Salva Jung

Salva is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of LG Uplus, leading the IT and platform development organization. He is responsible for IT support for 10,000+ employees and drives Digital & AI Transformation across all relevant areas of IT.

In October 2021, Salva was appointed Vice President of LG Group. Under his leadership, myriad B2C & B2B telco service platforms have been developed. He has also fostered an agile development culture of the organization, establishing modernized development and operational methodologies such as DevOps and Cloud Native to drive continuous innovation.

Salva began his career at Samsung Electronics in 2001. Over his 25-year journey through Samsung, Coupang and LG, he has been a key role in developing smartphone platforms based on Palm, Symbian, and Tizen, as well as building the KNOX security platform. In 2016, he led the development of the microservices-based SmartThings IoT platform. He successfully migrated the Account system for 1 billion users, large-scale IPTV platforms serving millions of users, and telco BSS systems to a cloud-native architecture. Additionally, he has developed various IT and sales systems, AI contact centres, and introduced AI work agents to improve business and development productivity, driving transformation and innovation within the organization.

Salva has experience in participating and presenting in various technology forums such at AWS reinvent and other technology forums and has been involved in publishing, writing and translating technical books.