Lecture "Bringing the Smart World to Life"

Jun Sawada

President and CEO,
NTT

Lecturer brief history

[ Business Career ]

 

Apr. 1978

Joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation

Jun. 2008

Senior Vice President
Executive Manager of Corporate Strategy Planning Department,
Member of the Board of NTT Communications Corporation

Jun. 2011

Executive Vice President
Executive Manager of Corporate Strategy Planning Department,
Member of the Board of NTT Communications Corporation

Jun. 2012

Senior Executive Vice President
Executive Manager of Corporate Strategy Planning Department,
Representative Member of the Board of NTT Communications Corporation

Jun. 2013

Senior Executive Vice President,
Representative Member of the Board of NTT Communications Corporation

Jun. 2014

Senior Executive Vice President,
Representative Member of the Board of the Company

Jun. 2018

President and Chief Executive Officer,
Representative Member of the Board of the Company (present post)

Lecture "Digital Inclusion -Digital Creates a Brighter Future for All-"

Takashi Niino

President and CEO,
NEC

Lecturer brief history

Takashi Niino first joined NEC in 1977, primarily engaging in sales of IT solutions for the financial market. Over the years, he contributed to the expansion of NEC's solutions business through his involvement in various large-scale projects. These projects ranged from updates of mission-critical systems, following the creation of megabanks through mergers and integrations, to the introduction of systems for major retail operators launching new financial service businesses.

Mr. Niino became President and CEO (Representative Director) of NEC Corporation in April 2016.

Lecture "Human Centric Innovation - Driving a Trusted Future"

Takahito Tokita

Corporate Executive Officer, SEVP,
Fujitsu

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth:

September 2, 1962

[ Education ]

 

Mar. 1988

Bachelor of Metallurgical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

[ Professional Career ]

 

Apr. 1988

Joined Fujitsu Limited

Dec. 2003

Director, Infrastructure Technology Leading Department,
Financial Systems Solution Group

May. 2011

Vice President, Mizuho Accounts Business Unit (In charge of System Integration)

Jun. 2014

Head of Financial Systems Unit, Integration Services Business

Apr. 2015

Corporate Executive Officer,
SVP, Head of Financial Systems Unit, Integration Services Business

Apr. 2016

Corporate Executive Officer,
SVP, Head of Financial Systems Unit, Global Services Integration Business,
In charge of Safety Solution Business Unit

Apr. 2017

Corporate Executive Officer,
SVP, Vice Head of Global Delivery Group, Global Services Integration Business

Jan. 2019

Corporate Executive Officer,
EVP, Head of Global Delivery Group, Technology Solution Business

Mar. 2019

Corporate Executive Officer,
SEVP

Lecture "Tomorrow, Together: Heightened Customer Engagement in the Coming 5G Age"

Makoto Takahashi

President, Representative Director,
KDDI

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth:

October 24, 1961

[ Business Career ]

 

Apr. 2019

Executive Director, Corporate and Marketing Communications
(Current position)

Apr. 2018

President, Representative Director (Current position)

Jun. 2016

Executive Vice President, Representative Director

Jun. 2010

Senior Managing Executive Officer, Representative Director

Jun. 2007

Managing Executive Officer, Director

Apr. 2003

Executive Officer

Session 2
  "Revolution of Digital Transformation, Driven by 5G"

Panelist

Takayuki Yamane

Head of KDDI DIGITAL GATE,
KDDI

Lecturer brief history

He joined KDDI in 2009 after acquiring experience as an IT engineer in the domestic manufacturing industry. Involved in corporate service planning operations, he participated in the establishment of an agile development team. He was subsequently active as a Scrum product owner (PO), and engaged in company-internal PO development.
He has served in his current position since September 2018.

Panelist

John Harrington

CEO and President,
Nokia Japan

Lecturer brief history

John Harrington is Chief Executive Officer and President of Nokia Japan.
Before that, he served as Vice President in charge of AT&T Wireless account since 2013. John started his career with Motorola as a system engineer for GSM/CDMA deployment in Europe (1990-2001) and then held several management and sales positions within Alcatel-Lucent (2001-2013) in UK and US.

John has more than 25 years of technical sales, customer relationship management and business development experience in the telecommunications industry spanning Europe and North America.

Born in England in 1969. John enjoys playing golf and tennis and is a keen follower of English Premier League soccer. John' s motto is “he who dares, wins”.

