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FOR EXECUTIVES, DIRECTORS, AND CxOs
Two days of participatory panel discussion between executives at the frontier and AI specialists.
- DatesSat, Apr 17 - Sun, Apr 18, 2027Rescheduled from Nov 7 - 8, 2026
- VenuePLH Sanuki, Sanuki City, Kagawa
Registration open
It does not mean adding AI as another tool. It means redesigning management itself on the premise of AI.
Business
Not making things faster with AI, but shifting to customer value and revenue models that only hold up because AI is there
Organization
Dropping the assumption that headcount runs the work, and recasting roles and accountability across people and AI
Decisions
Redrawing who decides what, and when, on the premise that AI supplies the material
There is no textbook for this yet. Nobody has been doing it for ten years. So these two days are not lectures: they are participatory panel discussions where executives already doing the work bring their own designs.
* This is built for executives who already run an AI company of their own. If you do not have one yet, you can still join: you build it in Track A on day one (the AI Company Build Workshop), then join the panel discussions on day two.
ABOUT
Two days to rebuild around AI and leave with your company’s own answers.
This is not two days of listening to talks. Sessions run as participatory panel discussions, with executives and AI practitioners debating in the same room. Day 1 is a full day on either your own AI implementation or your organization design; Day 2 moves through the themes of AI-native management and turns business, organization and decision-making into a single blueprint for your company.
What a participatory panel is.
- The floor comes to you, again and again.The moderator and panelists drive the discussion and keep turning it over to the participants.
- Small enough for everyone to speak.Each session stays at a size where every person can describe their own company and push back, so the number of seats per round is limited.
- Start from real cases.Panelists bring what they actually run, the implementation and the operating detail, not generalities.
What you take home after two days
- 01
One blueprint for your company.
Turn how you will reshape the business, organization, and decisions into one page you can use on Monday.
- 02
A working form, in your hands.
Depending on your track, take home either a working system or the implementation and operating detail other companies actually use.
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Your next decisions, settled.
Build or buy, where people should move, and who decides what. Leave with answers for your own company.
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PROGRAM
Two-Day Program
On Day 1 you choose Track A or Track B and stay with it all day.
AAbout to build.
AI Company Build Workshop
Companies that do not have an AI company yet, or that stalled at using chat.
This summit is a room for executives who already have an AI company. If you do not have one yet, you build yours in this track on Day 1 and join from there. It is not an exchange of practice but a full-day workshop, with instructors and participants. Three instructors lead the day: you stand up the environment, lay your own departments and roles onto the AI side, connect your own data, and settle the operating rules, all with your hands on the keyboard that day. By evening your AI company is running, and you carry it into the panel discussions on Day 2. Limited to fifty seats.
This is the AI-company build portion of our AI-Native Management Retreat, condensed into a single day. The retreat runs two nights and three days, is capped at ten participants per session, and includes individual coaching, system development, and putting the AI company to work across day-to-day operations. This track is a group format for up to fifty, and covers the build itself. System development and the operational work are not included in this single day.
BAlready running one.
AI-Native Organization Panel
Executives already running an AI company, now stuck on how to change the company itself.
This room has no instructor. It is not about sharpening the machinery you already have, but a level up from that: how a company actually gets to being AI-native. Nobody can hand you the answer here yet, so executives who are already doing the work bring what happened at their own companies and argue it out. Four blocks in order - organizational design, technical fundamentals, what breaks when you scale, and talent and security. You receive a copy of the book "AI-Native Organization".
DAY 01Saturday, April 17
10:00 - 10:30
01Plenary
Keynote
Reconsider how to redesign management, organization, and decision-making with AI as the premise. Clarify the difference between the two tracks, the connection across both days, and the deliverables your company will take home.
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AI Company Build Workshop
10:40 - 18:1010:40 - 18:10
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AI Company Build Workshop
One full day, one AI company: yours. Three instructors lead the day, and you go from the morning inventory to a running setup by evening, with your hands on it the whole way.
- 10:40 - 12:10Assess Where You StandLay out the work still done by hand and the AI adoption that stalled, then pick the first thing to hand over and the order to work through the rest.
- 12:10 - 13:10Social LunchYou break at the same time as everyone else, and can leave your work half-built on the table.
