The 3rd Symposium for reporting the activities of "The Last 5X Innovation R&D Center for a Smart, Happy, and Resilient Society" was held at the Symposium Hall of the International Science Innovation Building, in which this Center had recently set up its main development site. On the same day, the opening ceremony for the International Science Innovation Building also took place.
The symposium attracted more than 100 on- and off-campus participants, who gathered to gain an updated understanding of the Center's activities, and to provide input on those activities.
Following the opening address by the Project Leader of the Center, Tsuyoshi Nomura, Managing Director of Panasonic Corporation, congratulatory addresses were delivered by three guests: COI STREAM Vision 1's Visionary Leader Yuzuru Matsuda, Director of the Kato Memorial Bioscience Foundation; Mr Kazuya Suzuki, Director General for Promotion of National Strategic Special Zones, Kyoto Prefecture Department of Commerce, Labor, and Tourism; and Mr Tadashi Shirasu, Chief Officer of Industrial Strategy, City of Kyoto.
Next, a keynote lecture entitled "Progress on Deregulation and Expectations for Innovation" was delivered by Dr Yuri Okina, a member of the Council for Regulatory Reform in the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan, and Executive Vice Chairman of the Japan Research Institute, Limited. Members of the Center's R&D groups also delivered lectures on their activities.
After the formal conclusion of the symposium, Professor Toyoaki Nishida of the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, presented an experience-type demonstration of the entirely circumferential immersive virtual environment (dome display).
From left: Mr Suzuki, Director General for Promotion of National Strategic Special Zones, Kyoto Prefecture Department of Commerce, Labor, and Tourism; Mr Shirasu, Chief Officer of Industrial Strategy, City of Kyoto; Visionary Leader Matsuda; Project Leader Nomura; and Research Leader Hidetoshi Kodera, Professor of the Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
Dr Okina delivering the keynote lecture
Lecture on research and development
Opening ceremony for the International Science Innovation Building
COI STREAM "The Last 5X Innovation R&D Center for a Smart, Happy, and Resilient Society"
The goal of Kyoto University's "The Last 5X Innovation R&D Center for a Smart, Happy, and Resilient Society" is to realize "a smart, flexible and accommodating society in which citizens remain active and pursue new challenges throughout their entire lives". To this end, businesses and universities, sharing the vision of that desired social structure, are collaborating vertically and horizontally, transcending the limits that usually divide different academic research fields such as engineering, medical science, economics, psychology, and the social sciences, and crossing the boundaries between industries, in order for the results brought about by this project to be widely utilized for the betterment of society.
Related links
- The 3rd Symposium on COI STREAM "The Last 5X Innovation R&D Center for a Smart, Happy, and Resilient Society"
http://www.coi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/event20150525 (in Japanese) - Presentations on R&D activities delivered in the 3rd Symposium
http://www.coi.kyoto-u.ac.jp/report_arch/201506_03 (in Japanese)
