Gyeonggi Province and Gyeonggi Business and Science Accelerator prepare for 'Global Startup Fair’

(Suwon=Yonhap) By Kyung-tae Kim = Gyeonggi-do announced on Sept. 23 that it will hold the “2024 Global Startup Fair” from Sept. 25-27 at the Gwanggyo Convention Center in Suwon and Pangyo Startup Campus in Seongnam-si

Global Startup Fair Advisory Committee Launched

(Suwon=Yonhap) Gyeonggi-do and the Gyeonggi Business and Science Accelerator launched an advisory committee to prepare for the 2024 Global Startup Fair and held their first meeting at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Offices on Wednesday.

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The Fair will be the first and largest startup festival in the province, and is aimed at attracting investment from promising startups and helping them expand overseas to fulfill Gyeonggi province's vision of becoming a “Korean startup paradise” in its eighth civilian administration.

The province has selected artificial intelligence (AI), the latest technology trend, as the main theme of the fair, and plans to promote various programs such as insight seminars with prominent figures from home and abroad, startup competitions, and one-on-one meetups with global venture capitalists (VCs).

It is also discussing collaborations with global startup platforms.

On the same day, the provincial government launched an advisory committee to prepare for the fair and appointed Nam Min-woo, CEO of Dasan Networks, a first-generation venture capitalist who has grown into one of Korea's leading telecommunications equipment companies, to head the advisory committee.

In addition, Sung Sang-yeop, Chairman of the Venture Business Association, Yoon Gun-soo, Chairman of the Korea Venture Capital Association, Yoon Do-sung, Chairman of the Korea Accelerator Association, Ko Young-ha, Chairman of the Korea Angel Investment Association, Choi Sung-jin, President of the Korea Startup Forum, Lee Se-young, Chairman of the Generative AI Startup Association, Kim Ki-byeong, Executive Vice President of Amazon Web Services, Yoon Hee-young, Executive Vice President of Naver Cloud, Seo Wan-seok, Executive Vice President of NVIDIA, Choi Jae-bung, Chairman of GAIA (Gyeonggi-do Association of Industry and Agriculture), and Jung Song, Dean of KAIST Graduate School of AI, will serve as representatives from various fields.

“We will collaborate with overseas startup platforms to make this the best international event in Asia,” said Gyeonggi-do Deputy Governor Kim Hyun-gon. He further added, ”we will work with all stakeholders to revitalize the Korean startup ecosystem beyond Gyeonggi Province.”

[Source] Gyeonggi-do to hold 'Global Startup Fair' in Gwanggyo and Pangyo in September, Yonhap News, 2024.04.23