COMPANY PROFILE

 
Innovation for Society

Representative Greeting

We were founded with the mission of contributing to the development of society, based on many years of research results at Hokkaido University.

Since our founding, we have consistently strived to create innovative technologies and provide products and services that meet the needs of society. Including medical institutions, and we are proud that it helps support everyone's secure and safe lives.

In recent years, society has changed dramatically, and new challenges are arising one after another. We will continue to meet society's expectations by accurately grasping these changes and consistently engaging in research and development that looks ahead to the future.

Going forward, while receiving your continued support and encouragement, we will strive for even greater development.

We humbly ask for your continued guidance and support.

Company Philosophy

In modern society, we are seeing revolutionary advances in IT technology, especially in generative AI and AGI, but if we look at the human brain (and brain-related activities) and the body (and body-related activities), the former currently has overwhelming momentum over the latter due to advances in IT and AI technology. As a finite life form (individual) that metabolizes (ingests food and breathes), there is a concern that unless a similar revolutionary change is made in a positive sense also for the body that contains the brain, the imbalance between the brain and the body will continue to grow to a critical level.

It would be extremely desirable if humans could overcome this problem, improve their physicality in line with advances in IT and AI technology, and finally evolve into "Life Form 2.0." This would also be desirable for the brain, which is only a part (subset) of the body.

Based upon our original technology, molecular diffusion ventilation (hereafter referred to as molecular ventilation), we have realized and expanded a highly clean environment and good air-quality systems. We would like to open up new horizons in the diagonal direction (as a parallelogram of forces) by adding up the vectors of the “Environment and Energy” field (which has an affinity with the human body through metabolism and so called SDGs), which is one of the two major trends that are extremely important in modern society but are not necessarily well combined at present, and the vector of the other important trend, the “IT/AI” field (which, in contrast, has an affinity with the brain).


Company Profile

CompanyC'sTEC Corp.
Chief Executive OfficerAkira Ishibashi

CEO Biography

1982-1983 Research Assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA 
1983-2002Sony Corporation Research Center 
1990-1991John Bardeen Chair Visiting Faculty, Dept. of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA
1993Achieved the world's first room-temperature continuous-wave operation of a blue semiconductor laser.
1998Visiting Professor, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku University
2003 - March 2024Professor, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University; concurrently, Professor, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University
2007 - June 2023Director and CTO, C'sTEC Co., Ltd.
2024-PresentProfessor Emeritus, Hokkaido University
2024-PresentDirector, Project researcher, Ishibashi Architects and Associates, Saga, Japan
2024-PresentCEO, Hokkaido University-certified startup C'sTEC Corporation, Tokyo, Japan