日本語 
iamYiam, a global AI health tech company specializing in improving well-being and life quality, held a roundtable on Monday, February 16, 2026, to further expand its ethical AI platform, Syd Life AI, in the Japanese market, which provides users with insights into their physical, social, environmental, meaningful, emotional and mental health.
On the day, founder and CEO Lorena Puka visited Japan and explained the background to the development, the features of “Syd,” and use cases both in Japan and overseas. Kei Koshida, director of Koshida Tech Co., Ltd., the exclusive distributor in Japan, also took to the stage.
The idea of ”AI that improves quality of life” was born from a formative experience
Born to a physicist father and an entrepreneur mother, CEO Lorena built her career in investment management with a background in mathematics and data science. While she has a diverse career that includes holding world records as an athlete, she also faced serious health challenges.
Also Read: Takeda Commits Over $1.7 Billion to AI-Driven Drug Discovery in Major Partnership with Iambic
“Ten years ago, I was diagnosed with three years to live. I had degrees in several fields, including finance, mathematics, information and economics, and had built a career at a British investment bank, but it was only then that I realised that my health was the most important thing,” he recalls.
This experience inspired him to start a company with the idea of scientifically visualizing life quality, and he embarked on seven years of research and development. He personally invested $2 million to collect and analyze over 1.2 million academic papers from around the world, and built a unique algorithm based on data and evidence from 8.3 billion person-years. This is how Syd, an AI platform that helps improve quality of life, was born, and is currently available in 26 countries around the world.
Syd Life AI: Ethical AI that visualizes the vitality of human capital
Lorena explained the algorithm that underpins Syd Life AI. The company’s in-house developed algorithm is based on peer-reviewed academic papers from world-leading research institutions, including Stanford University and Oxford University, and the information presented is based on evidence extracted by the AI from academic papers.
“Much of what is written in academic papers is difficult for non-experts to understand. For example, even if there is research that shows that drinking water improves cognitive ability, it took seven years to decipher how much of an effect that can be expressed numerically and to put it into a standardized framework,” he says.
What became clear through seven years of research was the difficulty of quantifying the concept of “health.” As governments and companies focus on “health and productivity management,” a more systematic and reproducible definition is needed to treat health as a management indicator.
Syd does not view health as a single physical state, but rather assesses it comprehensively from nine areas: physical health, emotions, society, environment, purpose, career, brain vitality, self-awareness, and financial health. By analyzing these across the board, we aim to visualize not only the quality of life of individuals, but also the vitality of human capital within an organization.
SOURCE: PRTimes
English