Akinori Kuwayama

Subject

The challenges surrounding the food value chain are becoming bigger and more difficult. Rather than the efforts of a single company, we need to gather knowledge and build an ecosystem. We will introduce the efforts of Certhon and DENSO, which began in 2020. The main theme is how different industries player are working together to tackle the problem of labour shortages. In particular, we will explain the detailed efforts of the tomato harvesting robot Artemy.

Biography

Akinori Kuwayama is the Chief Strategy Officer for Certhon, who advise on and develop turnkey, tailor-made concepts for the most high-tech horticultural projects, anywhere in the world. Akinori is in charge of strategy development and is responsible for creating synergies between the two companies since the integration of DENSO and Certhon in 2023. In addition, based on his experience leading the design, development, and business planning of vehicle air conditioning equipment and air quality products at DENSO, his mission is to continuously bring to market innovative initiatives aimed at solving social issues surround in the greenhouse horticulture industry. Artemy is one of the great joint initiatives between the two companies and he leads the creation of a smooth collaboration.