Transforming Workplace Data through IoT and AI for Enhanced Competitiveness

Introduction
The Japanese Planning Institute (JPI) is set to host an enlightening seminar on July 14, 2026, featuring Kohei Matsushita, the Technology Evangelist and Business Development Manager at Soracom. This event aims to delve into how IoT (Internet of Things) and AI (Artificial Intelligence) are revolutionizing workplace data management and bolstering competitive advantages across various industries.

Event Details

- Date and Time: July 14, 2026, from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM
- Guest Speaker: Kohei Matsushita has over 800 presentations under his belt and has played a crucial role in driving business development since the dawn of IoT. His extensive experience includes collaborations with mega-cloud services and the pioneering of progressive implementation cases.

What Attendees Will Learn
Participants will gain practical insights into the following areas:

- Successful patterns for IoT implementation common across manufacturing, logistics, and infrastructure, along with key points to avoid failures.
- A detailed process for building a data foundation with a focus on utilizing AI effectively.
- Strategies for transforming on-site data into revenue and enhancing competitiveness through informed decision-making and organizational reforms.

Who Should Attend
This seminar is specifically designed for professionals in the following areas:

- Production technology and DX (Digital Transformation) promotion in manufacturing sectors.
- Planning departments responsible for logistics and supply chain reforms.
- Maintenance and operational divisions in infrastructure and energy fields.
- Management planning departments exploring new business opportunities through IoT and AI.

Seminar Overview
With the challenges of labor shortages and equipment maintenance looming, the ability to visualize data through IoT presents a fundamental solution for enhancing business sustainability. Quality data acquired from operational settings is crucial for the success of AI applications, making the establishment of a robust IoT data framework a prerequisite for success.
In this presentation, the speaker will outline the implementation process of workplace data transformation, which goes beyond mere labor-saving measures to envision effective AI utilization. By examining diverse industry cases in manufacturing, logistics, and infrastructure, common obstacles in implementation and approaches to overcoming them will be highlighted, alongside strategies for translating data into competitive strength.

Key Topics
1. Current status surrounding workplace data transformation
- Why digitalization of workplaces across all industries is urgent now
- Transitioning from mere labor-saving to value creation: Evolution of DX objectives
2. Cutting-edge IoT implementation: Practical cases by industry and purpose
- Automating productivity improvement and quality control in manufacturing
- Efficient remote monitoring and maintenance in public infrastructure (energy, utilities)
- Success patterns of the 'small start' approach common across cases
3. Emerging directions and methods for effective IoT utilization
- Three objectives of digitalization, two engagement methods
- Essentials for selecting communication and devices to capture the 'true state' of operations
- Practical implementation methodologies: Learning from Kureha's 'after-installation IoT'
- Practical implementation methodologies: Learning from Kitz's 'embedded IoT'
4. Pathways to AI utilization: Transforming data into competitive strengths
- The correct relationship between IoT and AI: How quality data accumulation differentiates performance
- Transforming into an AI-ready organization: Cultivating a decision-making culture grounded in data
- Summary: The first steps to begin transforming workplaces into assets starting today
5. Related Q&A session
6. Networking opportunities

Participants will not only gain direct access to the speakers for dialogue and inquiries — an otherwise challenging opportunity — but will also be able to network across industries and fields, gaining valuable information and potential collaborators.

Participation Options

- On-site Participation (no archive access)
- Live Stream Participation (no archive access)
- Archive Access Participation

There is also an option for participants to add archive access at a special price of 18,500 yen (tax included) if they choose on-site or live stream attendance.

Fees

- For one participant: 37,560 yen (tax included)
- For two or more participants from the same organization: 32,560 yen per person (tax included)
- Special pricing available for local government employees: two participants for 11,000 yen (tax included) (on-site or live stream only, same mode of participation)

About Us
The Japanese Planning Institute plays a crucial role as a bridge between policy, governance, and the private sector, supporting the dissemination and realization of national projects while promoting the creation of national intelligence. For over half a century, JPI has been offering valuable information through exclusive seminars to senior management and executives to aid in their efforts.

Contact Information

- Company: Japanese Planning Institute
- Address: 5-2-32 Minamiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047
- Phone: 03-5793-9761
- Fax: 03-5793-9767
- Website: https://www.jpi.co.jp