[For Route Bus Operators] Free Webinar on "AI Duty Roster Creation" and "Bus-Specific Attendance Management" to Ease On-Site Operations, Held on April 21

Meitetsucom Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture; President and Representative Director: Kazutoshi Yamada) will co-host a free webinar for route bus operators titled "Creating Duty Rosters That Comply with Laws and Ease On-Site Operations" on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, jointly with ALGO ARTIS Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and Representative Director: Kentaro Nagata), a company that develops products using AI.

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■ Background of the Webinar: The Limits of "Duty Roster Creation" Faced by the Bus Industry
Currently, the Japanese bus industry is facing an unprecedented and severe labor shortage. According to statistics from the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, the active job openings-to-applicants ratio for bus drivers reached 2.07 in FY2024, an extremely severe situation that significantly exceeds the all-occupation average of 1.14. Furthermore, the aftermath of the "2024 Problem" continues, with about 80% of major bus routes reducing flights or abolishing routes due to labor shortages, threatening business continuity itself.
For example, in October 2025, Toei Bus decided to reduce operations by a total of more than 200 flights in more than half of the areas in the 23 wards of Tokyo.

In addition to this decline in supply capacity, the strict enforcement of binding hours due to the revised Improvement Standard Notice is pushing on-site "duty roster creation" to its limits.
However, in many workplaces, highly personalized and excessive workloads have become major issues, such as "it takes an enormous amount of time to create monthly duty rosters," "complex constraints are checked solely based on the experience of veterans," and "half a day is spent dealing with sudden absences."

In this webinar, "Meitetsucom," which knows the field inside out as a member of the Meitetsu Group and possesses operational know-how specific to the industry, and "ALGO ARTIS," which boasts advanced optimization AI technology, will jointly take the stage.
We will unveil a next-generation operational model that achieves both "legal compliance" and "reduction of on-site burden," incorporating a case study of implementation at Meitetsu Bus Co., Ltd.

■ Why Meitetsucom and ALGO ARTIS?

Meitetsucom: Domain Knowledge That Reaches the "Itchy Spots" on Site
Because we deeply understand the complex attendance management rules and on-site struggles of the bus industry, rather than merely providing a system, we can provide a "truly usable" operational foundation that is suited to actual practice.

ALGO ARTIS: AI Technology That Reproduces and Surpasses the Thinking of Experts
A proprietary optimization AI solves complex puzzles (duty roster creation) that take humans hours to complete in just a few minutes. It dramatically reduces the psychological and physical burden on creators while ensuring legal compliance and fairness among crew members.

■ What You Will Learn in the Webinar

1. For HR and Labor Relations Personnel: Thorough Legal Compliance and Risk Management
- How to create a "mechanism to flawlessly comply" with the revised Improvement Standard Notice, Labor Standards Act, and labor-management agreements
- Establishing a system to reduce the risk of audits and corrective recommendations to zero
- Methods to visualize the discrepancy between plans and actual results, and smoothly complete the process up to payroll linkage

2. For On-Site Operations Personnel: Improving Work Efficiency and Eliminating Personalization
- How to automatically generate assignment proposals using AI considering all complex constraints
- A mechanism to instantly readjust when dealing with absences or sudden occurrences
- Approaches to eliminate personalization and create a state that can be handed over to younger staff

■ Event Overview

- Title: Creating Duty Rosters That Comply with Laws and Ease On-Site Operations - Methods to Achieve Both "Certainty" and "Reduction of Practical Burden"
- Date and Time: Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
- Format: Online event (archive streaming available)
- Participation Fee: Free
- Contents:
　　　　● Introduction and demo of the AI duty roster creation solution
　　　　● Introduction and demo of the attendance management system for crew members
　　　　● Introduction of voices from implementing companies (Meitetsu Bus Co., Ltd.)
　　　　● Answers to advance questions

- Application URL: https://solution.meitetsucom.co.jp/webinar_kintai
* We kindly ask that companies in the same industry refrain from participating.

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■ Speaker Introductions

Kaori Yoshizawa, Sub-Chief, Marketing, Sales Department, Meitetsucom Co., Ltd.
Has experienced a wide range of system development, operation, and sales, including duty-free shop management, university academic affairs, and security. Currently dedicated to marketing systems for bus operators, disseminating information closely aligned with on-site issues.

Akio Fukui, Business General Manager and Product Manager, Bus Division, ALGO ARTIS Co., Ltd.
Has about 10 years of experience as an IT engineer and consultant, and about 10 years in AI-related business and product development. A specialist who focuses on optimization issues such as timetables, duty rosters, and vehicle operations for bus operators, and accompanies them through to on-site implementation.

Meitetsucom Co., Ltd.
As an IT solution company of the Meitetsu Group, we develop and operate systems in a wide range of fields such as transportation, logistics, and distribution. In the transportation field in particular, we strongly support operational efficiency and digital transformation (DX) for bus operators by utilizing the know-how we have cultivated over many years.

Location: Meitetsu Kyosho Computer Building, 1-21-12 Meieki Minami, Nakamura-ku, Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture
URL: https://www.meitetsucom.co.jp/

ALGO ARTIS Co., Ltd.
An AI venture established as a spin-off from DeNA, providing "planning optimization solutions" for social infrastructure such as manufacturing, energy, and logistics using proprietary algorithm technology in the social infrastructure and supply chain domains. In the bus industry, we automate and optimize complex and highly personalized planning tasks such as timetable revisions, duty rosters, and routes, and contribute to operational efficiency, cost reduction, and responses to labor shortages while considering safety and stability. We automatically optimize complex business plans that previously relied on the experience of skilled technicians, realizing significant cost reductions and operational efficiency.

Location: Hanzomon PREX North, Sakakibara Building 2-3, Kojimachi 2-chome 3-2, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
URL: https://www.algo-artis.com/