Panelist

Takehiro Nakamura

Senior Vice President, General Manager of 5G Laboratories,
NTT DOCOMO

Lecturer brief history

Mr. Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Labs. in 1990. He is now SVP and General Manager of 5G Labs. in NTT DOCOMO, INC.

Mr. Nakamura has been working for research and development of the W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced, 5G and C-V2X/Connected Car technologies. He has been engaged in the standardization activities for W-CDMA, HSPA, LTE/LTE-Advanced and 5G at ARIB in Japan since 1997. He is currently the leader of 2020 and Beyond Ad Hoc (20B AH) in ARIB and Acting Chairman of the Strategy & Planning Committee in 5G Mobile Communication Promotion Forum (5GMF) in Japan.

He has been contributing to standardization activities in 3GPP since 1999. He contributed to 3GPP TSG-RAN as a vice chairman from March 2005 to March 2009 and as a chairman from April 2009 to March 2013.

He is also very active in standardization of C-V2X/Connected Car in ARIB and ITS Info-communications Forum in Japan. He is now a leader of Cellular System Application Task Group of ITS Info-communications Forum.

Panelist

Satoshi Iwao

Vice President of Network Division,
Samsung Electronics Japan

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth:

March 6, 1958

[ Education ]

Majored in Electronic Engineering at University of Osaka Prefecture

[ Business Career ]

 

1988 Jan.

Joined to IDO Corporation

2000 Apr.

Deputy Director of Dept. of Business Planning in IDO

2000 Oct.

Company Name Changed to KDDI Corporation by Merging 3 Company (DDI, IDO, KDD) into KDDI

2003 Oct.

Director of Dept. of Business Planning au Business Headquarter

2005 Dec.

Director of Dept. of au Technical Planning in au KDDI Technology Sector

2011 Apr.

Director of Technical Planning Division in KDDI Technology Sector

2012 Apr.

Member of Board of Directors
Director of Technical Planning Division in KDDI Technology Sector

2013 Apr.

Member of Board of Directors
Director of Network Technical Development Division in KDDI Technology Sector

2017 Apr.

Member of Board of Directors
In Charge of Quality Innovation in KDDI Technology Sector

2018 Mar.

Retired KDDI Corporation

2018 Apr.

Vice President of Network Division in Samsung Electronics Japan

Moderator

Akito Tanaka

Senior Staff Writer,
Nikkei Inc.

Lecturer brief history

Akito Tanaka is a senior staff writer for Nikkei and has over fifteen years of reporting experience. He has covered major global companies in the technology, consumer electronics, and automobile industries in Japan and the United States. Akito holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Drake University, and spent his adolescent years in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the American International School.

Session 4
  "Forefront of policies around "data" and AI in developed countries"

Keynote

Katsuya Watanabe

Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs),
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth:

December 13, 1961

Place of Birth:

Tokyo, JAPAN

[ Education ]
Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University

[ Business Career ]

 

Apr. 1984

Entered Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT)

Aug. 2005

Director of Telecommunication Systems Division, Telecommunications Business Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2007

Director of Land Mobile Communications Division, Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2008

Director of Radio Policy Division, Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2011

Director of ICT Strategy Policy Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC

Jun. 2013

Deputy Director-General of the Information and Communications Bureau, Minister's Secretariat, MIC

Jul. 2015

Director-General of the Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2017

Director-General Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2018

Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs), MIC

Panelist

Andrew W. Wyckoff

Director,
OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation

Lecturer brief history

Andrew W. Wyckoff is the Director of the OECD's Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) where he oversees OECD's work on innovation, business dynamics, science and technology, information and communication technology policy as well as the statistical work associated with each of these areas. His experience prior to the OECD includes positions at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), the US National Science Foundation (NSF) and The Brookings Institution.

He has served as an expert on various advisory groups and panels which include joining the Global Board of Trustees of Digital Future Society (DFS), being a member of the Research Advisory Network for the Global Commission on Internet Governance, the International Advisory Board of the Research Council of Norway and Head of OECD's Delegation at the G20 and G7 meetings on ICT and Digital Economy.

Panelist

Eric Badiqué

Adviser for Artificial Intelligence, DG CONNECT,
The European Commission

Lecturer brief history

Eric Badiqué was educated in France, the US and Japan where he carried out research in Digital Image Processing.

Before joining the European Commission he worked for Philips Communications in Germany for four years, contributing to early work on digital coding. In the European Commission, he was a Project Officer in the Digital Media area for more than 10 years. He moved to the Coordination and Strategy Unit in 2004 where he was Deputy Head of Unit in charge of work programme preparation.

