Motoo Nishihara

“In the near future agentic AI will become our partners and then eventually they will become economic actors. We'll see a time when people and AI coexist and agentic AI companies will emerge everywhere and individual AI will take a more important role in business to business negotiations.”

— From MWC25: NEC CTO's Speaks about Agentic AI and Future Networks [NEC Official], NEC Corporation (March 04, 2025)

“In the future where people and AI coexist this idea will continue to be more important and people's role will be to ensure that the agentic AI always consider the society perspective along with a business objectives like profit.”

— From MWC25: NEC CTO's Speaks about Agentic AI and Future Networks [NEC Official], NEC Corporation (March 04, 2025)

“I want to point up the one huge project it's uh uh digital identification uh solion for the India and in India I think there are so many newn babies and uh some Village and some rural area don't have that I mean uh details uh registration scheme of the newborn babies so we use this uh more like identification technolog...”

— From EPISODE 192- Future Tech & Global Impact: NEC Corporate EVP and CTO (Executive Officer), Presiden..., Marketer of the Month (June 06, 2024)

“Fortunately AI I mean fortunately NC has has a consecutive growth from three years and the Ben sales and the profit is increasing year by year and and the stock price is also double as since it's one year ago and U so looking at the future I think the uh AI technology and uh also the new type of the Computing technolog...”

— From EPISODE 192- Future Tech & Global Impact: NEC Corporate EVP and CTO (Executive Officer), Presiden..., Marketer of the Month (June 06, 2024)

“NEC wants the new generation of AI services and I feel AI has a tremendous capability for the future. So, actually, half of the total researchers are focusing on the AI technology right now.”

— From Future Tech & Global Impact: Motoo Nishihara on How Firms can Gain a Technological Edge, Outgrow (May 27, 2024)

“NEC has consecutive growth from the three years. And the benefit sales and the profit is increasing year by year. And the stock price is also the double since the one year ago.”

— From Future Tech & Global Impact: Motoo Nishihara on How Firms can Gain a Technological Edge, Outgrow (May 27, 2024)

“NEC has long been recognized for its expertise in network and computing and technology. However, we are also a leading player in the AI sector. We have been investing so much in AI research for many years. In fact, NEC holds the most international patents across three major areas: biometric authentication, video recogn...”

— From NEC CTO & Netcracker CEO Deliver Keynote Address on the Future of Generative AI [NEC Official], NEC Corporation (February 26, 2024)

“Last July, NEC introduced a generative AI service called NEC cotomi. The unique features of NEC cotomi are its high performance and compact model size. cotomi offers superior Japanese language comprehension at only 1/10 the size of other models. We can use this technology for other languages too. Due to its reduced siz...”

— From NEC CTO & Netcracker CEO Deliver Keynote Address on the Future of Generative AI [NEC Official], NEC Corporation (February 26, 2024)

“NEC provides world's number one biometric technology which combines fingerprints, facial and iris identification to Aadhaar. This is far advanced the U.S. social security system and I wish our Japanese government would implement this system too.”

— From NEC's Social Value Creation in India || Motoo Nishihara, CTO at NEC Corporation at IIT Global Summit, NEC Corporation India (November 01, 2019)

“As a CTO I'm responsible for quality of technology and also responsible for business based on those technologies. How can we make our technology used for real social problems? I believe best research people and the best passion of those people is a key to success.”

— From NEC's Social Value Creation in India || Motoo Nishihara, CTO at NEC Corporation at IIT Global Summit, NEC Corporation India (November 01, 2019)

“I direct share the my understanding over the problems in large companies so first problem is where are the talented people obviously startup company we may be they have a lot of talented people they make an innovation they make a good status they make assumption something good business I agree with that but also there...”

— From Stanford Seminar - NEC’s New Strategy for Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation, Stanford Online (May 07, 2019)

“NEC has announced that provide socially acceptable AI and we need a safety security interference obsessive to anyway privacy issues and beneficial issues and a human right is a very very important factor so we define this kind of the principle in April and we are willing to collaborate with any kind of the social secto...”

— From Stanford Seminar - NEC’s New Strategy for Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation, Stanford Online (May 07, 2019)