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Parallel Session 4

Digital Revolution
Agenda
Session1
10:00-12:00 IoT, AI and Hardware Industries (Value Creation: Responsible Consumption and Production (Goal 12 in SDGs))
Moderators:
Mitsuishi Mamoru, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Jian Cao, Associate Vice President for Research, Northwestern University

Products have been the center of the value in the capital intensive society until now. An inclusive society is expected to be realized by promoting the ever progressing knowledge-intensive society. Creation of new values is necessary in such knowledge-intensive society with the use of data and its application indispensable to realize such a society. From these points of view, the latest technological trends of AI, IoT, Robotics and Big Data, its effect on the economy, how we consider the value creation including services, the relation with the mind and soul, as well as ‘Responsible Consumption and Production’ are discussed in this session.

Speakers:
  1. Fujimoto Takahiro, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
  2. Matsuo Yutaka, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  3. Philip Wong, Vice President, TSMC, Taiwan
  4. Someya Takao, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  5. Rekimoto Jun, Professor, Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
  6. Frank Bignone, Vice President, Airbus Japan, Airbus
  7. Fritz Klocke, Professor, Fraunhofer Institute and Stuttgart University, Germany
  8. Mori Masahiko, DMG MORI CO., LTD., Japan
  9. Nam Kyung-pil, Former Governor of Gyeonggi Province
Session2
13:30-15:00 AI and Healthcare
Moderators:
Kwon Dong-Soo, Professor, KAIST, Korea
Sakuma Ichiro, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Application of AI technology in medical area is becoming widely spread. For instance, improvement of effective and reliable medical image diagnosis by the assistance of AI is expected. The data obtained from the daily diagnosis is dealt as big data, and from where useful information is extracted automatically using AI. The feature of the AI embedded medical devices and systems, risks which should be considered, how it should be appropriately used, ethics and responsibility of the AI medical system are discussed.

Speakers:
  1. Paolo Dario, Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
  2. Russell Taylor, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, USA
  3. Pierre Jannin, Professor, Rennes University, France
  4. Harada Kanako, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  5. Mori Kensaku, Professor, Nagoya University
  6. Kim Dae-Hyeong, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University
Session3
15:30-17:10 Social Science and Policy
Moderators:
Shiroyama Hideaki, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
Ema Arisa, Project Assistant Professor, Institute for Future Initiatives, The University of Tokyo

After discussing about the applications of technologies in manufacturing and medical/health fields, crosscutting issues of governance of digital revolution will be discussed from social science perspectives. Crosscutting governance issues include ethics, changing works and lifestyles, competition among platformers, privacy, changing requirements for education and the future of global governance, etc.

Speakers:
  1. Toni Erskine, Professor of International Politics, Australian National University
  2. Yi Zeng, Deputy Director of Research Center for Brain-Inspired Intelligence Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  3. Taylor Reynolds, Technology Policy Director, MIT Internet Policy Research Institute
  4. Ohashi Hiroshi, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
  5. Yonemura Shigeto, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
Wrap-up
17:10-17:30 Summary of Digital Revolution
Speakers:
  • Mitsuishi Mamoru, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
  • Kwon Dong-Soo, Professor, KAIST, Korea
  • Shiroyama Hideaki, Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The University of Tokyo
ORGANIZER
Mitsuishi Mamoru
Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
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