Naver announced on the 29th that during President Lee Jae-myung’s visit to the United States and Mexico, it met with Mexican government officials and key IT industry executives to explore expanded business cooperation centered on AI.
Naver executives, including CEO Choi Soo-yeon, CFO Kim Hee-cheol, and CDO Kim Kwang-hyun, visited Mexico as part of the Lee Teul-gan (President) economic delegation starting from the 24th (local time), holding consecutive meetings with Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Gyeong Je-bu (Minister), Rosa Laura Ríos Galindo, Minister of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, and the Digital Transformation and Communications Agency, as well as the CEO of Softtek Mexico.
Choi (CEO) introduced Naver’s public AX capabilities, sovereign AI strategy, and the AI factory project being built in partnership with NVIDIA and Brookfield, proposing cooperation to strengthen competitiveness across all industries in Mexico through public AX (AI transformation) and AI integration.
Marcelo Ebrard Casaubon, Gyeong Je-bu (Minister), stated that the Mexican government has recently expanded exchanges with global AI companies such as NVIDIA and is actively promoting the development of its domestic AI industry, expressing expectations that Naver can contribute to building Mexico’s AI ecosystem and digital innovation.
Choi (CEO) also met with Rosa Laura Ríos Galindo, Minister of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, to discuss cooperation plans regarding the construction of a national-level high-performance computing and artificial intelligence cluster in Mexico. In addition, leveraging its participation in this economic delegation, Naver has begun exploring cooperative projects with Querétaro state, where more than 70% of Mexico’s data center infrastructure is concentrated. The two sides are currently discussing specific implementation plans for a digital twin pilot project targeting two major cities in Querétaro state.
CDO Kim Kwang-hyun delivered a session presentation to key business leaders from both countries at the Korea-Mexico Business Forum held on the 25th (local time). CDO Kim emphasized the importance of building an AI ecosystem that reflects the linguistic, data, and industrial characteristics of each country, and presented a vision for connecting Korean AI capabilities, including Naver’s, to share experience and technology in order to further enhance industrial competitiveness through Mexico’s AI transformation as a manufacturing powerhouse in North and Central America.
This is the first time Naver executives have visited Mexico on-site to meet key government and corporate officials for market exploration. Previously, Choi Su-yeon (CEO) had met with executives from Brazilian AI infrastructure companies Scala Data Center and Tecto Data Center, as well as executives from Chile’s largest telecommunications company Entel, in August to discuss potential cooperation.
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