Busan Metropolitan Metropolis (Mayor Park Hyeong-jun) introduced that it achieved substantial outcomes, together with world market enlargement for native corporations, funding linkage, and enlargement of expertise cooperation foundations, by collaborating on this planet’s largest client electronics exhibition, CES 2026, held in Las Vegas, United States, from Jan. 6-9 (native time).
Busan Metropolitan Metropolis recorded a complete of 443 export session circumstances and contract promotion achievements value $28.67 million (anticipated contract quantity inside one yr) via the Built-in Busan Pavilion at this yr’s CES 2026. That is analyzed because of this that reconfirmed the technological competitiveness of Busan corporations and excessive curiosity from the worldwide market, and the one-on-one enterprise assembly (meet-up) achievements with world funding corporations and abroad patrons additionally reached 65 circumstances.
In the course of the CES 2026 interval, Mayor Park visited the Hyundai Motor Group exhibition corridor to instantly study service robots and synthetic intelligence (AI)-based future mobility applied sciences, and reviewed the potential for cooperation and demonstration linkage between these applied sciences and the robotic trade that the town is fostering.
Town plans to advertise the creation of a robotic demonstration and commercialization-centered industrial ecosystem in reference to world corporations, as Busan possesses varied demonstration environments, together with port, logistics, and concrete infrastructure, giving it strengths in area software and commercialization of robotic and synthetic intelligence (AI) convergence expertise.
Notably at this yr’s CES, Busan corporations went past easy product exhibitions and intensively showcased core applied sciences and commercialization prospects in superior strategic trade fields that the town is specializing in fostering, together with synthetic intelligence (AI), semiconductors, and good ports. Accordingly, the professionalism of on-site consultations and the potential of contract conclusion additionally improved considerably in comparison with earlier years.
Collaborating corporations created commercialization outcomes via varied strategies, together with funding attraction, world cooperation, expertise validation (proof of idea), and export consultations.
O2Lab Co., an organization specializing in human stability measurement and AI resolution methods, is in discussions for funding negotiations value roughly 1 billion gained with two world funding corporations, and Korea LFP Co., an AI-based battery administration system producer, concluded a $3 million funding settlement with world funding firm Coinvest.
Tiger AI Co., a specialist in movement recognition AI-based coaching service, concluded a expertise validation (PoC) and joint growth settlement with FIT IN MOTION in the USA for development into the Americas, and CIT Co., which is concentrated on glass substrate copper deposition tools for semiconductor packaging, is discussing funding and enterprise enlargement with startup world help companions (world accelerators).
Moreover, Double O Co., an organization with experience in reminiscence semiconductor information evaluation and restoration methods, held export consultations for high-performance SSD forensic options using information evaluation and restoration expertise, which improved greater than thrice in comparison with current expertise.
Busan Metropolitan Metropolis-supported content material expertise additionally materialized world enlargement. The synthetic intelligence (AI)-based real-time image-capturing robotic “GENCY Studio” constructed at Busan Station with help from the town and the Korea Institute of Robotic and Convergence, which gained the CES 2026 Finest Innovation Award, additionally attracted curiosity from the leisure and content material industries on the CES website. Prospects for participation within the Grammy Awards official photograph line had been mentioned, and world enterprise was expanded together with reaching settlement on February expertise validation (PoC) with a Japanese synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin firm.
Moreover, significant outcomes continued in shipbuilding and marine expertise cooperation that the town is selling in preparation for the Arctic route period.
Mapsi Co., Ltd., which participated as “Workforce Busan 1st” in final yr’s CES 2025 and shaped connections with CMA CGM, one of many world’s high three transport corporations, entered the commercialization verification stage at this CES by discussing the potential of introducing navigation methods for roughly 600 ships owned by CMA CGM. That is evaluated as significant cooperation, notably as ship operation effectivity and security administration expertise functions are doable in response to local weather and marine environmental modifications, together with Arctic route growth.
Mayor Park Hyeong-jun mentioned, “CES 2026 was an event that etched the technological capabilities and progress potential of Busan corporations into the worldwide market,” and conveyed that “this achievement heightened the potential of resulting in substantial funding, exports, and commercialization as consultations and cooperation with abroad patrons and world buyers had been concentrated.”
He additional added, “Our metropolis will proceed to strengthen follow-up help in order that these achievements centered on superior strategic industries, together with robots, synthetic intelligence (AI), content material, and marine, could be related to substantial funding, exports, and commercialization.”
