We're looking for truly innovative startups with great potential to create a positive impact on people and the planet to join us on stage at InnoFest 2024.

Submit to win cash prizes and recognition in front of a VIP panel of corporate executives, investors and industry veterans.

Applications are now open.

Apply now
Sept. 25-26
2024
San Francisco, California
Palace of Fine Arts
3601 Lyon Street

Why submit?

Get recognized for the work your company is doing to build a better future.

Showcase your company to potential investors and corporate partners. Make connections to accelerate your business venture. Win a cash prize and a trophy.

Our prestige panel of judges in the past has included veteran entrepreneurs, LG executives, celebrity investors, and venture capitalists.

Past winners of the LG NOVA Innovation Festival have: 
  • Received monetary awards of up to $15,000.
  • Recognized as top startups in their market areas.
  • Go on to explore business venture building as a part of LG NOVA's Mission for the Future program.  

Areas We Are Looking For

HealthTech

Lighting the path to the transformation of healthcare

The move to a healthier, happier society is a key priority in the pursuit of a better future for people and communities. We want to create a healthier, happier society with greater access to high-quality, personalized care experiences. Healthcare should be accessible to everyone and it should be a key priority in our daily life - as much as eating and sleeping. We’d like to hear about innovative solutions that will help us solve the challenges of promoting a healthier population through:

  • Enabling more providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients by increasing access to innovative healthcare options
  • Helping people take charge of their health and creating personalized approaches to healthcare - streamlining and simplifying access
  • Solving for the challenges in the current healthcare ecosystem, and increasing its ability better serve its communities.

CleanTech & Sustainability

Accelerating the growth of sustainability

We're in a race to create a more sustainable world - and we're in search of that killer application or business case that will help us move forward faster to bring about lasting change for a greener, healthier planet. We want to hear about innovative business and technology ideas that will help accelerate us to where we need to be. Share with us your ideas in:

  • Increasing our ability to provide power across disparate communities
  • Technologies for EV Battery, Carbon Reduction, Recycling or Clean Energy
  • Innovative approaches to increasing sustainability for businesses, institutions and organizations
  • Ideas for energy generation, use and allocation that will help provide people what they need while continuing to help reach global sustainability goals
  • Other Cleantech, environmental, energy, and recyclable ideas that will help lead the change to sustainability.

Artificial Intelligence

Revolutionizing the way we live and work

AI unlocks new possibilities for solving real-world problems—fundamentally reshaping industries and society at large. We have a human-centric approach to enabling AI technology for the betterment of our daily lives - in meaningful ways. We want to hear about ideas and implementations that use AI to enhance and create new opportunities for work, play, education and commerce:

  • Use of AI to enable a future workforce to be more productive, creative and efficient, up-leveling people’s contributions to work
  • AI in healthcare, finance, industrial, professional services and other market sectors yet to be determined
  • Macro and micro use of AI to drive people to new ways and better ways to life their lives.

Life Sciences

Connecting science to life for a better future

The life sciences sector plays a pivotal role in addressing global health challenges and enhancing the quality of life, we’re working to discover and develop new technologies that can fundamentally change how we provide therapeutic solutions in the future. LG Chem would like to hear about new technologies that can fundamentally change how view therapeutic solutions in the future, such as:

  • New therapies, treatments and approaches in oncology
  • Technologies for metabolic diseases and next-generation ADC (Antibody Drug Conjugate)
  • Advancements in cell therapy and organ-on-a-chip solutions
  • The use of AI/ML to improve drug discovery platforms.

Smart Life

Creating innovations for better living

The world is ready for bold new ideas that will improve our everyday lives in meaningful ways. We want to hear about wholly new categories of business ideas and capabilities for smart living. We’re looking for solutions for home, entertainment, education, leisure and more that have the potential to make life better for people.

Open Innovation

Exploring new ideas that will shape our future

We're looking for new areas of not-yet-developed innovations that may significantly impact our future. Are you introducing your own market category? Are you breaking norms? Pitch us your disruptive idea that will have a positive impact on our future.

Lighting the path to the transformation of healthcare

The move to a healthier, happier society is a key priority in the pursuit of a better future for people and communities. We want to create a healthier, happier society with greater access to high-quality, personalized care experiences. Healthcare should be accessible to everyone and it should be a key priority in our daily life - as much as eating and sleeping. We’d like to hear about innovative solutions that will help us solve the challenges of promoting a healthier population through:

  • Enabling more providers to deliver better health outcomes to their patients by increasing access to innovative healthcare options
  • Helping people take charge of their health and creating personalized approaches to healthcare - streamlining and simplifying access
  • Solving for the challenges in the current healthcare ecosystem, and increasing its ability better serve its communities.

Accelerating the growth of sustainability

We're in a race to create a more sustainable world - and we're in search of that killer application or business case that will help us move forward faster to bring about lasting change for a greener, healthier planet. We want to hear about innovative business and technology ideas that will help accelerate us to where we need to be. Share with us your ideas in:

  • Increasing our ability to provide power across disparate communities
  • Technologies for EV Battery, Carbon Reduction, Recycling or Clean Energy
  • Innovative approaches to increasing sustainability for businesses, institutions and organizations
  • Ideas for energy generation, use and allocation that will help provide people what they need while continuing to help reach global sustainability goals
  • Other Cleantech, environmental, energy, and recyclable ideas that will help lead the change to sustainability.

Revolutionizing the way we live and work

AI unlocks new possibilities for solving real-world problems—fundamentally reshaping industries and society at large. We have a human-centric approach to enabling AI technology for the betterment of our daily lives - in meaningful ways. We want to hear about ideas and implementations that use AI to enhance and create new opportunities for work, play, education and commerce:

  • Use of AI to enable a future workforce to be more productive, creative and efficient, up-leveling people’s contributions to work
  • AI in healthcare, finance, industrial, professional services and other market sectors yet to be determined
  • Macro and micro use of AI to drive people to new ways and better ways to life their lives.

Connecting science to life for a better future

The life sciences sector plays a pivotal role in addressing global health challenges and enhancing the quality of life, we’re working to discover and develop new technologies that can fundamentally change how we provide therapeutic solutions in the future. LG Chem would like to hear about new technologies that can fundamentally change how view therapeutic solutions in the future, such as:

  • New therapies, treatments and approaches in oncology
  • Technologies for metabolic diseases and next-generation ADC (Antibody Drug Conjugate)
  • Advancements in cell therapy and organ-on-a-chip solutions
  • The use of AI/ML to improve drug discovery platforms.

Creating innovations for better living

The world is ready for bold new ideas that will improve our everyday lives in meaningful ways. We want to hear about wholly new categories of business ideas and capabilities for smart living. We’re looking for solutions for home, entertainment, education, leisure and more that have the potential to make life better for people.

Exploring new ideas that will shape our future

We're looking for new areas of not-yet-developed innovations that may significantly impact our future. Are you introducing your own market category? Are you breaking norms? Pitch us your disruptive idea that will have a positive impact on our future.

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