Mon. 10th June [ AM ]
Lecture " The future of infrastructure: Anywhere, anytime computing - on demand "
- Mr. Carl Eschenbach
- President and Chief Operating Officer
VMware, Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Carl Eschenbach joined VMware in June 2002 and acts as the company's chief operating officer. Eschenbach brings more than 24 years of high-tech industry experience including infrastructure software, networking, telephony and storage. Prior to joining VMware, Eschenbach was vice president of North America Sales at Inktomi, and he has held various sales management positions with 3Com, EMC and Lucent Technologies.
Lecture " Pursuit of Reliable Information Society in the Era of Cloud Computing - The "Value Partner" for customers at all times - "
- Mr. Hiroo Unoura
- Representative Director and President, CEO
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth : January 13, 1949
Hiroo Unoura is President and CEO of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).
Unoura joined NTT in 1973. Since then he was engaged in traffic operation management, sales promotion, and human resource management including labor relations, and corporate strategy planning and implementation.
Unoura became Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy Department in 2002. He was named Senior Vice President, Head of New Business Promotion Office, and President of NTT Investment Partners in 2008. Unoura played a major role in planning and promoting NTT Group's Medium-Term Management Strategy, focusing FTTH and mobile broadband service
development and NGN (Next Generation Network) vision released in 2004, accelerating transformation from traditional network career business to global IP-based solution company as a "Service Creation Business Group" released in 2008, and executing acquisitions of Dimension Data plc. in 2010 and Centerstance Inc. in 2012.
In June 2012, Unoura took up the position of President and CEO. He has been taking the initiative in developing a new vision, "Towards the Next Stage" released in 2012, introducing a concept of a "Value Partner" for supporting customers' transformation through offering global cloud services.
He received his B.A. in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1973.
Lecture " Competitive Advantage in the Era of Smart "
- Mr. Martin Jetter
- General Manager
IBM Japan Ltd.
Lecturer brief history
- May 15, 2012
- General Manager, IBM Japan, Ltd. (Present)
- Apr 1, 2012
- Director, IBM Japan, Ltd.
- May 2011
- Vice President, Corporate Strategy and General Manager, Enterprise Initiatives, IBM Corporation
- Nov 2006
- General Manager, IBM Germany
- July 2005
- General Manager, IBM Global Business Services, IBM Northeast Europe
- Mar 2004
- General Manager of IBM Global Business Services, IBM Central and Eastern Europe
- Jan 2001
- General Manager and Managing Director, Siemens, IBM Germany
- Apr 2000
- General Manager of the global business unit of Product Lifecycle Management, IBM Germany
- Oct 1999
- Executive Assistant to IBM Chairman & CEO
- Feb 1999
- Regional Leader Central of IBM's Industrial Sector, IBM Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Jan 1986
- Joined IBM Germany as an Application Engineer
- Education
- Masters in Mechanical Engineering, University of Stuttgart
Session1 " Emerging enterprise information system facilitating information sharing "
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Miles Ward
- Solution Architect
Amazon Web Services, Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Miles Ward is a three-time technology startup entrepreneur with a decade of experience in building web-scale infrastructures. Miles dives deep on big data and social analytics, advanced storage, live video streaming, and HA and DR approaches for RDBMS and NoSQL systems. Miles supports emerging partners in our growing ISV and SI ecosystem, has developed several patent-pending innovations at AWS, and published the SQL Server on EC2 and MongoDB on EC2 white papers.
Miles participated in Obama for America (OFA) project and contributed to its success.
Panel Discussion
- Dr. Robert Pepper
- Vice President
Global Technology Policy
Cisco Systems, Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Robert Pepper leads Cisco's Global Technology Policy team working with governments across the world in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy, Internet governance and ICT development.
He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development beginning in 1989 where he focused on issues cutting across traditional boundaries and led teams developing broadband policy, implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions, and developing policies promoting the development of the Internet.
Before joining the FCC, he was Director of the Annenberg Washington Program in Communications Policy. His government service also included Acting Associate Administrator at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and initiating a program on Computers, Communications and Information Policy at the National Science Foundation.
His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. He serves on the board of directors of the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute (USTTI) and advisory boards for Columbia University and Michigan State University, and is a Communications Program Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Commerce's Spectrum Management Advisory Committee, the UK's Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State's Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy.
Pepper received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Steve Daheb
- Senior Vice President
Chief Marketing Officer
Citrix Systems, Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Steve Daheb is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Citrix, driving all aspects of our vision to create a world where people can experience work and life in harmony. A featured industry speaker, Daheb has more than 20 years of senior marketing leadership experience, spanning the networking, security, virtualization, cloud and mobility markets.
