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Attending the event's opening ceremony were representatives from Osaka city (the organizers of the event) as well as from other governmental authorities and tourism and exhibition industry members. Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau President Hiroshi Mizohata was also in attendance. MIchiteru Kashiwagi, chief of the Osaka City Government Economic Strategy Bureau, began with opening remarks expressing the event's status as a major first step towards economic activity, and his desire for all attendees to build up new business opportunities together while overcoming the pandemic and aiming for the post-pandemic era. Norihisa Hamada, chairman of the Japan Exhibition Association, as well as Morikatsu Yoshida, vice chairman of the Nippon Display Federation, also addressed the audience.

Afterwards, OCTB President Mizohata spoke, declaring "With the goal of Japan becoming a forefront travel destination in 2030, we are aiming for Osaka to be Japan's top runner in tourism and MICE. Through this event we would like to share the right way to hold MICE events, and to make a declaration for in-person events."

The guest speakers all then came forward to cut the ceremonial ribbon. It was at this moment that the MICE industry received its next vital push forward here in Osaka towards restarting and revitalizing economic activity.

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In the zone set aside for seminars, different experts on infectious disease control as well as MICE industry specialists are giving seminars and talk sessions on recent trends and success stories seen in the events industry.

Today's sessions saw discussions on the latest information and measures put into place by infectious disease control guidelines for exhibitions, as well as on how the live music scene in Kansai will be pushing past the pandemic, among other topics.