The government of Japan virtually hosted the Asean AI Summit Focus Session on Advancing the Asean-Japan Co-Creation Initiative for AI on Oct. 6, as part of the Asean AI Summit program on AI-powered growth for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
The session was attended by Leandro Angelo Aguirre, undersecretary at the Philippine Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT); Koji Yonetani, Japan’s ambassador to Asean; Takahiro Hanada, deputy director-general of Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Akihiko Sasaki, deputy director-general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications; Naobumi Yokota, minister for economic affairs; and stakeholders from the public and private sectors.