How strawberries saved my city: Hiroki Iwasa at TEDxTohoku 2012

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岩佐大輝（GRAグループ 代表） 1977年、宮城県亘理郡山元町出身。起業家。津波で被災した故郷を見て、地元での起業を決意。高齢化率32%の土地で専門のITサービスマネジメントを用いた「農業」、地域の未来を担う山元町の中学生への「キャリア教育」、経営資源の共有を促す「人的交流」を行い、「農業・教育・交流」の三本柱で故郷の変革を行う。GRAグループ（NPO法人GRA、農業生産法人株式会社GRA）では10年で100社10000人の雇用を創造する事をミッションとする。好きな言葉は「甘酸っぱい」。現在、8つの会社の代表を務めながら、甘酸っぱい街を作るため奮闘中。 Hiroki Iwasa（Entrepreneur, agriculture, IT Head of GRA Group） Born in 1977, at Yamamoto town, Watari District, Miyagi Prefecture. Entrepreneur. He decided to establish his own business in his hometown, after seeing it devastated by the tsunami. He engaged in bringing about a revolution to his hometown in three main areas: agriculture, education, and interaction: Agriculture that uses professional IT Service Management for the town with 32% of aging population rate; Career education for the Yamamoto-cho junior high school students who are the future of the town; and interaction with different people in order to share the management resources. His aim in the GRA Group (a NPO, Farming corporation, joint stock company GRA) is to employ 10,000 people in 10 years in 100 companies. Mr. Iwasa is the head of 8 companies, and works to build a "sweet-sour" city. (By sweet-sour, he refers to that moment when your heart skips with that indescribable mixed feeling of happiness, anticipation and anxiety - like falling in love.) In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)