Samsung R&D Institute Delhi (SRI-Delhi) hosted its annual awards ceremony, COSMOS 2024, celebrating a year of groundbreaking innovation, collaboration, and excellence. COSMOS, short for Champions of SRI-Delhi and Mavericks of Samsung, is the institute’s flagship program to recognize exceptional talent and inspire teams toward future milestones.

The event was inaugurated by Shane Cho, Managing Director, SRI-Delhi, who reflected on the institute’s achievements in 2024 and shared a bold vision for the year ahead. “Technology should stem from customer needs. At SRI-Delhi, we encourage our engineers to create solutions people are willing to embrace. As software continues to shape the future, SRI-Delhi’s talented workforce is primed to drive innovation and lead this transformation,” he said.

COSMOS Awards: Celebrating Trailblazers

The highlight of the evening was the COSMOS Awards, which celebrated achievements across technical excellence, leadership, and collaboration. Awardees were recognized for pushing boundaries and exemplifying SRI-Delhi’s core values.

Pratibha Singh, General Manager, Software Quality, and a recipient of the prestigious Mega Star award, said, “This recognition is a reflection of the incredible teamwork and support at SRI-Delhi. I’m inspired to continue contributing to our shared vision of innovation and impact.”

Inspire: Insights from Thought Leader Sharad Sharma

Adding a thought-provoking dimension to the evening was the Inspire segment featuring Sharad Sharma, Co-founder of the iSPIRT Foundation and a United Nations AI advisory board member.

Sharad urged the audience to think beyond conventional limits, emphasizing the transformative potential of AI. “Radical innovation often emerges from the periphery. Be idea creators, not just instruction followers. Build AI systems that are ethically sound, inclusive, and globally relevant,” he said.

Moderated by Hemanshu Srivastava, VP Software R&D at SRI-Delhi, the session explored the importance of collaborative ingenuity and globally distributed AI governance, inspiring the audience to lead with creativity and responsibility.

Looking Ahead

COSMOS 2024 was more than an awards ceremony—it was a platform for reflection, recognition, and renewal of purpose. As SRI-Delhi applauded its champions, the event underscored the institute’s mission to lead with integrity and innovation.

Here’s to a future of breakthroughs, collective excellence, and meaningful impact that makes SRI-Delhi a beacon of technological advancement. Together, we innovate, inspire, and make a difference.

The EPA annually recognizes the top performers within its SMM Program. SMM Electronics Challenge participants are rethinking product life cycles, committing to innovative and responsible electronics management, and reducing environmental impacts. The 2020 SMM Electronics Challenge Award winners will be recognized at a virtual award ceremony later today.

“Samsung is humbled by the EPA’s recognition of our long-term commitment to the proper collection and recycling of e-waste in the United States and the sustainable design innovations that we continue to drive in product packaging,” said Mark Newton, Head of Corporate Sustainability for Samsung Electronics America. “We will continue to make investments to further our environmental stewardship practices and reduce our impact on climate change as we strive towards a greener and better tomorrow.”

“The Electronics Challenge award winners are corporate role models creating new products that show environmental improvement can go hand-in-hand with other technological advances. EPA encourages others to follow their lead by implementing similar innovative approaches,” said EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.

Samsung is one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers and fully embraces the responsibility that comes with our market position to effect change on a large scale to protect the environment. The EPA SMM Gold Tier Award acknowledges our excellence in e-waste collection throughout the U.S. Samsung annually collects and recycles approximately 100 million pounds of e-waste. Since 2008, we’ve recycled over a billion pounds of electronics, diverting them from U.S. landfills and recovering reusable materials.

The EPA SMM Champion Award in the Program Category recognizes Samsung’s innovative Galaxy S10 packaging strategies for its use of material in a more environmentally responsible way. The smartphone’s plastic-free box and interior packaging have been redesigned to reduce its environmental footprint and consume fewer resources. For example, the packaging includes an all-in-one pulp mold for the device and its components to minimize waste. Other adjustments include replacing plastic ties with paper materials. These design change have contributed to making the Galaxy S10’s packaging 32g lighter than that of its predecessors – a 16% packaging weight reduction.

For more information about Samsung’s sustainability efforts, click here, and to learn more about the EPA, please visit www.epa.gov.