At encognize, we are convinced that every one, regardless of age, gender, citizenship... can learn from others and contribute to solve problems from the "real world" by sharing openly and discussing constructively their respective ideas and perspectives.
When it comes to innovation or entrepreneurship, one of the most obvious challenges we observe is how difficult it can be for startup and entrepreneurs to successfully collaborate with large corporations.
Therefore, we felt very privileged to engage with students from Toyo University during the Creatoyo week, a five-day program organized by the Department of Global Innovation Studies around one core theme: "understand creativity in a global context", and discuss how to solve the collaboration gaps between large corporations and smaller, emerging, innovative companies.

Our encognize team has maintained a high pace of activities throughout the last quarter of 2019, keeping at its heart the sharing of experiences.
Workshops, presentations, luncheon have been conducted with a wide range of participants to the FinTech industry and to the broader Innovation ecosystem, be they startups, financial institutions, regulators or students.
Of course, our encognize team has also continued to focus on ensuring strong business progresses for our portfolio of innovating Tech companies through the identification of new projects, PoC, business partners or investors.

• October 14: open discussions with students of Toyo University (東洋大学), Department of Global Innovation Studies, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies on the theme: "From the corporate world to entrepreneurship: 5 key takeaways"
• October 15: AdviceRobo pitch at the Plug And Play Japan Fintech Stage at CEATEC
• November 15: Japan FSA luncheon with Bruno Abrioux-Takano, encognize G.K. CEO, introducing as IRTA Japan Chapter Lead the latest global RegTech trends with a specific zoom on KYC optimization (based on e global study supported by encognize G.K.)
•  November 18: participation of encognize G.K. at an ideation workshop co-organized by Toyo University, Schoolab and La French Tech Tokyo
• November 26: seminar on "Quantum Computing in Finance" organized for FIA Japan by Bruno Abrioux-Takano, in its capacity of FIA Japan Technology Committee Chairman, with the contribution of QuantFi and the support of Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law office
•  November 28: representation of Unikeys at the Tokyo 2019 Paris - Europlace International Financial Forum: New Frontiers in Finance
• December 04: workshop on Japan Market Entry for newly started Plug And Play Japan batch of startups in FinTech and Brand & Retail verticals
• December 24: following multiple rounds of presentations and pitches led as AdviceRobo representative in Japan and SEA, confirmation that AdviceRobo is one of the 10 startups selected among 170+ candidates to join in Vietnam the FE Credit Xcelerate program organized with the support of Medici

Alternative Credit Scoring based on psychometric evaluation (AdviceRobo), 3FA solution through card-embedded fingerprint reader combined with digital wallet (Unikeys), Digital-Identity-as-a-Service based on distributed platform (Pikcio), Financial Industry- specific translation engine (Lingua Custodia) are as many innovative solutions that our encognize GK team was proud to promote between April and September 2019.
Beyond the active search of business partners ready to explore these innovative solutions in Japan, our team has also conducted focused seminar and had the honor to be invited to renowned industry events.

• July 08: Delivery of a joint seminar Pikcio x Microsoft on the theme of "New Data Economy: personal data in action"
• August 09: Representation of AdviceRobo and Pikcio at Mastercard start path Japan Selection Day
  
• August 30: encognize GK sets a FinTech Innovators Booth at Microsoft Innovation Lab Japan 2019 to showcase his business partners' solutions
  
• September 3-6: participation to the annual Nikkei Fin/Sum x Reg/Sum representing AdviceRobo at the start-up pitch contest and joining the panel discussion "RegTech Can Change the World: Inaugural Announcement of the Global RegTech Industry Benchmarking Report" organized and delivered with EY Japan, University of Cambridge Judge Business School - Centre for Alternative Finance, Bank of Japan, Japan FSA and Japan FinTech Association. Report can be downloaded here (English or Japanese version)