Daheb joined Citrix from Blue Coat Systems, where he served as CMO and SVP of Business Development. Prior to joining Blue Coat, Daheb held senior marketing, sales and business development roles at Emulex, BlueArc (acquired by Hitachi), Brocade and Lucent. He was recently named a Top 10 CMO by the CMO Institute, and was honored by American Business Awards as one of the Top Three Technology Executives of the Year for 2012.
Steve earned his Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University specializing in technology law, and his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Davis.
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Raj Bala
- Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Cognizant, the USA
Lecturer brief history
Rajasekaran Balasubramaniam (Raj Bala) is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Congizant. In this capacity, Raj's focus is on setting technology directions and shaping up Cognizant's technology leadership in the newer and advance technology areas. He heads up the Global Technology Office (GTO) which has a charter of incubating emerging technologies by focusing and developing expertise on newer and advanced technologies and also provides consulting in the advanced enterprise architecture and solutions areas.
Raj has over 25 years of varied industry experience and was previously managing the Global Delivery Centers of General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) in India and Argentina. He was also the Chief Architect in General Motors where he was responsible for implementing global eBusiness solutions. He also set up and led solution factories, namely the Global Integration Factory, to cater to all external and internal integrations, and a Global Reporting Factory to handle all areas of data warehousing and business intelligence. He has proven capability in incubating several new technologies and helped blend them with delivery, thereby helping build highly technology-focused organizations. Prior to joining General Motors, Raj worked for Complete Business Solutions Inc. (CSC now), and Tata Consultancy Services in various technology and delivery-intensive roles.
Raj holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Guindy, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Regional Engineering College, Trichy. He was a gold medalist in B.E., (Honors), and also the university topper in M. E., (Computer Science).
He enjoys playing volleyball and likes solving puzzles/brain teasers to unwind. He also enjoys teaching. He is based out of Chennai.
Mon. 10th June [ PM ]
Lecture " Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business and Society "
- Mr. Masami Yamamoto
- President and Representative Director
Fujitsu Limited
Lecturer brief history
Since Mr. Yamamoto assumed his current role in 2010, he has been leading the drive to transform Fujitsu to become a technology-based, globally integrated service company. In accordance with Fujitsu's vision of a Human Centric Intelligent Society, he is guiding Fujitsu's efforts to leverage the power of ICT to bring about a prosperous society where people can live in comfort and security.
Prior to his current position, from 2008 until 2010 Mr. Yamamoto was in charge of the Company's System Products Business Group where he steered the global expansion of the server and storage products businesses.
Mr. Yamamoto joined Fujitsu in 1976. As an engineer he contributed to the development of the OASYS Japanese word processor, the most popular product in its market segment after its launch in 1980. Mr. Yamamoto later held senior management positions in the PC Business Group, and was appointed Corporate Vice President in 2005. From 2007 to 2008, he was put in charge of both the PC and mobile phone businesses.
Mr. Yamamoto earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Kyushu University in southern Japan. He is married with three children.
Lecture" To realize an information society friendly to humans and the earth - Creating value from Big Data - "
- Dr. Nobuhiro Endo
- President (Representative Director)
NEC Corporation
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth : November 8, 1953
- Mar. 1981
- Awarded Doctoral degree by the Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- Apr. 1981
- Joined NEC Corporation
- Jul. 1995
- Senior Manager
Microwave and Satellite Communications Div
3rd Development Department - Oct. 1997
- Director, NEC Technologies (UK) Ltd.
- May 2000
- Senior Manager
Mobile and Wireless Operations Unit
Radio Technologies Development Division
3rd Development Department - Apr. 2003
- General Manager
Mobile Network Operations Unit
Mobile and Wireless Division - Jul. 2005
- Senior General Manager
Mobile Network Operations Unit - Apr. 2006
- Associate Senior Vice President
Executive General Manager, Mobile Network Operations Unit - Apr. 2009
- Senior Vice President
- Jun. 2009
- Senior Vice President and Member of the Board
- Apr. 2010
- President (Representative Director)
Lecture " The Evolution of 3M Strategy: Smart Relations Initiative towards the New Era "
- Mr. Takashi Tanaka
- President
KDDI Corporation
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth : February 26, 1957
- Dec. 2010
- President
- Jun. 2010
- Senior Vice President, Solution Business, Consumer Business, and Product Development Sector, Member of the Board
- Jun. 2010
- Chairman of UQ Communications Inc.
