On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, we will hold a seminar on ESG trends to commemorate our selection for the "Forbes Asia 100 To Watch 2023.

Seminar Summary
Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2023 11:00~12:00 
Format: Online webinar (via Zoom)
■Participation Fee: Free (Pre-registration required)
■ URL for registration:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KU5z6EOwREu0SN7uD6-CSA#/registration

Shunsuke Managi, CEO of Minebea, Daikichi Seki, CEO, and Ryuta Keely-Alexander, Director and Chief Researcher (CR), will speak at the event and introduce ESG trends, the relationship between ESG and corporate performance, and Minebea's initiatives in this area.

This is a unique opportunity to deepen your knowledge of ESG trends. We look forward to your participation.

Agenda for the day

General ESG Trends Representative Director: Shunsuke Managi
We will explain what is happening in the world today and the social trends related to ESG from a broad perspective that also takes into account the international situation.

Director and CR: Keeley Alexander Ryuta, ESG and Corporate Performance
The presentation will be based on the latest research on ESG and corporate performance that our Keeley is working on. He will also explain the relationship between corporate sustainability efforts and business performance as published in Nikkei Veritas.
Reference Article: ESG Initiatives Positive for Business Performance - Nikkei
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO74050600R30C23A8K12200/

■About aiESG Initiatives CEO: Daikichi Seki
We will introduce our comprehensive ESG analysis service "aiESG" and explain what aiESG can do based on actual examples. We will also explain about EV analysis, which was talked about last month and published in the Nikkei Shimbun.
Reference article: EV production "out of China" is also a challenge: U.S. supply chain, environmental and human rights indices worsening by 60% Nikkei Shimbun
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC20CZU0Q3A720C2000000/

■Question and Answer Session

Speaker Profile.

Shunsuke Managi Representative Director 
He is a Senior Professor at Kyushu University, Director of the Inclusive Wealth Report of the United Nations. He is a Director of the UN Inclusive Wealth Report, a representative author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Vice-Chair of the OECD Joint Working Group on Trade and the Environment, and has worked with many international organizations and companies. He is the Chair of the Subcommittee on Sustainable Investment of the Science Council of Japan, Director of theusive Wealth Report, and a principal author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). He founded aiESG based on his many years of ESG research.

Keely Alexander Ryuta Director and Chief Researcher (CR)
Associate Professor at Kyushu University. D. from Kyoto University and worked at the World Bank. 2018-2012: Special Assistant Professor at Manaki Laboratory, Kyushu University, 2023: Associate Professor. He is a Principal Investigator of "ESG and Corporate Value" funded by the Ministry of the Environment, and Co-Unit Director of the Moonshot Project "DAC-U". Member of the Negative Emission Technology Center, and engaged in research on ESG and corporate performance, etc.

Daikichi Seki CEO
D. in physics from Kyoto University, he worked as a data scientist at Accenture's AI Center, where he launched and coordinated industry-academia collaborations with Kyoto University and Kyushu University, and developed and implemented industry-academia collaboration strategies. The results of the collaboration with Kyushu University later evolved into the company's AI Powered Enterprise Value Cockpit, and he was involved in leading its development and implementation for clients.

▼ Details related to the seminar can be found here.

*Related Article*.
Background of starting aiESG
https://aiesg.co.jp/topics/report/20230426_20230511_intoroduction_aiesg/
What services does aiESG provide?
https://aiesg.co.jp/topics/report/20230515_service_aiesg/