Here is a link on the KVR Audio News website to an article “The MIDI Association Honors the life of Ikutaro Kakehashi, Founder of Roland” (https://www.kvraudio.com/news/the-midi-association-honors-the-life-of-ikutaro-kakehashi-founder-of-roland-66585).
The MIDI Association website (https://midi.org/) has links to quite a few lifetime achievement honorees: (Lifetime Achievement Award Winners – MIDI.org). I signed up for the site as another access to learn more about about this segment of the music production industry.
Also, there is a notice of the passing of another MIDI great.