It is becoming increasingly important to create a system that allows people to manage their own health, maintain their health status, and participate in society even after retirement. Masuda City aims to build a new health model for an aging society by creating a health information monitoring and feedback system based on commercial facilities where local residents gather, in collaboration with health tech ventures and researchers, and by designing spaces that maintain and promote muscle and bone strength and cognitive function.
In this session, up-and-coming health tech ventures, sports science researchers, and specialists in bioinformation analysis will be invited to discuss models for data acquisition and utilization in order to create a project to propose healthy and energetic lifestyles through the simple acquisition of various information such as intestinal microflora, sleep, bone metabolism, and stress using advanced technology. We will discuss models for data acquisition and utilization.

Introduction of Panelists
Mr. Ryu Nakagi
President and Representative Director, Rhelixa Corporation

D. from the University of Tokyo. Computational biologist. He founded Rhelixa Inc. in February 2015.

Mr. Jun Seze
Director, Humanome Research Institute, Inc.
Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Director of Humanome Research Institute, Inc. He also serves as Director of the Machine Learning Research Team, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). D., Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. He has served as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Associate Professor at Ochanomizu University, Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Research Team Leader at AIST. In addition, he has been involved in GeneQuest and Lerixa. He specializes in the development of machine learning and mathematical statistics methods, as well as large-scale data analysis in the life sciences. He won the KDD Cup 2001, a data mining contest held by the American Society for Computing Machinery, and the Oxford Journals-JSBi Prize.

Mr. Hayao Ozaki
Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Science, School of Sports and Health Science, Juntendo University

Assistant Professor at Juntendo University's School of Sport and Health Sciences and its Graduate School. 2008 Graduated from Waseda University's School of Sport Sciences, 2010 Completed the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 2012 Completed the Graduate School of Sport and Health Sciences, Juntendo University. 2012 Completed the Graduate School of Sport and Health Sciences, Juntendo University. He was a JSPS Research Fellow DC2/PD before assuming his current position. He is involved in the development of training methods for morphological and functional improvement of skeletal muscles and cardiovascular system regardless of age, gender, and fitness level. Awards: 65th Japanese Society of Physical Fitness Medicine, Young Investigator Encouragement Award, 30th Annual Meeting of the Society of Training Science, Grand Prize, etc.

Organizer Introduction
Hiroyuki Takahashi
Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Director, Knowledge Foundation Research Center

D. from Yokohama City University in 2009. D. in Science.
He is mainly engaged in creating new research projects between industry and young researchers, such as the launch of the "Liberace Research Fund" for young researchers under 40 years old. In addition, he continues to set up the "Super Interdisciplinary Society," a place to generate new knowledge and seeds for research and development by combining individual knowledge, technology, and passion for problem solving without being bound by the framework of academia.

Masuda City used to be a prosperous forestry area. However, the aging of the population in the mountainous areas, stagnation of agriculture and forestry, devastation of forests and farmlands, and fading from an economic viewpoint, have seriously degraded the functions of the community. This session will aim at a new beef cattle management using grazing as a way to utilize abandoned forest land. Using metabolic imprinting technology and ICT by Professor Takafumi Goto, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty of Fisheries and Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, we will invite some of Japan's leading ranchers, herbivore livestock researchers, and people involved in meat processing and sales to discuss how to achieve inexpensive, high-quality beef production and conservation of mountain forests.

Introduction of Panelists
Mr. Takafumi Goto
Kagoshima University Faculty of Science and Research
Professor, Division of Agricultural Meat Science, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Veterinary Medicine

D. from the Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyushu University in 1996. After working as an assistant and associate professor at Kyushu University, he has been in his current position since May, 2009. Concurrently a visiting professor at Kyushu University. D. (Agriculture, Kyushu University) in March 1997. He studied livestock biomechanics and then worked at a university farm for 17 years, where he was engaged in education and research utilizing the field. He specializes in a wide range of research on beef production, including meat science, animal nutrition and physiology, livestock management, livestock behavior, and ICT livestock production, with a focus on livestock biomechanics, based on his experience working on university farms. He developed the Kyushu University brand beef, QBeef. We are conducting research on a new livestock production system that fully utilizes national land and plant resources by applying metabolic imprinting theory, which is a new biological concept, grazing utilization technology for grasslands and abandoned fields, grazing management technology using ICT, and direct marketing of beef produced in these areas as a package. The project is a new livestock production system that makes full use of national land and plant resources.

Mr. Wahei Matsunaga
Representative Director, Matsunaga Ranch Co.

