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Hitachi will host Hitachi SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM 2015 - TOKYO on October 29 and 30 as part of its strategy to expand its Social Innovation business. This event, to be held at the Tokyo International Forum convention centre in metropolitan Tokyo, is the largest Hitachi Group event in the world.
Through lectures, seminars, and exhibits, this flagship event shares the Group's desire to resolve a variety of issues that the world is facing and to create a bright and prosperous future through the Social Innovation Business, which combines Hitachi's infrastructure technologies and cutting-edge IT to build more advanced social infrastructures. This year's event is expected to welcome 45,000 visitors, an increase of 10% compared to 2014.
In a keynote speech entitled Social Innovation - Delivering New Value Through Collaborative Creation, Hitachi Chairman & CEO Hiroaki Nakanishi will talk about how the Group will create new value by achieving innovations through 'collaborative creation' with a variety of partners, in the midst of changes to society and business brought about by the Internet of Things (loT).
Chris Anderson, the author of the bestsellers The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006) and Free: The Future of a Radical Price (2009), will give his outlook on the creation of new value through open innovation in a presentation entitled The 21st Century Industrial Revolution. Delegates can also listen to a dialogue between Shinichi Fukuoka, a biologist and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, and the architect Kazuyo Sejima, about the future image of urban area from the perspectives of both life and architecture. There will be speeches by Tom Kelly, Partner at the design consulting company IDEO, introducing Design Thinking, and by Tomoko Namba, Chairman of the Board of DeNA, the operator of Mobage, one of the most popular mobile game platforms in Japan, about teamwork.
In the Business Session, Hitachi executives, along with opinion leaders, experts, and managers active in a wide range of fields throughout the world, will introduce seven areas of activities that have gained considerable attention recently: loT, social infrastructures, service innovations, health care, new energy, railways, and business incubation. Participants in the session include Professor Jun Murai, Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University; the landscape architect Masayuki Wakui; and from Hitachi, Yutaka Saito, President & CEO of the Information & Telecommunication Systems Group; Kunizo Sakai, President & CEO of the Infrastructure Systems Company; Masaya Watanabe, President & CEO of the Healthcare Group; and Alistair Dormer, Global CEO in charge of the Rail Systems Business.
Through lectures, seminars, and exhibits, this flagship event shares the Group's desire to resolve a variety of issues that the world is facing and to create a bright and prosperous future through the Social Innovation Business, which combines Hitachi's infrastructure technologies and cutting-edge IT to build more advanced social infrastructures. This year's event is expected to welcome 45,000 visitors, an increase of 10% compared to 2014.
In a keynote speech entitled Social Innovation - Delivering New Value Through Collaborative Creation, Hitachi Chairman & CEO Hiroaki Nakanishi will talk about how the Group will create new value by achieving innovations through 'collaborative creation' with a variety of partners, in the midst of changes to society and business brought about by the Internet of Things (loT).
Chris Anderson, the author of the bestsellers The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006) and Free: The Future of a Radical Price (2009), will give his outlook on the creation of new value through open innovation in a presentation entitled The 21st Century Industrial Revolution. Delegates can also listen to a dialogue between Shinichi Fukuoka, a biologist and professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, and the architect Kazuyo Sejima, about the future image of urban area from the perspectives of both life and architecture. There will be speeches by Tom Kelly, Partner at the design consulting company IDEO, introducing Design Thinking, and by Tomoko Namba, Chairman of the Board of DeNA, the operator of Mobage, one of the most popular mobile game platforms in Japan, about teamwork.
In the Business Session, Hitachi executives, along with opinion leaders, experts, and managers active in a wide range of fields throughout the world, will introduce seven areas of activities that have gained considerable attention recently: loT, social infrastructures, service innovations, health care, new energy, railways, and business incubation. Participants in the session include Professor Jun Murai, Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University; the landscape architect Masayuki Wakui; and from Hitachi, Yutaka Saito, President & CEO of the Information & Telecommunication Systems Group; Kunizo Sakai, President & CEO of the Infrastructure Systems Company; Masaya Watanabe, President & CEO of the Healthcare Group; and Alistair Dormer, Global CEO in charge of the Rail Systems Business.
Exhibits will be divided into six business categories — infrastructure (water and mobility), energy (deregulation of electric power and stable supply), urban (office building sectors), healthcare (the care cycle), industry (manufacturing), and business & service (work styles, creating business, and strengthening platforms). A seventh category, security (physical and cyber security), serves as a common base for those six business fields.
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