NEWS RELEASE

May 25, 2022

OPEN8 offers video editing cloud "Video BRAIN" to elementary and junior high schools nationwide for free.
Tokyo – May 25, 2022 –Under the government’s GIGA Schools Initiative, which supports high-speed and large-capacity
IT network connections to each school and provides PCs/Tablets to all elementary and secondary school pupils by 2023,
OPEN8 will begin offering a subscription plan for Elementary and Junior High Schools at no cost. It is compatible with thestudent’s terminals and implements video templates for students and pupils to take advantage of the characteristics andstrengths of ICT utilization in education and learning and play an important role in achieving the objectives of the newCourses of Study.
We will support the acquisition of independent, interactive, and deep learning by presenting video content of collaboration
with classmates, children in other grades and schools, and people in the community.
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Features for elementary and junior high schools’ Free Plan

Support for students’ PC/tablets
Supports Windows PCs and Chromebooks, which are among the standard specifications for students’ terminals recommended
by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) in the GIGA School Initiative.
Video templates for children and students
Video BRAIN for corporate users includes templates that can be used in a variety of business situations, such as productintroductions, sales materials, and recruitment, while the free plan for elementary and junior high schools includes templates
that can be used in the classroom, such as self-introductions and community PR. A video manual explaining the operation of
the tool along with templates for children and students is also included, creating an environment in which teachers and staff
can learn how to use the tool without any trouble.
Example of template for elementary and junior high schools
Self-introduction templates
You can create a self-introduction video by entering your name, a
picture of yourself, and your hobbies.
It is a cute template with icons with movement installed so that even
early elementary school students can enjoy creating videos. If you
input your name and hobbies in hiragana, you can complete a video
in about 30 minutes.

Club Activities Template
This template can be used to introduce the club activities (or extracurriculum activities) to which you belong.
You can insert member introductions, scenes of daily activities,competitions in which the club has participated, and awards it has won,
and use it as an introduction to the club for new students and as a reporton its activities over the past year.

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Templates to promote your local communities
This is a template that can be used to promote the region in which
you live.
Silhouette images of all prefectures are stored in the library, and you
can select a silhouette of the prefecture you live in and insert it into
the video or use the template to introduce special products andfamous sightseeing spots.

Templates to introduce SDG activities

This is a video template that allows you to compile a report on
familiar initiatives that children and students can take to help realize
a sustainable society by simply inserting photos, videos, and subtitles.

Team function for collaborative video editing by classes, groups, and clubs/teams
A team function is provided so that multiple people can work together to edit a single video. Teachers and staff members canjoin each team, allowing them to review the video as it is being created, provide advice as needed, and manage the progressof the creation process. Teachers and staff with administrative privileges can change the users belonging to a team at any time,and it is easy to add a new user when a student moves to a new class or moves to a new school.
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How to apply:

Eligible educational institutions: Elementary and junior high schools are among the schools specified in Article 1 of theSchool Education Law.
Applicants: Teachers and staff members belonging to elementary or junior high schools
Please contact us through the e-mail address below with the required information and the e-mail address issued by theeducational institution.
- Name of school to which you belong- Location of your school- Title and Name
edu-info@open8.com

NEWS RELEASEABOUT Open8 Inc.,
Open8 is the Content Technology company that develops our own AI technology centered on natural language
processing and computer vision and possesses "OPEN8 CORE TECHNOLOGY" which consists of algorithm
and software modules.
Based on our original concept: "AI x SaaS to become a growth driver of every companies’ information
distribution strategy", we support delivering information by companies in any industry through the provision ofAPIs such as the automatic video generation function, "Video BRAIN," video editing cloud service, by combining
our expertise in video content production and distribution know-how cultivated in the video advertising businessand video media business, and the SNS posting and analysis service "Insight BRAIN".
We are proud to announce that we’re the 2019 Red Herring Top 100 Asia Winner, an award given by Red
Herring to innovative private technology ventures in Asia.
(1) SaaS BusinessProviding "Video BRAIN", our business video editing could service.
Once you upload media such as photos and text, the AI engine analyzes the data and creates a video with astoryline. Many companies, including major corporations, have adopted our service for a wide range ofpurposes, regardless of business or the type of work, including PR, manuals, and recruiting content.
Also, there are a video distribution platform and analysis functions included in the service, so that we canprovide the one-stop service from planning to production and analysis of video contents.
- No.1 Automatic Video Generation Sales Share, 2 years in a row (*1)
- No.1 AI video editing tool for marketers (*2)
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Providing "OPEN8 CORE TECHNOLOGY" which consists of algorithm and software modules as an API. It canbe used as a stand-alone solution or in combination with multiple technologies and it’s also able to be usedfollowing corporate needs.
Also, building our unique model based on the private data from the businesses and developing it to original
solutions in combination with “OPEN8 CORE TECHNOLOGY”.

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