At the Plenary Meeting in January, New Year's greeting and a special event "Group Discussion" by RWDC students were held.

Date	Tuesday, January 26, 2021 17: 30-20: 00
Location	online (zoom)

The following is a brief summary of the contents of the Plenary Meeting.

New Year's greeting

At the beginning of the meeting, Professor Kazuya Takeda, Coordinator of the Graduate Program for Real-World Data Circulation Leaders, stated his hopes for the students in 2021. After that, the students who attended on the day stated their determination and aspirations for their future activities in program and their own research in 2021.

Special event "Group discussion"

This project is a special project organized by three RWDC students. Through this discussion, students will propose a new business model focusing on the technological capabilities of the start-up company. For students, the aim is to develop a business mindset through this project. At the same time, it can be expected that start-up company will gain new insights about future business development through this project. This time the startup company introduced was "Human Dataware Lab". Tomoki Hayashi, a 1st generation student who is one of the founders of the company, presented about his company's strengths. The participating students and mentors were then divided into two groups to discuss and give their own opinions on what business model to offer to "Human Dataware Lab". Then, the two groups presented their business models. Mentors gave practical opinions on the business model presented.

Start-up company	Human Dataware Lab.
Presenter	Tomoki Hayashi (1st generation student, Graduate School of Informatics)

Group A
Presenters	Morishita Makoto (7th generation student, Graduate School of Informatics)
Theme	Next generation applications using speech processing technology

Group B
Presenter	Syunya Seiya (4th generation student, Graduate School of Informatics)
Theme	Next-generation applications that utilize voice processing technology

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