Lecture
"A Prosperous Future Brought About by Innovations"

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth : January 11, 1954

Mar. 1976

Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University

Apr. 1976

Joined Fujitsu Limited

Dec. 1999

General Manager, Mobile Computing Division,
Personal Systems Business Group

Dec. 2002

Senior Vice President, Personal Systems Business Group

Jun. 2004

Executive Vice President, Personal Systems Business Group

Jun. 2005

Corporate Vice President
President, Personal Systems Business Unit

Jun. 2007

Corporate Senior Vice President
President, Ubiquitous Products Business Group

Jun. 2008

Corporate Senior Vice President
President, System Products Business Group
In charge of Procurement Unit
Executive Vice President, Ubiquitous Products Business Group

Feb. 2009

Corporate Senior Vice President
President, System Products Business Group
In charge of Procurement Unit
Executive Vice President, Platform Solution Business Group
Executive Vice President, Ubiquitous Products Business Group

Jun. 2009

Corporate Senior Vice President
President, System Products Business Group
Executive Vice President, Platform Solution Business Group

Jan. 2010

Corporate Senior Executive Vice President

Apr. 2010

President

Jun. 2010

President and Representative Director

Lecture
"Orchestrating a brighter world"

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth : November 8, 1953

Mar. 1981

Awarded Doctoral degree by the Graduate Scool of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Apr. 1981

Joined NEC Corporation

Jul. 1995

Senior Manager
Microwave and Satellite Communications Division
3rd Development Department

Oct. 1997

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)

Session2
"Venture Businesses for Building a Knowledge Based Society"

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Mr. Takatani graduated from Kwansei Gakuin University.
In 1993 he joined Johnson and Johnson K.K., in 1995 he joined Kyocera and worked for system integration, and in 2005 he joined E-Guardian and became president in 2006.
As a leading company in the industry, he believes that the company' s mission is to prevent any criminal issues surrounding the internet. The corporate philosophy is to build a happy internet life. E-Guardian is aiming to become the global leader of the internet security guards for enabling any end user to use the Internet happily.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Dice is co-founder and CEO of freee, the automated online accounting software for SMBs. Dice was Head of APAC SMB marketing at Google before founding freee. Prior to Google, Dice has broad experience including CFO and VP of product management at ALBERT Inc., a Japanese recommendation engine startup, private equity investment analyst at CLSA Capital Partners Japan and account planner at Hakuhodo.
Dice earned BA in Commerce from Hitotsubashi University majoring in Data Science.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth : January 1981
Place of Birth : Osaka, Japan

As founder and CEO of Lancers, Inc. Japan' s first ever crowdsourcing service, Yosuke Akiyoshi oversees its management and business strategy.

Yosuke' s professional career as entrepreneur started in university, where he founded his first tech startup. In 2005 he joined Nifty, Inc., where he incubated and developed several new internet services.

An experience both as client and service provider during his career at Nifty, Inc. gave him an insight and idea to create a service that matches individuals as service provider with companies as client through the internet.

That' s how in April 2008 REET (now Lancers, Inc.) was born and later in December that year, Lancers, a crowdsourcing service that provides online job marketplace was launched.

Lancers is a pioneer in the crowdsourcing industry in Japan, and is also the largest service of its kind at the moment in the country. Its goal is to empower freelancing individuals through the power of internet by enabling to“live and work as they want, free from any restraints on time and place”.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Naoaki Mashita was born in Tokyo, 1977. Whilst pursuing studies at Keio University in 1998, Naoaki established V-cube Internet - now V-cube, Inc. - and assumed the role of Founder & CEO. Thereafter, Naoaki changed V-cube' s primary business to visual communications and achieved the No.1 Market Share in Japan' s Web Conference market in 2008. V-cube has maintained this position for 8 years.

With the support from Intel Capital in 2009, Naoaki shifted focus to overseas markets and established operations in China, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. In January 2013, Naoaki relocated to Singapore to stimulate local business development. In December 2013, V-cube was listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange Mothers board.

Session4
"Government Policies and Actions for Promoting IoT"

Keynote Speech

Lecturer brief history

Date of Birth : May 2, 1956
Place of Birth : Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

[ Education ]
Graduated from the Faculty of Agricalture, the University of Tokyo

[ Career ]

 

Apr. 1981

Entered the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications

Jul. 2001

Director, International Economic Affairs Division, International Affairs Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jan. 2004

Director, Tariff Division, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Aug. 2005

Director, Telecommunications Policy Division, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2007

Director, General Policy Division, Information and Communications policy Bureau, MIC

Jul. 2008

Director, Policy Planning Division, Minister' s Secretariat, MIC

Jul. 2009

Director-General of the Tokai Bureau of Telecommunications, MIC

Jul. 2010

Vice President, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Aug. 2011

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

Sep. 2012

Director-General of the Postal Services Policy Department, Information and Communications Bureau, MIC

Jun. 2013

Director-General for Policy Coordination, Minister' s Secretariat, MIC

Jul. 2014

Director-General, Global ICT Strategy Bureau, MIC

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Mr. Henry Quek is the Deputy Director for Next Generation Cellular Networks at the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore. He is part of the Next Generation Infrastructure Group which oversees the development of national level ICT infrastructure for Singapore.

