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Gwangju City prepares a venue for attracting investment for next-generation electric vehicle batteries
- Roundtable for investment attraction in Silicon Valley at Kimdaejung Convention Center on the 11th and 12th
- Presentation of topics related to the battery industry, discussion and B2B meeting

Gwangju Metropolitan City and Gwangju Free Economic Zone Authority For the purpose of transferring advanced technologies to Silicon Valley and attracting investment from joint ventures, the Silicon Valley investment attraction roundtable will be held from the 11th to the 12th at the K-Studio in the Kimdaejung Convention Center Convention Building.

In order to comply with the quarantine guidelines against COVID-19, on-site participation is limited to a minimum number of people, and for online participants, it will be broadcast live in Korea and the United States through the Zoom video conferencing system.

Mayor Lee Yong-seop, City Council Chairman Kim Yong-jip, POSCO Outside Director Kim Shin-bae, Moon Kook-hyun, Osama Hassanain Silicon Valley Business Forum co-chairman, OCI, Edison Motors, Solvay Silica, and other domestic and foreign related companies will attend this roundtable for investment attraction.

From academia and related institutions, major industry-university-related figures such as Chonnam National University President Sung-taek Jeong, Acting President of Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology Kim In-su, Kookmin University Automotive Engineering Professor Choi Woong-cheol, Korea Battery Industry Association Vice President Jeong Soon-nam, Electricity Industry Promotion Association Vice Chairman Shin Soon-shik, and International Electric Vehicle Expo Organizing Committee Chairman Kim Dae-hwan will participate. Is expected.


On the 6th of last month, Gwangju City and the Gwangju Gyeongjae Administration signed a business agreement with the Silicon Valley Business Forum for the successful promotion of the investment attraction roundtable.

Silicon Valley Business Forum (SVBF) is a forum created by Kook-hyun Moon, CEO of Hansol Textile, and Osama Hasanain, chairman of Silicon Valley-based Venture Capital Rising Tide Fund (RTF). It acts as a bridge between investment and the like.

The theme presentation was ▲Global battery industry outlook and new supply chain opportunities by Dr. Ali Izadi, head of Asia Pacific Research at BloombergNEF ▲Korea Battery Industry Association Dr. Kim Yutak's current status of the Korean battery industry and global business strategy of key players ▲Silicon Valley's next-generation EV battery material The SINANODE Platform will be held in the order of Vincent Plunige, CEO of OneD Battery Science, a technology company.

After the presentation, the presenters of the subject, Axel Mashuka, Vice President of Hyundai Mobis, and Sang-cheol Nam, a research fellow at the Pohang Institute of Industrial Science and Technology will participate to discuss future EV battery material technology prospects and opportunities to participate in the global supply chain.

On the second day, through a closed B2B meeting, the possibility of transferring the latest battery technology to a domestic company in Silicon Valley and the possibility of a pilot joint venture project in the Gwangju Free Economic Zone will be explored.