- 13:10 - 14:40Setup, Part 1Stand up the environment, set the roles of people, AI, and agents, and run the first workflow, chosen from real work.
- 14:55 - 16:25Setup, Part 2Connect it to your own data, then settle the scope you hand over, who approves a change, and how you roll back when something breaks.
- 16:40 - 18:10Ready to Use TomorrowRun it on live work data, then finish the internal guide you will hand out and what happens next week.
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B
AI-Native Organization Panel
10:40 - 18:1010:40 - 18:10
02-B
AI-Native Organization Panel
A full day of putting practice on the table around one question: how a company actually gets to being AI-native. There is no instructor. Executives already running an AI company open four blocks in order and trade what they know.
- 10:40 - 12:10AI-Native Organization TheoryDesign the chain of command for an organization where people and AI both work. Who orchestrates it and how, where the line of judgment falls between people and AI, and what operating pattern keeps it from collapsing back onto one person. You leave with a lens for redrawing your own org chart with AI as the premise.
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- 12:10 - 13:10Social LunchYou break at the same time as everyone else. The morning's argument carries on at the table.
- 13:10 - 14:40Technical FundamentalsTreat model selection and AI cost as management decisions. Which model goes where, where token and operating costs quietly balloon, and what monthly number you hold to. You leave able to explain your AI cost structure in your own words.
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- 14:55 - 16:25Notes for EnterpriseSort the issues that appear when individual use spreads across departments and sites. Where access design separates from data governance, how to govern data that crosses sites, and how to make it stick on the floor. You leave with the list of things to settle before you scale.
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- 16:40 - 18:10AI-Savvy Talent and SecurityGrow people who can use AI while protecting what the company must protect. What separates those who use it from those who do not, how training, evaluation, and placement connect to HR systems, and where the line falls on information you must protect. You get as far as a draft of internal rules covering both.
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18:30 - 19:00
03Plenary
Bridge to Day 2
Share the results of both tracks and the obstacles likely to arise after returning to the company. Organize Day 1's issues and choose the question to bring into one of Day 2's time slots.
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19:30 - 21:30
Networking DinnerDAY 02Sunday, April 18
10:00 - 10:30
01Plenary
Keynote
Redrawing the blueprint for management, with AI as the premise. What turns from cost into asset, and where you buy speed of decision. A map of the time slots this day opens up.
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10:40 - 12:00
02-AAdministration
The Back Office Keeps Only Approvals Human
Address accountability when accounting, billing, and contracts are automated with AI. Define human approvals, month-end close and audit, and the division of responsibility when an error occurs.
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02-BEngineering
How Far Can You Build Without Developers?
Consider how far to bring outsourced development in-house with AI and your own company. Discuss the boundary between in-house and outsourced work, how to proceed without developers, and the maintenance structure after delivery.
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12:00 - 13:00
Social Lunch13:00 - 14:20
03-AMarketing
More Output, Not More People
Rebuild marketing when the very means of getting known is changing with AI. Discuss how to hold quality as output volume rises, how the mix across search, social, and paid is shifting, and what to write when AI is the first reader.
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03-BFinance & Planning
Take Headcount Out of the Business Plan
Address business planning where AI changes assumptions about labor costs and productivity. Organize the unit of investment return, figures you can explain to banks and investors, and the plan's underlying structure.
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14:30 - 15:50
04-ASales
Decide Where People Still Meet
Recast the work around the sales conversation with AI. Discuss how prospects are found and narrowed, how far preparation can be handed over, and which moments still call for a person in the room.
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04-BPeople
Where People Go When the Work Shrinks
Address development of AI-capable talent and redeployment from departments where work decreases. Design hiring and evaluation criteria, ways to close adoption gaps, and destinations for surplus staff.
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16:00 - 17:20
05-AContent Production
Hands Off Production, Eyes On Quality
Design how your company produces its own content with AI and people, from books to film and video. Cover the division of concepting and production, how quality is held, and the flow from rights checks to release.
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05-BLegal & Security
Draw the Line Around What You Automate
Address the legal and information-security questions that arrive once AI is running in production. Discuss contracts, copyright, and confidentiality boundaries, how external data and models are handled, and what to have ready when something goes wrong.