- Apr. 2010
- Associate Senior Vice President, Solution Business, Consumer Business, and Product Development Sector, Member of the Board
- Apr. 2009
- Associate Senior Vice President, Solution Business, Member of the Board
- Jun. 2007
- Associate Senior Vice President, General Manager, Solution Business Sector, Member of the Board
Session2 " Consumer-led ICT business "
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Yoshikazu Tanaka
- Founder and CEO
GREE, Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Yoshikazu Tanaka founded GREE in December 2004, and serves as the Company's founder and chief executive officer. Before founding GREE, he worked at Sony Communication Network (now So-net Entertainment) and Rakuten, Inc. While at Rakuten, Inc., he started developing the social network GREE in his spare time. Tanaka earned a bachelor's degree in law from Nihon University in 1999.
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Akira Morikawa
- CEO
LINE Corporation
Lecturer brief history
Born in 1967, Mr. Akira Morikawa graduated from the University of Tsukuba in 1989 and joined Nippon Television Network Corporation. While involved in a wide range of media businesses, mainly new business projects, he obtained an MBA from the Graduate School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University in 1999.
He then joined Sony Corporation and was in charge of new mobile content and broadband businesses. In 2003, he joined Hangame Japan (former NHN Japan), where he first served as general manager, being responsible for the management of Hangame's overall business, then as director, before becoming vice president in October 2006 and president in October 2007.
In November the same year, Naver Japan was established and he became president of the newly established company (while doubling as president of NHN Japan).
In January 2012, NHN Japan, Naver Japan, and Livedoor merged. He remained as president after the merger.
Since the split and the change of the trade name of NHN Japan in April 2013, he has been CEO of the LINE Corporation that conducts web service-related businesses of "LINE," "NAVER," and "livedoor."
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Antti Sonninen
- Country Director, Japan
Rovio Entertainment Ltd., Finland
Lecturer brief history
Born in Espoo, Finland
Spent some of his childhood in Silicon Valley
Studied 8 languages. Fluent in Finnish, English, Japanese and Swedish
- 2002
- Enters Aalto University
- 2007-2008
- Exchange student at University of Tokyo
- 2009-2010
- Student at ME310 product development course of Stanford University
- 2010-2011
- Co-instructor at ME310
- 2011
- Co-founder of development aid startup Aidbrella
- 2011 May
- Joins Rovio Entertainment as Business Development Manager
- 2012 November
- Starts new job at Rovio Entertainment as Country Director, Japan
- 2013
- Transfers to Tokyo
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Kentaro Kawabe
- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Yahoo Japan Corporation
Lecturer brief history
- March 1998
- Bachelor of Law, Aoyama Gakuin University.
- September 2000
- Joined Yahoo Japan Corporation
In charge of Media Services as Yahoo! News, Yahoo! News Topics and so on. - April 2009
- President of GyaO CORPORATION
- April 2012
- Chief Operating Officer, Operating Officer and Head of Media Services
- July 2012
- Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Media Services Company
- April 2013
- Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (Present)
Tue. 11th June [ AM ]
Lecture " THE NEXT WAVE OF DIGITAL SOCIETY "
- Mr. Ken Hu
- Rotating CEO and Deputy Chairman of the Board
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China
Lecturer brief history
Mr. Ken Hu is Rotating CEO and Deputy Chairman of Huawei Technologies. He is a member of Huawei's Board of Directors and Executive Management Team (EMT) and is also Chairman of Huawei USA. With 20 years of experience in the telecoms
industry, Mr. Hu is integral to the strategic direction of the company and instrumental to Huawei's efforts to expand its business in the global markets.
As part of his role as Deputy Chairman, Mr. Hu is head of Huawei's Human Resources Committee and is responsible for the company's leadership and organizational development. He is also the head of the company's Global Cyber Security Committee, which oversees the development of Huawei's global cyber security strategies and the establishment of an end-to-end cyber security assurance system.
Mr. Hu joined the company in 1990, when Huawei was just a fledgling venture. Since then, he has helped Huawei establish a global sales and service network that introduces its innovative products and solutions to the world's leading operators. He also played a key role in the company's management transformation that has facilitated Huawei's globalization. Prior to his current role, Mr. Hu has held several
senior positions within the company, including Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer, Chief Sales & Service Officer, President of Global Sales, Regional President of Huawei Latin America, and President of Huawei's Chinese market.
