AI MORNING MEET-UP FUKUOKA

AI’s Potential and the Trust Behind It. A Morning at Ramen Tech in Fukuoka: 60 Minutes on Security and Governance.

How can we unlock AI’s potential in business and everyday operations while creating an environment where it can be used safely?

Held alongside Ramen Tech 2026, AI MORNING MEET-UP FUKUOKA brings together three speakers working across AI adoption in industry, service operations, development, and security. Each will share practical experience and the questions shaping their work.

The discussion will explore unauthorized access and red teaming, shadow AI countermeasures and information leakage, and C Certification and corporate AI governance. We will also look at developments among security and Physical AI companies, exploring perspectives that can inform AI adoption and business development.

Whether you are driving AI adoption within your organization, responsible for security and governance, or interested in building products or starting a business in AI, join us for insights that can help you reflect on your initiatives and consider your next steps.

The venue is Fukuoka Growth Next.
Join us for a morning hour exploring the future of AI.

Speakers

Executive Director, Japan Deep Learning Association
Secretary-General, AI Robot Association
Ryutaro Okada

Born in Tokyo in 1974, Ryutaro Okada started his first business while studying at Keio University. After selling the business, he went on to establish a succession of companies and co-founded ABEJA in 2012.

In 2015, he launched the Ghost in the Shell Realize Project, creating a forum that uses entertainment content to connect academia and industry. That same year, he established the organizing office for IVS, a community event for IT business leaders, and became its Secretary-General. He currently serves as a Senior Advisor.

In 2017, he helped establish the Japan Deep Learning Association to promote the industrial application of deep learning and became its Secretary-General. He has served as Executive Director since 2023.

Since 2019, he has organized an executive committee to hold the nationwide Deep Learning Contest for students at Japan’s colleges of technology (KOSEN). In 2020, he helped establish the Platform of Emergency Assistance in the Disaster, a general incorporated association that provides emergency disaster relief, serving as its Secretary-General. In 2024, he helped establish the AI Robot Association, also a general incorporated association, and became its Secretary-General.

As a community organizer, he continues to create a wide range of opportunities for people to connect and collaborate.

LY Communications Corporation
Head of AI Operations Department, Professional Business Division
Toshiyuki Kato

After graduating from university, Toshiyuki Kato worked at a consulting company and the contact center of a mail-order retailer before joining his current company in 2014.

Drawing on his experience as an engineer, consultant, and customer support professional, he has worked on AI-driven internal digital transformation and served as a leader in customer support. He currently heads the department responsible for AI service operations.

He also independently works as an “AI Evangelist,” delivering AI seminars both within and outside the company and helping advance AI adoption.

Representative Director and CEO, Elith Inc.
Koki Inoue

Koki Inoue earned a master’s degree from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where he researched materials discovery for quantum computers. After gaining practical experience in AI development, he founded Elith in December 2022.

He works on enterprise generative AI and image AI development, as well as AI talent development. In recent years, his focus has been on AI safety, security, and governance. He promotes the safe use of AI in business through the development and provision of GENFLUX Security, which supports shadow AI countermeasures, and GENFLUX Governance, which supports the establishment and operation of AI governance frameworks, as well as assistance with obtaining C Certification.

Alongside running the company, he is enrolled in a doctoral program at Tohoku University’s Graduate School of Medicine, where he researches medical AI in the field of medical physics.

His publications include A Practical Introduction to Git: 80 Command-Line Exercises to Build Understanding and Proficiency (2022), and the co-authored Understanding How Large Language Models Work by Building Them (2026). Both titles are English translations of books published in Japanese.

Additional speakers may be announced.

Event Details

Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
Time: 10:00