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! 
  

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.

On March 12th 2021, Nihon Unisys announced the establishment of the "Financial Inclusion Consortium" 「金融包摂コンソーシアム」starting April 2021 with the vision of "enriching lives for everyone who does their best" in the current changing society 「がんばるみんなに豊かな暮らしを」. 
The "Financial Inclusion Consortium" aims at providing a variety of financial services in collaboration with financial institutions, human resource service providers and fintech companies among others, taking into consideration some of the major forces driving societal changes such as the impact of COVID19, work styles evolution, a higher lifestyle diversity or also the coming possibility to pay salary using e-money in Japan.
encognize, alongside AdviceRobo, a leading Fintech company in Alternative Credit Scoring supported by our Japan X-Tech Force, is one of the initial members of this "Financial Inclusion Consortium" led by Nihon Unisys.

Nihon Unisys Press Release here (Japanese only)
日本ユニシス社のニュースリリースはこちらです。

​"Financial Inclusion Consortium" webpage here (Japanese only)
「金融包摂コンソーシアム」のHPはこちらです。