Lecture " Become Your "Smart-Life Partner" -Actions for New Value Creation- "
- Mr. Kaoru Kato
- President and CEO
NTT DOCOMO, INC.
Lecturer brief history
Kaoru Kato assumed the posts of President and CEO of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in June 2012 after an accomplished 35-year career that started at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), the parent company of NTT DOCOMO.
Mr. Kato became an Executive Vice President, a Member of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Corporate Strategy & Planning Department of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in June 2008. He was instrumental in devising DOCOMO's medium-term business plans, announced in 2008 and 2011, to transform the company for all-new growth and then help customers achieve smarter lives, respectively.
Prior to that, Mr. Kato held several key positions at NTT DoCoMo Kansai, Inc., including Executive Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors from June 2007, and then concurrently Managing Director of the Corporate Strategy Planning Department from the following month. He became a Member of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Corporate Strategy Planning Department of NTT DoCoMo Kansai in August 2002.
From July 2005 to May 2007, he also served as a Representative Director and a Senior Corporate Executive Officer of Sumitomo Mitsui Card Co., Ltd., in which NTT DOCOMO acquired a 34% share in 2005 to develop its mobile credit-payment services.
In the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake of 1995, while at the precursor of NTT DoCoMo Kansai, Mr. Kato spearheaded network and facility restoration efforts.
In 1991, in the midst of Japan-U.S. trade conflicts, Mr. Kato, working closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the then Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, played an important role in laying the groundwork for NTT's procurement of non-Japanese communications satellites and mobile communications base station equipment.
Between 1985 and 1988, Mr. Kato helped to spearhead development of NTT's first mobile phone, the TZ-802, as well as shoulder and aircraft phones. He is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of mobile phones, having made instrumental contributions to the development of land-, sea- and air-based mobile communications.
Mr. Kato started his career at NTT Public Corporation in 1977 after graduating from Nagoya Institute of Technology with a master's degree in electronic engineering.
He is married with three adult children―one daughter and two sons.
Lecture " Connecting Intelligence Connecting the World - realise the smarter world via partnership - "
- Mr. Simon Segars
- President and CEO-Designate
ARM Holdings PLC., UK
Lecturer brief history
Simon Segars will become the CEO of ARM Holdings PLC on July 1st following the retirement of Warren East. Simon joined the Board of ARM in January 2005 and was appointed President in January 2013 and then CEO-Designate in March 2013. He was previously EVP and General Manager of the Processor and Physical IP Divisions.
Earlier senior roles included EVP, Engineering, EVP, Worldwide Sales and EVP, Business Development. He joined ARM in early 1991 and worked on many of the early ARM CPU products. He led the development of the ARM7 and ARM9 Thumb® families. He holds a number of patents in the field of embedded CPU architectures.
Session3 " Smart life evolution driven by Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) and Electric Vehicle (EV) "
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Takeshi Imai
- Executive/General Manager
Global Telematics Division
Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Lecturer brief history
Since joining Honda Motor Co., Ltd. in 1976, Takashi Imai has been specializing in navigation and information fields. In 2002, Imai started up Internavi Premium Club, the two-way information communication service.
In 2011, he and his team were awarded "Technical Development Award" in 61st JSAE (Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan) Awards for his research and development based on the best use of vehicle data. In the same year, traffic information maps based on data collected via Honda's Internavi car navigation system and generated to assist people in the area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake received the Good Design Grand Award.
- [ Work Experience ]
- Apr. 1976
- Joined Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and assigned to Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
Engaged in development of digital meters, digital compasses, and navigation systems - Apr. 2002
- Started up the then Internavi System Development & Planning Office
- Jun. 2003
- Appointed General Manager of the then Internavi System Development & Planning Office
- Jun. 2011
- Appointed Fellow of JSAE (Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan)
- Apr. 2012
- Started up Global Telematics Division as Executive /General Manager
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Hajime Amano
- President and Chief Executive Officer
ITS Japan
Lecturer brief history
- 2009 to present
- President and CEO, ITS Japan (on loan from Toyota Motor Corporation)
- 2004
- General Manager, Research of External Affairs Department, IT & ITS Planning Division, Toyota Motor Corporation.
- 2001
- General Manager of Traffic Systems Development Department, ITS Planning Division, Toyota Motor Corporation.