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17:30 - 18:50
06-ALeadership
CEO Clone
Carry the CEO's decision criteria, context, and voice into the company. Cover how to accumulate information, the boundary between delegated decisions and those retained by the CEO, and the first blueprint.
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06-BCorporate Development
Build or Buy: Redraw the Criteria
Reassess choices among in-house development, acquisition, and new ventures with AI as the premise. Discuss valuing acquisition targets, build-or-buy criteria, and launching a new venture with a small team.
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19:00 - 19:20
07Plenary
Closing
Bringing the discussions together into your own blueprint. Put the answers from the themes you chose onto a single page, down to who starts on what come Monday.
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19:30 - 21:30
Networking DinnerTimes, session content, and pairings are being finalized and may change. Instructors and speakers will be announced first to those who requested information.
View the Spring 2026 programAI NATIVE RETREAT
We recommend the Retreat before the Summit
Track A on day one (the AI Company Build Workshop) packages just the setup portion of the three-day AI Native Management Retreat into a single day. If you build your AI company at the Retreat first, you can spend day one in Track B, in the discussion of AI-native management itself. You take more home from the same two days, so this is the route we recommend.
MESSAGE
AI changes more than the speed of work.
It changes how businesses are conceived and how management decisions are made.
I have brought Claude into contract review, consolidated accounting, and in-house system development. But making individual tasks more efficient is not, by itself, AI-native management.
The real question is not what AI can make faster. It is what customer value we can create, what businesses we can build, and how we redesign who decides what, with AI as the foundation.
The Summit brings together executives already advancing their use of AI and AI specialists to debate the design of business, competitive advantage, and decision-making.
Let us shape the next decade of management, together, from here.
Takeshi IzukaOrganizer, Sanuki Global Forum
Registration for the AI-Native Management Summit 2027.
Who takes part
This is not a place to sit and listen. Sessions run as participatory panel discussions, and everyone in the room joins the debate. It is designed for those who fit any one of the following.
- 01A market leader in AI-native managementreviewedOne day or two days
- 02Already running an AI company in-housereviewedTwo days
- 03Want to run an AI company in-houseTwo days (required)
- 04A graduate of the AI-Native Management RetreatOne day or two days
Fee (tax incl.)One day ¥98,000Two days ¥118,800
Both two-day and one-day registration are completed directly on this page. Graduates of the AI-Native Management Retreat have their own fee (see “2-Day Registration (Retreat graduates)” in the registration section). The fee that applies is the one in effect when your payment completes.
Because everyone joins the discussion, the room is kept small enough for each person to speak. Registration is first come, first served, and closes once the seats are taken.
If the seats are taken, we will give you first notice of the next edition.
2-Day Registration
Plenaries plus one selected session in each parallel slot
¥118,800
Until Oct 15, 2026 23:59 JST, first 30 seats (27 left)
2-Day Registration (Retreat graduates)
For graduates of the AI-Native Management Retreat. Enter the graduate code you received on completion
¥79,200
Until Oct 15, 2026 23:59 JST, first 30 seats (27 left)
Scheduled price changes (2-day, tax incl.)
| Period | General | Retreat graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Until Oct 15, 2026 23:59 JST, first 30 seats | ¥118,800 | ¥79,200 |
| Until Nov 30, 2026 23:59 JST | ¥138,600 | ¥92,400 |
| Until Jan 15, 2027 23:59 JST | ¥158,400 | ¥105,600 |
| Until Feb 28, 2027 23:59 JST | ¥178,200 | ¥118,800 |
| From Mar 1, 2027 | ¥198,000 | ¥132,000 |
* Prices change on the dates shown. The price that applies is the one in effect when your payment completes. The first 30 seats are counted across general and graduate registrations in order of completed payment; once 30 are taken the next price applies even before the date. All prices include tax and are per person.
1-Day Registration (4/17)
One full-day track plus plenaries
¥98,000
1-Day Registration (4/18)
Plenaries plus one selected session in each time slot
¥98,000
What's included (2-Day Registration)
- Plenary and selected sessions across both days
- Networking dinner on both evenings
- Lunch on both days
- Transcripts of every session, including the ones you did not attend
- Free airport shuttle
ORGANIZER
A forum in Sanuki, Kagawa, where entrepreneurs from Japan and abroad discuss AI, global business, and the future of the region. This summit grew from the relationships and discussions formed here.
