PROGRAM
*Simultaneous interpretation will be provided.
*Honorifics and titles omitted, in no particular order.
*Speakers' details (Name, Title, Affiliation, Profile, etc.) posted on this website are as of May 10, 2017
*Please be advised that agenda, speakers, presentation themes may be subject to change.
Monday, May 29 [ AM ]
9:50～10:00
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Welcome address by host organizations
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10:00～10:30
Lecture
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"How the IoT Will Disrupt Future Industries"
- Tolga Kurtoglu
- CEO, Palo Alto Research Center, USA
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10:30～11:00
Lecture
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" 'Declaration beyond' - for a Richer Future with 5G"
- Kazuhiro Yoshizawa
- President, CEO and Member of the Board of Directors, NTT DOCOMO, Japan
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11:00～11:30
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"Impact of IoT on the Global Consumer Tech Market"
- Steve Koenig
- Senior Director of Market Research, Consumer Technology Association (CTA), USA
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11:50～13:10
Session1 |
"Industry 4.0 Driven by 5G Network and IoT"
- New mobile networks being developed as 5G promise to not only advance mobile phone and smartphone communications, but also play a significant role in realization of an IoT society of mutual communications among many types of devices.
This session considers how the new infrastructure might change society and the industrial world.
Panelist - Mikael Eriksson
- President and Representative Director, Ericsson Japan K.K.
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- Li Sanqi
- CTO of Products and Solutions, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China
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- Hans Thalbauer
- Senior Vice President, IoT and Digital Supply Chain, SAP, Germany
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- Kohsuke Matsuzaki
- Representative Director, Schneider Electric Japan, Inc.
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Moderator - Waichi Sekiguchi
- Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
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Monday, May 29 [ PM ]
14:20～14:50
Lecture |
"IT Pioneers the Travel Booking to the Next Level"
- Gillian Tans
- CEO, Booking.com, Netherlands
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14:50～15:20
Lecture |
"Accelerating the Digital Transformation Around the Globe"
- Keith Krach
- Chairman, DocuSign Inc., USA
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15:20～15:50
Lecture |
"IT Startups Trends and Prediction in the U.S."
- Carl W. Hoffman
- CEO and Co-Founder, Basis Technology Corporation, USA
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16:10～17:30
Session2 |
"New Business Created by AI and Big Data"
- Artificial intelligence (AI) is attracting strong interest as advances in computing technology allow for use of “deep learning,” a machine learning methodology. It has obtained capabilities that exceed human beings in image recognition, playing “go,” and certain other areas.
This session looks at ways of utilizing AI in the future, including introductions of initiatives at various companies, from the standpoint of AI contributions to business.
Panelist - Chih-Han Yu
- CEO and Co-Founder, Appier, Taiwan
- Catherine Havasi
- CEO and Co-Founder, Luminoso Technologies, USA
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- Masataka Osaki
- Japan Country Manager, VP Corporate Sales, NVIDIA Corporation, USA
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- K. Ananth Krishnan
- Executive Vice President and CTO, Tata Consultancy Services, India
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Moderator - Keiichi Murayama
- Commentator, Editorial Bureau, Nikkei Inc.
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Tuesday, May 30 [ AM ]
9:50～10:20
Lecture |
"Human Centric Innovation: Digital Co-creation"
- Tatsuya Tanaka
- Representative Director, President, Fujitsu Limited, Japan
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10:20～10:50
Lecture |
"Digital Industrial Transformation Enabling a Sustainable Society"
- Takashi Niino
- President and CEO (Representative Director), NEC Corporation, Japan
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10:50～11:10
Lecture |
"The Current Situation and the Latest Trends in Fintech"
- Daisuke Yamada
- Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Managing Executive Officer,
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Japan
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11:30～12:50
Session3 |
"Digital Economy in the IoT Era"
- Much of our economic activity today utilizes digital technology, and steady emergence of new services on the Internet are changing society and our ways of life.
This session discusses how far digital technology might evolve and how it could change our society and lives from a variety of perspectives in light of further acceleration of this activity along with advances in IoT.
Panelist - Yasuyuki Tanabe
- Country Manager, Airbnb Japan
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- Koichiro Yoshida
- President and CEO, CrowdWorks Inc., Japan
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- Daisuke Yamada
- Chief Digital Innovation Officer, Managing Executive Officer,
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Japan
- Setsuto Murai
- Country Manager, Niantic K.K., Japan
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Moderator - Waichi Sekiguchi
- Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
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Tuesday, May 30 [ PM ]
14:00～15:30
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“Moving toward the Realization of a Data-Driven Society”
- With the application and utilization of diverse and vast amounts of data, a great technological environmental change is taking us to a new era, in which completely new values and services will be created, and the successful application and utilization of data are becoming an important key to the reinforcement of international competitiveness and the resolution of social problems.
In order to respond to the new era of the IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI), there has been an active movement of industry, academia, and government sectors in Japan and abroad to promote the application and utilization of data beyond the boundaries of enterprises, industries, etc. Furthermore, there is a movement to seek international collaboration, including the sharing of best practices and consideration of cooperation in standardization activities.
This session aims to share information on the current efforts toward the realization of a data-driven society, such as solving urban problems through IoT, and discuss future issues, future prospects, and the possibility of international cooperation in order to enable Japanese enterprises to create and disseminate global IoT business.
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Keynote
- Yasuhiko Taniwaki
- Director-General, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC, Japan
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Panelist
- Hideyuki Tokuda
- President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
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- Chris Greer
- Senior Executive for Cyber Physical Systems, Director of the Smart Grid and
Cyber-Physical Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
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- Leonidas Karapiperis
- Minister-Counsellor, Head of Science and Technology Section,
Delegation of the European Union to Japan, EU
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- Khoong Hock Yun
- Assistant Chief Executive Officer(Development),
Info-communications and Media Development Authority, Singapore
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Moderator - Hiroshi Yoshida
- Counselor, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC, Japan
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15:50～16:20
Lecture |
"Can A.I. Improve the Quality of Our Lives?"
- Alon Halevy
- CEO, Recruit Institute of Technology, Inc., USA
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16:20～17:40
Session5 |
"Revolutions in Robotics and Mobility"
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- Beginning with the increased use of autonomous driving, innovation within the field of mobility is continuing to accelerate. What kinds of business opportunities will result from upcoming changes in transportation and the growing use of robots and drones with AI? What kinds of issues does society need to tackle as a whole, such as changes to infrastructure? This session will examine and discuss a variety of advanced technologies.
Panelist - Frank Bignone
- Vice President, Digital Transformation Leader Asia, Airbus Japan
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- Steve Koenig
- Senior Director of Market Research, Consumer Technology Association (CTA), USA
- Tolga Kurtoglu
- CEO, Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, USA
- Hideaki Mukai
- Representative Director and CEO, Rakuten AirMap, Inc., Japan
- Tsutomu Sasaki
- Executive Officer Responsible for Corporate Strategy, Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd., Japan
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Moderator - Kazuyuki Okudaira
- Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer, Nikkei Inc.
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