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SIGNATE Inc. (Head Office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shigeru Saito), a provider of AI development and data scientist human resource recruitment and development services, and Mynavi Corporation (Head Office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President and CEO: Nobuyuki Nakagawa) jointly held the first “Mynavi × SIGNATE Student Cup,” a data science competition limited to students only. They will host the award ceremony and an after-event at the JR SHINJUKU MIRAINA TOWER on December 19 (Wednesday).

In research published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in June 2016 (*), it was estimated that about 97,000 people are currently employed in advanced IT, which is a shortage of about 15,000. This shortage is expected to grow to 48,000 people by 2020. The flipside of the recent spectacular growth in the use of AI and big data is the worldwide shortage of data scientists that are indispensable for this growth.
* From “Findings of METI’s Study of Recent Trends and Future Estimates Concerning IT Human Resources”

This project is a data analysis competition whose purpose is to discover and develop talented data scientist human resources. The competition was held jointly with Mynavi Corporation, the operator of “Mynavi,” the largest recruitment information website in Japan, which supports the job seeking of students.
The theme of the competition was “J League Crowd Attendance.” The students performed predictive analysis based on data points such as past numbers, team names and the weather, and then submitted the results online. In the end, 476 people entered, with a total of 2500 submissions. An award ceremony will be held on the day for the winners. The overall winner, runner up and the third place winner will give presentations describing their solutions. Time will also be provided for the entrants to talk with data scientists who are actually working at the sponsor companies.

The event will provide the opportunity to meet students who want to be data scientists and view the presentations of the winners. If you are interested in the development of advanced IT human resources, which has become a pressing issue for society, or if you are a member of the press and wish to report from the event, please contact the SIGNATE PR representative.

“Mynavi × SIGNATE Student Cup 2018” Award Ceremony and After-event
<Outline>
Date and time: December 19 (Wednesday), 2018; 14:00 to 17:30 (reception opens at 13:30)
Location: Mynavi Room A, JR SHINJUKU MIRAINA TOWER 12F
Agenda: Opening and welcome greeting / General review of competition / Award ceremony / Winner presentations
　　　/ Pitch from sponsors / Party
<Participants>
・Students who attend school in Japan, such as a university, graduate school, technical college or vocational school
・Supervisors from sponsor companies and people who are actually working as data scientists
<Sponsor Companies (Alphabetical Order)>
Accenture Japan Ltd., Hitachi, Ltd., Information Services International-Dentsu, Ltd. (ISID),
Panasonic Corporation, Takenaka Corporation
<Webpage with Details>
https://lp.signate.jp/student-cup/