Symposium How to Advance Digitalisation to Achieve Society 5.0
April 24, 2018
Tokyo
Keizai Koho Center held a symposium to discuss the challenges of digitalisation in Germany and Japan, in collaboration with the Japanese-German Center Berlin (JDZB). Political and industrial experts from Japan and Germany participated in a panel discussion.
| Opening Remark: | Masakazu Kubota | Director General, Keidanren and President, KKC |
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| Friederike Bosse | Secretary General, JDZB | |
| Keynote: | Stefan Heumann | Managing Director, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung |
| Panel 1: | Challenges for Industry and Business: Innovation and R&D | |
| Panelists: | Katsumi Emura | CTO, NEC Corporation |
| Thomas Koenen | Director of Division ‘Digitalisation and Innovation’, BDI | |
| Hiroyuki Morikawa | Professor, Research Center for Advanced Technology, University of Tokyo | |
| Chair: | Kazumasa Kusaka | Chairman, Japan Economic Foundation |
| Panel 2: | Challenges for Government: Regulation, Standardization, Education | |
| Panelists: | Jeanette Hofmann | Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) |
| Hideo Shindo | Vice Minister, Policy Coordination, The Cabinet Office | |
| Martin Pohl | Counsellor, German Embassy, Tokyo | |
| Chair: | Stefan Heumann | Managing Director, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung |