Re-Cap: World's 1st Chief AI Officer Summit Japan

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

World's 1st Chief AI Officer Summit Japan
Re-Cap from Tokyo Conference

Join us in Wash DC for the
2nd CAIO Summit and 11th CDAO Summit!

On June 5 2024, the CDO Club Japan delivered the "CAIO Summit Tokyo 2024," the world's first CAIO (Chief AI Officer) conference in Japan - the first CAIO Summit outside of North America.

On June 6, 2024 they produced the "CDO Summit Tokyo 2024 Summer," the 14th CDO Summit in Japan since 2017.

Each event was meticulously curated and produced by partner Jun Kamo, who has been delivering the largest gathering of CDOs - and now CAIOs - in Japan for 7+ years.

Their CDO and CAIO Summits covered the impact of AI and digital transformation (DX), and also discussed CAIOs in Japan and the role they should play.

Confirmed speakers included:

・Koichi Narasaki (SOMPO Holdings, Inc.)
・Tomoaki Seki (Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, Inc.)
・Masao Sanpei (Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.)
・Mr. Hiroo Isokazu (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.)
・Eiichiro Mitani (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
・Masao Kuruma (Mitsubishi Motors Corporation)
・Hiroshi Okuyama (Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd.)
・Yuji Ichimura (Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation)
・Kenichi Takano (The Asahi Shimbun Company)
・Ichiro Hashiba (KADOKAWA Corporation)
・Noriko Ruzonka (Cosmo Energy Holdings Co., Ltd.)
・Yuyuki Takahashi (Sanyo Foods Co., Ltd.)
・Makoto Mizuno (Kurita Water Industries Ltd.)
・Noriaki Harada (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
・Naotaka Hayashi (J. Front Retailing Co., Ltd.)
・Tetsuro Yabuki (Toyobo Co., Ltd.)
・Kenji Saka (Tokuyama Corporation)
・Kuniyasu Komukai (J-WAVE Corporation)
・Yukio Saegusa (Cool Springs)

Read the re-cap and see the photos here.

KEYNOTE VIDEO FOR TOKYO CAIO SUMMIT:
"ESSENTIAL SKILLS OF CHIEF AI OFFICERS"

For the Tokyo CAIO Summit on June 5, Jun Kamo requested that I deliver a brief session on "Essential Skills for Chief AI Officers," plus a CDO Club update, both of which I included in the 9-minute video below, which can be found on our YouTube channel here.

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Over the course of two days, you'll meet the following speakers (more to come!):

Anthony Scriffignano: Distinguished Fellow, Alfred Lee Loomis Innovation Council, The Stimson Center
Austin Gerig: Chief Data Officer, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Brian Peretti: Deputy Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Director Domestic and International Cyber Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Daniel Bernard: Chief Product and Technology Officer, Hearst Magazines
David Chivers: Former President, Publisher, CDO at WSJ, Dow Jones, USA Today, Gannett, Des Moines Register, Meredith Corporation
David Mathison: CEO, CAIO Summit/CDAO Summit; CDO Club
Diane Staheli: Assistant Director, AI Applications, Office of Science and Tech Policy, The White House
Dr. Delester Brown Jr: Chief Data Officer, National Guard Bureau
Dr. Mike Horton: Deputy Chief Data Officer, US Department of Transportation (DOT)
Florin Rotar: Chief AI Officer, Avanade
Iwao Fusillo: Global Head of Data & Analytics - eCommerce, PepsiCo
Marie Falkowski: Deputy IC Chief Data Officer & Deputy ADNI for Data & Partnerships, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Mark Brady: Deputy Chief Data Officer for TRMC, KBR, Inc.
Marc Lavallee: Director of Technology Product and AI Strategy/Journalism, Knight Foundation
Mark McCreary: Partner, Chief Artificial Intelligence & Information Security Officer, Fox Rothschild
Paul Evangelista: Chief Data Officer, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Sonal Shah: CEO, The Texas Tribune
Spence Green: CEO, Lilt
Tanya Dua: Technology Editor, LinkedIn
Thomas Sasala: Deputy Director, Office of Enterprise Management, U.S. Army
Vinay Vijay Singh: Chief AI Officer, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Vivian Schiller: VP and Executive Director, The Aspen Institute
More to come, stay tuned!

What can you expect at our CDAO and Chief AI Officer Summits in DC?

Check out these videos of all sessions from our 10th CDAO Summit and the world's first-ever Chief AI Officer Summit from December 2023, hosted by the D'Amore-McKim School of Business and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston MA.

We are embedding the videos from each session on our blog post re-caps below - so stay tuned:
* 10th CDAO Summit re-cap <-- the final video was posted today, all vids are up!
* 1st Chief AI Officer Summit re-cap <-- videos coming soon!

You can also view the videos on our YouTube channel and playlist for the CDAO Summit Boston 2023.

