Our Representative Director Kenbun Onaka to Speak at Saikyo Bank's "AI Utilization Seminar for Business Owners"

Kenbun Onaka, representative of Aoyama Planning Arts Inc. (Head Office: Minato-ku, Tokyo), which handles everything from corporate strategy planning to creative work and AI utilization support based on cognitive science, gave a presentation at the "AI Utilization Seminar for Business Owners" hosted by Saikyo Bank, Ltd. (President: Ken Matsuoka). This seminar, aimed at improving productivity through AI utilization in an era of increasing labor shortages and hiring difficulties, was held on Monday, June 29th in Shunan City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, and on Tuesday, June 30th in Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, with approximately 260 business owners from small and medium-sized enterprises participating.

At the seminar, Kenbun Onaka, founder of our company and developer of the enterprise generative AI platform "AI Reborn," explained the overview and utilization concepts of "AI Reborn" with specific examples. The seminar also introduced the case of Saikyo Bank, which has introduced "AI Reborn" and is saving approximately 100 person-hours of work in tasks such as mortgage loan screening.

"AI Reborn" is a generative AI platform for corporations that supports business efficiency and productivity improvement. By training the AI with a company's unique information and know-how, it streamlines various tasks such as responding to inquiries, utilizing internal knowledge, and creating documents, thereby supporting the resolution of challenges like labor shortages and hiring difficulties.

Our company will continue to contribute to the sustainable growth of companies by supporting business efficiency and productivity improvement utilizing AI in response to ongoing social issues such as labor shortages and hiring difficulties.

We aim to support the creation of organizations where more companies can generate high added value even with limited human resources, by utilizing AI not just as an efficiency tool, but as a partner to realize an environment where people can spend their time on tasks they should truly focus on. We will continue to provide services that contribute to corporate growth and the productivity improvement of society as a whole, while staying close to our customers' challenges.

Kenbun Onaka (O naka Aki fumi) Profile

- Cognitive scientist, US graduate school professor, film director, author, lyricist, and composer.

- Representative Director of Aoyama Planning Arts Inc., Representative of Aoyama Creative Research Institute

- Developer of "AI Reborn." Promotes the concept of "AI as a 'second brain'" and the construction of "AI infrastructure to support corporate decision-making."

- Achievements: Featured in media such as Newsweek and The Wall Street Journal as a scientist. Film director who won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Kogurejin International Film Festival. Also involved in lyrics and composition for the East Asian Games.

- Author: "The Shock of the AI Agentic Era: The World Will Change. Companies Will Change. Lives Will Change." A book that examines the impact of an era where AI transforms from a mere tool into an autonomous "second intelligence" from cognitive science and business perspectives.

About Aoyama Planning Arts Inc.

Aoyama Planning Arts Inc. is a think tank that supports corporate transformation by integrating strategy planning, branding, creative work, and AI development based on cognitive science.

Since its establishment in 1993, the company has explored the questions "Why do people act?" and "Why can't organizations change?" and has provided unique solutions in areas such as corporate philosophy penetration, sales reform, talent acquisition, and brand building.

Key services include the sales support system "The World Vision" utilizing cognitive science, the recruitment and organizational development support tool "Vision Maker," and the next-generation AI platform "AI Reborn" which AI-enables corporate knowledge, experience, and judgment criteria.

"AI Reborn" is being introduced in a wide range of industries, including financial institutions, securities firms, automobile dealerships, and shipping companies, as an AI employee platform for inheriting and utilizing the wisdom and know-how of each company, by fusing generative AI, AI agents, and machine learning AI.

In the coming AI agentic era, our company will continue to propose new ways of corporate management where humans and AI co-create.

Company Name: Aoyama Planning Arts Inc.

Address: Room 404, Barbizon 104 Building, 5-4-27 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Established: July 30, 1993

Capital: 77,630,000 yen

Business Activities: Think tank, creative, AI technology

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