Born in Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture on June 13, 1954. After graduating from Hamada Commercial High School, he worked at a bank in Osaka, but was unable to adapt to the city and returned to the countryside. In August of that year, he and his parents established Matsunaga Farm, an agricultural cooperative. However, due to differences in management philosophy, he asked his parents to quit the ranch and became its representative in 1984. In response to the liberalization of beef, he changed the breed of cattle from Holsteins to crossbreds and Japanese black cattle, and also promoted the commercialization of compost to strengthen the management structure. In 2001, BSE was discovered in Japan and beef prices plummeted. While many people were going out of business, he expanded the scale of his business and created a new integrated breeding and fattening system with 800 cows, which became the talk of the town during a nationwide broadcast on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). In 2005, four veterinarians became independent and set up their own medical practice, and established a food residue feed conversion plant and Maple Ranch Co. Ltd. is scheduled for completion this year. He is opposed to the sixth industrialization of agriculture, and would like to aim for a business that can be run solely by the primary industry.

Mr. Masato Yashirota
Professor, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Gifu University

Specialty: Grassland animal husbandry and animal nutrition. His research aims to establish livestock production systems that utilize the abundant plant resources on earth and the ability of herbivores to convert these resources into food and labor. We are mainly studying the grazing of ruminants such as cattle and goats, and in the field of forest grazing, we have worked on the estimation of nutritional status and establishment of nutritional management methods for Black Japanese breeding cattle in large pasturelands of more than 100 ha. In recent years, we have also been studying the effects of weeding by goat grazing on goat nutrition and on the species composition and diversity of plant and soil animals in abandoned fields, with the aim of eliminating abandoned fields and conserving satoyama (woodlands). Grazing is not an easy job, and there are many technical difficulties, but we believe that more precise management will become possible by utilizing ICT and other technologies. I would like to aim for a future in which both people and animals can live in a comfortable environment.

Mr. Sei Murakami
Representative Director, Nissan Chikusan Co.

Born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima, Japan, he graduated from Kokugakuin University, Faculty of Law in 2004, joined Otsuka Shokai Co. in 2007, joined Nissan Livestock in 2007, became Representative Director of Nissan Livestock in 2016, completed MBA course at Tama University Graduate School in 2017. Currently, he is building a database of Wagyu beef tasting evaluations and working to communicate to consumers the value of Wagyu beef that goes beyond ratings and place of origin. He is also focusing on developing overseas markets for Japanese beef, exporting to Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Macau, Myanmar, and Vietnam.

Organizer Introduction
Yukihiro Maru
Representative Director and CEO, Liverness, Inc.

D., Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo. D. in Agricultural Science.
Born in 1978 in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Spent four years of his childhood in Singapore. While a graduate student at the University of Tokyo, he founded LIVERNESS in June 2002 with only undergraduate and graduate students of science and engineering. He was the first in Japan to commercialize a "delivery laboratory class of cutting-edge science. Currently, he operates a "knowledge manufacturing business" that creates seeds for new businesses by combining management resources and technologies that lie dormant in universities and local communities, and has over 200 projects underway through his "knowledge platform," an infrastructure for gathering knowledge from around the world. He has also been involved in the launch of numerous venture companies, including Euglena Co.

Local agriculture is facing a variety of challenges, such as the aging of farmers, lack of successors, increase in abandoned farmland, and failure to pass on farming techniques. Currently, technological innovations in the agricultural sector, such as IT and more sophisticated machinery and equipment, are advancing, and their utilization is expected to lead to solutions to these issues. In this discussion, we will consider the development of sustainable agriculture even in 2030 by incorporating advanced technologies.

Introduction of Panelists
Mr. Shojiro Kobashi
President and Representative Director, Kobashi Kogyo Co.

Born in Okayama, Japan in 1982. Graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University. Joined Kobashi Kogyo Co., Ltd. in 2008, and became the company's fourth president in 2016. In 1964, he developed Japan's first tillage equipment for large tractors; in 1978, he developed the world's first claw-type plow; in 2006, he developed the world's first auto tiller, Gaia; in 2007, he became the first Japanese company to receive the highest rating of aaa from R&I (Rating and Investment Information, Inc.); in 2008, he became the first Japanese company to receive the highest rating of aaa from R&I (Rating and Investment Information, Inc.). In 2017, underwrote a third-party allotment of new shares of Euglena Co. Established a method of constructing a green beetle cultivation facility using rice paddy cultivation technology, aiming to commercialize a domestic bio-jet and diesel fuel business using abandoned farmland.

Mr. Kohei Mochida
General Manager, Midori Cloud Division, Serac Corporation

Born in Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture in 1979, he joined Serac Corporation after completing his graduate studies at Shimane University's Graduate School of Bioresource Sciences in 2004, where he worked as a SE in development while also researching and developing smartphone applications and IoT services. In 2014, he started researching agricultural IoT, and in 2015, he developed a service called "Midori Cloud".