Explore the Sanuki Global ForumWhat the program covers, how the two days run, and the fee: we send materials and the latest updates by email. One-day registration opens to those who requested information first. We also offer an information session for those who would like one.
- Venue
- PLH Sanuki1615 Kanzaki, Sangawa-cho, Sanuki City, Kagawa 769-2323
- By plane
- About 80 min from Haneda (ANA / JAL), about 95 min from Narita (Jetstar), both into Takamatsu Airport (TAK)Check the airport timetable
- Shuttle
- A free shuttle runs between Takamatsu Airport and the venue (about 40 min each way). Free for participants; advance reservation required
- Sat, Apr 17OutboundAirport dep. 8:30 / 9:20 / 11:30ReturnVenue dep. 19:00, airport 19:40 (planned)
- Sun, Apr 18OutboundAirport dep. 8:30 / 9:20ReturnVenue dep. 19:30, airport 20:10 (planned)
- By train
- 4 min walk from JR Kanzaki Station (Kotoku Line). The venue is right in front of the station
- By car
- 5 min from Tsuda-Samukawa IC on the Takamatsu Expressway. Free parking
- By highway bus
- Get off at Kosoku-Tsuda Bus Stop, about 12 min by car to the venueWe can pick you up at the bus stop on prior request
Yes. Graduates of the AI-Native Management Retreat automatically qualify to attend. To use the graduate fee (“2-Day Registration (Retreat graduates)” in the registration section), enter the graduate code you received on completion; if you do not have it, contact sanuki@plh.life. On day one you can join Track B (the AI-native organization panel) for executives who already run an AI company.
Yes. Day one is split into tracks by where your company stands, including one for executives just starting out. No prior knowledge is required.
If you are not yet running AI systems in-house, choose "About to build." If you already are and want to compare notes with other companies, choose "Already running one." You can ask to change before the program starts; during day one, you stay with the track you selected.
No. Day two has two parallel sessions in each time slot. Choose one for that slot, then choose afresh when the next time slot begins.
It depends on which condition you come under. Market leaders in AI-native management and graduates of the AI-Native Management Retreat can choose one-day registration. If you want to run an AI company in-house, two-day registration is required: day one puts your foundations in order before day two opens the discussion. Those already running an AI company in-house are expected to attend both days. One-day registration will be announced first to those who requested information.
Registration is open. Both two-day and one-day passes can be purchased directly in the registration section of this page. Your seat is confirmed when payment completes, and a confirmation email follows.
Yes, there is no screening. Sessions run as participatory panel discussions in which everyone joins the debate, so the “Who takes part” section describes who the summit is designed for. If any of it fits you, simply register.
Yes, the venue sets a limit. Registration is first come, first served and closes once the seats are taken; if that happens we will give you first notice of the next edition. Taking part in the AI-Native Management Retreat also puts you on the priority list for the next summit.
The two-day structure and session topics are as shown in the program section of this page. Times and parallel pairings are being finalized and may change. Speakers will be announced first to those who requested information.
If you notify us by email at least 30 days before the opening day, we will refund your fee less the payment processing fee (3.96% of the fee). From 29 to 14 days before the opening day, refunds are not available, but you may transfer to a session we offer (the next summit or an AI Native Management Retreat). From 13 days before the opening day onward, neither refunds nor transfers are available. Substitute attendees are welcome; please contact us at sanuki@plh.life by the day before the event. Requests are dated by the day your email reaches us. For the full terms (in Japanese), see the Legal Notice at https://www.globalforum.jp/ja/tokushoho.
If we cancel the event, we refund the full fee. If we change the dates or venue and the new schedule does not work for you, contact us at sanuki@plh.life and we will refund the full fee.
There is no specific dress code. Business casual is recommended.
Free parking is available nearby. As spots are limited, please use public transportation if possible.
Lunch is included with 2-Day and 1-Day Registration.
Yes. With a credit card issued in Japan (Visa, Mastercard, JCB or Diners Club), you can choose installments, revolving payment or bonus payment on the checkout page after entering your card number. Available options vary by card; American Express and cards issued outside Japan are not eligible. Any installment fees are set by your card issuer.
A PDF receipt will be sent to your registered email address after payment is completed.