AI-spared staff to regions, panel told at 2026年10月6日 Tokyo event

Toyama, author of 'White Collar Extinction,' argues that generative AI will replace office work such as coordination, document preparation, research, and analysis, and that this kind of work is concentrated in greater Tokyo. In his framing, the problem for new-business and HR departments within a few years will not be jobs taken by AI but where to redeploy the people and organizational capacity AI frees up.

The event's second strand is a concrete destination. Eikei University's faculty member Yoshinobu Hayata will present the university and its Social Design Center as receiving grounds for Tokyo companies, with co-creation and talent programs in Hiroshima. The panel then hands the discussion to people already making the move: Kinoshita, who joined Hiroshima Bank after a career at Recruit and became Hiragin Holdings' first female executive officer in 2024, and Tsubata, who moved from the Tokyo area to the Tsuneishi group in Hiroshima and leads its transformation.

What the evening hinges on is whether this regional-base model moves beyond individual cases. That depends largely on whether the corporate planning, HR, and new-business staff in the audience take away programs they can actually run, a question the speakers are likely to address through the practical topics of how to build a regional base and how to move people.