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Market Creation
Promoting innovation and creating new markets through co-creation and competition
JEITA aims to create new markets through co-creation across industries and business types. We promote Society 5.0 by organizing programs and events that bring together superior technologies, services, and products.
CEATEC is held every October as Japan’s biggest comprehensive digital innovation exhibition. Originally known as a digital consumer electronics fair, the event was transformed in 2016 into a comprehensive exhibition addressing IoT and co-creation. Today, not only electrical equipment and IT companies but firms from a broad spectrum of business types exhibit at the event. Focusing on Society 5.0 as the society of the future which Japan aims to pioneer, it showcases Society 5.0 initiatives, DX, SX, and GX collaboration outcomes, and leading-edge technologies and solutions, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the future.
CEATEC
Inter BEE has been advancing in tandem with broadcast media development since 1965 and is Japan’s biggest comprehensive content-focused media event, encompassing the technical elements of producing, delivering, and experiencing content. As a showcase for technology and innovation that brings together media and entertainment industry professionals, Inter BEE provides an excellent opportunity to create new content business and discover the industry’s future, building new content-connected creations and the experiences of tomorrow together.
Inter BEE
The JEITA Venture Award was established in March 2016 to recognize venture companies expected to contribute not only to the overall advance of the digital industry but also to economic development, aiming to support venture companies and build co-creation and partnership among JEITA members and venture companies. The 10th round of awards in 2025 went to three ventures with advanced technologies and services that can solve various social issues. One company also received the Early Edge special award for companies whose market contribution is currently unknown but whose extremely advanced technologies are expected to generate major growth in future.
10th JEITA Venture Award Winners
(Alphabetical order)
・Equmenopolis Inc.
・Jizaie Inc.
・LocationMind Inc.
Early Edge Award Winner
・JiMED Inc.
Smart safety DX using IoT, AI, and other digital technologies is a promising means of resolving challenges facing Japan’s industrial safety sector such as aging facilities, labor shortages, and the hand-on of skills. To promote smart safety, the committee communicates information primarily from a factory floor perspective and pushes for regulatory reform and subsidy policies, aiming to strengthen the plant industry’s competitiveness and expand the business scope of related companies. A new program launched in FY2022 comprises training sessions for plant and factory personnel as potential smart safety users, designed to develop future leaders.
Realizing Society 5.0 will require resolving social problems through co-creation, combining advanced initiatives from various business types and industries. We launched the JEITA Co-Creation Program in 2018 to realize cross-industry co-creation and create new business so as to resolve a broader range of social problems, generate new industries, and, as a result, contribute to economic development. The program operates through consortia, study groups, working groups, and commissioned projects, proposing actions to solve social issues and working with partners on issues that they bring to us. Emphasizing openness and agility, program outputs also vary according to the purpose, including policy recommendations, guidelines, standardization, and human resource development.
JEITA Consortia
Green x Digital Consortium
Promoting companies’ efforts to achieve carbon neutrality will require making maximum use of digital technologies in collecting, analyzing, assessing, and utilizing the related data. The Green x Digital Consortium is pursuing activities contributing to the deployment of new digital solutions, including creating a framework for calculating and sharing carbon data that is consistent with international frameworks.
Media Over IP Consortium
This consortium aims to facilitate the introduction of MoIP systems with high business trust and availability, closing the gap between vendors and sellers created by the migration to IP-based broadcasting equipment. A range of stakeholders from broadcasters to IT vendors will participate in various projects such as the creation of MoIP system reference models and IP-related human resource development so as to streamline the production process and upgrade content through DX.
Aqua Local Area Network Consortium
The Aqua Local Area Network (ALAN) Consortium is working to create new ocean-related business opportunities and resolve social issues. Primarily focused on underwater optical technologies and other cutting-edge technologies, the consortium pursues sensor-based visualization of underwater networks, environments, ecologies, and structures and R&D on underwater robotics. It also works with stakeholders in areas from infrastructure to marine processing and aquaculture toward realizing a sustainable ‘ocean digital society.’
