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Tech GALA2025 Closing

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STATION Ai 1F K Stage

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Business/Startup
Rising Star
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Language：Japanese

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nobodyknows+
musician
nobodyknows+
musician
Members: Crystal Boy, Yasuichiban?, Hokuroman Hanrice!!!, Nori Da Funky Sibiresus, DJ MITSU A hip-hop group consisting of 4 MCs and 1 DJ, based in Nagoya. In 2004, their first full album "Do You Know?" topped the Oricon charts for two consecutive weeks from its debut, becoming a huge hit, selling over 800,000 copies. They also appeared at the NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen with their signature song "Kokoro Odoru". They also became the first hip-hop artist to tour all 47 prefectures in Japan. In 2005, he released his second full album "5MC&1DJ" which includes "El Mirador - The Song of the Observatory", the song used in the Mode Gakuen national commercial and in commemoration of the Nagoya TV Tower being designated a registered tangible cultural property, and "Shiawasenaratewotatakou", the Japanese title song for Stephen Chow's film "Kung Fu Hustle". In 2007, he released his third full album "vulgarhythm", which includes the theme song "Hero's Come Back!!" for the anime "NARUTO Shippuden", and his greatest hits album "The Best of nobodyknows+" through Sony Music. In 2011, he moved to Sigma Sounds Studio in his hometown of Nagoya. He has collaborated with the Chunichi Dragons for several years during their championships, and has performed at many major festivals including TOKAI SUMMIT, as well as Nagoya's largest festivals, the Nagoya Festival and the Imaike Festival, focusing on revitalizing music culture in the Tokai region. He was appointed "Aichi Music Ambassador" by Aichi Prefecture (a position he still holds as of 2022).
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- Day 3
  2025/02/06 17:00-17:30
  Tech GALA2025 Closing
Makoto Ao
CEO, LEO Co., Ltd.
Makoto Ao
CEO, LEO Co., Ltd. | Planning and Operations Producer, Nagono Campus | Professor, School of Entrepreneurship, Musashino University
After working as a software development engineer, she became the first female executive at a tech company in 2012, where she established an internal venture and engaged in business spin-offs and startup support through industry-government-academia collaboration. In 2016, she co-founded ExaIntelligence (now ExaWizards Inc.), an AI venture originating from Kansai, and served as Director and COO before founding LEO Co., Ltd. as her second entrepreneurial venture. She is the producer of "Nagono Campus," an incubation facility in a former elementary school near Nagoya Station designed to create the next 100 years. Alongside being the navigator for ZIP-FM's "Startup [N]," she serves as a professor at the School of Entrepreneurship at Musashino University, a visiting associate professor for industry-academia-government collaboration at Nagoya University, and a member of the Nagoya City Board of Education. Since 2022, she has also been a mentor for the Central Japan Seed Fund.
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Hiromi OKUDA
TechGALA General Producer. Wiz. Group, Inc.
Hiromi OKUDA
TechGALA General Producer. CEO&Founder, Wiz. Group, Inc.
Hiromi Okuda received her Master degree in Social Welfare from the graduate school of University of Bombay (currently renamed as University of Mumbai). She started a conference business in 1991 that specializes in IT, and supports bringing a number of IT private events into Japan. Ms. Okuda established Wiz. Group, Inc. in 2001, and provides assistance for a large number of IT companies to hold conferences in Japan. Since 2008, she began support for start-ups development, and engages in ecosystem building of start-ups in order to form start-up communities in local areas both inside and outside of Tokyo. In 2013, Ms. Okuda began Takaranoyama Inc. in an underpopulated area, to research what IT can do to solve social problems in the region. Social issues are hardest to see from the actual site of development, and she is trying to connect these issues with the development of IT products.
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