- 1999
- ITS Planning Division, Toyota Motor Corporation
- 1982
- Joined Toyota Motor Co., Ltd., 1982. (merged into Toyota Motor Corporation)
- 1982
- Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Master of Engineering
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Masahisa (Mark) Shibata
- Executive Officer
Panasonic Corporation
Senior Vice President
Automotive & Industrial Systems Company
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth / Place : October 3, 1957 / Kyoto, Japan
Educational Background : Graduated from Doshisha University in 1980
- [ Business career ]
- April, 1980
- Joined Matsushita Electric Trading Co., Ltd
- Nov, 1984
- Panasonic Industrial UK., Ltd
- Aug, 1992
- Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Corporate Industrial Marketing & Sales Division - April, 1995
- Panasonic Industrial Company
Matsushita Electric Corp. of America - Dec, 2001
- Director, Global Computer Devices Marketing & Sales Office
Corporate Industrial Marketing & Sales Division - Aug, 2003
- Vice President, Panasonic Automotive Systems
Europe GmbH
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company - July, 2005
- President
Panasonic Automotive Systems Europe GmbH
President
Panasonic Automotive Systems Czech
Automotive Systems Company - June, 2008
- President
Panasonic Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd
Managing Director, Sales Division
Automotive Systems Company - April, 2010
- Director
Corporate Industrial Marketing & Sales Division
Executive Senior Councilor
Panasonic Corporation - April, 2011
- Executive Officer
Panasonic Corporation
President
Automotive Systems Company - April, 2013
- Executive Officer
Panasonic Corporation
Senior Vice President
Automotive & Industrial Systems Company
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Kurt Kelty
- Director of Battery Technology
Tesla Motors, Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Kurt Kelty is the Director of Battery Technology at Tesla Motors. His team is responsible for setting and implementing Tesla's battery cell usage strategy. Mr. Kelty is responsible for the technical exchanges and commercial negotiations with each of the battery cell suppliers and early stage battery cell developers. He is particularly focused on evaluating the safety, performance and reliability of cells. Mr. Kelty also leads the battery pack lifetime modeling and degradation efforts.
Mr. Kelty's team validates the pack performance under extreme environmental conditions that might be observed in the vehicle application. He also leads the battery pack recycling and regulatory efforts at Tesla. He is a member of SAE J2929 Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Propulsion Battery System Safety Standard to create abuse standards for vehicle battery packs.
Before joining Tesla, Mr. Kelty worked for Matsushita (Panasonic) for nearly fifteen years, seven of those years in Japan. At Panasonic, Mr. Kelty worked in various planning and marketing capacities related to Ni-MH and Li-ion batteries. During the last 5 years, he founded and led Panasonic's battery research lab in Silicon Valley and created R&D alliances between Panasonic and other battery and fuel cell developers in the U.S.
Mr. Kelty received his B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College in 1986 and his MSc from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 1997.
He is the author of over 16 patents
Patents
1: 7,786,704 System for battery charging based on cost and life
2: 7,782,021 Battery charging based on cost and life
3: 7,752,145 Consumer-sited power management system and method
4: 7,741,816 System and method for battery preheating
5: 7,719,232 Method for battery charging based on cost and life
6: 7,698,078 Electric vehicle communication interface
7: 7,683,575 Method and apparatus for identifying and disconnecting short-circuited battery cells within a battery pack
8: 7,671,567 Multi-mode charging system for an electric vehicle
9: 7,629,773 Multi-mode charging system for an electric vehicle
10: 7,629,772 Multi-mode charging system for an electric vehicle
11: 7,622,897 Multi-mode charging system for an electric vehicle
12: 7,433,794 Mitigation of propagation of thermal runaway in a multi-cell battery pack
13: JP2003197164 A, All Solid Battery Built-in Semiconductor Device
14: JP2003185643 A Crack Detecting System (conditions of concrete using vibration detection)
15: JP2003144524 A Drug Preserving Container (prevent repeated dosage)
16: JP2003107030 A Crack Detection System (conditions of concrete structure using electrical resistance)
Tue. 11th June [ PM ]
Special Lecture " Smart Thailand "
- Mr. Anek Hutangkabodee
- Vice Minister
Information and Communication Technology, Thailand
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth : 26 February, 1951
[ Education ]
Master of Arts (Political Science), Thammasat University
Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours), Chulalongkorn University
Bachelor of Economics, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
Bachelor of Business Administration Program, Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University
[ Work Experiences ]
Member of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council
Chairman of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council
Member of the House of Representative, Thai Rak Thai Party
Deputy Secretary-General to the Prime Minister for Political Affairs
Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Social Development and Human Security
Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Public Health
Vice Minister of Information and Communication Technology
Session4 " Solution of social issues led by the 'Smart Revolution' in the age of Exa and international collaboration "
Keynote Speech
- Mr. Shun Sakurai
- Director-General, Global ICT Strategy Bureau
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
Lecturer brief history
[ Education ]
Graduated from Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo
- [ Career ]
- 1977
- Entered the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT)
- 1995
- Director, Tariff Division, Telecommunications Business Department,
Telecommunications Bureau, (MPT) - 1997
- Director, Telecommunications Policy, Telecommunications Business
Department, Telecommunications Bureau, (MPT) - 1999
- Director, Policy Division, Communications Policy Bureau, MPT
- 2001
- Director, General Policy Division, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, MIC
- 2001
- Director, General Affairs Division, Information and Communications Policy Bureau, MIC
- 2002
- Counselor of the Minister's Secretariat, MIC
- 2003
- Director of the Secretariat Division, Minister's Secretariat, MIC
- 2004
- Deputy Director-General Information and Communications Policy Minister's Secretariat, MIC
- 2004
- Deputy Director-General for IT Strategy Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
- 2005
- Director-General of Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
- 2006
- Director-General of the, Telecommunications Business Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
- 2007
- Director-General for Policy Coordination, MIC
- 2008
- Director-General, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
- 2012
- Director-General, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC
Panel Discussion
- Dr. Seang-Tae Kim
- President
National Information Society Agency, ROK
Lecturer brief history
[ Education ]
- 1982
- BA in English, Seoul National University
- 1985
- MA in Politics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- 1989
- Ph.D in Public Administration, University of Georgia
- 1993-2002
- President of Korea Association of Regional Informatization
- 1995-1996
- Chairman, Council of the Pilot Project of Korea Information Infrastructure
- 1998-2004
- Member of Informatization Promotion Advisory Committee, Office of the Prime Minister
- 2001.2-2003.1
- Member of Special Committee for e-Government (Advising body to the President)
- 2002-2003
- Representative of Korean government, e-Government Project Seminar, Public Management Service, OECD
- 2005.9-2008.5
- Dean of Graduate School of Governance / Graduate School of Public Administration
- 2007-2008.5
- President of National Future Policy Institute of National Future Policy Forum
- 2009.8-present
- Member of Committee of U-City under Prime Minister's Office
- 2009.11-present
- Chair of Association of National ICT Agencies
- 2009.12-present
- Chair of Future Network 2020 Forum
- 2010.5-present
- Commissioner of UN ITU-UNESCO Global Broadband Commission
- 2011.1-present
- Chair of Advisory boards of ICT Development in Prosecutors' office
- 2011.4-present
- Chair of Smart Angels Korea Movement Committee
- 2008.5-present
- President of National Information Society Agency
- 2011.12
- Korea Nanum Award
- 2011.11
- Sejong Nanum Volunteer Award
- 2010.11
- New Media Award 'ICT people of the year'
- 2003.2
- Red Stripes Service Merit Medal
- 1998.12
- Best Thesis Award, Korea Association for Policy Studies
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Staffan Ingvarsson
- Vice CEO
City of Stockholm, Sweden
Lecturer brief history
Born in 1975, educated at the university of Lund, secretary general of the Swedish federation of liberal and conservative students 1999-2001, first secretary to
the vice mayor and then mayor of Stockholm 2001-2008, Chief of Staff, Executive Office, City of Stockholm 2008-2011.
Since 2011 Vice CEO for the City of Stockholm
Member of the board at Kista Science City, Stockholm
Science City, Stockholm IT-region.
Panel Discussion
- Dr. Hoang Le Minh
- Director
Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content industry, Vietnam
Lecturer brief history
Dr. Minh Hoang was born in Hanoi, Vietnam in 1957. He has graduated from the High School for Gifted Students at Hanoi University in 1974, and in the same year has won the Gold Medal at the 16th International Mathematical Olympiad in Germany. After obtaining the Bachelor of Science (1980) and Doctor Degree (1984) from the Moscow State University in Russia, he has been invited to work at various research institutes and universities in Moscow, Warszava, Italy, France & Japan during 1985-1991 years. Returned to Vietnam in 1991, he became the Chair of Computing Applications Faculty of Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City. Since 2003, Dr. Minh accepted local government jobs as Deputy Director of HCMC Department of Science & Technology and HCMC Department of Posts and Telematics. In April 2008, Dr. Minh has been appointed by the Minister of Information and Communications of Vietnam as the first Director of Vietnam National Institute of Software and Digital Content Industry (NISCI), a public-funded Science & Technology Institute with the missions to promote the development of IT Industry for Vietnam.
