CEDEC2026 Keynote: Japan Needs a Playroom to Nurture National Wealth
The keynote reframes game development know-how as a model for building foundational technology that can raise Japan's future GDP.
Reporting from 1 source: GAME Watch (Impress).
At CEDEC2026, Daiyuu Nobori, founder of SoftEther Corporation, delivered a keynote arguing that Japan needs a "playroom" to nurture national wealth. He introduced the concept of Annual Social Value, citing open-source software like SoftEther VPN, Ruby, TRON, and Fluentd as examples of technologies generating trillions of yen in societal benefit.
Daiyuu Nobori, a software technology research manager and founder of SoftEther Corporation, opened CEDEC2026 with a keynote that had little to do with games directly. His talk, "Establishment of Means of Production for Computer and Network Technology That Can Spread Worldwide," argued that Japan needs a "playroom" to nurture national wealth.
Nobori introduced the concept of Annual Social Value, a monetary measure of the benefit society receives from freely provided technologies. He cited SoftEther VPN, an open-source VPN software, with an ASV of 41.1 billion to 61 billion yen. Ruby, TRON, and Fluentd were also mentioned, with ASVs reaching trillions of yen.
The lecture was streamed online, with time-shift delivery available until August 3 for registered attendees.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- GAME Watch (Impress) 日本の国富を育てる「遊び部屋」とは？ 登大遊氏基調講演レポート【CEDEC2026】