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Agenda

You can download the valuable presentations held on the "2008 EU-Japan Cooperation Forum on ICT Research" by clicking on the names of the speakers.

 

 

Tuesday - March 4, 2008

09:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 11:00

Opening Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor)

Host: Dr. Philippe de Taxis du Poët - First Counsellor - Delegation of the European Commission to Japan

H.E. Miran Skender - Slovenian Ambassador
Mr. Kiyoshi Mori - Vice Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs), MIC
Mr. Hideichi Okada - Director-General for Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI
H.E. Hugh Richardson - EU Ambassador, Head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Japan
Mr. Fabio Colasanti - Director-General, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee / Tea Break (Reception Hall, 1st Floor)

11:15 - 12:15

Keynote addresses (Auditorium, 1st Floor)

Host: Mr. Hiroya Izumi - Director of International Economic Affairs Division, MIC

Mr. Chiaki Ito - Corporate Senior Executive, Vice President and Representative Director Fujitsu, Ltd.
Dr. Horst Melcher - President, Deutsche Telekom Japan
Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa - Professor, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Abderrahmane Kheddar - Co-director of the AIST-CNRS Joint Japanese-French Robotics Laboratory

12:15 - 13:30

Lunch (Reception Hall, 1st Floor)

13:30 - 15:00

Parallel Sessions

e-Transport (Conference Room 3, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairman
Mr. Juhani Jääskeläinen - European Commission

Mr. Juhani Jääskeläinen - Dep. Head of Unit, European Commission
Mr. Hjime Amano - ITS Info-communications Forum
Dr. Wolfgang Reinhardt - Association of EU Vehicle Manufacturers
Prof. Sadayuki Tsugawa - Meijo University

Nanoelectronics (Room C&D, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairman
Dr. Georg Kelm - European Commission

Dr. Hisatsune Watanabe - Semiconductor Leading Edge Technology
Dr. Akihiko Ishitani - IMEC
Dr. Toshiro Hiramoto - The University of Tokyo
Mr. Gerhard Gross - IMS Nanofabrication AG

Photonic Network Technology (RoomA&B, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Dr. Gustav Kalbe - European Commission
Dr. Toshio Morioka - NICT

Prof. Lorenzo Pavesi - Nanoscience Lab. - University of Trento
Dr. Naoya Wada - NICT
Dr. John Lambkin - Firecomms, Ltd.
Dr. Hiroaki Takeuchi - NTT Photonics Laboratories

15:00 - 15:15

Coffee / Tea Break (In front of the Intl. Conference Room, 3rd Floor)

15:15 - 16:45

Parallel Sessions

Networked Electronic Media (Conference Room 3, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairman
Mr. Alvis Ancans - European Commission

Mr. Roger Torrenti - NEM Steering Board Member
Dr. Tetsuya Yokotani - Mitsubishi Electric Corp.
Mr. Lieven Vermaele - European Broadcasting Union
Mr. Seiichiro Matsumoto - ECHONET Consortium

Nanoelectronics (Room C&D, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairman
Dr. Georg Kelm - European Commission

Dr. Yuji Awano - Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
Prof. Lothar H. Pfitzner - Fraunhofer / Mr. Toshihiko Osada - Fujitsu, Ltd.
Dr. Toshihiko Kanayama - AIST
Dr. Peter Choi - NANO-UV

Photonic Network Technology (Room A&B, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Dr. Gustav Kalbe - European Commission
Dr. Toshio Morioka
- NICT

Prof. Richard de la Rue - University of Glasgow
Dr. Hideo Kuwahara - Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.
Dr. Grégoire Ribordy - Id Quantique
Mr. Junichiro Ichikawa - Sumitomo Osaka Cement Co., Ltd.

16:45-17:00

Break

17:00 - 17:30

FP7 Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor)

Opportunities offered by the FP7 Programme (ICT Theme) to support international cooperation

Mr. Alvis Ancans - International Relations Unit - DG Information Society and Media - European Commission

 

Wednesday - March 5, 2008

09:30 - 10:00

Registration

10:00 - 11:30

Parallel Sessions

Next Generation Information Retrieval and Analysis Technologies (Conference Room 3, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Mr. Gérald Santucci
- European Commission
Mr. Tatsuya Kurosaka
- Japan Information Processing Development Corp.

Prof. Nozha Boujemaa - INRIA
Dr. Masaru Kitsuregawa - The University of Tokyo
Mr. Johan Hjelm - Nippon Ericsson K.K.
Mr. Tatsuya Kurosaka - Japan Information Processing Development Corp.

Ubiquitous Network Technology (Room C&D, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Mr. Jesus Villasante
- European Commission
Dr. Masayoshi Ohashi - KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.

Prof. Noboru Koshizuka - The University of Tokyo
Mr. Hartmut Dunger - Robert Bosch GmbH
Mr. Fumihiko Sawaguchi - NTT Communications
Dr. Enrico Pagello - University of Padua

New Generation Network (Room A&B, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Dr. Max Lemke -
European Commission
Prof. Tomonori Aoyama
- Keio University/NICT

Dr. Timur Friedman - UPMC
Dr. Fumito Kubota - NICT
Prof. Rahim Tafazolli - Surrey University
Associate Prof. Akihiro Nakao - The University of Tokyo

11:30 - 13:30

Lunch (Reception Hall, 1st Floor)

13:30 - 15:00

Parallel Sessions

RFID (Conference Room 3, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Mr. Gérald Santucci
- European Commission
Dr. Jin Mitsugi
- Keio University/Auto-ID Laboratory

Dr. Stéphane Amarger - Hitachi Europe, Ltd.
Mr. Koji Kaneda - Global SCM Planning Department
Prof. Keith Osman - Birmingham City University
Mr. Yo Nakajima - Hitachi, Ltd.

Ubiquitous Network Technology (Room C&D, 3rd Floor)

Session Chairmen
Mr. Jesus Villasante - European Commission
Prof. Hitomi Murakami - Seikei University

Mr. Makoto (Max) Miwa - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Dr. Ludovico Ciferri - ISBM/TWF
Dr. Masayoshi Ohashi - KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc.
Dr. Thomas Walter - DoCoMo-Lab

15:00 - 15:15

Coffee / Tea Break (In front of the Intl. Conference Room, 3rd Floor)

15:15 - 16:15

Closing Session (Auditorium, 1st Floor)

Session Chairmen
Dr. Stephan Pascall - Adviser - Directorate Components & Systems - DG Information Society and Media, European Commission
Mr. Atsushi Umino - Deputy Director of International Economic Affairs Division, MIC

During this session, aimed at taking stock of the two days and at identifying possible next steps, the Chairmen of the parallel sessions presented an overview of the discussion and conclusions related to their sessions, which can be dowloaded here.

 

 

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