Trust City Conference KamiyachoKamiyacho Trust TowerOct 13, 2026
The intelligence that runs the fab, the grid, and the line — and who owns it. One day, one room, the leaders of the twenty-five-trillion-dollar industrial and semiconductor economy.
Hosted by the Industrial AI Federation · Convened by Aitomatic
It would be an honor to welcome you to Tokyo — to consider, among equals, what sovereignty over industrial intelligence will mean for the next generation.
The Industrial AI Federation Annual meeting since 2021
Since 2021, IIAC has gathered the heads of nations, fabs, and faculties who shape how intelligence is built into the physical world. After four editions at Stanford and a 2025 convening in Ha Noi, the fifth moves to the industrial capital of the world — Tokyo — for a single, deliberate day on the question beneath every other question: who governs the intelligence that runs the factory, the grid, and the supply chain?
Expect the room to look like the global industrial-AI establishment — the chip giants and their equipment and materials suppliers, the hyperscalers, the founders of the industrial-AI stack — gathered in the city where much of it is built: Honeywell, IBM, Nvidia, Qualcomm, MediaTek; Panasonic, Tokyo Electron, JSR, Renesas, Furuno, CTC; the policy leads of the ministries and parliament; and the venture capitalists who fund them all. Attendance is limited to preserve the conversation.
Eight voices open the day — industrial AI, frontier research, national AI policy, the systems that run the physical world, the energy powering AI compute, the commerce policy that moves it across borders, and the national champions putting AI into industry.
General Chair, IIACCEO & Co-Founder, AitomaticChief Architect, Project Tapestry
Built and led industrial-AI programs across Panasonic’s global factories before the category had a name. At Aitomatic, he leads DanaOS and the Cognitive Ontology, the knowledge infrastructure behind Project Tapestry’s industrial frontier.
Founder and Chairman · AMI Labs · Chief Scientist · Project Tapestry
Turing Award winner and one of the founding figures of deep learning. At AMI Labs, he is advancing autonomous machine intelligence through world models, self-supervised learning, energy-based models, and research toward machines that can reason and plan.
State Minister for Digital and AI
Stanford- and Wharton-trained, he co-authored the LDP’s AI Whitepaper and helped shape Japan’s AI and digital strategies. Appointed State Minister for Digital and AI in September 2026, he now executes those policies from inside government.
Director, Representative Executive Officer, President and CEO, NEC
Became President and CEO of NEC in April 2021. Under Mid-term Management Plan 2025 he led strategy-and-culture transformation and hit all financial targets. From 2026 he is driving Mid-term Management Plan 2030 under “Empower Humanity,” with AI and cybersecurity at the core of IT services and social infrastructure.
SVP & CTO; President, Connected Enterprise, Honeywell
Runs technology across Honeywell’s industrial portfolio — aviation, energy, buildings, and automation — including Honeywell Forge, the enterprise platform bringing AI into factories, assets, supply chains, and industrial operations.
Chairman, ASI Foundry
His expertise spans manufacturing, technology, and energy across economic development, trade, and investment. He advises data center developers on power generation, grid strategy, and energy management for AI computing.
Deputy Director-General, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI
Deputy Director-General of the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), helping shape industrial, digital, and information policy at the intersection of technology, competitiveness, and economic security.
Distinguished Professor, SNU Graduate School of Engineering Practice
Former head of Korea's Small and Medium Business Administration & a career industrialist — CEO of Hyundai Autonet & GE Sensing APAC — Chairman of KICON & the NST Convergence Research Committee, bridging Korea’s manufacturing, venture, & R&D ecosystem.
A single day, a single track. English with simultaneous Japanese interpretation. All times are Japan Standard Time.
Around the keynotes, expect the chairs and CTOs of the global industrial-AI establishment — from Honeywell, IBM, Nvidia, and Qualcomm to Panasonic, Tokyo Electron, JSR, and Renesas — alongside the ministry officials, parliamentarians, and venture capitalists who decide where the capital flows.
Program Co-Chair, IIACDirector, AI Open Innovation, IBM
Co-founded and co-chairs the AI Alliance and leads IBM’s open-source AI ecosystem. He leads Project Tapestry’s coalition, model governance, developer community, and open infrastructure.
President & CEO, Renesas Electronics
Leads Renesas, a global semiconductor company serving automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT markets. He became CEO in 2019 after serving as CFO and helping reshape the company through major acquisitions.
