July 8, 2022 Tenth New Business Strategy Seminar for the Beyond 5G Era

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will sponsor the tenth New Business Strategy Seminar for the Beyond 5G Era. This seminar is an initiative of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo).

1. Purpose

On December 18, 2020, MIC launched the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center (co-headed by MORIKAWA Hiroyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and YANAGAWA Noriyuki, Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo). The purpose of the Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center is to strategically acquire intellectual property and standardize with the participation of major industry-academia-government players toward the Beyond 5G era.
The center encourages private companies, universities, and other organizations to proactively and strategically promote the formation of markets and new market entry, the development and social implementation of innovative technologies and services by making full use of intellectual property and standardization. Therefore, MIC will support these efforts, provide reference information and a place for collaboration, and promote dissemination, and enlightenment.
As part of the efforts of the Center, the tenth New Business Strategy Seminar for the Beyond 5G Era under the theme of “Foresight of Beyond 5G Business and Measures Regarding Intellectual Property and Standardization” will be held for IP department managers, international standardization and R&D department managers, researchers, etc.

2. Outline

Time and date: 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2022
Venue: Online (The URL link will be sent to those who register)
Participation fee: Free
Organizer: Beyond 5G New Business Strategy Center
Co-organizer: Planning and Strategy Committee, Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium Beyond 5G

Seminar outline

In this seminar, business strategy initiatives towards the Beyond 5G era will be introduced by global companies. In the panel discussion, discussion will be made on the issues that must be addressed by Japanese companies towards the Beyond 5G era from the perspective of global companies.

Keynote speech

Lecture (1)
NEMOTO Kenji
Senior Director, Product Marketing at Qualcom Technologies

Lecture (2)
TAKAHASHI Atsushi
Director, Service Provider Architecture, Cisco Systems G.K.
KOHNO Miya
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, G.K.

Panel discussion

Moderator
SUNADA Kaoru
Executive Research Fellow Master (Sociology) at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) and President/Representative Director of the Information Systems Society of Japan

Panelists
NEMOTO KENJI
Senior Director, Product Marketing at Qualcom Technologies
TAKAHASHI Atsushi
Director, Service Provider Architecture, Cisco Systems G.K.
KOHNO Miya
Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, G.K.

3. About application

For participating in this seminar, please refer to the "Application for participation" and apply from the URL for application before the deadline.

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  Application deadline: No later than 5:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2022
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  The published material is in Japanese only.