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.

"What Higher Education-related problem can you solve using digital technologies, turning your solution into a responsible business by 2025?"

This is the question that participants of Creatoyo 2021, an annual one-week interactive event organized by the Department of Global Innovation Studies (GINOS) Toyo University Japan, in collaboration with MOSAIC, the creativity and innovation hub from HEC Montreal, Canada and BETA from Strasbourg University, had to work on in a team setup.

For this Creatoyo 2021 Business Innovation Award program fully designed and delivered on-line by encognize, the 5 teams competing for the award could get expert insights and learn from professionals drawn from the entire innovation ecosystem in Japan (Corporations, startups support structure, coach, VC...).

Knowledge sharing sessions from the selected Business Innovation Award mentors covered themes such as how to define your market, the importance of developing soft skills, design thinking and related tools, PR/FAQ innovation mechanism, the role of VC and key criteria for a VC investment decision.

Our encognize Japan X-Tech Force has continued without any interruption (yet remotely) their business development efforts on FinTech and InsurTech X HealthTech related solutions from their existing business partners portfolio.
Additionally, encognize has engaged in new, diverse digital innovation-focused activities over Q3:

• .synaptik service: encognize, a Service Partner of Plug And Play Japan, was privileged to be invited to join the PnP Japan Fall Summit 2020 as guest contributor on September 28, Expo Day 1, and to discuss the presentations with the Brand & Retail APAC/Europe program participants for the benefit of the Expo audience.
• .fastforward service: on July 16, encognize announced its collaboration with FACIL'iti, a French-Japanese company offering a secure, cost-efficient, non-invasive and privacy compliant solution that helps make the web more inclusive.
• .lab4-203 service: as part of an EdTech project aimed at improving the learning of foreign languages on-line or with an app through the use of adaptive learning techniques, a first functional prototype of ELLA (E.nhanced L.earning L.evel A.lgorithm) has been released. The prototype is now being tested by a group of pre-selected learners in order to calibrate the adaptive learning recommendation engine.
• .fastforward service: through the whole quarter, part of our encognize Japan X-Tech Force has been involved in the facilitation and delivery support of a project based on advanced PII data protection solutions.