initie JP

Learn from the past.Make the first move.

Based in Tokyo, initie works across events, engineering, design and data — helping turn concepts into their first working move.

01 OriginWhat is initie?

Initiator
One who begins. Turns a concept into its first working move.
Inishie
“Inishie” (いにしえ) is Japanese for the distant past. Learn from what came before — code, data, history.
init
Process ID 1. Every system starts from init. The origin of engineering.

02 ServicesWhat we do

event / design

Global M&E

Production, strategy and staffing for meetings & events — MICE above all. Registration, venue tech and remote-speaker operations, plus the creative: invitations and collateral. In Japan and worldwide.

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Centered on pharma and IT, we cover everything from international conferences to lecture meetings and clinical-trial briefings of a few dozen attendees. Planning, run-of-show design, technical direction of venue AV and streaming — the design and PM of the event itself.

An event floor runs on many professionals working together. Depending on the project, we assemble a team with trusted partner companies — or join an agency’s structure as one of its members. Having worked both sides, prime and partner, we know how to fit into any production, whatever the seat.

Creative — invitations, announcements and other collateral — is produced and delivered through workflows built around pharma-industry review and regulatory requirements.

engineer

Software Development

A purpose-built check-in & registration system, developed in-house and deployed at medical conferences across the field. Design, implementation, show-day operation.

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Contract development of business systems: from requirements definition through design and implementation to post-launch operational design, end to end.

The working example is our in-house check-in & registration system. Participant check-in, name-badge generation, QR/barcode operation, MR attendance tracking — designed around the requirements specific to medical lecture meetings, and deployed at venues across the field.

Our edge is that we still stand on the event floor ourselves. We see how staff actually move on the day, where operations stumble — the requirements that never appear in a spec sheet — so post-launch follow-up is designed with real depth. Engineer and floor operator in one: that is the difference from a division-of-labor dev shop.

data

Data Analysis & Research

Statistical analysis and visualization that turn accumulated records into material for decisions — delivered as reports.

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Attendance histories, surveys, sales records — the data your company has already accumulated is an asset not yet put to work. Through statistical analysis and visualization (Tableau and more), we extract decision material from that asset and deliver reports that read not as tally sheets but as “what to do next.”

With graduate work in science & technology policy and innovation analysis at the University of Edinburgh (UK), we also take on research-trend surveys and desk research into policy and technology trends.

03 OperatorBackground

Economics at Temple University (US), then an MSc in Science and Technology in Society at the University of Edinburgh (UK), with Distinction — including a stint as a design-history research assistant. Since then: medical conferences on the ground and global projects as a PM, handling the code, the data and the design first-hand.

Ren Makishima

Global Event Strategist / Principal of initie

IPA Applied Information Technology Engineer / Statistics Certification Grade 2 / Tableau Desktop Specialist

04 ProfileBusiness details

Trade name
initie
Location
Yokohama, Kanagawa, JP
Since
2018

05 ContactGet in touch

For consultations and inquiries, email us anytime. Past work and case studies are available on request.