SK Telecom is supporting the global expansion of promising domestic startups at '4YFN,' a startup expo linked to MWC26, the world's largest mobile telecommunications exhibition.

SK Telecom announced on the 24th that '4YFN (4 Years from Now)', a side event of MWC26, will be held from March 2 to 5 (local time) at Hall 8.1 of Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain.

At this event, SK Telecom will operate an exclusive exhibition hall for startups in the AI and ESG fields and introduce collaboration cases and technologies with 15 domestic startups, including Mesacure Company, Behring Lab, BROZ, Stress Solution, and Sixty Hertz. Since first setting up an independent exhibition booth at 4YFN in 2019, the company has participated every year except for 2020 and 2021, when it did not participate due to COVID-19, and this year marks its sixth exhibition.

The theme of the exhibition hall is 'SKTCH Today, Change Tomorrow,' and it is organized around AI technologies utilized in various industrial sectors such as security, space, content, and energy, as well as ESG technologies for solving environmental and social problems. Actual commercialization cases, such as facial recognition-based identity verification, automatic 3D space generation, and renewable energy prediction and management, are scheduled to be introduced.

To support the growth of startups even after the exhibition, SK Telecom will hold an investment briefing in Barcelona on March 4, inviting major European venture capital firms. Seven companies, including Mesacure Company, Stress Solution, Sixty Hertz, A-RIS, A.I.V.E., Yukaehan Project, and Cubic, plan to participate and explain their technological capabilities and business potential.

"We wanted to introduce the technological capabilities and collaboration achievements of domestic startups to the global market through this 4YFN," said Eom Jong-hwan, Head of SK Telecom's ESG Promotion Office. "We will continue to provide practical cooperation as a partner to promising startups."