TAI's Nakahara Pitches Singapore as ASEAN Hub at JSCCP Seminar
Hiroki Nakahara, president and CEO of Tokyo Artisan Intelligence, spoke on October 28, 2026 at a JSCCP seminar held inside SWITCH 2026 in Singapore. The panel covered building business opportunities at the pre-proof-of-concept stage and redesigning solutions for local needs.
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Why it matters
The pitch treats Singapore as a base for demonstrating and selling into ASEAN rather than as a market in itself, which is a different ask from a single-country launch.
Key Facts
- Hiroki Nakahara, president and CEO of Tokyo Artisan Intelligence, spoke at the JSCCP seminar in Singapore on October 28, 2026.
- The seminar took place at a venue within SWITCH 2026, Singapore Week of Innovation & Technology.
- Nakahara cited a semiconductor business collaboration with a Malaysian company and AI solutions tailored to regional needs.
- Tokyo Artisan Intelligence was founded on March 3, 2020, and is headquartered in Yokohama.
- The company develops AI semiconductor chips and edge AI for infrastructure monitoring, data centers and dual-use applications.
Nakahara described AI semiconductor work with a Malaysian partner, edge AI for infrastructure monitoring and data centers, and railway inspection technology developed in Japan and adapted for local operations.
Tokyo Artisan Intelligence was founded on March 3, 2020 and is based in Yokohama. Its edge AI work, as Nakahara described it, covers infrastructure monitoring, data centers and dual-use applications spanning defense and civilian use. The seminar drew public and private officials from Japan and Singapore, local companies and investors. Nakahara named a solid track record in the region and the acquisition of initial contact points as the two things that speed up commercialization abroad, and set out expectations for JSCCP support in reaching government agencies and reference customers.
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