Wind River & Samsung Tech Summit 2025: Shaping the Future of AI and Network Innovation Together

Earlier this month, the Wind River & Samsung Tech Summit 2025 held in South Korea and brought together the esteemed members of Samsung Electronics’ Networks Business Division with Wind River. Now in its fourth year, this annual summit provided a platform to share updates and insights around the telco industry, AI strategy, and forward-looking vision.

In a meaningful moment, Wind River Vice President of Technology Warren Bayek and Samsung Networks Executive Vice President Sunghyun Choi took the stage to share thoughts about their approaches to AI strategy and explored ways to collaborate, further demonstrating what true partnership looks like to shape the future of AI-driven networks.

The State of Telco 

In a session covering the latest telco developments for Wind River, Randy Cox, Vice President, Product Management, provided an overview about Wind River’s 44+ year heritage as a pioneer in intelligent edge software to power mission-critical systems across industries such as aerospace, automotive, industrial, and telecommunications. Wind River is globally recognized for its reliability and innovation in mission-critical computing.

Providing an overview of its key edge offerings, including VxWorks, Wind River Linux, eLxr Pro, and the Wind River Cloud Platform, Cox also discussed key Wind River milestones that have been driving global 5G networks. He also discussed the increasing convergence of OT and IT and how companies can realize an AI-powered intelligent network edge, bringing together performance, reliability, and adaptability.

Edge AI 

In his session covering edge AI, Warren Bayek discussed how Wind River is building on its four decades of technical excellence to deliver on a vision that focuses on trusted edge AI for mission-critical environments. With a guiding philosophy of delivering the “connective tissue” linking data, computation, and operations, Wind River has collaborated with global leaders like Samsung and NVIDIA to advance safe, reliable AI across telecom, defense, and manufacturing sectors.

Bayek walked through a technology discussion exploring how Wind River’s integrated technology stack enables adaptive, real-time AI systems that optimize operations across scenarios such as 5G networks, robotics, and smart cities - driving the evolution toward more autonomous and intelligent systems.

AI and Samsung

In his AI focused session, Sunghyun Choi discussed how Samsung  is advancing beyond traditional and virtualized networks toward a fully software-driven, AI-powered RAN architecture. With an “AI-friendly” network design that flexibly integrates CPU, GPU, and NPU resources, Samsung can efficiently deploy AI workloads from cell sites to central data centers.

The company differentiates its approach through two strategic pillars:

• AI for Network – using AI to boost network performance and efficiency
• Network for AI – building robust infrastructure to support AI applications

Proof-of-concept tests from Samsung using NVIDIA GPUs have already demonstrated significant performance gains in AI-based channel prediction and optimization. Samsung is also leveraging LLM-based automation and software innovation to usher in the era of autonomous and intelligent networks.

Putting It All Together 

In the final and highly anticipated session, Randy Cox returned to the stage to walk through a forward leaning vision from Wind River to address how AI, silicon, and server integration can advance together, with a deep dive into Wind River technologies. Attendees were especially intrigued by approaches combining AI with telecom infrastructure and strengthening server compatibility across diverse silicon architectures.

Building the Future of AI-Driven Networks 

The Wind River & Samsung Tech Summit 2025 showcased how the two companies are shaping the future of AI-centric networks together. With continued collaboration around key initiatives such as AI-powered RAN, Open RAN expansion, cloud-native transformation, and global partnerships, Wind River and Samsung are paving the way for the next wave of innovation in telecommunications .