American universities pursue globalism in education and research by accepting students and staff from all over the world and aiming at world-class research accomplishments At the same time, they are surprisingly “local” in the sense that they place high value on activities that directly contribute to the economy, education, and community in the local towns and cities. In the city of Pittsburgh, U.S., in which the speaker’s university exists, two universities are playing critical roles for the city’s vitalization: one is University of Pittsburgh that is well known for medicine and biology, and the other is Carnegie Mellon Universities for computer science, engineering and robotics. This talk will introduce such activities by the two universities, which hopefully will provide some hints for similar activities in Keihanna.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, due to heightened risk awareness of traditional reliance on large-scale centralized power sources, effective use of renewable energy, creation of energy in the region, usage in the region, and realization of a new "regional production and consumption energy society” that will vitalize the region is being sought. Nissin Electric is expanding through a wide variety of distributed power sources such as solar power generation and storage battery in optimal combination with newest ICT technology energy solutions "SPSS® (Smart Power Supply Systems)" in five markets of power plants, factories, water treatment facilities, residents, and secluded islands, and will introduce efforts toward its realization in conjunction with cases.

The next decades will see the greatest increase in urban growth in the world’s history with roughly 3 billion more citizens of the world moving into cities. The pressure on cities is mounting.
Second, at the same time, 21st century technologies are beginning to transform the urban eco-system and the way cities operate.
Third, citizens around the world are increasingly seeking to be heard as cities are re-designed and transformed.
These forces combine into a global demand for “smart city” talent, design, solutions, construction, and operation.
For cities, regions, or provinces with foresight, this demand for smart city solutions around the world is an opportunity to build a new engine of job creation, economic growth, foreign direct investment, and the development of export markets.
One of the best ways to do this is to build both the content and capacity as a leading source of smart city solutions and also the brand and reputation for such smart city leadership.
To do this, in short,
1. Make your urban centers “innovation laboratories” for smart city solutions, especially encouraging entrepreneurs and innovative companies to develop smart city solutions across all sectors of urban life.
2. Engage your existing institutions (universities, companies, finance, workforce, citizens) in inventing, designing and producing smart city solutions.
3. Create joint ventures that give credibility in the places where urban growth will be dramatic, such as Asia and Africa.
4. Develop an new export economy based on the product of these three steps.

David Ehrenberg will describe how the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a cornerstone of New York’s economic development plan, is incubating the next generation of innovative manufacturing, design and technology firms. Experiencing its largest expansion in generations, the Navy Yard is embracing its past while providing the services and amenities expected by a diverse set of innovative companies.

KICK Smart Life Laboratory started to develop a zero emission office with improved working environment in the year end of 2015. We are developing an energy self-sufficient office by direct current power system with combining solar tracking photovoltaics and battery storage system. The electricity end uses in the office are energy efficient devices such as LED lighting, personal computers and communication servers. We also trying to confirm the effects of mental health care systems with green plants and vegetables that are grown by direct current LED lighting in the office. We will report the current states of research and development.

A project to develop and demonstrate a platform which enabled the home power consumption data collected through HEMS to be used to provide a variety of services has carried out. Continuous energy saving action at home with HEMS can not be achieved unless HEMS will provide not only power consumption visualization service but other attractive services. In this demonstration continuous interest could be observed with HEMS which provided local news and ads, residents association notices, and weather news with a customized power consumption data visualization on its screen.

Once considered blue-chip companies, Japan’s vertically integrated electricity utilities are now facing the triple challenges of stranded nuclear assets, energy market reform, and falling demand all at the same time. While the situation of Japan’s utilities may appear unique, utilities in other developed markets have also faced somewhat similar challenges. We will present our outlook on challenges and opportunities facing Japan’s utilities and provide case studies of strategies adopted by utilities in other developed markets.

It is important to promote the compact city development based on public transportation by reviewing the structure of the whole city, in order to form a sustainable city in response to the problem of global warming and population decline. Already such efforts have begun in advanced cities, and the government revised the law in 2014 to promote the efforts. As a result, many cities have started to plan the accessible compact city development to the life service functions by public transportation, through promoting the induction of life service functions such as welfare, medical and commercial, and the induction of residence, and setting the public transportation network.

