Activities

30th International Communication Forum
「In Memory of 30th Anniversary of the Japan Society of Information and Communication Research」

Date & Time November 22, 2013, 10:00 - 18:00 Friday
Venue

Tokyo International Forum, Conference Room #G602 (Glass Building)
(Address: Marunouchi 3-5-1, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan)

Program

10:00 - 10:30 Opening Address:
Hitoshi Mitomo (President of JSICR/Professor Telecommunications Economics & Policy, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University) Congratulatory Address: MIC (To be fixed)
Erik Bohlin (Chair, International Telecommunications Society/ Professor, Division of Technology and Society, Department of Technology Management & Economics, Chalmers University of Technology)


10:30 - 11:00 Opening Speech:
Shun Sakurai (Vice-Minister, Policy Coordination, MIC)


11:00 - 12:30 Keynote 1:
Eli Noam (Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility, Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School) 'Cloud-TV as the next driver of change'


Keynote 2:
Gerard Pogorel (Gerard Pogorel (Professor of Economics and Management‐Emeritus, Telecom ParisTech) 'Spectrum & Innovation: coping with future radio spectrum needs'


12:30 - 14:00: Lunch


14:00 - 15:30: Roundtable Discussion 1:
How is ICT shaping our society and creating new values?
Minoru Sugaya (Chair) (Professor, Institute for Media and Communications Research, Keio University)
Shuichi Inada (Project Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, Tokyo University)
Toshinori Kajiura (Senior Executive Researcher, Hitachi)
Yasuyoshi Katayama (Representative Director/ Senior Executive Vice-President/ CTO & CIO, NTT)
Keiichi Kubota (Managing Director. Executive Director-General of Engineering, NHK)
Shigeki Suzuki (Director-General for Policy Coordination, MIC)
Eli Noam
Gerard Pogorel


15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break


15:50-16:20 Keynote 3:
Erik Bohlin
'Global Policy Leadership for the 'Smart' Ecosystem: How? '


16:20-17:50 Roundtable Discussion 2:
Advancement of ICT and the Growth of Asia
Hitoshi Mitomo (Chair)
Erik Bohlin
Yu-Li Liu (Professor, Department of Radio & TV, National Chengchi University)
Tingjie Lu (Professor, School of Management & Economics, Beijin
University of Posts and Telecommunications)
Akira Terasaki (Counsel, Nomura Research Institute/ visiting Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Xu Yan (Professor, Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Chang-Ho Yoon (Professor, Department of Economics, Korea University)
Sudharma Yoonaidharma (Dean, University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce)


17:50 Closing Remarks:
Hidenori Fuke (Professor, Faculty of Global Media Studies/ Chair, Graduate School of Global media, Komazawa University )


18:15 Farewell Party
*Some of the Speakers and Panelists are subject to change