He is now Adviser for Artificial Intelligence for DG CONNECT since March 2019.

Panelist

William A. Carter

Deputy Director and Fellow, Technology Policy Program,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, USA

Lecturer brief history

William A. Carter is the Deputy Director of the Technology Policy Program at CSIS, and leads the Center’s research on artificial intelligence. His research focuses on international technology policy issues including emerging technologies and AI, 5G, data governance, cyber conflict and deterrence, and law enforcement and technology, including encryption. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and spoken at events and conferences around the world, and participates in Track 2 dialogues on cyber and technology policy issues with China, Russia, India and Australia.

Before joining CSIS, he worked at Goldman Sachs, where he covered geopolitical risk and the technology and telecom sectors for the buy-side business. He graduated from New York University with a B.A. in economics.

Panelist

Naomi Wilson

Senior Director of Policy, Asia
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), USA

Lecturer brief history

Naomi Wilson serves as senior director of policy, Asia. Prior to joining ITI, Naomi served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she most recently held the position of acting director for Asia-Pacific. In that capacity, she played a leading role on cybersecurity, law enforcement, and customs cooperation issues related to Asia and served as a senior advisor to Secretary Jeh Johnson. During her tenure at DHS, Naomi led development and implementation of priority policy initiatives for DHS engagement with China, including secretarial engagements and agreements. She worked closely with interagency colleagues to negotiate and implement agreements stemming from the September 2015 State visit between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping, including managing the U.S.-China High-Level Dialogue on Cybercrime and Related Issues for DHS.

Prior to joining DHS, Naomi served as a staffer on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs and as a research assistant at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).

Naomi holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and Master’s in International Affairs & National Security.
In 2011, she completed intensive Chinese language training at Peking University.
Naomi speaks advanced Mandarin and French and is a native of Connecticut.

Moderator

Takuo Imagawa

Director,
ICT Strategy Policy Division, Information and Communications Bureau,
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)

Lecturer brief history

Dr. Imagawa, born in Shizuoka prefecture, is currently the Director of the ICT Strategy Policy Division, MIC.

Prior to his current position, he has experienced the Director of the Advanced Information Systems and Software Division, Director of the Regional Communications Development Division, Senior Planning Officer of the Terrestrial Broadcasting Division, Director of the Economic Research Office, and the Associate Professor of the Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University. Dr. Imagawa entered the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT, currently MIC) in 1990.

He got his Doctorate Degree in Economics from Harvard University and a Master’s Degree at the University of Tokyo. He specializes in information economics, industrial organization, urban economics, etc.

He has also written a numbers of books and theses.

Lecture "Unlocking the value of real AI through Analytics"

Oliver Schabenberger

Executive Vice president, COO and CTO,
SAS Institute, USA

Lecturer brief history

As Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer, Oliver Schabenberger is responsible for setting the technology direction for SAS and executing the company’s strategic objectives and business priorities.
He oversees multiple divisions within SAS, including R&D, Sales, Marketing, Information Technology and Customer Support.
As the driver for SAS’ software innovation strategy, Schabenberger has a strong focus on advanced analytics technologies such as machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence as well as the growing demand for Internet of Things capabilities.
His thought leadership and expertise in these areas result in frequent speaking engagements across the globe at conferences and forums. As a lifelong learner, Schabenberger is keen on actively sharing his knowledge in industry-leading media outlets such as InfoWorld, Huffington Post and other publications.

“Analytics is not just at the heart of what we do; it is the force that inspires and drives change across organizations,” says Schabenberger. He works closely with Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, to shape SAS’ vision and keep the company at the forefront of innovation so that customers have access to the technology and services they need to be successful.
Schabenberger’s leadership as CTO positioned him well to become COO. As CTO, he was instrumental in launching the latest advancement in SAS® software, SAS® Viya®, which handles growing data volumes, taps into the latest deep learning algorithms and unites SAS with open source technologies. His background and expertise in technology and analytics, combined with his knowledge and understanding of the SAS business, are essential to executing the company’s vision and strategy.

Prior to being named CTO in 2016, Schabenberger led the Analytic Server R&D Division, where he and his team developed a high-performance analytics architecture that helps customers solve problems and identify opportunities much faster than traditional computing environments. Under his leadership, a scalable analytic server was developed for visual analytics and visual statistics solutions, which gives users greater flexibility to explore and visualize data of any size. He also drove advances to SAS Event Stream Processing software, which gives customers the ability to analyze streaming data generated from the Internet of Things in real time and respond more predictively around issues such as fraud prevention, cyberdefense and energy consumption.

