JETRO Invest Japan Webinar series: #1 AI Industry with a briefing on COVID-19 and Japanese economy

May 18, 2020

<JETRO Invest Japan Webinar series: #1>
AI industry in Japan before / with / after COVID-19 with briefing on COVID-19 and Economy of Japan


The COVID-19 pandemic is causing massive disruption to economies, businesses and markets across the world. JETRO is going to hold a series of webinars featuring COVID-19 situation/macroeconomic status as well as the current situation/impacts to the selected industries in Japan. Join our webinar to get updates about the current situation in Japan.


About the event:

  1. COVID-19 and Economy of Japan (Yuta Nagasaki) 15mins + Q&A
  2. AI industry in Japan before / with / after COVID-19 (Tatsuya Nagata) 15mins + Q&A
  • ・ Speakers Profile:
    • - Nagasaki Yuta, Invest Japan Promotion Division, Invest Japan Department, JETRO
    • Nagasaki Yuta is a researcher of Invest Japan Department at the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). His research focuses on inward foreign direct investment in Japan and covers a wide range of related topics including the business environment as well as business operations of foreign-affiliated companies in the country.

    • - Nagata Tatsuya, AI advisor at JETRO
    • Nagata Tatsuya is the COO of Navier Inc., an AI startup developing cutting-edge image processing solutions based on deep learning. He oversees Navier’s strategy planning, finance, and business development. He has been AI Business Advisor of JETRO since 2019. Prior to current roles, he was in charge of investment in early-stage AI startups globally, as an investment professional of DEEPCORE Inc., SoftBank’s VC arm specialized in AI. He earned a bachelor’s degree of science (mathematics) from the University of Tokyo and an MBA from INSEAD.



■ About upcoming webinars:

We JETRO are planning a series of on demand webinars as follows. For all these webinars, the first part of the webinar (COVID-19 and Economy of Japan) will be the same.

  • -10th June: COVID-19 and Economy of Japan and Digital & IT
  • -17th June: COVID-19 and Economy of Japan and Open Innovation
  • -24th June: COVID-19 and Economy of Japan and Life Science


All webinars will start at 10:00 AM (Swiss Time)/ 5:00 PM (JST).



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ジェトロジェトロ 新型コロナウイルス関連ウェビナー開催のお知らせ

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新型コロナウイルス感染が世界的に拡大し、企業活動や企業を取り巻くビジネス環境に影響を及

ぼしています。今般、ジェトロは、日本への進出を検討する外国企業を対象に、新型コロナウイル

スに係る日本の現 状やマクロ経済動向、各産業への影響などをテーマとしたウェビナー を シリーズ

化し、 開催します。最新の日本の情報を入手する機会として、是非奮ってご参加ください。


■セミナーについて

  1. COVID-19 and Economy of Japan 15分 + 質疑応答
    （長崎勇太、ジェトロ対日投資部 対日投資課）
  2. AI industry in Japan before / with / after COVID-19 15分 + 質疑応答
    （永田達哉、ジェトロ対日投資部 AIアドバイザー）
    ※講師プロフィール詳細は以下の英語のご案内文をご参照下さい 。


■次回以降の配信について：
ウェビナーは以下のスケジュールでの開催を計画しています。前半のジェトロの講演（新型コ
ロナウイルスに係る日本の現状やマクロ経済動向）はいずれの回でも同じ内容になります。
【第2 回】6 月10 日（水）日（水）AM 10:00 - 11:00 (CEST)／／PM 5:00 - 6:00 (JST)
テーマ：新型コロナウイルスに係る日本の現状やマクロ経済動向、デジタルビジネス・IT 分野 の状況
【第3 回】6 月17 日（水）日（水）AM 10:00 - 11:00 (CEST)／／PM 5:00 - 6:00 (JST)
テーマ：同上、オープンイノベーションの現状
【第4 回】6 月24 日（水）日（水）AM 10:00 - 11:00 (CEST)／／PM 5:00 - 6:00 (JST)
テーマ：同上、ライフサイエンス分野の状況