From FinTech and InsurTech to GreenTech and Alt. Energies, our encognize Japan X-Tech Force has kept delivering on its core missions of supporting sound cross-border innovation initiatives:

• SHAPE – encognize G.K. Founder & CEO was invited to co-moderate a roundtable at the Japan FinTech Festival 2024 alongside Naotaka Nishiyama, Founder & CEO of Tech Japan Inc., debating the question of the key factors required to reignite the entrepreneurial spirit in Japan.
•  EXPAND – our Japan X-Tech Force team is overly excited to welcome and support upsure, a comprehensive Insurance Digital solution platform from India built by industry veterans, with their Japanese Market entry in collaboration with their partner HCLTech.
• EXPLORE – Who are the APAC innovative companies ready to help scale up the Green Hydrogen Value Chain in Atlantic France, a region home to 130 H2-related projects, 7 expert clusters and 15 research centers focused on Hydrogen as an alternative energy source to support the energy transition? Thanks to the support of solutions&co, the economic development agency of Pays de le Loire Region, ,  We already have gathered 6 challenge statements distributed across the value chain waiting for an answer... Contact us if you want to know more! 
  

In the first week of February 2022, the Global Innovation Studies Department of Toyo University in Japan has successfully delivered their annual flagship event, Creatoyo.
As every year, the event aimed at promoting creativity and innovation by gathering artists, academics, associations and business professionals and have them work in close collaboration with groups of students.

Based on the positive feedback received for the first Business Innovation Award delivered in 2021, encognize was invited to design and power the 2nd edition of the Creatoyo Business Innovation Award in a renewed online format.
This year, 3 teams of students have worked on creating a business concept and its related presentation, answering the question: "2025 - Impact Innovation: What societal problem will you solve as a for profit business entrepreneur?"
This theme directly aligns with encognize commitment to support the development of responsible X-Tech digital businesses.

For a rich experience, the 3 teams were coached by 3 startup founders coming each from different backgrounds and working on diverse social innovation-related solutions:

• Yu Shinagawa, Founder & CEO at An-Nahal, a startup offering services and programs aimed at increasing awareness around Diversity & Inclusion in Japan
• Masaki Ishibashi, Founder & CEO at Toyeight, a startup collaborating with Malaysian Top Universities to create an AI-based early childhood developmental assessment
• Cyrielle Thomas, a French founder based in Fukuoka and & CEO at Dokocha, a platform supporting the community of small Japanese Tea producers and  tea-related small businesses through Tea Tourism information, and Digitomenu, a service allowing restaurants to digitalize their menus and offer them in different languages for a better experience of non-Japanese speakers.

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.