[Music] Thank you very much for coming to the Enterprise Ethereum Stage. I am Yonekura Yujin, and I will be your MC today. It's a pleasure to meet you. So today, we will be discussing what is about to happen as a result of the fusion of leading Japanese companies and the blockchain ecosystem. Let's get started.
From here, we would like to ask Mr. Ishii, the representative of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Japan and the organizer of this event, to give an introduction. Mr. Ishii, please go ahead. Yes.
Well, first of all, there is an interpreter at this event, so English interpretation started from the from now. From here, we will speak in Japanese. Yes, so I would like to talk a little about the potential and trends of Enterprise Ethereum. Yes, I think many of you are already familiar with this, but there is a public-private consortium, and of course, the public is the so- called public chain, and the private is the blockchain. The necessity of the blockchain is questioned, but Enterprise Ethereum is mainly this consortium, and the consortium has grown very large.
In a sense, that's a form that's close to public, and I think that if it gets to that point, it will become very valuable. Yes, the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance has enterprises from all over the world participating. Yes, and there are several working groups, and there are various kinds, as written here, yes, there is the Social Interest Group, and there are also technical and various others, and within these there are privacy, user analytics, digital authentication, financial, healthcare, etc. There are some that are very active and others that are progressing slowly. Yes, last year, in June of last year, the Ethereum Business Leadness Report was released, which is a report on how so-called Enterprise Ethereum is being used.
Yes, and it is written in it as follows, but there are various things that are progressing, yes, corporate projects and March projects and various others, and it is becoming more and more stable that are coming out. Yes, and so today, I would like to talk about the Enterprise We're focusing on what's happening with blockchain right now. Recently, the term "Web3" has become quite common, and we often talk about visions and ideal future scenarios. But what's the reality right now? There are possibilities, challenges, and the question of whether the ecosystem will integrate with enterprises.
So today, we'll discuss those aspects thoroughly. Okay, now, let's return to our moderator, Mr. Enomoto. Thank you, Mr. Ishii.
Now, let me reintroduce today's timetable. From now until 10:45, we'll have Panel Discussion 1, titled "Manufacturing Traceability and Decentralized ID," featuring three guests from NTT DATA Corporation, Hitachi, Ltd., and Fujitsu Limited. Following that, from 10:45 to 11:20, we'll have Panel Discussion 2, titled "Game Art and Music," featuring Square Enix Corporation. We have invited two guests from Avex Inc.
For the final discussion, from 11:20 to 11:55, we will be discussing "Tourism and Regional Revitalization Administration" with four guests from Japan Airlines Co., Ltd., Hakuhodo Co., Ltd., the Digital Agency, and the Detroit Tohmatsu Group.
After the panel discussion, we plan to have a social gathering from 12:00, where you will have about an hour to talk with the speakers. The event is scheduled to end at 13:00. However, I would like to give you some important points to note. First, it is fine to share the content of this event's talks on Twitter and other social media, however, recording or filming is prohibited. Also, please note that tickets for the Enterprise Ethereum Stage, which is a separate event, are only valid for this event and cannot be used in the area of the hackathon being held simultaneously.
Now, we will begin the Enterprise Ethereum Stage, but before that, I would like to introduce one more person, along with Mr. Ishii, who was mentioned earlier, to the co-moderators. As moderator, we have invited our guest, Kenichiro Kawasaki, representative lawyer of Waseda Legal Commons Law Office. Please come to the stage. Yes, please introduce yourself.
Yes, everyone, good evening, good afternoon, good morning. I am Kenichiro Kawasaki, the lawyer who was just introduced. Today, I am co-moderating with Mr. Ishii, so I hope to play the role of the straight man and the pick-up man. Just a quick self-introduction.
My main job is as a lawyer, and I run a law firm in Kudanshita called Waseda Legal Commons Law Office. It is a firm with about 35 lawyers, and I am the representative lawyer. I also run a company called Centaurus Works, which I started with blockchain engineers about 5 years ago. There, we have been experimenting with various social implementations, and we have failed, failed, failed, and done a lot of different things. However, we are trying to put all that experience to good use in various things.
And also, JCBI is participating today. Some of you may already be involved in this, but this is also one of the Societies Chain, and I am a member of the Japan Content Blockchain, where I serve as the chairman of the SSIdid subcommittee. I also work part-time, just one day a week, as an advisor to the Setagaya Ward government, where I serve as a match assistant. In today's Session 3, I would like to touch on some of these experiences. Today, I am serving as co-moderator at the invitation of Mr.
Ishii, with whom I have been working on blockchain-related matters for a long time. I am very much looking forward to it, so thank you in advance.
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