When I start talking about environment and ecology, I always mention the comment of Mahatma Gandhi, the India’s non-violent advocate fighter who let India to her independence. He said “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.”
This comment is one of the best advice to humans who live in this century.
The U.N. declared the decade from 2011 to 2020, the “Decade on Biodiversity!” This means many people in this world began to recognize the important of understanding biodiversity is essential and vital for the existence of human being.
Students see and watch almost all the processes of growing those plants.
On the farming field in the university, students uses not only the sense of seeing but also sense of hearing, sense of touching, sense of smelling and taste. Activity on the fields enrich the minds of students with the knowledge about surrounding nature. We can start the journey from here to open the future of mankind.

A man-made city devoid of nature can erode the humanity and creativity of its residents and curb their intellectual output. Such an environment would only harm the healthy development of the next generation. Over the coming years, as Japan faces a shrinking population, it is predicted that the sweeping use of robotic automation will boost the productivity of social and corporate activities and major man’s activity will shift to services and intellectual productions. Shorter working hours and work-sharing will become a norm. Social infrastructure such as ICT and autonomous transport systems will evolve, proliferate and become more affordable. All these will enable us to work from wherever we are, thus bringing about a telecommuting society. Those who work from home surrounded by lush nature would feel more human and contribute to greater efficiency in their social and corporate activities. I suggest that Keihanna Science City aim to become a model for such “cities in nature.”

As well known, the fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) are limited and global warming is progressing due to the CO2 emission. So, we should shift our energy dependent structure from the fossil fuels to renewable energy resources.
In this presentation, capability of energy independent civilized life structure is discussed by applying several kinds of onsite generated energy through carbon free process. Here, the city veins such as garbage, organic residential waste, sewage and excrement as well as agricultural and forest resources are considered as the biomass energy resources to realize the energy recirculation society.

In a natural disaster-prone country like Japan, acquisition, analyzation, and provision of appropriate information is key to prevent and reduce disasters. NICT conducts R&D on ICT, which allow us to instantly understand the situation and take appropriate measures at disaster times. The talk will introduce how our technologies are being effectively utilized in the aftermath of the recent Kumamoto Earthquake.

Although Japanese announcements regarding area information or emergencies are played in airports, on trains, at sightseeing spots, in commercial establishments and around town, can they reach the ears of foreign tourists who can’t understand Japanese or those hard of hearing? In this presentation, Yamaha will discuss the Sound Universal Design system Omotenashi Guide – a Japanese-developed state-of-the-art application which captures Japanese-language announcements and displays them in other foreign languages. Additionally, we will also introduce the‘Kyoto Sound UD Project’.
Official website: http://omotenashiguide.jp

Shimokawa Town is located 100km north of Asahikawa City in Hokkaido with a population of 3400 people, and a total of 88% of the town area covered with forests. The town’s aims for a “forestry future urban town” based on the three pillars of comprehensive forestry industry; complete energy self sufficiency; and the declining birthrate and aging society geared for continuous development of the environment and unity and therefore expanding future regional development.

The program introduces an initiative for an “economic system of a recycling orientated society” which employs thermal energy produced by the self sufficient energy procured from local natural resources while providing support for communal living in “Ichinohashi Area” which has been particularly and seriously affected by both a declining population and population aging in the town.

Under the era of Internet of Everything, people are facing challenges that being smarter to adapt new technology in living, medical, environmental surveillance, manufacturing, finance, and etc; In order to enhance the quality of living standard, optimize city’s operations, and accelerate developments of every industry, City administrations are all looking for building a smarter city to overcome the challenges by utilizing total solutions efficiently. Meanwhile, upgrade the value of each city and stay competitive.
ASUS has dedicated on smart city planning and operating since 2013. Today, Peter Wu, the CEO of ASUS Cloud, would like to share his experience on smart city developments and ecosystem partnering by the topic” Toward A Healthier And Data-driven Smart-city”.

Our Cyber Kyoto Laboratory (CKL) has been recently established at the Keihanna Innovation Center KICK mainly to promote “ .kyoto” domain as the Top Level Domain of the Internet.