Dr. Minh can speak fluently in Russian & English, qualified in Network & Cloud Computing, Digital Image Processing, and Computer Graphics & Vision.
Lecture " Innovation Created by Information Utilization "
- Mr. Shinjiro Iwata
- Senior Vice President and Executive Officer
President & CEO, Information & Telecommunication Systems Group
Hitachi Ltd.
Lecturer brief history
- Apr. 1972
- Joined Hitachi, Ltd., Assigned to Overseas Business Dept.
- Nov. 1993
- Dept. Manager, Computer Sales DeptⅡ., Overseas Information Systems Div.
- Feb. 1996
- Dept. Manager, Business Planning Dept., Business Planning
Div., Information Systems Group - Jun. 1997
- EVP, Hitachi Data Systems Corp. (U.S.)
- Aug. 2000
- Deputy General Manager, International Business Promotion Div., Hitachi, Ltd.
- Apr. 2001
- General Manager, Global Business Development Div.
- Sep. 2001
- CEO, Hitachi Data Systems Corp (U.S.).
- Apr. 2006
- CMO (Global Sales), Information & Telecommunication Systems Group,
Hitachi, Ltd. - Aug. 2006
- CMO, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
- Oct. 2007
- EVP, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.
- Apr. 2009
- Associate Senior Corporate Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer of Service & Global Business,
Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, Hitachi, Ltd. - Apr. 2011
- Senior Corporative Executive Officer
President & CEO,
Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd. - Apr. 2012
- Senior Corporative Executive Officer
President & CEO,
Information & Telecommunication Systems Group, Hitachi, Ltd. and Information & Telecommunication Systems Company, Hitachi, Ltd. - Apr. 2013
- Representative Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Executive Officer
Hitachi Group Chief Innovation Officer and Hitachi Group Chief Information Security Officer
Session5 " Digital technology innovation and emerging front-runners "
Panel Discussion
- Mr. David Katsujin Chao
- Cofounder & General Partner
DCM, the USA
Lecturer brief history
David Chao is a co-founder and general partner of DCM, a global venture capital firm. Prior to DCM, David worked at Recruit, Apple Computer and McKinsey & Company. He was also co-founder, acting CFO and CTO of JCI, Japan's first public mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). At DCM, he is responsible for the investments in 51job (NASDAQ: JOBS), 99Bill Corporation, All About Japan, Inc. (JASDAQ: 2454), BitTorrent, Clearwire (NASDAQ: CLWR), eDreams, Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT), kabu.com (TSE: 8703), Recourse Technologies (Symantec),Renren.com (NYSE: RENN), Sling Media, and SMIC (NYSE: SMI).
David serves on the advisory board of Legend Capital in China and has been listed as a Top 20 to 50 Venture Capitalist
by Forbes since 2004. David holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. degree from Brown.
Panel Discussion
- Ms. Susan Pointer
- Senior Director of Public Policy & Government Relations
Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa Russia
Google Inc., the USA
Lecturer brief history
Susan Pointer is Google's Senior Director of Public Policy & Government Relations for Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa and Russia - managing senior teams across these four Continents.
She took on this role in July of last year, having previously covered Google's EMEA public policy from London. Susan is now based in Hong Kong. She has been with Google for just over five years in total.
Immediately before joining Google, Susan spent 6 years as Director of Public Policy for global E-Commerce company, Amazon.com - based in Brussels and then London.
Previously, Susan headed the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)'s European Policy Unit in Brussels, worked as a Parliamentary Advisor in the European Parliament, a Parliamentary Adviser in the British Parliament, and worked for an education-focused publishing company.
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Amit Gupta
- Co-Founder & VP of Revenue & Operations
InMobi, Singapore
Lecturer brief history
Amit Gupta completed his undergraduate studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in Mechanical Engineering in 2000.
Growing usage of mobile phones in the developing markets inspired Amit to co-found InMobi in 2007. Amit aspires for InMobi to be one of the most successful Internet product companies across the global emerging out of India. Amit heads InMobi's Revenue and Operations and responsible for taking company to a sustainable profitability mark. He has played an instrumental role in expanding InMobi's footprint to multiple markets across 5 continents.
