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Lifelong Ink will continue to be a part of people's everyday lives

 

 

 

When I was appointed the CEO two years ago, I spent one year to visit our offices worldwide to meet and exchange opinion in person with our employees, what we called "team members". That was when I noticed a spark twinkling in each of their hearts. I did not know what those sparks were, but they were noticeable. I also found these sparks in the hearts of Wacom's clients and partners. We need to keep these sparks lit. Through conversations with the team members, I was moved by a strong feeling you could call a yearning. That was the impetus for why I decided to start activities to achieve a sustainable society.


We named Wacom's technology "Lifelong Ink," since our technology is an immediate part of people's lives. Lifelong Ink originates from actions such as "writing/drawing" based on people's instincts/feelings. It depicts people's trajectories; who, when, where, and in what mindset they wrote/drew. We offer technology to continue depicting the varying shades of people's lives, from joy to sadness, as they age from children to adults. The small sparks I saw in our team members, customers, and partners link with Lifelong Ink in my mind. I realized that Lifelong Ink has the power to keep those sparks lit and that this power is the value that Wacom must offer.


We sensed the need for more substantive social activities in current circumstances that are questioning company values to achieve a sustainable society. Wacom faces society in our own unique way while further exploring the potential of Lifelong Ink. Wacom’s way to seek to achieve a sustainable society is never-ending journey to ask hopeful questions – if Lifelong Ink can keep and pass the sparks Wacom related people’s heart, and if our activities may be able to change how people’s live. In order to offer Lifelong Ink as part of human life, while pursuing answers to these questions, Wacom will conduct our business and social activities for future society.


President & CEO
Nobutaka Ide


 

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Our Sparks. “The spark of love” by Jacky Yang

Our sparks meet constantly changing situations, unexpected challenges, and new opportunities. We called on our team members again to show how they see their spark in the world of today and the future.

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“Stage KOPPA”, a stage that connects stories

"Stage KOPPA" was created as a stage for Connected Ink 2020. It is a stage that changes its shape and role in response to different situations while connecting the various stories that occur there.

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Keep asking questions and moving forward / Connected Ink

Connected Ink 2020 was the beginning of a new commitment and challenge for Wacom to continue asking those eternal questions that always play in our minds.

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Our Sparks.
“Mam and Dad’s Child Interest” by Stella Wang

Our sparks meet constantly changing situations, unexpected challenges, and new opportunities. We called on our team members again to show how they see their spark in the world of today and the future.

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Our Sparks.
"A moment on an autumn mountain" by Takahiro Yamamoto

We had an internal art contest for our Social Initiatives. Let us share the existence of the spark in our team members’ hearts with their artworks.

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Online drawing class for elementary school students during stay-at-home period

Yoshinori Mita, a team member of Japan held an online drawing class together with FC KAZO and illustrator Suiiro to provide something fun for elementary school children to do during the COVID-19 stay-at-home period.

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Wacom's new initiative through soccer

As an official partner, Wacom supports FC KAZO, a soccer club in Kazo City, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. We’re excited to introduce our new initiatives with this inspiring club.

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Our Sparks.
"The spark is in you! Mirror portraits during times of isolation" by Oliver Madlener

We had an internal art contest for our Social Initiatives. Let us share the existence of the spark in our team members’ hearts with their artworks.

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Online Sketchnoting workshop for children during school closures

Our team members in Germany organized an online workshop “Young Wacom” for the children while schools were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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3. How KOPPA began /
The story of the Traveling KOPPA

KOPPA began in April 2019. Tamotsu wanted to make something that can be used again after an exhibition. We asked Team KOPPA about their thoughts.

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2. No need to destroy it anymore /
The story of the Traveling KOPPA

We put it together ourselves, set it up, put it back, then travel together again. The Traveling KOPPA, our new display furniture came to be.

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1.Meeting KOPPA /
The story of the Traveling KOPPA

KOPPA started out as a challenge: Tamotsu Ito, an architect from Japan, wanted to utilize leftover building materials. Our meeting was pure happenstance.

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Support the "lives" of artists through customer support

Alex Duffey from our Americas Support team established a new program to support artists. We asked him about a story with Ms. Devon Bragg, the artist who inspired him to establish this program.

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Our Sparks.
“That Spark Inside” by Simone Wolters

We had an internal art contest for our Social Initiatives. Let us share the existence of the spark in our team members’ hearts with their artworks.

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Marketing lecture for future engineers

We gave a marketing lecture for students who are learning to be engineers at the National Institute of Technology Tokyo College.

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Efforts by our sales member, who are responsible for a pen tablet until the very end

Every year, we take pen tablets that have been sitting in our warehouse and gift them to high school clubs and winners of high school art competitions to help students create digital contents.

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For the Future of Education
Lifelong Ink x AI

"AI Ink for Education" was developed to capture eye movement information and pen movements while learning, in order to ascertain the characteristics of learning by each student and to create an educational environment suited to each student.

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Wacom Intuos have been introduced in a school to make classes more fun and creative

Yoana Simeonova, a software designer working in Bulgaria, introduced Wacom Intuos in a school to make children's IT classes more fun.

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Publication of the children’s book “Feminism is for Boys”

Elizabeth Rhodes, a UX designer in the U.S., created and published the children's book "Feminism is for Boys" in order to show gender equality.

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The Company's basic compliance policy, such as codes, policies, and systems related to sustainability

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