SHIN-JIGEN to Speak at "AI Era Manufacturing Industry Growth Strategy Salon" Supported by All Kyoto – Introducing Use Cases of On-site Learning Edge AI and Backcast Innovation Process

SHIN-JIGEN Inc. (Nara, Nara Prefecture), which supports business breakthroughs with "robotics and Edge AI"*1, announces that its Representative Director and CEO Tamio Okamoto and founder Hiromichi Fujimoto will speak at the "AI Era Manufacturing Industry Growth Strategy Salon," supported by All Kyoto, on Friday, April 17, 2026.

The "AI Era Manufacturing Industry Growth Strategy Salon" will be held under the theme of "AI x Robots => Future," targeting manufacturing companies in Kyoto Prefecture. It aims to provide the latest information on AI robots and serve as a learning platform to promote business innovation, introducing changes brought by the evolution of AI and robots to the field, and innovation processes that create new businesses.

From SHIN-JIGEN, CEO Okamoto will deliver a lecture titled "Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Manufacturing Will Fundamentally Change ~Possibilities of 2nd Generation (On-site Learning) Edge AI~," introducing concepts for making AI functional on-site and perspectives for reviewing the very nature of work, along with use cases of on-site learning Edge AI. Additionally, founder Hiromichi Fujimoto will speak on the theme of "Innovation Starting from Future Vision," presenting the concept of backcast innovation, which involves designing business and management by working backward from a future vision.

SHIN-JIGEN will continue to work on updating industries and society from the perspective of "Future Implementation," utilizing its knowledge in robotics and Edge AI.

■ "AI Era Manufacturing Industry Growth Strategy Salon" Overview
This event envisions the future of the manufacturing industry through cutting-edge examples of AI x Robots.
Date: Friday, April 17, 2026, 14:00-16:30
Venue: Kyoto Economic Center 3-F Conference Room (78 Hakogokomachi, Shijo-dori Muromachi Higashi-iru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City / Directly connected to Karasuma Station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line, North Exit, and Hankyu Kyoto Line, Exit 26)
Organizers: Kyoto Manufacturing Industry Growth Strategy Executive Committee for the AI Era (Kyoto Industrial City Creation Research Institute, Kyoto City Industrial Technology Research Institute, Kyoto Industrial 21, Kyoto Advanced Technology Institute, Kyoto Prefecture, Kyoto City)
Admission: Free
Capacity: Approximately 30 people
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*1: Edge AI... A technology that performs AI information processing on the network edge (terminals and devices) rather than in the cloud. It offers significant advantages in terms of real-time performance, security, and communication costs, and is attracting attention as a "technology that changes the concept of infrastructure" because it can implement the power of AI in a way that is more closely aligned with social activities and daily life.

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Fujimoto, who supports companies' future strategies as a future implementer, talks about concrete methods for imagining the future and incorporating it into business. Influenced by the sci-fi work 'Star Trek,' he became committed to "implementing" advanced future visions into real society. After the dissolution of the assist suit company "ATOUN," he established a new company "SHIN-JIGEN" and is working on creating a mechanism to generate technologies and businesses from 0 to 1 that do not yet exist in the world. Furthermore, at "Thinker Inc.," established with Associate Professor Koyama (then) of Osaka University, he is challenging the realization of "robots that can be used as easily as home appliances." Realizing that Koyama's vision of the future and his own were the same, they are now together envisioning the future of "harmonious robots" that collaborate and learn with humans, enhancing Thinker's future resolution. "There is no goal in the future. The accumulation of human imagination and challenges updates the future."

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