined the huge opportunities that AI presents for global entrepreneurs.
Promises and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence
What’s real in artificial intelligence? What are the most promising AI investment areas—and the biggest challenges? Watch this wide-ranging conversation at Web Summit 2018 with Samsung CTO, Luc Julia.
Samsung CEO Summit 2018: A Better World With AI
For 2018, the topic of the Samsung CEO Summit was artificial intelligence. In the past few years, we’ve seen incredible advances in AI. This year’s speakers and guests explored AI’s tremendous potential for change.
Versal: New Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms
Versal is a brand new 7nm SoC family from Xilinx. This talk covers the overall system architecture for devices which includes the ARM cores, programmable logic, and vector processor cores.
Safety; The (Im)possible Challenge for Automated Driving?
Safety is and will remain the most critical challenge for making automated driving a realty. Jan Radke from TTTech discusses how the automotive industry defines safety...
Smashing Atoms and Processing Massive Results at CERN
CERN, the home of Large Hadron Collider, is actively managing 700PB of data, has designed the data analytics platform for it, and...
Graphcore: A Processor for Machine Intelligence
Nigel Toon co-founder and CEO at Graphcore talks about how Machine Learning represents a new workload for computers.
5G Wireless – What Is It Really For?
Joe Madden covers the economics of 5G and key business case analysis to show which applications will really drive the investment in 5G and its eventual use.
San Jose’s Vision for a Smart City
From the deployment of broadband to autonomous vehicles to the proliferation of Internet of Things sensors and beyond, an array of technology-based innovations is leading to dramatic changes in cities.
Ending Slavery and Forced Labor in our Lifetime
There are more people enslaved today than at any other time in human history. Slavery is just as brutal as ever, and it's also more stoppable than ever.
Mantis Vision
Reinventing 3D
We're excited to renew our long-term commitment to Mantis Vision with participation in a new investment round. Learn how Mantis Vision does 3D differently.
Mapillary:
Reinventing maps
The future of mapping isn’t about improving navigation. It’s about creating a searchable, digital version of the earth.
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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.
Samsung Forum
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