Cluster Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Naohito Kato; hereinafter referred to as "Cluster"), which operates Japan's largest metaverse platform "cluster", is pleased to announce that its Representative Director and CEO, Naohito Kato, will be a speaker at the "Takeoff Tokyo 2026", Asia's largest startup conference, on April 1, 2026 (Wednesday).

This session is scheduled to be a joint presentation with Jia Shen, a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of RockYou, and currently CEO of SHISA.AI and AKA Virtual.

[Session Overview]

In this session, the two entrepreneurs will engage in a discussion under the theme: "'From Entertainment to Infrastructure: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Might Look Like a Game'."

Through "cluster", Japan's largest metaverse platform with over 35 million cumulative event attendees, Kato has been promoting the industrial utilization of virtual spaces, from entertainment to local governments, education, and manufacturing industries.

Jia Shen, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded RockYou in 2006 and led the SNS game revolution on MySpace and Facebook. He currently leads AKA Virtual, a virtual character production company, and SHISA.AI, which offers a Japanese-language specialized LLM and real-time voice translation service Chotto.chat, continuing his global expansion based in Japan.

The session will directly address the original theme of Takeoff Tokyo, "From Tokyo to the World," from three perspectives: the industrial application of game technology, the global expansion of Japanese content IP, and the fusion of AI and virtual spaces.

[Session Details]

Event Name: Takeoff Tokyo 2026

Date and Time: April 1, 2026 (Wednesday) 15:10 - 15:40

Venue: Tokyo Big Sight South 1 & 2

Session Format: Dialogue

Language: [Japanese / English]

Theme: "'From Entertainment to Infrastructure: Why the Next Trillion-Dollar Company Might Look Like a Game'"

Admission: [Link to admission details]

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