Amit has been a serial entrepreneur, prior to InMobi, Amit founded Analyticsworks, a company that offered a platform for business intelligence. His professional experience include hot start ups like Andale where he worked directly with the CEO to help initiate new areas of revenues for the company; Aditi that gave him hands on experience on building software and a large multinational bank Citigroup where he helped to start scalable business intelligence unit for their consumer finance business. Amit is passionate about entrepreneurship. He has been helping several young entrepreneurs by advising them on every aspect of running a start up. In 2013, he has received a highly coveted Distinguish Alumni Award from his alma mater for his exceptional entrepreneurial achievements.
Panel Discussion
- Mr. Roderick Lappin
- Executive Chairman, Lenovo NEC Holdings B.V.
(NEC Lenovo Japan Group)
Chairman, Lenovo (Japan) Ltd.
Vice President, Lenovo Group
Lecturer brief history
Roderick Lappin joined Lenovo Singapore in February 2007 as Vice President of Relationship Business for the Asia Pacific Region that included Japan. In his role, he drove the expansion of businesses for public/education/large and small to mid enterprise sectors, while strengthening the relationship with business partners. On October 1, 2008, Rod joined Lenovo Japan as President. He assumed the post of Executive Chairman of Lenovo NEC Holdings B.V. on July 1, 2011, and assumed the current post of Chairman of Lenovo Japan on April 1, 2012.
Prior to joining Lenovo, Roderick entered Dell in 1996, where he spent the next 11 years. Having gone through managerial positions for sales in Australia and Korea, he engaged in the web business for Asia Pacific. He thereafter served as Executive Director of Global sales for Asia Pacific in 2003, Executive Director of Enterprise and Public sectors for Australia in 2004, and Executive Director of Advanced Systems business for Japan in 2006.
Roderick Lappin is from Australia, and has a Business Certificate from Macquarie University. He has lived in Japan for a total of over 6 years.
Moderator
- Mr. Waichi Sekiguchi
- Editorial Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Waichi Sekiguchi is an editorial writer for Nikkei Newspaper and a newscaster of BS Japan program "NIKKEI x BS Live 7PM.". He joined Nikkei in 1982 and currently covers the IT industry and cyberspace issues. Sekiguchi used to be a Washington correspondent during the Bush and Clinton Administrations in early 1990s, covering US trade and government issues. Prior to that he was a Fulbright research fellow at the Center for International Affairs of Harvard University and he was a chief writer for The Nikkei Weekly, the English edition of the Nikkei newspaper. He has also written many books on the Internet and IT industry. Titles include "Reimagining Japan," "Savvy Search Technique," "Pioneers of Japanese PC Industry," etc. He graduated from Hitotsubashi University and he is a visiting professor at Hosei University Business School and The Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan. He also teaches at Waseda University and Meiji University as a part-time instructor.
Moderator
- Mr. Keiichi Murayama
- Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Keiichi Murayama formerly served as the U.S. Silicon Valley bureau chief of Nikkei Inc., and is now a senior staff writer of Nikkei. After earning his undergraduate degree at Tohoku University a little more than decade ago, he joined the Business News Department of Nikkei in Tokyo as a staff writer. He covered technology, medical, automotive, and financial news. After he joined the Program on US-Japan Relations of Harvard University, he went on to oversee the U.S. Silicon Valley Bureau for a few years. He's co-authored several books, including "The Nissan Revolution, The Medical Industry in a New Age", and authored "Rise and Fall of the IT Empire - Steve Jobs Revolution".
Moderator
- Mr. Masanori Murui
- Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Masanori Murui is Deputy Editor and Senior Staff Writer for Nikkei Newspaper. He joined Nikkei in 1992 and has covered a wide range of business sectors, including energy, automotive, electronics, telecom, steel, IT, retail. From 2006 to 2010, he worked as the chief correspondent in New York.
Murui received his Master of Science in Business Administration at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.
Moderator
- Ms. Makiko Yamada
- Counselor, Global ICT Strategy Bureau
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
Lecturer brief history
Date of Birth : September 13, 1960
Place of Birth : Tokyo, Japan
[ Education ]
Graduated from Faculty of Law, Waseda University
Graduated from London School of Economics and Political Science
- [ Career ]
- 2011
- Counselor, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC (Present)
- 2010
- Director of the Accounts Division, Minister's Secretariat, MIC
- 2009
- Director of the General Affairs Division, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
- 2007
- Director of the International Policy Division, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC
- 2004
- Deputy Mayor of Setagaya City, Tokyo
- 2003
- Senior Advisor, the General Affairs Division, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
- 2001
- Director of the Telecommunications Consumer Affairs Office, Tariff and Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC
(January 6, 2001: Reorganization of ministries and agencies) - 1984
- Joined the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), Japan
