Message from CEO

The year 2025 marked a period of significant change, with accelerating technological innovations centered on cloud computing and AI, and growing momentum for reorganization across the IT sector. Building on this trend, the year 2026 is expected to see the full-scale adoption of AI and further advancement of cloud technologies, leading to a new acceleration of IT investment across enterprises and social infrastructures. In addition, initiatives to ensure sustainability and enhance security are becoming key themes for the entire industry, and the role of IT will evolve into a more strategic one.

CTC has honed our expertise in our focus areas—cloud-native, data and analytics, security, and advanced AI—to support digital transformation (DX) of a wide range of customers across industries and sectors that underpin Japan’s infrastructure, including manufacturing, financial services and the public sector. We have a proven track record in delivering tangible results with our support for cloud migration and AI adoption.

FY2026 will be the final year of CTC Group’s medium-term management plan, “Into Unprecedented Territories.” Guided by the following three fundamental policies that we consider essential, we aim to establish ourselves as one of the top system integrator market leaders:

• Elevate technological capabilities: Establish new business models leveraging generative AI and cloud technologies
• Enhance talent acquisition capability: Develop human resources with advanced expertise and promote diverse work styles
• Drive brand value: Strengthen our presence as an IT partner that contributes to solving social challenges

This year is also regarded as the inaugural year of the diffusion of AI agents and the commercial use of physical AI. CTC will accelerate the development of internal guidelines for the technologies and generative AI-driven development, ramping up our forward-looking initiatives. Furthermore, through deeper collaboration with the ITOCHU digital business group, we will provide added value to customers starting from the upstream stages of their initiatives, while further strengthening our role as a strategic partner.

We will continue to take on new challenges for “Making the World GOOD” by combining the power of information technologies to address social issues, based on our corporate philosophy, “Challenging Tomorrow’s Changes”.

This year as well, we look forward to creating new values together with all of our stakeholders as we forge a path toward a better future.

January 1, 2026
Tatsushi Shingu
President & CEO
ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation