IBIDEN, The World Leader In Advanced IC Package Substrates, Adopts “exaBase IR Assistant” – Aiming To Enhance Corporate Value By Improving Disclosure And Dialogue Through Efficient Accumulation and Sharing Of IR Knowledge Using Generative AI –

Exa Enterprise AI Inc. (Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Takuma Oue; hereinafter “Exa Enterprise AI“), a group company of ExaWizards Inc., is pleased to announce that IBIDEN CO., LTD. (hereinafter “IBIDEN“) has started the adoption of our “exaBase IR Assistant”. IBIDEN plans to utilize this specialized generative AI in departments related to shareholder and investor information disclosure, such as the Corporate Planning Department’s PR/ESG Group, as well as in IR briefings and individual meetings. By doing so, Ibiden aims to promote the digital transformation (DX) of their staff’s duties, enabling them to focus on high-value-added information disclosure and dialogue.
Exa Enterprise AI aims to unlock human potential and contribute to the realization of a society where people can face new challenges by providing AI services and products for productivity improvement in Japanese companies and organizations.

☑ Background
IBIDEN takes the initiative in technological innovation by collaborating with world-class companies in all fields. In the electronics business, this includes IC package substrates mainly for AI servers and data centers. In the ceramics business, it covers DPFs, catalyst carrier retention and sealing materials, and graphite (special carbon products). Additionally, IBIDEN actively promotes IR activities to communicate their initiatives for medium- to long-term value creation to stakeholders, including shareholders and investors.
This time, to streamline the process of creating minutes for IR briefings and individual meetings, and to provide rapid feedback to management through AI agent analysis, IBIDEN has decided to adopt the exaBase IR Assistant, a generative AI service specialized for IR operations. This adoption aims to transform business processes and enable a focus on higher value-added tasks. Furthermore, IBIDEN seeks to foster IR talent through the sharing of high-quality knowledge.

☑ Implementing exaBase IR Assistant
Since the release of the product version in October 2023, exaBase IR Assistant has been introduced to many Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies, including JR East Japan, Murata Manufacturing, Toyoda Gosei, Nagoya Railroad, GENDA, Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings, Tokyu Corporation, Hikari Food Service, Seibu Holdings, Topcon, Kyocera, and Sumitomo Forestry, SG Holdings, Idemitsu Kosan, Shionogi, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, multiple major financial institutions, comprehensive trading companies, telecommunications companies, semiconductor companies, etc. It is used in many organizations responsible for general meetings of shareholders, such as IR, general affairs, legal affairs, management planning, and accounting.

☑ About exaBase IR Assistant
exaBase IR Assistant utilizes AI to generate meeting minutes from audio and video of IR meetings for analysis and potential questions. It also provides an AI that automatically generates anticipated questions and corresponding answers for financial briefings, shareholder meetings, press conferences, and other briefings using various IR documents as data sources and incorporating company-specific information.
In the future, Exa Enterprise AI will collaborate with external information sources and release new features for exaBase IR Assistant to support information disclosure practices of listed companies through “IR Tech.”　

【Exa Enterprise AI Corporate Profile】
Company Name: Exa Enterprise AI Inc.
Location: 4-2-8 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 5F
Established: October 2023
Representative: Takuma Oue, Representative Director
Business: Planning, development, and sales of products and services utilizing technologies such as generative AI to improve business operations and productivity
URL: https://exawizards.com/eai/

【ExaWizards Corporate Profile】
Company name: ExaWizards Inc.
Location: 4-2-8 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 5F
Established: February 2016
Representative: Makoto Haruta, Representative Director & President
Business: Industrial innovation and resolution of social issues via AI service development
URL: https://exawizards.com/en/

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