{"id":1229,"date":"2019-03-01T14:44:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T14:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:08:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T15:08:41","slug":"invitation-to-the-the-japan-uk-technology-and-humanity-in-education-2019-by-the-embassy-of-japan-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/2019\/03\/01\/invitation-to-the-the-japan-uk-technology-and-humanity-in-education-2019-by-the-embassy-of-japan-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitation to the the Japan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019 by the Embassy of Japan UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a>March 1st, 2019. \u00a0It\u2019s a great honor to be invited to the Japan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019, organized by the Embassy of Japan UK.<\/p>\n

I gave a talk entitled, \u201cHuman First Innovation: Balancing Opportunities and Risks of AI\u201d at Royal Institute of Great Britain, Mayfair, London.<\/p>\n

AIM of the event<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks to the recent progress of communications technology, we are now entering a new era when expectations are high for new information technologies, such as AI and IoT, which could contribute to areas such as business, cultural advancement and education. Furthermore, these disruptive forces would create the need to cultivate a new generation of talented technologist. Both in Japan and the UK, efforts towards realising this are gathering pace, with a number of government and industry initiatives.
\nWith the aim of further developing awareness and understanding of the impact that emerging new technologies would have on our economy and wider society, the Embassy of Japan will host a seminar titled \u201cJapan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019,\u201d bringing together leading Japanese and UK IoT companies, along with key figures in the various initiatives. \u00a0https:\/\/www5.jetro.go.jp\/newsletter\/london\/2018\/190301TechandHumanity.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

March 1st, 2019.<\/p>\n

14:00 Opening remarks (Embassy of Japan)<\/p>\n

14:05 Keynote lectures<\/p>\n

– Julian David, CEO, techUK<\/p>\n

– Makoto Enomoto, Senior Vice President, CMO, NEC Corporation<\/p>\n

14:30 Highlights of emerging tech<\/p>\n

– Hironobu Tamba, Vice President, SoftBank Corp.<\/p>\n

– Takashi Sonoda, Founder, CEO, Uhuru Corporation<\/p>\n

– TBD from UK companies<\/p>\n

14:50 Human-Centred Digital Society<\/p>\n

– Dr Toshie Takahashi, Professor, School of Culture, Media and Society, Waseda University\/ Visiting Scholar, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge<\/p>\n

– Edward Teather, Head of International, Office for Artificial Intelligence (Joint unit: BEIS\/DCMS)<\/p>\n

– Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo, Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford\/ Turing Fellow, Alan Turing Institute<\/p>\n

15:30 Education for the Future<\/p>\n

– Khaled Benkrid, Senior Director, Education and Research, Arm Holdings plc<\/p>\n

– TBD, Masason Foundation and Foundation\u2019s students<\/p>\n

16:00 Closing remarks (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan) &\u00a0Networking Reception<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

After the event, I enjoyed such a wonderful dinner by\u00a0\u00a0H.E. Ambassador Koji Tsuruoka with distinguished guests at the\u00a0Official Residence of the Ambassador of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 1st, 2019. \u00a0It\u2019s a great honor to be invited to the Japan UK Technology and Humanity in Education 2019, organized by the Embassy of Japan UK. I gave a talk entitled, \u201cHuman First Innovation: Balancing Opportunities and Risks of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13076,117673,117667,117657,117665,134,117669,117668,117660,18652],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-ai-narratives","category-communication-model","category-culture-and-communication","category-digital-literacy","category-education","category-human-robot-interaction","category-robot","category-self-actualization","category-youth-and-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/toshietakahashi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}