Japan Business Update Japan’s Cutting-Edge Internet-of-Things Strategies: Highlights of CEATEC 2017 Fanuc Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, CEATEC JAPAN Executive Board

September 20, 2017

Tokyo

Mr. Tetsuaki Kato, Executive Director of the Robot Business Division of Fanuc Corporation, Mr. Akira Ikenouchi, General Manager of the Groupwide Brand Communications Division of Panasonic Corporation, Mr. Tomofumi Watanabe, Head of the Silicon Valley Digital Innovation Lab of Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and Mr. Kiyoshi Shikano, Executive Producer of the CEATEC JAPAN Executive Board, shared information about their latest cutting edge technologies which would be demonstrated at CEATEC from October 3, 2017. CEATEC is one of Asia’s largest ICT exhibitions of electronic products and service producers, aiming to accelerate IoT society. Foreign media including The Economist, The Financial Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Japan Times, Nikkei Business Review, Pan Orient News, The Straits Times and other freelance journalists attended.