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Our value

The value of the ifLink Open Community lies in the three opportunities (connection, prototyping, new business) provided to co-create an open IoT market even for non-specialists, based on the IoT platform ifLink that lets users freely combine online services and IoT devices.

Opportunities to connect
  • Expand personal connections in different industries and generations
  • Search for peers and markets/technologies/products
  • Participate in club activities and projects
Opportunities for experimental creation
  • Exchange ideas that go beyond industries and business circles
  • Highly accelerated PoC through existing modules
  • Test marketing through member cooperation
New business opportunities
  • New business support through the collective knowledge of members
  • Acquisition of business partners
  • Acquisition of business promotion opportunities

Representative Message

May 2023
ifLink Open Community (General Incorporated Association)
Representative Director Shunsuke Okada
The goal is to democratize IoT.

The ifLink Community was launched to realize that vision by overcoming corporate and organizational barriers. We have now entered our fourth year since being established. ifLink enables immediate connection of ideas and has become a bridge for open innovation. Everyone’s ideas and assets are being combined one after another, producing a succession of diverse modules and convenient solutions.

In addition, I anticipate that everyone will become an ifLink proponent and joint creator, and that the platform will be utilized in diverse fields including business, regions, and education.

Together, let’s share our values, make our knowledge openly contribute, and create peers to map the future side by side. Let's open up a new world by expanding the ecosystem.

The ifLink Open Community is striving for greater advancement together with the global community.

May 2023
ifLink Open Community (General Incorporated Association)
Representative Director Shunsuke Okada

Supporters Message

ifLink Open Community
FounderTaro Shimada
I want to realize IoT breakthrough

Many products have been released in the name of IoT. Among them, some products and services came out with much fanfare, but I don't think that they are currently widely established in the world.

I think the main reason for this is insufficient openness.

Services giving a sense of enclosure are fundamentally incompatible with the basic concept of IoT, which lies in connecting everything together

ifLink aims to overcome this challenge and promote the democratization of IoT.

"Through the participation of various companies and organizations from different industries, we want to develop interesting, convenient, and beneficial solutions for everyone from grassroots approach. Our goal is to achieve breakthroughs in IoT. The smiles and enthusiasm of the participants as proof of this."

I encourage you to experience IfLink for yourself. I have no doubt you will have an authentic community experience and realize its potential."

ifLink Open Community
FounderTaro Shimada
Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
OMRON Corporation
Senior Advisor, Innovation Exploring Initiative HQ
Hajime Takebayashi
“ifLink is an exciting  Eandbox for the mind.

When you were a child, didn’t you lose track of time as you played in a sandbox? In that sandbox, we could make mountains, dig tunnels, and create any kind of town or vehicle. Even if the creations crumbled a bit, that was okay. To make a new future, a new society, or a new business, it’s important to have a “sandbox for the mind Ewhere peers come together with excitement and a gleam in their eyes. I believe ifLink is an IoT platform as well as a sandbox for the mind that connects everyone’s ideas and gives form to dreams. I’m rooting for this sandbox for the mind that will change society.

Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University
OMRON Corporation
Senior Advisor, Innovation Exploring Initiative HQ
Hajime Takebayashi
Chief publications
Introduction to Innovation that Begins with a Single Individual (https://amzn.asia/d/c9q1iO7)
The Evolutionary Theory of Mobile Marketing
PMO-building Case Studies and Practice Methods & the 3-step Evolutionary Theory of Profit-making Projects, etc.

Association information

Name
ifLink Open Community (General Incorporated Association)
Date of establishment
March 2, 2020
Location
BUREX FIVE 602, 2-11-10 Shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0004
What we do
We create and provide new value in society through ifLink software, which function is to connect devices and services together. We generate opportunities to co-create user-first IoT services while people from various companies and organizations overcome those barriers and openly interact. We also seek to spread the utilization of ifLink.
Directors
Representative Director
Shunsuke Okada
Director
Masatoshi Abo
Director
Kazuhiro Noguchi
Director
Takehiro Yoshimoto
Director
Kyohei Chiba
Director
Satoru Yamada
Director
Junji Kobayashi
Auditor
Hideo Matsuoka
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