While several projects have shown some strong progress in Q1, we have decided to feature two of them in this brief post, as a representation of the breadth and depth of services our encognize X-Tech Force provides to our business partners.

First, ELLA, the EdTech Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service API tool co-sponsored by encognize through its digital service launchpad, 「lab4-203」, has successfully graduated from the incubator Social Change Maker 5, a program sponsored by the Nippon Foundation and powered by ImpacTech. This would not have been possible without the support and hard work of ELLA's global Ambassador, Nhi Duong, and ELLA's co-founder, Eric Wiel. As a next step, leveraging the learning from the incubator program and inputs from the various mentors, ELLA's team will engage further with elearning and mobile learning solution providers.

Second, as part of its 「wisdomseed」 service line, encognize has continued their effort supporting innovative companies grow their business by providing custom upskilling sessions to a successful Japanese startup in the consumer electronics sector. The goal of the sessions is to help the company CEO prepare the scaling-up of his company in terms of business and organization and maximize his chance of success by equipping him with the right management and leadership tools and practices.

As far as Q2 is concerned, the encognize X-Tech Force will of course keep all its focus on delivering quality results to its business partners for the various missions it has been entrusted with.

Who said that the COVID19 pandemic would stop cross-border innovation initiatives?
Certainly not our encognize GK Japan X-Tech Force who has been supporting both inbound and outbound business development initiatives for a large variety of digital tech innovators throughout 2021!

Supporting B2B Startups and scale-ups in FinTech, HealthTech, MedTech, AgriTech, Drones and Photogrammetry platform, Robotics Orchestration platform, EdTech, MarTech, RetailTech, not to mention the co-launch of ELLA, an EdTech microSaaS offering Adaptive Learning-as-a-Service API to eLearning / mLearning designers were all part of our 2021 menu...
And the 2022 menu looks as exciting as 2021, if not more!

Thank you to all our business partners for trusting us this year again in delivering their innovation-related initiatives.
We look forward to further fruitful collaborations on innovation in this year of the Tiger!

Bruno
encognize G.K., Founder & CEO

From AI to RegTech, from FinTech to EdTech, our encognize Japan X-Tech Force Team has helped you discover, understand, launch and shape throughout 2021 Q2 by delivering the following activities:

• DISCOVER - As Plug and Play Japan Service Partner, encognize GK was invited to present its refreshed version of Japan B2B practical Market Entry Recommendations to the Summer/Fall 2021 Batch participants across verticals. This revised presentation embeds further data points on trends and business opportunities in Japan.
• UNDERSTAND - As a direct support to its Singapore-based Business Partner RegPac Revolution, encognize GK has designed and delivered a Fireside Chat on the theme of "AI and education: Preparing your workforce for an AI era" at the RegPac 2021 RegTech Summit. The Fireside Chat has featured guest speakers from DataRobot and lawpilots. The full Fireside Chat replay can be found here.
• LAUNCH - On April 19, encognize GK announced the production launch of ELLA, an Adaptive-Learning-as-a-Service EdTech webAPI that can help personalize certain types of eLearning or mLearning solutions. ELLA was co-created and realized through encognize .lab4-203 Digital Innovation Launchpad services.
• SHAPE - As a direct follow-up to its joining of the Japan Financial Inclusion Consortium led by Nihon Unisys, encognize GK and its business partner AdviceRobo have further engaged in the shaping of a Financial Inclusion Platform through service design discussion based on the various consortium members' solutions and targeted financial inclusion services.