Tokyo Tech International
Open Innovation Symposium
10:00-16:50, Thursday, November 25, 2021 (Japan Time)
The 3rd Tokyo Tech International Open Innovation Symposium 2021 hosted by Open Innovation Platform, Tokyo Institute of Technology, is scheduled on November 25, 2021 (JST, UTC +9), fully virtual venue.
The purpose of this symposium is to share the open innovation principle which is networked with respect and trust, to achieve dynamic and global development, and to reach our society for sustainable growth.
We invite awesome speakers from worldwide to share their knowledge, experience and insight of the open innovation through the global collaboration among government, research institutes, and private sectors.
The number of attendees to the Symposium is expected to be 1500 executive management class from business and technology development.
The Symposium is basically invitation basis, however, open to the public with free of charge. English-Japanese simultaneous translation service is available for the symposium.
Pre-registration is required. We look forward to having you to join this exciting event.
Program Schedule
| 10:00-10:30 | ＜Opening＞ |
| 10:00 |
Opening Remarks Osamu Watanabe Executive Vice President for Research, Director of Open Innovation Platform Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 10:10 |
Opening Remarks Kazuya Masu President, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 10:20 |
Guest Speech Mutsuko Inoue Director, University-Industry Collaboration and Regional R&D Division Science and Technology Policy Bureau Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) |
| 10:30-12:10 |
Session 1 (Keynote Speeches) : Messages from the World-Leading Open Innovation Players |
| 10:30 |
Keynote Speech: Expectation for Open Innovation toward Sustainable Society from the Viewpoint of Industry Takashi Yoshimura Director Industrial Technology Bureau, Keidanren Japan Business Federation |
| 10:50 |
Keynote Speech: Deeptech: enabling a sustainable society Luc Van den hove, President & CEO imec |
| 11:10 |
Keynote Speech: Open innovation in Silicon Valley - A key tool for digital transformation Richard Dashier Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center Stanford University |
| 11:30 |
Keynote Speech: Market Driven Innovative Research and International Collaboration Ma-Tien Yang Representative, ITRI Japan Office Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) |
| 11:50 |
Keynote Speech: The Challenge of Creating a New Model for Technology Incubation Takayoshi Kawakami CEO Advanced Technology Acceleration Corporation (ATAC) |
| 12:10-13:00 |
Break |
| 13:00-13:45 |
Session 2: Introduction on Activities of university-industry Joint Research Centers in Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 13:00 |
An Overview of Activities of Tokyo Tech Collaborative Research Center Yoichi Ohshima Professor, General Creative Manager, Open Innovation Platform Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 13:15 |
Introduction of LG Japan Lab and LG Material & Life solution collaborative research center Yasukazu Yoshida (Deputy director of the collaborative research center, Tokyo Institute of Technology) President, LG Japan Lab Inc. |
| 13:25 |
The initiatives of ULVAC Advanced Technology Collaborative Research Cluster Junya Kiyota (Deputy director of the collaborative research center, Tokyo Institute of Technology) General Manager, Institute of Advanced Technology ULVAC Inc. |
| 13:35 |
Development of a new platform for drug discovery aimed at together with Multimodal Cell Analysis Collaborative Research Cluster Hiroshi Tanaka (Deputy director of the collaborative research center, Tokyo Institute of Technology) Co-Representative Board Director ＆ CEO Cellshoot Therapeutics, Inc. |
| 13:45-13:55 |
Break |
| 13:55-16:50 |
Part 3: Activities for Green Innovations in Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 13:55 |
Trends of Green Technologies Junichi Taki Senior writer Nikkei Inc. |
| 14:15 |
The search for life in space X green innovation Yasuto Sekine Professor, Earth-Life Science Institute Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 14:30 |
Environment, Intellectual Property, and WIPO GREEN Tomoki Sawai Japan Office Director WIPO(World Intellectual Property Organization) |
| 14:45-14:55 |
Break |
| 14:55 |
Kenji Takeshita Director, Laboratory for Zero Carbon Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 15:05 |
Thermo-chemical Energy Storage Technologies for Carbon Neutral Society Yukitaka Kato Professor, Vice-Director, Laboratory for Zero-Carbon Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 15:20 |
Metallurgy for zero-carbon iron/steelmaking process and energy systems Yoshinao Kobayashi Professor, Laboratory for Zero Carbon Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 15:35 |
Advanced Micro-Nano Fluidic Devices for Highly-Efficient Resource Recycling Process Takehiko Tsukahara Professor, Laboratory for Zero Carbon Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 15:50 |
Materials and Systems Design of Energy Conversion using CO2 Separation and Utilization Technologies for Caron Recycling Junichiro Otomo Professor, Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment and Society, Laboratory for Zero Carbon Energy Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 16:05 |
Sustainable Social Infrastructure (SSI): Our Strategic Research Attempt towards Green Innovation Norihiro Nakai Dean, School of Environment and Society Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 16:15 |
Toward prediction of floods and water scarcity in the world Shinjiro Kanae Professor, School of Environment and Society Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 16:30 |
Green building and wellness office Shintaro Ikeda Associate Professor, School of Environment and Society Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 16:45-16:50 |
Closing Remarks |
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Yoichi Ohshima Professor, General Creative Manager, Open Innovation Platform Tokyo Institute of Technology |
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