FY2025 CEO’s Welcome Message for New Employees

Congratulations on joining the CTC Group.

On behalf of the Group, I would like to extend a very warm welcome to you all.

The year 2025, when you become new members of society, is a year of significant change for the IT industry. What I mean is that the use of generative AI is now in full swing. While AI-related companies in North America are achieving remarkable growth, in recent months, AI start-ups in China have begun to attract attention, bringing significant changes to the world of AI with high performance and overwhelmingly low costs.

CTC is also actively working to expand our AI business with initiatives, including establishing a joint venture in Japan with Liquid AI, Inc., an MIT spin-off start-up, to jointly develop Japanese language LLMs, and starting to provide AI agents that contribute to improving customers’ business efficiency.

We highly expect you, who joined us in this significant year, to grow to be individuals who can contribute to society's development with benefits of IT. To this end, please have the following three motivations in your minds:

First of all, each of you should work on improving your individual capabilities. To enhance your capabilities, it is important to steadily carry out your daily tasks and never fail to continue learning. Set one goal, such as reading the newspaper every morning, and try to achieve it continuously. The accumulation of such daily efforts will make a significant difference in five or ten years. Persistence pays off. Please continue to have your fresh feelings at the welcoming ceremony today, set goals, and do not forget the daily efforts to achieve them.

Second, you should always have the spirit to challenge yourselves. CTC's corporate philosophy, "Challenging Tomorrow's Changes," means continuing to evolve to keep pace with even a rapidly changing world and never forgetting the spirit to challenge yourselves. I hope that you understand the meaning of this philosophy, engrave it in your hearts, and undertake your daily assignments with this in mind.

Third, you should always have the spirit of ONE TEAM. In carrying out your daily tasks, I think there will be many situations where you need the support of your senior team members and managers. Even if it is difficult to do something on your own, you can accomplish it by working together with your team members. At CTC, we are improving our performance of the entire organization by enhancing communication and making the most of each individual's skillsets. From today, as CTC employees, let's work together by exchanging ideas and exprriences as ONE TEAM to achieve great results.

With these three recommendations, I would like to conclude my address at today's welcoming ceremony.