Kacoms Holdings Wins 'Grand Prize' at Agent CUP in KANSAI, Hosted by Daiwabo Information System

The company's R&D department manager and team members holding the award certificate (three people in the center)

Kacoms Holdings Co., Ltd. (Osaka; Representative Director, Chairman and President: Taku Shimizu; hereinafter "Kacoms Holdings") is pleased to announce that it received the Grand Prize at the "Agent CUP in KANSAI" event held on Friday, February 20, 2026, hosted by Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. (Osaka; President: Hiroyuki Matsumoto; hereinafter "DIS"). The award recognizes the company's AI agent proposal, which focused on solving customer business challenges.

About "Agent CUP in KANSAI"

"Agent CUP in KANSAI" is an AI agent proposal event hosted by Daiwabo Information System Co., Ltd. (DIS) for its partners. It goes beyond simple technology demonstrations, requiring participants to identify specific customer business challenges and use cases, and to propose how to utilize AI agents to address them. Judging is based on a comprehensive evaluation of innovation, business models, business impact, execution plans/technical implementation, and user experience. The Grand Prize is awarded to the proposal that receives the highest overall evaluation across these criteria.

Key Reasons for the Award

DIS cited the proposal's focus on actual business challenges and concrete use cases as the primary reason for the award. Specifically, the proposal addressed the common organizational issue where employee skills and experience are not fully visualized, leading to personnel placement, development, and workforce planning being overly dependent on subjective judgment. By using AI to analyze and visualize talent data, the proposal demonstrated how to enable optimal personnel placement and future-oriented workforce simulation. During the award ceremony, DIS judges praised the proposal for its practical specificity and its potential to solve organization-wide issues.

Comment from Satoru Asayama, R&D Department Manager, Kacoms Holdings

We are truly honored to have our proposal recognized with the Grand Prize. In this proposal, we focused not just on showcasing AI agents as a technology, but on presenting concrete business scenarios for how they can be applied to management and organizational challenges such as talent placement, development, and workforce planning. We believe that the issue of failing to fully utilize employee skills and experience is a common challenge for many companies. We believe our recognition stems from demonstrating the potential to support optimal placement and future-oriented talent utilization through AI-driven analysis and visualization.