Henry is currently part of the core team responsible for planning Singapore' s upcoming nationwide sensor network as well as leading collaborations with the industry on heterogenous networks and other government-led projects. His past projects include the Next Generation Nationwide Broadband Network (NGNBN) in Singapore which brings optical fibre to every home and businesses, where he played both technical and strategy roles. His expertise includes strategy development, dialogue with industry players as well as internal selling to convince stakeholders.

Henry has been with IDA for the past 10 years. Before joining IDA, he was part of the Singapore Public Service' s Strategic Policy Office that facilitates whole-of-government strategic planning. Henry holds a Masters of Engineering from Cambridge University, UK.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Wolfgang Dorst is Head of Industrie 4.0 in the high-tech association BITKOM. He represents the association in the PLATTFORM INDUSTRIE 4.0, which was founded in 2013 by BITKOM, VDMA and ZVEI. Previously, he was a member of the Authors team of the Working Group Industrie 4.0 at Research Alliance of the Federal Government.
Dorst worked more than 10 years as a market developer for strategic projects in the ICT industry. He led complex projects in Berlin in technological and political regulation and coordinated activities in the energy sector and in the public sector with a longstanding focus on Healthcare. He worked closely with solution partners and engaged themselves already then in BITKOM and IT Summit of the federal government. Wolfgang Dorst looks back to more than 30 years of experience in the IT and communications market - many years of which in sales and technical functions. Prior to joining BITKOM he worked at Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Amdahl and Digital Equipment. Starting point of the career make apprenticeship as skilled worker and electrical engineering studies.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

[ Education ]
Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland
Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Rutgers University

[ Career ]
James A. St. Pierre is Deputy Director of the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL). ITL is one of seven research Laboratories within the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Along with the ITL Director St. Pierre oversees a research program designed to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by developing and disseminating standards, measurements, and testing for interoperability, security, usability, and reliability of information systems, including cybersecurity standards and guidelines for Federal agencies and U.S. industry, supporting these and measurement science at NIST through fundamental and applied research in computer science, mathematics, and statistics. Through its efforts, ITL seeks to enhance productivity and public safety, facilitate trade, and improve the quality of life.

Under the Federal Information Security Management Act, ITL is addressing major challenges faced by the nation in wide range of areas including: cloud computing, big data, cyber-physical systems, electronic voting, and health information technology. Mr. St.Pierre coordinates ITL' s involvement in the NIST Cyber-Physical Systems program - ITL' s contributions to this effort are focused on cybersecurity, networking, and timing.

His work has been published in the NIST Journal of Research and in external publications. He has given dozens of presentations on both technical and management topics, to both national and international audiences. Before joining NIST, in 1994, he worked as a technical project leader within Loral Space Systems semiconductor design group and worked for IBM on the development of hardware and software for Los Angeles-class submarines. In addition, he worked with several universities to develop their semiconductor design curricula.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Sam Paltridge, Ph.D., is in the Directorate of Science Technology and Innovation, for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He joined the OECD as a communications analyst in the division of information computer and communications policy in 1993. Recent work in communications has included broadband infrastructure as well as Internet issues such as international traffic exchange. He worked on the Communications Outlook series between the 1995 and 2005 editions; and between 2004 and 2007 was principal administrator of ICT statistics in the OECD' s Economic Analysis and Statistics Division. Most recently he was one of the organisers of the OECD Ministerial on the Future of the Internet Economy held in Seoul during June 2008 and the OECD High Level Meeting on the Internet Economy in June 2011. He currently heads up the telecoms unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy. Dr. Paltridge is the OECD' s representative on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and was one of the founding members of the GAC. Dr. Paltridge has also served in a number of advisory roles to governments, such as the Australian Government' s Broadband Advisory Group, and he is a former member of the organising committee for the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC) held each year in Washington. Dr. Paltridge' s work with the OECD involves working closely with other international organisations on ICT policy and, in 2005, he chaired the International Telecommunication Union' s World Meeting on Telecommunication/ICT Indicators. He is currently the OECD' s representative to the Internet Governance Forum and serves on the International Advisory Board of LIRNEasia.

Session5
"Next Generation Mobility with Intelligence"

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

1977-81

University of Tokyo,
Major : Electronic Engineering

1981

NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.

