Smart Kitchen Summit Holds Discussion on the Future Kitchen

Samsung Electronics held an experiential event for the 2017 Family Hub at Samsung's New York Marketing Center (Samsung 837) located in Manhattan, New York on the 20th, presenting a new lifestyle for kitchens and homes.

The newly unveiled Family Hub this time emphasized its role as a next-generation flagship smart appliance that transforms family lifestyles beyond the conventional refrigerator function.

Samsung Electronics invited the Smart Kitchen Summit, which researches future food culture, to the event and held discussions on the theme of "Beyond the Refrigerator: Food, Family, and Entertainment in the Future Kitchen."

The Smart Kitchen Summit is an association where experts from various fields, ranging from corporate executives to strategists and culinary researchers, gather to research the entire food industry. On this day, they exchanged opinions through the Family Hub on how family life could be more seamlessly connected in the kitchen.



Michael Wolf, founder of the Smart Kitchen Summit and editor of The Spoon who participated in the discussion on this day, stated, "Samsung's Family Hub goes beyond a simple refrigerator to interconnect family and kitchen and revolutionarily transform our lives," and added, "It was very meaningful to imagine and discuss the future of refrigerators and kitchens together with Samsung today."

The 2017 Family Hub enhanced voice recognition functionality to provide more convenient usability. The cloud-based voice recognition function allows users to control various functions such as internet search, shopping, schedule management, and radio playback through voice alone in the kitchen without having to touch a separate screen, even when their hands are occupied.

Additionally, as its role as a hub facilitating communication among family members was emphasized, a feature enabling each family member to create their own account was added based on an easy-to-use interface.

First, to enable users to manage food storage through to purchase more conveniently, purchase and payment can be completed through grocery service provider Instacart or MasterCard, and various partner companies such as food delivery service GRUBHUB and Nomiku, a specialist in sous vide recipes, have been added.

Additionally, TuneIn, the world's largest online radio service, and Pandora, an online music streaming service with over 200 million subscribers, are equipped to make the time users spend in the kitchen more enjoyable.

John Herrington, Executive Director of Samsung Electronics' U.S. corporation, stated, "The evolution of Samsung's Family Hub means that the kitchen, which is the center of family life, becomes increasingly familiar and interesting," and added, "Going forward, we will continue to introduce home appliances that make users' lives and daily routines more convenient and enjoyable based on innovative technology."