Managing Executive Officer, CTO, Panasonic Corp.
Chief Technology Officer of Panasonic Corp. Previously, he led the Digital & AI Technology Center, the group's engine for scalable, responsible AI across batteries, appliances, factories, supply chains, and partner industrial companies.
Founder & CEO, BEENEXT
Founder and CEO of BEENEXT, whose portfolio includes SixSense for AI-powered manufacturing defect detection and Haberwater for industrial water and energy optimization. Previously, he co-founded BEENOS, taking it public in 2004.
SVP & GM, Embedded Processing, Renesas
Leads Renesas’ embedded processing business, setting the strategic direction for its embedded processing and connectivity products and solutions. He brings more than 30 years of experience in analog, power, and mixed-signal technology.
Group Leader, Tokyo Electron
Built his career writing control software for Tokyo Electron’s wafer-processing equipment, and now brings AI agents and SemiKong, the open-source semiconductor LLM he helped propose, onto the fab floor.
GM, Materials Informatics, JSR
Leads JSR’s Materials Informatics Initiative, combining nearly two decades of expertise in photoresists and semiconductor materials with AI to transform how advanced materials are discovered and developed.
MG, AI Business, ITOCHU Techno-Solutions
Promotes AI Business in ITOCHU Techno-Solutions’ AI Business Department, helping industrial customers connect AI infrastructure, data platforms, systems integration, and operational technology into production-ready transformation programs.
Founder and Chief Architect, Open Data Spaces
Serial entrepreneur. Launched and led Open Data Spaces, the open-source distributed data management paradigm for Agentic AI during his service as Chief Architect in the Japanese Government. Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 Japan 2026 (Science & Technology).
Senior Researcher, Intelligent Control Laboratory, Furuno Electric
Co-author of Llamarine, the first open-source LLM for maritime navigation. Her work with Furuno, Aitomatic, and the AI Alliance applies domain-specific AI to safety, compliance, and vessel operations.
Founder, BharatGen, IIT Bombay
Founded and directs BharatGen, India’s government-backed sovereign foundation-model initiative for 22 official languages, bringing national-scale data, language, compute, and model capacity into Project Tapestry.
VP of Technology, AI Research, Qualcomm
Runs AI research at Qualcomm AI Research, advancing the on-device and edge intelligence that moves sovereign models onto phones, vehicles, industrial sensors, and embedded systems.
Co-founder, OhmniLabs
Founded OhmniLabs in service robotics and Katango in social AI, later acquired by Google. Co-founder and former CEO of OhmniLabs, a Silicon Valley robotics company (telepresence and autonomous service robots).
VP, AI & Information Systems, Renesas
Leads Renesas’ global AI and Information Systems division across enterprise AI, IT, cybersecurity, infrastructure, platforms, business systems, and digital services, turning technology programs into productivity, resilience, and enterprise value.
MediaTek
Leads advanced wireless and AI connectivity at MediaTek, whose silicon puts intelligence into phones, connected devices, vehicles, and industrial endpoints across global consumer and industrial markets.
Head, Intelligent Control Laboratory, Furuno Electric
Leads the Intelligent Control Laboratory at Furuno Electric, bringing AI into the sensing, navigation, communication, and monitoring stack behind marine radar, bridge systems, fishing-vessel sonar, coastal monitoring, GNSS timing, and industrial positioning.
GM, AI Business, CTC
Leads AI Business in CTC’s Industrial Business Division, helping industrial customers connect AI infrastructure, data platforms, systems integration, and operational technology into production-ready transformation programs.
Aitomatic (Japan)
Heads Aitomatic’s Tokyo operations, bringing knowledge-first AI to industrial leaders whose accumulated process expertise, operating discipline, and factory data define sovereignty in practice.
Program Co-Chair, IIACCo-Founder & COO, Aitomatic
Co-founder and chief operating officer at Aitomatic, scaling industrial-AI products and customer deployments. Previously EVP & Chief Customer Officer at Arimo, CTO of ShareThis, founder and CEO of TheFind, and a general manager at Amazon.
Head of Product & AI Engineering, Aitomatic (US)
Leads product and AI engineering at Aitomatic and heads its open-source program — SemiKong, the first open-source semiconductor-industry LLM built with Tokyo Electron, FPT Software, and the AI Alliance, and the Dana agent-native language.
