(This seminar will be held at "Factory Innovation Week 2025 (Generative AI World)" at Port Messe Nagoya from October 29 (Wednesday) to 31 (Friday), 2025.) While many companies are making significant investments in AI, research shows that 70% of them are failing to generate the expected ROI. Why do projects that focus solely on "AI implementation" continue to fall short of delivering the original business value, such as cost reduction and productivity improvement? This seminar aims to clarify the "strategic miscalculations" common to failed projects for executives and managers responsible for AI implementation decisions. Specifically, it will explain how "ambiguity of purpose," "overlooking hidden initial and operational costs," and "ambitious plans for company-wide deployment" can derail projects. Additionally, we will present successful case studies from multiple companies, offering principles for ensuring that AI investments lead to guaranteed returns through "small start strategies," "KPI setting," and "organizational theories that involve the field." We will provide you with the principles necessary to lead your company's AI investments to success.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will hold an event for the automotive-related industry titled "Mikata Project Mobility Innovation Forum - Transformation of Automotive Parts Suppliers and Creation of New Business Opportunities." At this event, we will showcase examples of suppliers who have actively engaged in challenges for their own growth through the "Mikata Project," which started in the fiscal year 2022, as well as award them. We will also conduct lectures on trends and technological developments in the automotive industry, and hold matching events aimed at facilitating inter-company exchanges across regions.