Global investors who are interested in Samsung Electronics are going to gather in Seoul on the 20th.
Samsung Electronics made an announcement on the 13th that it will be holding ‘Samsung Investors Forum 2016’ at Conrad Hotel in Yeouido.
This year’s forum will be centered on DS (Device Solution) sector and three primary topics are going to be IoT platform, trend of global technologies, and packaging solution. Executives in each field will present each topic.
During a session on IoT platform, it is predicted that Samsung Electronics will introduce IoT technologies, which are having more importance in overall industries, and Samsung Electronics’ response towards them. Especially it will present a blueprint on its strategy in establishing an IoT ecosystem using ‘ARTIK’, which is an IoT platform developed by Samsung Electronics.
A session on trend of global technologies will introduce changes in technologies and development of new technologies that are taking places in semiconductor industries and how they are affecting industries. This will be a time for investors to see what kind of technologies Samsung Electronics is focusing on.
It is predicted that a session on packaging solution will introduce a trend in packaging technologies, which are having more importance as they are emerging as alternatives to increase degree of integration of semiconductors, and technologies that Samsung Electronics currently possesses.
Samsung Electronics had been holding IRs (Investor Relation) such as Tech Forum, Analyst Day and others and is currently holding a new event under the name of Investors Forum since 2014. Starting with Hong Kong in May of 2014, it has been holding Investors Forums in South Korea and other foreign cities such as New York, Singapore and others in every 6 months.
At its first Investors Forum in Hong Kong, Samsung Electronics explained about 4 types of technologies such as Green Memory, mobile security solution, iris recognition, and Smart Home. At its forum that was held in New York in November of 2014, it presented its strategies to secure competitive edge in prices by greatly decreasing number of Smartphone models.
At its forum that was held in Seoul in June of last year, it introduced about SamsungPay and its strategies on Smart Home and told investors that it has no plan of merging Samsung Electronics and Samsung SDS. At its forum that was held in Singapore in November of last year, introduced about System LSI Business Department’s major strategies and they are: mobile SoC (System on Chip), image sensor, and bio processor.
“We have been holding Investors Forums to tell global investors on news about Samsung Electronics in detail.” said a representative for Samsung Electronics. “They are held to introduce current situations of technologies that Samsung Electronics possesses and strategies.”
Investors Forums are held to enhance understanding of investors about technologies and to present global investors about high-tech technologies and a direction of businesses that Samsung Electronics is taking. They are prepared in order to obtain trusts from markets by having either CEOs or executives in each business explain about topics that investors are interested in.
Staff Reporter Kwon, Kunho | wingh1@etnews.com