Corporate
Tech for Good: A Global Movement to Shape Our Future
8/29/2019
By Young Sohn, Corporate President and Chief Strategy Officer for Samsung Electronics, and Chairman of the Board for HARMAN.
At Samsung’s Unpacked this month, we introduced an ambitious new partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which will bring the world closer to reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). And as one element of this partnership, we launched the Samsung Global Goals app for Samsung Galaxy Smartphones, enabling consumers around the world to support the UNDP in reaching the Global Goals by the 2030 deadline.
This app reflects our commitment to lead with purpose—to create a safer, smarter, more sustainable world. In pursuit of this mission, Samsung is proud to work with innovators around the world to design and scale technologies that benefit the planet, which is why we have also helped to launch the Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC).
The XTC is a global start-up competition that will offer innovators and entrepreneurs the chance to accelerate their ideas and showcase them on a global platform. Through this competition, innovators will be able to put their ingenuity to the test, and work alongside the technology industry’s most influential figures to grow their start-ups into enterprises that will change the world for the better.
Samsung partnered with Arm, Cisco, Silicon Valley Bank, the University of California, Zoom, and other industry leaders in launching XTC, which will serve as beacon for innovators harnessing cutting-edge technologies, like data and AI, to benefit humankind.
Already, these technologies are radically transforming every industry—from healthcare to agriculture to transportation—and creating opportunities that we would have considered impossible just years ago. And through XTC, we intend to continue our support for a new generation of problem-solvers harnessing the power of these tools to advance human progress.