Wiz. Group, Inc.
CEO&FounderHiromi Okuda

Hiromi Okuda received her Master degree in Social Welfare from the graduate school of University of Bombay (currently renamed as University of Mumbai). She started a conference business in 1991 that specializes in IT, and supports bringing a number of IT private events into Japan. Ms. Okuda established Wiz. Group, Inc. in 2001, and provides assistance for a large number of IT companies to hold conferences in Japan. Since 2008, she began support for start-ups development, and engages in ecosystem building of start-ups in order to form start-up communities in local areas both inside and outside of Tokyo. In 2013, Ms. Okuda began Takaranoyama Inc. in an underpopulated area, to research what IT can do to solve social problems in the region. Social issues are hardest to see from the actual site of development, and she is trying to connect these issues with the development of IT products.
Committees: Supporter of J Startup, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; Committee member of the White Paper on IT human resources Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA); Committee member of Mito IT Jinzai Hakkutsu/Ikusei Jigyo (Development program for undeveloped IT human resources); Committee member of Iryokei Bencha Shinko Suishin Kaigi (Medical-related venture promotion meeting), Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; Committee member of Healthcare Venture Summit Program.
Publications: Kaisha wo Yamenaitoiu Sentaku (Option of not resigning from the company), (Nikkei Business Publication Inc.), Jinsei ha Mikirihasshade Umakuiku (Life can be better by making a snap decision without full preparation) (Sogo Horei Publishing. Co., Ltd.), Wakuwaku Surukotodake Yarebaii! (Just doing what you feel excited about is enough!) (PHP Institute, Inc.)