{"id":3679,"date":"2025-06-04T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:18:23","slug":"re133","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re133\/","title":{"rendered":"Report on BAITEQ @ SoftBank \u2013 Headquarters Tour &#038; Networking Event 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On May 20, 2025, B&#8217;AI Global Forum, in cooperation with SoftBank, held \u201cBAITEQ @ SoftBank &#8211; Headquarters Tour &amp; Networking Event 2025\u201d at SoftBank Takeshiba Headquarters. This event served as a follow-up to the <a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cB\u2019AI Women in Tech\u201d event<\/a> held in June of the previous year, and once again facilitated vibrant exchanges between students in STEM fields and SoftBank employees, while also <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reflecting on DE&amp;I practices in the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event consisted of two parts: the office tour, and the panel discussion and networking session featuring SoftBank employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the first part of the program, participants were given a tour of a tech company\u2019s office, where they observed how the workspace was designed to foster seamless communication among employees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of the second part, Dr. Ai Hisano (Director of B&#8217;AI Global Forum) gave an overview of B&#8217;AI Global Forum&#8217;s activities. She also explained that the reason for the name change from \u201cWomen in Tech\u201d to \u201cBAITEQ\u201d was because the initiative aims to reflect a broader commitment to fostering inclusive workplaces that support people of diverse backgrounds, not limited to gender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next, a SoftBank employee introduced the company&#8217;s DE&amp;I initiatives, and three employees in their second to fourth year at the company participated in a panel discussion covering five themes, including their visions as engineers, future career plans, and experiences of being a \u201cminority\u201d in school or the workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The final networking session provided a valuable opportunity for open and candid conversations between students and SoftBank employees on topics of mutual interest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event reaffirmed the importance of continuing to create opportunities for dialogue not only among students but also between students and the professionals, making it a highly meaningful occasion for all involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3680\" src=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_20250520_-SB-event-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 20, 2025, B&#8217;AI Global Forum, in coope<\/p>\n<div class=\"continue-reading-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/report\/re133\/\" class=\"continue-reading\">Continue Reading<i class=\"ion-ios-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[365,312,187,209,207],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report","tag-baiteq","tag-dei","tag-softbank","tag-women-in-stem","tag-women-in-tech"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3684,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baiforum.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}