• 1. At first, some topics will be presented in terms of new technology and innovative business related to the Internet world. For example, sustainable information security techniques and their implementation by the big-data analysis and AI approaches, as well as attractive information services for matching real needs among different aspects, and so on.
• 2. Then, current status of .kyoto domain spread and upcoming prospects will be discussed with a future plan to realize a cyber-physical fusion circumstance here at Keihannna.

CONNEXX SYSTEMS is an “Energy” startup company based in Kyoto. We are funded by Mizuho capital, Daiwa corporate investment, Chu-sin capital, JGC and Maeda corp. Our mission is to create a new grid which has a web-like structure consisted with numerous and various batteries. We call this new Grid a PowerNET. Since PowerNET has outstanding stability, it will help and accelerate renewable energy installation and contribute to create sustainable society sooner.

We established “ Keihanna Green Innovation Forum” at May, 2015 to focus ①our future life, ②symbiosis with the nature, ③realization of sustainable society, as platform network among industry, academia, public and residential citizen.
In this forum, the following subjects will be conducted.

• (1) Green Science Promotion Organization ;ground resources, small museum, science communication
• (2) Green Energy Research Institute ; energy generation from city waste, biomass renewable energy
• (3) Academic Cooperative Consortium ;education program of highly talented researcher and engineers within the Keihanna Area

Robots are one of social devices in smart(er) cities. Smart networked robotics is a technology of robotics in the Internet seamlessly and ubiquitously connecting with humanoid robots, robotic wheelchairs, sensor networks,smartphones,etc. Robots allow to learn commonsenses using ambient intelligence. The society requires the human-robot harmonious collaboration in term s of ethical, legal and social issues. In this talk, several field experimentation related to smart networked robotics will be introduced.

Since global warming has recently caused severe impacts on the environment, the widespread of clean energy without CO₂ emission is expected to meet the future energy demand. In this talk, the recent status of advanced photovoltaics and thermoelectric technologies as well as CO₂ conversion to fuels will be discussed.

Toward the smarter city augmented communication technologies that can provide requested information of city, community, and shopping center for users, and recommend users to participate in local events in a natural and easy communication are highly expected. The spoken dialog system technology as one of the augmented communication technologies is the one that realizes the natural and easy communication using the spoken dialog between users and computers. In this talk the state of the art spoken dialog research at NAIST will be introduced. Furthermore, the latest research on the simultaneous speech translation at NAIST that realizes real-time spoken communication with increasing incoming tourists to Japan will also be introduced.

Since the formation in 1899, Suntory ltd. has been introducing a lot of beverages, such as Akadama Port Wine, whiskeys, beers, wines and non-alcoholic beverages. It is well known that the polyphenols, the natural antioxidants, are deeply involved in these taste and quality. Not only the product development but also the research on the polyphenol characters have been carried out in our company for many years, and some results formed the foundation of our dietary supplements, and TOKUHO drinks. In this speech, I will introduce our effort on the relationship between food and health with some real stories of product development in dietary supplements.

Interdisciplinary studies of engineering and psychology are gaining attention among both researchers and industries. It’s no exaggeration to say that almost every industry is interested in these studies because you can no longer create appealing commodities without the deep insight of psychology. Having knowledge in psychology will help you design exciting interaction with customers, which leads to higher satisfaction. These interdisciplinary studies are new research field which combines advanced engineering field such as IoT, VR/AR, lifelog with traditional psychology and brain science. In my talk I will introduce some of the latest findings in multimodal and crossmodal interfaces, both basic and applied research, seeking how much technology can sail across ambitious ocean of emotions.

Although the development of natural science never changes the laws of nature itself, the development of social science is changing the social law. The change of the society creates a new value to society. Understanding of social system, market, and human behavior, in addition to natural scientific developments, is essential to found a new value of the technology development, i.e., the management of technology.
In this lecture, picking up some example of the behavioral economics analysis of the food selection, we are introducing a new trend that incorporates the human behavior and cognitive scientific analysis into social sciences. This highly suggests the true meaning of innovation, and implies the social value that we need in order to produce the innovations that lead to profit to the society.