Yasuhiro Ogino (b. 1985) was raised in Amsterdam and co-founded the creative collective Konel after working as a freelance engineer. As a technical director, he engages in a wide range of projects, including services, installations, and media art. As an intellectual property (Chizai) hunter, he collects impactful and versatile technologies to explore new methods of materializing creative ideas. He also serves as the CTO of ideaflow, an AI × patent-based idea generation platform.