Kazuhiro Gomi, president and CEO of NTT Research Inc., is one of the key speakers at PLDT Enterprise’s annual Philippine Digital Convention (PH Digicon) to be held online Oct. 28-30.

In a plenary session, Gomi, who has been with the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) Group for 35 years, is scheduled to speak about “The Impact of Research and Innovation” drawing from his extensive experience and expertise in the field of fundamental and high-impact research.

Gomi joined NTT Ltd., a Japanese telecommunications company, in 1985 and conducted research and development on voice recognition-related technology. In 1998, he became the director of NTT Cyber Communications Laboratory Group of General Planning. Before assuming his current post with NTT Research, he was the president and CEO of NTT America Inc.

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In 2009, Gomi landed on the Global Telecoms Business Power100.

NTT Research is the global R&D arm of NTT for fundamental and basic research fields. The 2020 Global Fortune 500 ranked the Japanese tech giant NTT as the third-largest IT service provider in the world. 

Digicon 2020

With the theme “IMPACT,” the three-day virtual event will be hosted and moderated by Cathy Yang, FVP and Group Communications Officer of the PLDT Group. In the past six years, PH Digicon served as the venue for industry and thought leaders in technology to come together and drive technological enablement among enterprises.