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IN THE NEWS:

Thanks to the journalists and analysts for quoting us in the following articles:

• May 9, 2024 (CIO.com): Essential skills and traits of Chief AI Officers
• May 9, 2024 (Tanium): As Federal Hiring Deadline Looms, Chief AI Officers Are in Demand. Here’s Where to Find Yours
• Apr 15, 2024: (Inc.): One Effect of the AI Revolution: The Number of Chief AI Officers Has Tripled
• Apr 14, 2024 (Financial Times): The Rise of the Chief AI Officer
• Feb 26, 2024 (Dow Jones): Chief AI Officer: A necessity for companies or an expensive impediment?
• Feb 14, 2024 (People Matters): Tech's AI superstars rake in $1 mn: Are you paying enough?
• Feb 14, 2024 (HR Executive): These orgs hired a chief AI officer. Does your company need one?
• Feb 06, 2024 (EdTech Magazine): What Is a Chief AI Officer, and Should Your University Appoint One?
• Jan 26, 2024 (LinkedIn News): AI jobs are among the fastest-growing, even as many people fear the technology. Here's what AI leaders do - and how to become one
• Jan 04, 2024 (Inst for Experiential AI): Business Leaders Gather For World’s 1st Chief AI Officer Summit
• Jan 02, 2024 (Forbes): From The Classroom to The Economy: Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI Accelerates Real-World AI Transformation
• Dec 18, 2023 (GovCIO): AI Chiefs Need to Experiment to Implement AI Successfully
• Nov 27, 2023 (Axios): DC's Hottest New Job: The Chief AI Officer
• Nov 15, 2023 (Tanium): The Chief AI Officer is Here. It's Time to Make Room in the C-Suite
• Oct 29, 2023 (Forbes): The Case for the Chief AI Officer - A Role Whose Time Has Come

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Say what?! Check out our 287+ Endorsements!

See what previous speakers, delegates, and sponsors had to say about the CAIO/CDAO Summits here.

"What a wonderful CDAO/Chief AI Officer Summit in Boston! I'm so grateful and honored to have participated in both days. I got a chance to catch up with peers & friends, see some of my pals like Randy Bean and Michael Krigsman, and I finally got to see you in person and give you a warm big hug and thank you for all that you do, IN PERSON! It was an amazing event. Thank you.”
- Sol Rashidi: Data, AI, & Business Consultant, ExecutiveAI

"This was a great collaboration David Mathison, we should do it more often 🙂 You put on a great program, as always. Thanks for your partnership between the world's 1st-ever Chief AI Officer Summit and the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University!"
- Hamit Hamutcu: Senior Advisor at Institute for Experiential AI, Northeastern University

"Thank you David Mathison for the opportunity to share and highlight the healthcare industry trends at today’s 10th CDAO Summit, and for for putting together such a fantastic Chief AI Officer Summit! BigID is proud to sponsor and support this community."

- Peggy Tsai: Chief Data Officer, BigID

See all 287 endorsements here >

About the Chief AI Officer Summit:

The CAIO Summit is the world's first-ever event specifically for Chief AI Officers and leaders in Generative AI. Brought to you by the producers of the 1st-ever CDO Summit in 2013, our inaugural event is hosted by The Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University in Boston MA. The program includes the best AI strategists and practitioners on earth, in an intimate, collegial, and supportive environment designed to encourage networking, learning, and knowledge-sharing. If you are tasked with mastering the strategies and tactics to surpass your AI business objectives, secure your seat at the CAIO Summit today. Visit the website.

About the CDO/CDAO Summit:

For over a decade, the CDO/CDAO Summits have been addressing the challenges and opportunities arising from AI, analytics, big data, the cloud, digital disruption, and social and mobile media. Our gatherings include the best data/digital strategists and practitioners on earth, in intimate, collegial, and supportive environments designed to encourage networking, learning, and knowledge-sharing. If you are tasked with mastering the strategies and tactics to achieve and surpass your data/digital business objectives, be sure to join us at a CDO Summit today. Visit the website.

About the CDO Club:

The CDO Club is the world’s first, largest, and most powerful community of C-suite AI, analytics, data, digital, and cyber-security leaders. Our members receive access to advisory services, breaking news, original research, career development support, networking opportunities, and inspirational events. Our high-impact services are designed to help our members improve their capabilities, strengthen their professional networks, openly share insights & strategies, & collaboratively identify the tools essential to help them succeed in navigating today’s rapidly evolving, highly competitive & complex online environment. Visit the website.

From the world's 1st-ever Chief AI Officer Summit (December 2023): the opening panel on "Creating a Culture of AI to Maximize Value, Productivity, and Efficiency" featuring panelists Eileen Vidrine (CAIO, US Dept of Air Force), David Barnes (Chief AI Ethics Officer at the US Army AI Integration Center), Sunil Senan (SVP and Business Head, Data Analytics and AI at Infosys), and Sol Rashidi, the world's first-ever Chief AI Officer). Moderated by David Mathison, CEO of the Chief AI Officer Summit.

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