SoftBank World
Overview
Japan's largest enterprise technology event hosted by SoftBank. Anchored by an executive keynote, it showcases AI, DX, and communications technology trends in a hybrid format.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2012
- Founder
- SoftBank Corp.
Launched to communicate enterprise strategy and share technology use cases
Transition
- 2012 First SoftBank World held
- 2020 First fully online edition, with 119,000 attendees
- 2023 Offline return after four years, with generative AI as the central theme
- 2025 Themed 'AX has arrived', announcing a plan for one billion AI agents
Voices
The keynote's passionate delivery and visionary thinking were remarkable. AI evolution was explained in an incredibly accessible way.
The exhibition booths offered hands-on demos of industry-specific AI, maintaining a lively atmosphere throughout.
In the News
- SoftBank's Masayoshi Son prepares one billion AI agents, in conversation with Altman (in Japanese)
- 'The era of humans programming is ending': Masayoshi Son's vision, with group staff also to stop coding eventually (in Japanese)
- Masayoshi Son at SoftBank World: "I want one billion AI agents realized within the year" (in Japanese)
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