A special session ahead of the publication of
『AX MODEL　シリコンバレー式 最先端 上場企業のAI活用 実践書』In conversation with Anthropic and OpenAI investors:
what it takes for Japan's large enterprises to win with AX

Who this session is for

Participants are selected in line with the purpose of the session.

1. Representative directors and executives of large enterprises who decide company-wide AX investment
2. Leaders preparing to make AX a management theme in the next mid-term plan
3. Executives who want to understand how capital markets and investors evaluate their company's use of AI

Speakers

The sessions with Melissa Guzy and Fady Yacoub are held in English, with Japanese interpretation.

Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Company

Masashi Namatame

Senior Managing Executive Officer / Group Chief Digital Officer / Group Chief AI Officer

Senior Managing Executive Officer at Meiji Yasuda Life. Representative Director of the AI Governance Association. Has held senior positions in financial services for nearly 40 years, assuming his current role in 2026. He leads digital transformation and innovation at Meiji Yasuda Life. At Tokio Marine Group, which he joined in 2018, he served as Managing Executive Officer and Group CDO (Chief Digital Officer), then Senior Managing Executive Officer and Group CDO, at Tokio Marine Holdings. Before that he held senior positions at the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, the Financial Supervisory Agency, Deutsche Securities, Morgan Stanley Japan, Visa Worldwide Japan and BlackRock Japan, building expertise in international finance, financial strategy and corporate governance. He has served as an outside director at Mercari, ID&E Holdings and bolttech Holdings in Singapore, and has been a director of Monex Group since June 2026. Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law; MBA, Harvard Business School.

Mitsubishi UFJ Innovation Partners Co., Ltd.

Takashi Sano

Chief Investment Officer

Chief Investment Officer of Mitsubishi UFJ Innovation Partners, responsible for startup investment and business development across Japan, the United States and Asia for a fund with ¥80 billion under management. Before joining MUIP he invested in startups in Japan and overseas and ran corporate venture capital programs at the independent VC Global Brain. Earlier, at Sony, he handled finance for new business projects such as technology investments and joint venture formation, and ran overseas operations as category head of the retail energy business.

Arbor Ventures

Melissa Guzy

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Investor in Anthropic and Kiva. Has spent more than 30 years in entrepreneurship and venture investing. Before founding Arbor Ventures she was Managing Director and Investment Committee member at VantagePoint Capital Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies across Asia, Europe and Silicon Valley. She has led investment across Asia from Hong Kong since 2007. In Japan she backed Paidy and supported its growth as an investor director, and she has long been active in the venture capital communities of Hong Kong and Singapore.

HOF Capital

Fady Yacoub

Co-Founder & Partner

Co-Founder and Partner of HOF Capital. Investor in both Anthropic and OpenAI. Invests in technology companies worldwide, focused on AI and advanced software, and has led investments in Anthropic, Epic Games, SoFi, Klarna and UiPath. Since co-founding HOF Capital in 2016 he has driven its global investment activity, drawing on a network across the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia to back the next generation of technology companies.

Kiva Inc.

Kota Ishida

CEO

Leads SamuraiAI, driving AX at large enterprises from strategy through execution. Founded his first business while at university, running a knife distribution company. After leading new business development and launching and selling an e-commerce business at a venture company, he founded Kiva Inc. in 2020. Kiva now offers proteger and Uniweb alongside SamuraiAI.

Kiva Inc.

Yuto Nakanishi

CSO & CFO / Arbor Ventures Sr. Venture Partner (Moderator)

Invests in both the US and Japan, and reads enterprise AX through the capital markets. Graduated from Kyoto University Faculty of Law in 2012 and joined Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance. After a secondment to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications he moved into startup investing, and took an MBA at the University of Cambridge in 2021. In 2023 he became Head of Investment and Managing Partner at a Silicon Valley firm, backing top-tier VCs and unicorns. He then led the launch of enterprise sales at the legal-tech company BoostDraft, becoming its US CEO and Chief Sales Officer in 2025. His experience spans investment, business development, sales and international operations. He joined Kiva in August 2026.

Program

Part 1: Sessions and panel discussion (90 min) / Part 2: Reception (30 min)

Part 1 16:30–18:00

1. 16:30

   Opening

   Kota Ishida

2. 16:35

   What an Anthropic investor sees as the winning path in AX

   Melissa Guzy / Moderator: Yuto Nakanishi

3. 16:50

   How AI and AX will rewrite existing industries

   Fady Yacoub / Moderator: Yuto Nakanishi

4. 17:05

   MUFG's AX strategy, and how AI and AX will rewrite banking

   Takashi Sano / Moderator: Yuto Nakanishi

5. 17:20

   Meiji Yasuda Life's AX strategy, and what turns AI investment into results

   Masashi Namatame / Moderator: Yuto Nakanishi

6. 17:35

   What should Japan's large enterprises decide about AX?

   Panel discussion / All four speakers / Moderator: Yuto Nakanishi

   • How the AX of Japan's large enterprises looks to global investors
   • What separates companies where AI investment becomes enterprise value from those where it does not
   • How AX investment should be decided in the boardroom and the executive committee
   • The one move to start on this fiscal year, ahead of the FY2027 management plan
7. 17:55

   Closing

   Kota Ishida

Part 2 Reception 18:00–18:30

1. 18:00

   Reception

   A standing reception with the speakers. Drinks and light food are served

What participants receive

• Pre-order access to 『AX MODEL　シリコンバレー式 最先端 上場企業のAI活用 実践書』The Silicon Valley playbook for putting AI to work at listed companies. Publication is planned for December 2026. A pre-order-only offer will be available at the venue.
• A participants-only session reportA written record, excluding off-the-record portions, sent to participants afterward.
• A private consultation on AXOn request, a member of our team will set aside time for a one-on-one conversation.