Before joining SAS in 2002, Schabenberger served as Assistant Professor of Statistics at Michigan State University (1996 to 1999) and Virginia Tech (1999 to 2002). He was awarded tenure and promoted to Associate Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech in 2001. Prior to that, he received his PhD from Virginia Tech in 1995.

In addition to co-writing three statistical textbooks and contributing articles to Forbes.com, Schabenberger has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He holds several patents on software design and algorithms.

Session 5
  "Data Technology Has Created Cashless Society"

Panelist

Charles Hoskinson

CEO,
IOHK, Hong Kong

Lecturer brief history

Charles Hoskinson is a Colorado-based technology entrepreneur and mathematician. He attended Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Boulder to study analytic number theory before moving into cryptography through industry exposure.

His professional experience includes founding three cryptocurrency-related start-ups - Invictus Innovations, Ethereum and IOHK - and he has held a variety of posts in both the public and private sectors. He was the founding chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation's education committee and established the Cryptocurrency Research Group in 2013.

His current projects focus on educating people about cryptocurrency, being an evangelist for decentralization and making cryptographic tools easier to use for the mainstream. This includes leading the research, design and development of Cardano, a third-generation cryptocurrency that launched in September 2017.

Panelist

Yosuke Tsuji

Representative Director, President and CEO,
Money Forward

Lecturer brief history

After graduating from the Faculty of Agriculture (BS), Kyoto University, Yosuke Tsuji obtained his MBA at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

He worked at Sony Corporation and Monex Securities before establishing Money Forward, Inc., in 2012.

He currently serves as an executive officer of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE) and committee member of the METI FinTech Review Conference.

Panelist

Yoshiki Yasui

Founder & CEO,
Origami

Lecturer brief history

Born in Toronto in 1985, Yoshiki spent his childhood in Toronto and New York until moving to Japan at the age of 10. For post-secondary education, Yoshiki studied at the University of Sydney and later graduated from Waseda University.

Upon graduation, Yoshiki first began his work in the Investment Banking Division for Lehman Brothers. Later he worked at DCM Ventures, a major venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, where he was responsible for investments in the US, Japan and China. Yoshiki founded “Origami” in 2012.

Currently, Yoshiki is also a committee member of the Payments Japan Association, as well as the New Industrial Structure Committee of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan.

Panelist

Takashi Okita

CEO, SBI Ripple Asia
Professor, SBI Graduate School

Lecturer brief history

Takashi OKITA is CEO of SBI Ripple Asia, the joint venture between Japan's FinTech giant SBI and Ripple, global leader of Distributed Financial Technology.

Prior to found SBI Ripple, he Co-founded and was CEO of VeriTrans Inc., a leading online payment solution provider in Japan.

During his tenure as CEO of Veritrans from 2005 to 2015, he tried to expand the business across Asia, including the JVs in China, India, Indonesia and Vietnam. Takashi was known as one of the youngest CEOs among public companies both on JASDAQ and on Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

He held directorship in leading innovation companies, including tokopedia, the largest online marketplace in Indonesia.

Elected as one of “100 people to change Japan” at Nikkei Business in 2014. Also serving for Japanese Government as a committee member of some councils.

Moderator

Waichi Sekiguchi

Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.

Lecturer brief history

Waichi Sekiguchi is a senior staff writer for Nikkei, the largest economic daily news in Asia. He joined Nikkei in 1982 and has been covering the IT industry and cyberspace issues for over 20 years. As a Washington correspondent during the Bush and Clinton Administrations in the early 90s, Sekiguchi covered US trade and government policies. He was a Fulbright fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in the late 80s and was a chief writer for the Japan Economic Journal, a then-English edition of the Nikkei. He has been writing editorials about the Japanese IT policy for the Nikkei as an editorial writer for last 15 years. Sekiguchi served as a news commentator for a NHK World TV program "Nikkei Japan Report" in 2009-12 and as a main caster at a BS Japan program "NIKKEI × BS Live 7PM" in 2012-13. Sekiguchi graduated from Hitotsubashi University, and is currently a visiting professor at Hosei University Business School and the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) at the International University of Japan. He also teaches at Waseda University and Meiji University as a part-time lecturer.