LGU+ Hwang Hyun-sik Visits Silicon Valley... Initiates Global AI Talent Recruitment

LGU+ Invites AI Master's and PhD Experts to Silicon Valley, USA
Hwang Hyun-sik Continues 5-Day AI Capability Enhancement
Meetings with Global Companies... "Securing Applied Technology is Crucial"

Hwang Hyun-sik, CEO of LG Uplus, personally visited Silicon Valley in the United States to discover global talent in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).

Hwang Hyun-sik, President of LG Uplus, is meeting with global talents in the AI field at the Four Seasons Hotel in Silicon Valley, USA, on the 13th (local time). Photo by LG Uplus

On the 13th (local time), LG Uplus announced that CEO Hwang hosted an event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Silicon Valley, where he shared future visions with about 10 AI master's and doctoral students from major U.S. universities such as Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Illinois. Executive Vice President Hwang Gyu-byeol (CDO) and Senior Executive Director Kim Ji-hoon (CSO) also attended the event.

The event especially featured talents with expertise in core AI fields such as natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLM), and vision. LG Uplus invited these experts to Silicon Valley after discovering them through U.S. campus recruiting in January, focusing on those with expertise closely related to the company’s AI transformation (AX) projects.

CEO Hwang said, "LG Uplus has a dream to become a digital innovation platform company that leads changes in customers’ daily lives. To achieve this, AI technology that can realize customer experiences and, above all, the people who can nurture that technology are the most important."

Meanwhile, starting with meetings with talents, CEO Hwang will spend five days and four nights strengthening AI capabilities. He plans to meet with global startups and big tech companies that possess leading technological capabilities in AI fields such as multimodal sentiment analysis AI solutions and real-time TTV (Text to Video). Through this, he aims to grasp global AI technology trends and focus on discovering various business opportunities.

LG Uplus is focusing on securing technological capabilities to create differentiated customer value using AI with keywords such as 'applied technology,' 'imagination,' and 'speed.' CEO Hwang also emphasized at the shareholders’ meeting on the 21st of last month that "it is a very important time to see who can first secure, commercialize, and innovate AI applied technology."