Realising the future through the orchestration of knowledge

What was discussed

In an era when AI can analyze signs of the future, the session discussed the human role in connecting those insights to management decisions. In response to the problem that departments dealing with the future stop at gathering information and do not connect it to investment or decision-making, a prototype was introduced that immerses people in a future situation so they can experience decisions in simulation. An aesthetic sense for telling good AI output from bad, and the ability to give meaning to large amounts of information, were cited as functions on the human side. The leap of thought that connects different fields was also discussed, using the example of an accidental encounter between coral reef research and a microscope.

About this session

Opening Day 2 are two speakers running at the front of two companies, PwC and AWS. Building the foundation. How do we realise the base of an industry — something spoken of as obvious, yet so often put off until later? A special session in which the frontier of orchestrating knowledge in the age of AI is discussed at full strength, first thing in the morning.

Speakers

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  Isao Miyama

  PwC Consulting LLC　Executive Officer and Partner / Head of Future Design Lab

  He joined PwC Consulting LLC after working at technology startups and international consulting firms, and specialises in technology, telecommunications, entertainment and media. Using “speculative future design”, which fuses future-making methods from design with business and digital consulting, he helps clients build pictures of 2030 to 2050 and co-create value by backcasting. He leads the Future Design Lab and works on social transformation programmes linking India and Japan.

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  Yu Anma

  esse-sense Inc.　Digital Adviser

  He served as an executive officer at Accenture Japan, president of Accenture Technology Solutions and president and chairman of Avanade Japan. In 2025 he became Digital Adviser to esse-sense. Drawing on that experience in IT and management, he supports co-creation between researchers, companies and society through AI and IT, and helps build the digital foundations that carry research knowledge into society.

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  Yoichi Takizawa

  Amazon Web Services Japan G.K.　Director, Public Sector Tech Business Unit

  After 20 years of experience in large scale system design and project management, carrier grade network, security, cloud service and other technology development at a major domestic system integrator, he joined AWS in 2014 as a certified solutions architect. After serving as Manager of Enterprise Solutions Architecture in 2015 and Senior Manager of Specialist Solutions Architecture & CSM in 2019, he became Team Lead of the Public Sector Tech Business Unit in 2021, and Director of the same in 2023. He supports public customers including central government ministries and agencies, local governments, educational institutions and healthcare organisations in their transformation through cloud computing and AI. He is a member of the IPA working group on the control criteria of ISMAP, a member of the AI governance study group of the MIC AI Network Society Promotion Council, and an expert board member of Generative AI Japan. His publications include Amazon Web Services Enterprise Deployment Guidebook.

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  Yuya Nishimura

  esse-sense Inc.　Representative Director

  Born in Ikeda, Osaka, in 1981. After a master's in human sciences at Osaka University he worked at a human development venture and at the Japan Productivity Center, and founded the NPO Miratuku in 2011. He supports the building of innovation infrastructure across fields and roles, business creation inside companies, R&D projects, and the search for future visions and currents. In 2021 he founded esse-sense Inc., which runs esse-sense, connecting research knowledge with society.

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  Eriko Matsuo

  ModeratorChewing News Inc.　Director / Freelance Announcer

  Born in 1982. After graduating from the School of Commerce at Waseda University she joined Nippon Television as an announcer, anchoring news and sports programmes including NEWS ZERO. She went freelance in 2013 and now works widely across media and business events as an economics anchor and moderator. She holds a master's degree from the Graduate School of System Design and Management, Keio University.