Mr. Taizo Otsuka
CEO, Kakaxi, Inc.

Born in Shiga Prefecture in 1977. He is a serial entrepreneur who continues to start businesses with the theme of "creating new businesses and media to improve society. His main business areas are IT, sports, and food. CEO of Kakaxi, Inc. / Founder of Ryukyu Golden Kings / Director of Japan Eating Communication League / Director of Ryukyu Shokudori Corporation / Director of Pocket Marche Co.

Organizer Introduction
Yosuke Miyauchi
Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Director, Research and Development Division / Agri-Garage Research Institute

During his master's and doctoral studies, he traveled to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to establish high-yield soybean cultivation technology with local researchers under the research theme of "Development of high-yield soybean cultivation technology in arid regions in China. At RIVANES, he is using his research experience to conduct research on the cultivation of space soybeans and domestic wheat Yumechikara with elementary, junior high, and high school students. Currently, he promotes joint research with companies and ventures at the Agri-Garage Research Institute in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.

Masuda City has a wealth of specialty products such as melons, tomatoes, grapes, yuzu, wasabi (Japanese horseradish), and strawberries, and it is expected that technology and systems will be developed to preserve freshness and distribute these products overseas. In particular, strawberries that are overgrown or misshapen are difficult to distribute domestically and are often discarded. In this discussion, we will collaborate with i-Eat Corporation, which develops non-contact packaging technology for edible parts of strawberries that enables long-term preservation of strawberries, Sanka Corporation, which has freshness preservation technology for exporting agricultural products overseas, and Agri Holdings Corporation, which builds value chains between Japanese production areas and overseas markets, to discuss the construction of distribution systems from Masuda to Ltd. which is engaged in building a value chain between Japan's production areas and overseas markets, to discuss the establishment of a distribution system from Masuda to overseas.

Introduction of Panelists
Mr. Koichi Ozaki
Director, I-EAT Co.

Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Utsunomiya University / Director, Institute of Robotics, Engineering and Agricultural Technology
Emphasizes the development of technologies with unique ideas. The company is working on the practical application of a distributed cooperative strawberry harvesting robot and a demonstration personal mobility robot. With support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the company will establish a new research facility in 2018 that integrates agriculture, engineering, and robotics, aiming to become a center for industry-academia-government open innovation in the northern Kanto region. He also started I-Eat in 2014 with support from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and Rivanes. He put into practical use a long-term storage container for ripe large-grain strawberries. In recent years, he has devoted himself to the development of agricultural robot prototypes.

Mr. Kazunari Maeda
President and Representative Director, Agri Holdings, Inc.

He has been investing in venture companies and building businesses since 2006, and has been a founder, shareholder, and board member of dozens of growing companies in Japan and around the world. He has been involved in the global value chain development and investment business for Japanese agriculture and food, including #1 (downstream) "food culture development business" of SAMURICE and BENTO LABO, #2 (midstream) "export and distribution business of Japanese food products" of JAPAN POINT and WASHOKU Treasure, #3 (upstream) "export and distribution business of Japanese food products" of WASHOKU TREASURE, and #4 (downstream) "export and distribution business of Japanese food products" of SAMURICE and BENTO LABO. #3 (upstream): FARM BANK's "business of supplying production resources" such as people, land, machinery, and technology to Japanese agriculture. Currently, FARM BANK operates in Japan, the U.S., Singapore, and partnerships in a total of seven countries, and aims to further expand globally in the future.

Mr. Kosuke Nakamizo
Planning Division, Carbonization Inc.

During the start-up period of Carbonized Co., Ltd. he was involved in the management of the incubation facility in Saga City, where Carbonized was housed, and as an employee of Saga City in the venture support department. During this time, he participated in a fruit and vegetable export demonstration project and heard how delicious the local people in Hong Kong tasted the fruit and vegetables that had been exported while maintaining their freshness using the Carbonization technology.

Organizer Introduction
Shoshi Kawana
Regional Development Division, LIVANES, Inc.

Completed the Graduate School of Environment and Information Studies, Yokohama National University (Ph.D. Environmental Studies) in 2008. lecturer at Yokohama National University VBL since 2008, representative of LD Factory, Inc. and then became a director of Mylops Inc. of Japan. in November 2014, he joined the Regional Development Division of Livanes Inc. and in 2017, he became a member of Fukkojo Farm, Inc. He became a director of the board. He is involved in launching new businesses related to agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, including plant factory business, food and beverage business, and agri-tech venture support.