The Complete Lineup of Keynote Speakers for AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025 Winter

AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025 Winter: Complete Keynote Lineup Announced

Smart Camp Inc., based in Minato City, Tokyo and headed by CEO Shion Hayashi, has unveiled the entire lineup of keynote speakers for its upcoming event, the AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025 Winter. This fully online event will take place on December 3-4, 2025, and will center on the use of AI in business and the value creation it ensures.

The conference promises to disclose a wide range of services that businesses can implement using AI, along with cutting-edge trends and advanced case studies. Attendees will be encouraged to explore the next stage of AI utilization that contributes to significant organizational transformation and redefinition of their businesses.

In this year's keynote sessions, various engaging themes will be discussed by distinguished speakers:

1. Yoichi Ochiai – Media Artist
Theme: Co-creation Strategies in the Digital Nature and Super AI Era: Redefining Value in Japanese Companies
Overview: Ochiai will present a vision of the future where AI and humans, along with companies and society, are seamlessly connected based on the philosophy of 'Digital Nature'. He will explore new forms of business that extend beyond mere 'operational efficiency' and 'digitalization', focusing on collaboration between humans and AI to generate value.

2. Yasue Yamanaka – Director at Rohto Pharmaceutical and Executive Designer
3. Takashi Uematsu – Senior Executive Officer at Salesforce Japan
4. Shinpei Abe – COO at Smart Camp
Theme: Sales Strategies in the AI Era: Transforming into Winning Sales Organizations
Overview: The team will discuss strategies for transforming sales organizations into those that can consistently win against competition, merging management strategies with the latest technologies in a session on the 'Sales AI Revolution'.

5. Hiroyuki Mibe – Partner Attorney at Atsumi Saki Law Office
Theme: Understanding AI Governance: Risks and Countermeasures for Companies in Japan
Overview: Mibe will detail the domestic and international AI risks currently facing companies and the vital countermeasures in the absence of regulations in Japan, making this session crucial for corporate leaders.

6. Akiko Murakami – Group Chief Data Officer at SOMPO Holdings
7. Keita Nishiyama – Guest Professor at the University of Tokyo
Theme: Overcoming Attachments to the Past: Essential Thinking for Successful Digital Transformation
Overview: Murakami and Nishiyama will discuss the necessary shifts in thinking required for successful digital transformation in the AI age, aimed at genuinely transformative practices for Japanese companies.

8. Yuichi Itabashi – Representative at ITaBridge
Theme: ROI-Oriented AI Implementation: Achieving Competitive Advantage and Organizational Transformation
Overview: Itabashi will share practical approaches to linking AI and data utilization from 'investment' to 'outcomes', shedding light on keys to effective data management that can lead to competitive advantages and organizational change.

9. Osamu Yamaguchi – Independent Researcher and Author
10. Toshihiro Narita – CIO at Nissin Food Holdings
Theme: New Dials Opened by AI Diffusion: At the Frontline of Invention and Innovation
Overview: This session will explore how AI creates new value, with Yamaguchi and Narita discussing practical applications that connect invention with innovation, providing critical insights into business transformation.

Participants are encouraged to view the detailed schedule and lecture content on the official event website.

Overview of AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025 Winter:

- Dates: December 3-4, 2025
- Location: Online
- Participation Fee: Free (Registration required)
- Registration and Special Site URL: AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE 2025 Winter

This conference is a replay of the lectures from the AI BUSINESS CONFERENCE held in July 2025, featuring content from the original recordings.

About Smart Camp Inc.

Smart Camp Inc. was founded with the mission of 'Expanding Technology to Drastically Enhance Societal Productivity' and operates the SaaS comparison site 'BOXIL'. In December 2023, BizHint joined the group, enhancing their efforts to promote the widespread use of SaaS with multiple customer touchpoints.

- Name: Smart Camp Inc.
- Established: June 2014
- Leader: CEO Shion Hayashi
- Business Scope: Management of SaaS comparison site 'BOXIL', inside sales outsourcing 'BALES', SaaS-focused digital agency 'ADXL', online exhibition 'BOXIL EXPO', and sales engagement SaaS 'BALES CLOUD'
- Website: Smart Camp