LG Electronics holds North America Tech Conference in San Francisco

Top executives and technology leaders attend en masse

'LG Electronics is a company where tech talent can grow into core leaders'

LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol speaks at the company's North America Tech Conference in San Francisco on Saturday (local time), outlining the company's vision and strategy for accelerating future growth in areas including HVAC, mobility and physical AI. [LG Electronics]
LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol speaks at the company's North America Tech Conference in San Francisco on Saturday (local time), outlining the company's vision and strategy for accelerating future growth in areas including HVAC, mobility and physical AI. [LG Electronics]

"LG Electronics is a company where technology talent can grow into the core leaders who will guide the company's future." — LG Electronics CEO Ryu Jae-cheol

LG Electronics took its talent search to San Francisco, hosting a recruiting event aimed at securing the research and development professionals it says will drive its future. The company held its North America Tech Conference in San Francisco, California, on Saturday (local time), it announced Monday.

The North America Tech Conference is a recruitment-linked event that invites experienced R&D professionals and doctoral-level specialists to learn about LG Electronics' future business vision and technological capabilities. About 100 people attended, including doctoral researchers and scientists from leading American universities and research institutions — among them Stanford University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley — as well as R&D professionals working at major tech companies and startups in the region.

LG Electronics sent a large contingent of its own senior leadership, with CEO Ryu joined by Chief Technology Officer Kim Byung-hoon, Chief Human Resources Officer Song Sang-ho, HS Platform Business Center head Jeong Ki-hyeon, ES Research Laboratory head Oh Se-gi, VS Research Laboratory head Lee Sang-yong, AI Research Laboratory head Kim Young-jun, Software Center head Kim Dong-wook, Robotics Business Center head Song Si-yong, LG Data Factory head Park Ki-beom and Robot Advanced Research Laboratory head Baek Seung-min.

Ryu, who joined the company as a mechanical engineering graduate and rose through division and business unit leadership roles before becoming CEO, highlighted the career potential available to technology talent. "Ultimately, it is people who change the future," he said. "LG Electronics will work together with talent unafraid of greater challenges to create meaningful change in the world."

Ryu said the company is building on the strengths of its core businesses — home appliances, OLED TVs and telematics — to develop robotics, AI data center cooling solutions, and an AI-defined vehicle and software-defined vehicle-based intelligent platform as key growth engines for the physical AI era.

The company sees decades of production data and manufacturing expertise accumulated on factory floors, along with home-environment and customer data gathered from hundreds of millions of devices worldwide, as key advantages for expanding its physical AI business. LG Electronics believes that combining its technology capabilities in HVAC and automotive electronics with its track record of manufacturing more than 1 billion core components will sharpen its competitive edge in AI technologies that operate in real physical spaces. The company also plans to draw on collaboration with group affiliates and robotics subsidiaries, as well as strategic partnerships with global technology majors.

LG Electronics will also step up recruiting efforts to attract top talent in North America. Starting Sept. 9, the company plans to visit major North American universities in sequence — including MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, Purdue University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Wisconsin-Madison — to hold recruitment information sessions. In South Korea, the company has been running its second-half new-hire recruitment drive since last month, targeting candidates in robotics, manufacturing technology, and electrical and electronic engineering.


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