About
Masato Takagi is an AI Transformation / DX Leader at Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd., a global specialty pharmaceutical company, where he leads enterprise-wide AI and digital transformation across business units.
He established the company's default enterprise LLM foundation by deploying M365 Copilot alongside an in-house generative AI platform built on Azure, delivering an estimated 350,000+ hours in productivity gains company-wide. In 2025, he led the implementation of ChatGPT Enterprise, reducing external costs by approximately ¥80M annually. In 2026, he is driving a multi-LLM strategy — running PoCs across Claude, Gemini, and other frontier models — and strategically deploying them enterprise-wide with ROI-backed governance.
He also built the company's AI engineering team from the ground up, growing it to a six-member organization that has delivered 45 in-house (scratch-built) AI solutions over the past three years. His earlier initiatives include ¥100M in annual cost reductions through DocuSign implementation and 100,000+ hours saved through UiPath automation.