This year’s Consumer Electronics Show highlighted a shift from standalone innovation to collaborative, AI-first businesses designed to solve real-world problems.
At Eureka Park, LG NOVA’s expanded showcase brought together portfolio companies, startup partners, and projects in development, all centered on a shared goal: building AI-first businesses that address real-world challenges across energy, hea
lth, and enterprise. The emphasis wasn’t just on new technology, but on new models for how innovation reaches the market.
As part of LG NOVA’s CleanTech startup partner showcase, Derapi joined conversations focused on the growing complexity behind distributed energy. Across discussions with founders, operators, and enterprise leaders, a common theme emerged: deployment is accelerating, but integration and coordination remain the hardest problems to solve at scale, especially as energy systems intersect with data centers, AI workloads, and grid reliability pressures.
CES reinforced the importance of software infrastructure that works quietly in the background, enabling devices, platforms, and programs to participate reliably as systems grow more interconnected.
We’re grateful to LG NOVA for bringing together such a diverse group of builders and for the conversations that will continue well beyond the show.
Derapi Founder, Thomas Lee onsite at CES