Session 1:
How to Communicate Intangibles (value creation factor) of Startup and Early Stage Business Entities

Under the maturing Japanese economy, the social role of entrepreneurs has been increasingly crucial and hugely recognized. For either founding managers or supporting management, the every stage of corporate development from entrepreneurs to solid status as socially recognized institution entails the engine to communicate with internal and external stakeholders for the planning of business strategy and its implementation to create intrinsic value of each institution. Repeating and lasting communications help management find potential, yet unidentified, management resources to create business opportunities while lead to reflexes in formulating pre-emptive strategies to cope with changes in the climate surrounding corporate management. To promote expected communications, this　session encompasses the method to evolve our expertise in “Small Business Intellectual Property Management Report” into integrated reporting.

Session 2:
Business Developments through Open Innovation Provided by Future Center

In the 21st century, many of Japanese big business enterprises have developed their success model of the 20th century globally to lead to the next growth. However, as they begin to feel the structural changes in the business environment both inside and outside, it is forced to seek "What next will be done after globalization?" In the 2010s many people have been heard say "open innovation is the key". We will consider the possibilities of the Future Center activities from Europe that have been advocating business development by open innovation from the earliest while introducing the latest examples which are starting to concretely be learning from the development of the advanced.

Session 3: In the Age of SDGs, Developing the Best Way to Express the Value Creation Process in the Integrated Reporting

In the context of SDGs, each company should be concerned with respective goals among 17 goals---defined under “Sustainable Development Goals” by the UN as a de facto standard, and set objectives to make contribution to the society. Now is the time for organizations to promote the management based on integrated reporting by maintaining communications with internal and external stakeholders and clarifying the prioritized activities in integrated reporting while enhancing communications with stakeholders to materialize the individual activities in value creation in the light of environments surrounding business management.

Session 4: Progressive Value Creation through Development from CSR / ESG Viewpoint to SDGs Perspective

For each of E · S · G, it is not a matter to cut them out one by one and work independently. With regard to each issue, it is nothing other than becoming a meaningful effort for the first time, being clearly positioned in the enterprise value creation process, in association with the business activities that run and the strengths of the organizations that support it. The same goes for the United Nations' efforts towards "sustainable development targets (SDGs)" now becoming common language of the world. There are things that companies should clarify before they can challenge tasks in cooperation with their stakeholders. The organization itself and its stakeholders will clarify issues to be sorted out, such as "how the value creation process of the organization is captured", "what is the outcome affecting the organization's value formation", and share it socially which is urgent task to set up a mechanism

Final Session: How to Make Use of the Value Creation Story for the Realization of SDGs

Until now WICI has accumulated considerable results in endeavoring and disseminating Integrated Reporting while holding hands with IIRC. Every time we have the opportunity to explain the importance of explaining the value creation process as a story. WICI has entered its 11th year of establishment, and the spread of Integrated Reporting that have been promoted has also been established in Japanese business society. In addition, this year we are showing a new development that the University of Tokyo will publish its integrated report. Under these circumstances, it is expected that the Integrated Reporting will further evolve through more substantial communication with stakeholders. For that reason, I think that it is possible to make an opportunity to think with each participant by listing the things each person should work on from now on.