Samsung Electronics invited 100 Silicon Valley developers and designers to exchange perspectives on new developments in the tech sector at a forum at the Samsung Research America headquarters in Mountain View, California Tuesday. Yoon Boo-keun, CEO of Samsung’s consumer electronics division, told the audience in a keynote speech for the 2017 Tech Forum that the company is trying to narrow gap between customers, innovations that could touch their lives and the workforce behind the innovations. “Under the current situation of consumers and technologies going through transformations simultaneously, when a company moves forward by inertia, the gap between what consumers want and technologies created by the company will only get bigger,” Yoon said. “The keyword to closing the gap is ‘connect.’” Yoon noted that the concept of “connect” does not merely refer to technologies but to new possibilities beyond the current imagination, which bring together customers, innovations and employees.