1981-87

In-vehicle system research in Central Institute

1987-90

In-vehicle electronic system development in Electronic design department

1991-2005

IT system planning and development

2005-14

Planning and development of IT&ITS system and EV-IT system

2014

In charge of Connected Car strategy in EE and Systems engineering Dep.,
Planning and Advanced engineering Dep. and Nissan Research Center
Present

Prize : Won SAE ARCH T. COLWELL MERIT AWARD (SAE Best Paper Award), 1999

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Tin Hang Liu, born in Italy, is an entrepreneur who has run his family' s company called Italchina.it that works on remarkable transportation projects with clients like Giugiaro, Cagiva, Ducati, MV Agusta, AGV: his dad (Francisco Liu) and he were also involved in the team of the project called MyCar by Innovech, a compact electric vehicle beautifully designed by Giorgietto Giugiaro and engineered in Italy using most of components from Asia.
In 2008 he moved to Silicon Valley to understand better startups' ecosystems, social media and innovation. He brought his know-how in Italy founding the Social Media division in Seolab.it. He worked with top clients like Benetton Group Worldwide (United Colors of Benetton, Sisley, Playlife), Fox (Fox, National Geographic, History Channel), Kimberly Clark (Scottex, Teresita, Kleenex). He also initiated an acquisition plan for his latest startup Cityfan towards the largest Italian editorial Repubblica, part of Gruppo Espresso.
He' s also a teacher in academic institutions like IED (International Higher Educational Network in Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management of creative industries) with Samsung in Milan, Turin University, previously at IULM University, University of Trento and Turin, in the Masters level, with subjects ranging from Social Media Marketing, Online Strategies, Entrepreneurship 2.0, New mobility.
He is co-founder and now the CEO of OSVehicle a startup that developed an open source hardware platform for electric vehicles and an ecosystem for startups entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, makers, fabbers, manufacturers and investors.
Media defined OSVehicle as the “IKEA car”, “Arduino for Vehicles”, “Android for Electric Vehicles”.
OSVehicle is also featured on Wired, Bloomberg, The Huffington Post, TopGear, France Televisions, Maker Faire, Next Berlin, TEDx, Roland Garros and more.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Chris Roberts joined Parrot in 2006, establishing the business & subsidiary in the UK as Managing Director, during this period the business was developed into a dominant market leader. In 2009 Chris was appointed Vice President EMEA based at Parrot Head Office in Paris with responsibility for the aftermarket business and subsidiaries in Europe, Middle East & Africa. Currently from 2012 as part of the international emerging market development strategy Chris holds the position of Vice President & Managing Director for Parrot in the JPAC region, with responsibility for Japan, Australia, New Zealand & Pacific markets.

Chris has a 25 year experience in the mobile communications & consumer electronics sectors encompassing roles in general management, sales & marketing business development, technical and operations spanning Europe and Asia Pacific.

At 18 Chris founded and was CEO of a successful UK start-up company specializing in corporate sales & technical development of car audio, mobile communications & mobile electronic systems. After successfully merging the company he founded Chris relocated to Australia and over a ten year period held a number of senior management positions with an Asia Pacific automotive mobile electronics group.

Chris graduated with a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Adelaide (Australia) with high performance in strategic management, global branding and business performance improvement. In 2005 Chris was recognized by the University of Adelaide for the highest achievement in Operations Management.

Panelist

Lecturer brief history

Starting his career as an Anti-lock brake system (ABS) engineer at a control unit manufacturer, Taniguchi later worked at a trading company as a sales engineer. After that, he established a web-based content distribution company, and eventually set up ZMP Inc. in 2001. Within 7 years, ZMP had created two robotics products for family use: Nuvo (2004) and Miuro (2007).
Since then, the company has changed its focus to autonomous driving technology and developed the RoboCar series. To date, more than 500 automotive manufacturers and research institutions have become users of ZMP RoboCar' s and/or sensors.
In 2014, ZMP Inc. introduced a new business concept: "Robot of Everything", a phrase which means to convey the ambition of the company to innovate the world by applying robotics technology to all industries. Recently it has been co-developing a new computer for automotive applications with Intel, called IZAC. In addition, it is also creating new products such as RoboVision, a sophisticated camera for automotive; Carriro, a robot which aims to support the logistics industry; and heartomo, a cloud service for heart care. This year the company is expanding its business and technology portfolio to incorporate machines for architecture and agriculture. In April, ZMP Inc. started providing big data analysis and solution product development services with another partner company（ZMP invested）. In 2020 the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held in Tokyo, and to capitalize on and contribute to the scale of this grand event ZMP has unveiled the idea of RoboTaku (Robot Taxi). The realization of the concept of "Robot of Everything" is being achieved at an ever-increasing rate by the application of robotics technology on different products.