Invited presentation by Akira Fukabori, Founder & CEO avatarin,
Japan:
Instantaneous Mobility for a Better World
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After graduating with a bachelor degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Akira joined Japan's largest airline, ANA, in 2008 where he began his career in Flight Operations. He went on to launch the cause-related marketing program “Blue Wing” which won the Global Agenda Seminar Grand Prize in 2010 and is featured in a case study at USC Marshall School of Business. In 2016, he worked with the XPRIZE Foundation to design the next global competition where he proposed the ANA Avatar XPRIZE concept which concluded in 2022. Akira co-founded avatarin Inc. in April 2020 and the company was selected as a Harvard Business School case study in June 2021 and received the Prime Minister's Award in 2022 for its contributions in innovation. |
avatarin is working to establish a new mobility infrastructure that will make teleportation a reality for all of humanity. To achieve this goal, we are developing core technologies for and spearheading the deployment of robotic avatars around the world that anyone can be reserved and controlled remotely via PC and smartphone. Avatars can leverage the strengths of both the digital and real worlds, and we believe their global deployment will usher in a new era of democratized mobility. Furthermore, this new capability will make mobility available to everyone, including those living with physical limitations and time constraints. Not only will this advance human skill sharing around the world, but also open up a vast new channel for real-world, digital commerce by making it possible for the global online population to visit physical museums, stores, and other destinations geographically dispersed around the globe. avatarin will continue to merge the digital world with the real world to create an exciting new future where everyone can connect, communicate, and collaborate with others around the globe.