Daegu Metropolitan Metropolis and EXCO celebrated the first-ever FIX Innovation Awards on 22 October 2024, held on the Grand Ballroom of EXCO. This inaugural awards occasion, a part of the ‘Future Innovation Tech Expo 2024’ (FIX 2024), recognised 36 corporations throughout mobility, IT, and robotics for his or her cutting-edge applied sciences and contributions to business development.
The awards ceremony drew a various crowd, together with representatives from worldwide media shops comparable to India’s ET Auto, France’s Le Café Du Geek, and China’s Chinabyte, alongside home media, business professionals, and the awardees.
The FIX Innovation Awards have been established to focus on essentially the most promising developments in future mobility, ABB (AI, Large Knowledge, Blockchain), and robotics. These honours evaluated corporations on innovation, technological growth, enterprise potential, and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) affect.
Of the 210 collaborating companies, 9 obtained the esteemed Grand Innovation Award, whereas 27 earned the Innovation Award, signalling Daegu’s dedication to discovering and supporting enterprises with world competitiveness.
Celebrating excellence throughout classes
Within the Future Mobility class, HEI, OKSAN, AEOL Korea, and Korea Steel Silicon stood out with applied sciences starting from EV battery well being options to AI-driven pedestrian security techniques and recyclable MOF electrodes. Robotics awardees included AETECH, recognised for its robotic recycling centre, and TWINNY, a pacesetter in autonomous robot-based choosing options. The ABB class noticed honours go to Phantomics Inc. for its AI-based Myomics diagnostic answer, VisionSpace for real-time robotic monitoring, and Ilias AI for an Olfactory AI “digital sniffer canine.”
Award-winning corporations are set to obtain entry to accelerator programmes, ESG consulting, and alternatives for worldwide promotion and enterprise capital networking. Daegu Metropolis officers famous, “This initiative goals not solely to determine corporations with distinctive applied sciences but additionally to facilitate their progress into world leaders by way of focused help applications.”
By the FIX Innovation Awards, Daegu goals to bolster the South Korean industrial panorama by nurturing corporations able to shaping the way forward for mobility, robotics, and IT on a global scale.
