AI Hearing Agent "Kikuvi" to Exhibit and Speak at "NEXT BUSINESS EXPO SUMMER 2026"

Kikuvi Inc. (Headquarters: Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, President: Kento Sato, hereinafter "Kikuvi") is pleased to announce its participation in "NEXT BUSINESS EXPO SUMMER 2026," to be held from July 16 (Thu) to July 17 (Fri), 2026, at the Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall (Minato-ku, Tokyo). Kikuvi will have a booth (Booth Numbers: B33-B34). Additionally, on July 16 (Thu), President Kento Sato will be a speaker on the main stage.

Background

In many organizations, "hearing" – gathering insights on on-site challenges, customer feedback, and tacit knowledge from experienced personnel – has been time-consuming and limited in scale due to difficulties in scheduling and reliance on the interviewer's skills. Kikuvi's AI autonomously designs and conducts hearings, collecting feedback from hundreds to thousands of people asynchronously and in parallel. It instantly structures responses into summaries, Q&A tables, and reports, transforming them into actionable insights for decision-making. At this exhibition, which gathers practical AI/DX applications, attendees can directly experience the practicality of AI hearing applicable from management to the front lines.

NEXT BUSINESS EXPO SUMMER 2026 Event Overview

Event Name

NEXT BUSINESS EXPO SUMMER 2026

Dates

July 16 (Thu) - July 17 (Fri), 2026, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Venue

Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center Hamamatsucho Hall, 2F & 3F South (Tokyo Port City Takeshiba, 1-7-1 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo)

Kikuvi Exhibition

Booth Numbers: B33-B34 (2 booths)

Kikuvi Speaking Session

2F Main Stage, July 16 (Thu), 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM

Organizer

NEXT BUSINESS EXPO Executive Committee (Operational Contact: AgeMedia Inc.)

Admission Fee

Free (Advance registration required)

Official Website

https://www.next-business-expo.jp/

*This exhibition is a practical AI/DX business trade show, a renewal of the "AI Application EXPO" which attracted 5,600 visitors last year (according to the organizer).

Speaking Session Details

Session Title: "Why Has Hearing Automation Been So Difficult? - Formalizing Enterprise Tacit Knowledge with AI"

Date & Venue: July 16 (Thu), 12:00 PM - 12:40 PM, 2F Main Stage

Speaker: Kento Sato (President, Kikuvi Inc.)

This session will explore why hearing tasks, such as job interviews, customer surveys, and organizational surveys, which have been difficult to automate, have become personalized. It will present an approach to transform tacit knowledge in enterprise operations into explicit knowledge by having AI autonomously design and conduct hearings, supported by real-world examples.

Booth Highlights

At our booth (B33-B34), we will offer live demonstrations where visitors can experience AI hearing firsthand. You will see how to extract the "why" that goes beyond simple questionnaires, on a large scale and without personalization. We will showcase application scenarios for both external customers and internal operations, including sales and marketing research, internal one-on-one meetings, business process re-engineering (BPR), HR, and visualization of tacit knowledge.

Expected Connections

* Corporations considering enterprise-wide adoption * Companies seeking to enhance sales/marketing research and customer understanding * Companies aiming to streamline internal hearing processes such as one-on-one meetings, business improvements, HR, and knowledge transfer * Product integration and collaboration partners (in research/HR/requirements definition domains, SaaS integrations like CRM, Slack, etc.)

We are also accepting requests for individual meetings and business discussions during the event (July 16-17). If you are interested, please feel free to contact us via email at [email protected].

President's Comment (Kento Sato)

"NEXT BUSINESS EXPO is a place where people gather to determine how AI/DX can be utilized in actual business operations. We aim to foster adoption, collaboration, and partnerships by allowing attendees to experience Kikuvi, which redefines the act of 'hearing' with AI, through both our booth and speaking session."

About "Kikuvi"

"Kikuvi" is an AI hearing agent that visualizes an organization's tacit knowledge. AI autonomously designs and conducts hearings, collecting feedback from hundreds to thousands of people asynchronously and in parallel. Responses are instantly structured into summaries, Q&A tables, and reports, transforming into actionable insights for decision-making. It enables the large-scale acquisition of the "why" that cannot be obtained through surveys, without personalization.

Company Overview

Company Name

Kikuvi Inc.

Location

Kamakura City, Kanagawa Prefecture

Established

June 2025

Representative

Founder CEO Kento Sato

Business Activities

Development and operation of AI hearing and interview SaaS "Kikuvi"

URL

https://kikuvi.com

Contact for Inquiries

Kikuvi Inc. Public Relations

Email: [email protected]