[Year End Special Session: CoinDesk JAPAN/btokyo]2024: Japan’s big shift caused by generative AI and Web3 ─ Breaking the spell of the “lost 30 years”[Free online viewing]

A limited paid community service centered on business leaders of major companies researching Web3.btokyo club‘ will be holding a quarterly gathering on December 19th, inviting those involved in the industry to interact with the participants.

Gatherings are a place where you can interact with people in the industry in a casual atmosphere, unlike the once-a-month roundtables that invite guest lecturers from Japan and overseas. This time, we moved the venue from the usual venue andYear End Party 2023 by CoinDesk JAPAN／btokyoThe event will be held under the title “.

A “Special Session” will also be held before the gathering. Together with special guests, we will think about what kind of changes will occur in society in the future through the technology called Web3.

Furthermore, this time, “Special Session” will be distributed online to people other than btokyo club members. Please take a look.

2024: Japan’s big shift caused by generative AI and Web3 — Breaking the spell of the “lost 30 years”

■Date and time: 12/19 (Tue) 17:00-20:00
・17:00-18:00 Special Session (planned to be delivered online)
・18:15～20:00 Year End Party 2023 by CoinDesk JAPAN/btokyo

■Special Session Overview
“ChatGPT” pulled the trigger, and AI will dominate the world in 2023. In the field of blockchain, which is the fundamental technology of crypto assets (virtual currency), “tokenization of RWA (currently existing financial assets and financial infrastructure)” has become a buzzword, and major financial companies around the world are making full use of chains. There has been a growing movement to partially update the financial system.

The flow of funds is also about to change significantly. In Africa, which forms the core of the “Global South,” many startups that skillfully utilize AI and blockchain attract venture capitalists from around the world, and oil money from the Middle East, led by Saudi Arabia, is being used to develop next-generation online games and It is flowing into the fields that will drive the global economy in the next decade.

Will the spell of “Lost Decades,” which began in the 1990s and still covers Japan, be lifted in 2024? Japan’s strengths have been talked about extensively, such as the high technological capabilities that create industrial and social infrastructure, the content power of anime, manga, and games, and Japan’s world-leading legal framework for crypto assets and stable coins… Not many people imagine what Japan will look like in the near future.

At the Special Session on December 19th, Mr. Kazuto Ataka, author of “Shin Nihon” and a lecturer at Keio University who specializes in AI and data science, connected the keywords “AI” and “Web3”, and serial We have invited Shuzo Narita, an entrepreneur, and Hideto Kawasaki, a member of the House of Representatives who is the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party’s web3PT, to predict the big shifts and changes that will occur in 2024.

■Special Session speakers

Kazuto Ataka | Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University/Senior Strategist, LINE Yahoo Inc.

After 11 years at McKinsey, where he was involved in a wide range of product and business development and brand revitalization, he worked at Yahoo since 2008, where he served as CSO for 10 years since 2012, and since 2022, he has been a senior strategist at Z Holdings (currently LINE Yahoo, Inc.). He has been teaching at Keio SFC since 2016 and has been in his current position since fall 2018. He is a director of the Data Scientists Association and chairman of the skills definition committee. Representative of a future worth leaving behind, a general incorporated association. He is involved in many national committees on science, technology and data x AI. He holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Yale University.His books include “Start with Issues” (Eiji Publishing), “Shin Nihon” (NewsPicks), etc.

Shuzo Narita | Serial entrepreneur, angel investor

Joined Astamuse Co., Ltd. as a full-time employee while studying at Keio University’s Faculty of Economics. After that, he established Atkore Co., Ltd. and became president and representative director. In 2012, while he was still in school, he joined Crowdworks Co., Ltd. and became its executive officer. In 2014, he became the director and COO, and in December 2014, three years after the company was founded, the company was listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market. After going public, he will oversee all businesses as the director, executive vice president and COO. From October 2020, he will become the director and CINO of the company, and will retire from the board in December 2022. In February 2023, he became the representative director of the Generative AI Association GAIA. Currently, he is preparing for his next start-up while serving as an outside director of Linkwell Co., Ltd. and Vivit Garden Co., Ltd.
His books include “Contrarian Thinking: A Life Strategy for Overwhelmingly Winning Without Fighting (KADOKAWA)” and “The Adventure of Being an Entrepreneur That I Wish I Had Told Me When I Was 14 (Diamond)”

Mr. Hideto Kawasaki | Member of the House of Representatives, Liberal Democratic Party Digital Society Promotion Headquarters web3PT Executive Director

After graduating from Hosei University’s Faculty of Economics, he joined NTT Docomo. He worked in the mobile phone billing business and credit card launch business, and retired after working for nine years. After that, he served as a local secretary for his father, Jiro Kawasaki, for four years, and ran for the first time in the general election for the House of Representatives in 2021 when his father retired. He was elected for the first time in his constituency in Mie 2 Ward. In the House of Representatives, he is a member of the General Affairs Committee and the Health, Labor and Welfare Committee. In the Liberal Democratic Party, he serves as Deputy Director-General of the Digital Society Promotion Headquarters, Director-General of web3PT, and Director-General of Digital Human Resources PT.

Moderator: Mr. Comugi | Emoote Pte. Ltd. Co-founder and Researcher

Co-founder of Singapore-based Web3 fund “Emoote”. He took up his current position after working as an editor of a business book and editor-in-chief of the Japanese edition of Global Web Media. As a venture capital researcher, he follows the forefront of digital technology including Web3. He is well-versed in new and old digital technologies, and has a reputation for his simple illustrations that allow an intuitive understanding of the overall picture, as well as his “explanations in plain language that anyone can easily understand.” He is currently disseminating the latest information on digital technology through Twitter and YouTube.
His books include “Digital Technology Illustrated Guide: Creating the Next World” (SB Creative)

｜Text: btokyo members
｜Edited by coindesk JAPAN