Hiroaki Watanabe

Hiroaki is an AI product leader and data scientist focused on autonomous systems, Physical AI and execution governance, with more than 10 years of experience building and scaling enterprise AI, analytics and automation products across the UK, Europe and Japan. His background spans LLMs, workflow automation, IoT-scale analytics, MLOps and real-time production systems. His current work focuses on how autonomous AI systems can operate safely and accountably when taking actions across software, infrastructure and operational workflows, with particular interests in authorisation, execution risk, auditability and governance.