Digital & AI Technology Center, Panasonic
Leads Panasonic’s Digital & AI Technology Center and North American R&D operations, after building the UniPhier integration platform, LUMIX image-recognition systems, and Panasonic’s AI Solution Strategy.
CEO, Be Group
CEO of Be Group, Vietnam's super app for ride-hailing, delivery, food, and home services. She led the platform through a scale-up, took the company to profitability, and secured US$100M financing with Deutsche Bank. Previously she led a nationwide health-tech rollout for Vietnam's largest private hospital group and turned around Adayroi.com.
Minister, Government
Cabinet-level official shaping national policy on compute, capacity, and industrial strategy.
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Sovereign AI has crossed from op-ed into budget line. Nations, blocs, and firms are racing to own the intelligence that will run their industries — and 2026 is the year the money lands.
From India’s IndiaAI Mission and BharatGen, to the UAE’s state-backed AI strategy, to France and the EU’s push behind Mistral and sovereign cloud, governments are funding domestic models, compute, and data governance rather than renting their future from foreign providers.
Japan has committed roughly ¥2.35 trillion ($16B) to Rapidus for 2nm mass production by 2027, in partnership with IBM — the host nation’s bid to reclaim the fab as sovereign territory, alongside national AI programs across Japanese industry.
Global semiconductor revenue hits a historic peak in 2026, AI chips now driving roughly half of it — the physical layer beneath every sovereign AI ambition, from the US CHIPS Act to the EU Chips Act 2.0 to Rapidus.
The firms and nations that move first will own the intelligence layer of the next industrial era. Make your move in Tokyo this October.
Industrial AI is the intelligence that runs a fab, a grid, a supply chain, a factory line. It lives in process recipes honed over decades, in the heads of retiring engineers, in the defect-class logs of every wafer ever inspected. Sovereignty over that intelligence — owning it, on your own terms — is the question of the decade.
Because the firms that own the intelligence layer of their factories will own the next industrial era. Those that lease it back from a vendor-held cloud will pay forever, at a price that only goes one way. Sovereignty is not a slogan — it is the difference between making what you design and merely designing it.
Industrial AI is the intelligence running the fab, the grid, the line — yield optimization, predictive uptime, first-time-fix, the captured know-how of senior engineers. Sovereignty means owning the models, the data, and the deployment: on-prem, trained on your process, controlled by you.
Neurosymbolic models that reason like your experts. A shared sovereign frontier — Project Tapestry — that nations and institutions build on, then own. Knowledge-first architectures like DanaOS and the Cognitive Ontology, deployed inside your firewall, learning your craft and keeping it yours.
Models that read wafer-inspection logs and process recipes to lift yield and catch defect classes humans miss — without leaking the recipe to a vendor.
Field engineers guided by agents trained on decades of service tickets — closing the gap when the senior technician retires and takes the know-how with them.
Sensor-driven forecasts that schedule maintenance before a $200M tool goes down — owned by the operator, not rented from a cloud API.
The unwritten rules of the line — encoded into a neurosymbolic model your firm owns outright, so the next generation inherits the craft instead of rediscovering it.
A century ago this city taught the world that precision is a form of prestige. In October the question is sharper: when the global giants of the $25 trillion industrial economy walk into the same room, who owns the intelligence they leave with?
Tokyo October 13, 2026
This year’s theme is anchored by Project Tapestry — the AI Alliance’s open consortium for co-training a shared frontier model, from which nations and institutions build sovereign systems they own and control.
Tapestry is the through-line of the program: the technical substrate beneath national capacity, the cultural values embedded in the weights, and the industrial data that shapes them. Few subjects are more urgent, or more global, today.
A curated program is only as strong as the committee that shapes it. This year’s committee draws from the semiconductor, systems, and research institutions building sovereign industrial AI — anchored in Project Tapestry.
Aitomatic has convened the Federation’s annual meeting since 2021 — Stanford through 2024, Ha Noi in 2025 — bringing government, industry, and academia into the same room on the future of industrial intelligence. The fifth edition of IIAC comes to Tokyo in partnership with the AI Alliance around Project Tapestry.
The Industrial AI Federation is a global coalition of the companies and institutions building industrial AI in production — from the fabs and factories to the banks that finance them and the universities that train their engineers.
A city that has spent a century proving that prestige and precision are the same word.
The fifth edition comes to Tokyo — to the source of the industrial discipline this conference is about.
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