On November 18th, "IT students x Aomori IT business people exchange meeting" will be held in Hirosaki's workspace SHIFT (Hyakuseki-cho, Hirosaki City).

The association aims to entrepreneurial students and to interact with IT industry people and business people who are active both inside and outside Aomori Prefecture. Yuta Tsuruoka, CEO of the online shop "BASE" and Shinichi Fujikawa, CTO, will participate on the day and give lectures from the positions of entrepreneurs and technical staff.

"BASE" is a company that Tsuruoka started when he was a college student at the age of 22. With the slogan, "It takes 30 seconds to create an online shop, and it's free," we gathered 150,000 registered stores in two years, and in the economic magazine "Forbes", "Under 30s changing e-commerce in Asia" 30 people" was selected.

Mr. Fujikawa produced a shopping mall service with "GMO Pepabo", and also independently developed and operated a Twitter web service type client "Mobatui". At "BASE", he was involved in the development of an online payment service called "PAY.JP".

Mr. Masakatsu Oura of the planned Consis said, "To increase the number of entrepreneurs in Aomori." “There are a lot of private business owners in Aomori who make a living by family-run farms and handicrafts such as traditional crafts. Now that people who are not familiar with the Internet can easily open an online shop. People such as high school students and housewives I would like everyone to feel free to participate."

Holding time is from 18:00 to 20:30. Free to join. Apply from the "Consys" website.