Yousuke Okada
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Founder & CEO
ABEJAYousuke Okada was born in 1988 in Nagoya, Japan. He began programming at age 10. While in high school, he focused on computer graphics (CG) and received a national award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. He has presented his CG work at various international conferences.After working at an IT startup, he founded ABEJA, Inc. in September 2012. Since 2017, Yousuke has been a board member of the Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA). He has actively participated in expert government committees on AI, which are organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and the Cabinet Office.Since 2021, he has been a DX Fellow for Nasu Shiobara City, and by 2025, he will join the board of the AI Robot Association (AIRoA). Yousuke is the author of How to Implement AI in Business and a co-author of THE Deep Learning Textbook: The Official Textbook for the Deep Learning G-Test (Generalist). Additionally, he serves on the editorial board for the AI White Paper 2022.