15th International Cybersecurity Symposium

"Cybersecurity for Digitized National Security, Economic Security, and Societal Security:
Global Multilateral Public-Private Partnership Actions"




Program

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Main Sessions (all main sessions include E/J simultaneous interpretation)

DAY 1: October 28 | West School Building 1F West Hall

min. Content
9:00
JST
10 D1-S1 Opening D1-S1-1 Jun Murai (Senior Advanced Research Project Professor, Keio University)
D1-S1-2 Wen Masters (Vice President, MITRE)
9:10
JST
10 D1-R2 Remarks from Keio University D1-R2-1 David Farber (Visiting Professor, Keio University)
D1-R2-2 Kohei Ito (President, Keio University)
9:20
JST
30 D1-R3 Remarks from Japanese Government (Ministrial) D1-R3-1 HIRAI Takuya (Former Minister of Digital Agency, member of the House of Representatives)
D1-R3-2 Satoru Tezuka (Chairman of the Personal Information Protection Committee)
9:50
JST
70 D1-R4 Remarks from each of the governments and United Nations D1-R4-2 Emil Levendoğlu (Chargé d’Affaires, British Embassy, Tokyo)
D1-R4-3 Justin Hayhurst (Ambassador, Australian Embassy Tokyo)
D1-R4-6 Philippe SETTON (Ambassador of France in Japan)
D1-R4-8 Gilles Beschoor Plug (Ambassador, the Kingdom of the Netherlands to Japan)
D1-R4-15 Gilberto JERÓNIMO (Ambassador, Embassy of Portugal in Japan)
D1-R4-10 Aurelijus Zykas (Ambassador Designate of the Republic of Lithuania to Japan)
D1-R4-4 Thomas GNOCCHI (Charge d'affaires, Delegation of the European Union to Japan)
D1-R4-9 Martin Huth (Deputy Head of Mission, German Embassy)
D1-R4-5 Deborah Paul (Minister / Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Canada to Japan)
D1-R4-14 Izumi Nakamitsu (Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations)
11:00
JST
20 Break
11:20
JST
30 D1-S3 Keynote Speech: National Security D1-S3-2 IIDA Yoichi (National Cyber Director, National Cybersecurity Office)
D1-S3-1 ADM (Ret.) Dennis Blair, (Former Director of U.S. National Intelligence)
11:50
JST
15 D1-S4 Keynote Speech from Japanese Industry Yoshihisa Nishimura (Executive Director, East Japan Railway Company)
12:05
JST
55 Lunch Break
13:00
JST
15 D1-S6 INCS-CoE Speech Chris Hankin (Professor, Imperial College London, INCS-CoE Chair)
13:15
JST
75 D1-P1 Panel Theme: INCS-CoE
Moderator: Chris Hankin
Panelists:
- David Luzzi (Senior Vice Provost, Northeastern University)
- Karl Steiner (Vice President, UMBC)
- Anupam Joshi (Vice Provost & Chief AI Officer, UMBC)
- Luiz DaSilva (Professor, Virginia Tech)
- Konstantinos Mersinas (Associate Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London)
- Muhammad Salman (Head of Computer Engineering Study Program, University of Indonesia)
- Rolando Martins (Assistant Professor, University of Porto)
- Takao Kondo (Project Assistant Professor, Keio University)
14:30
JST
75 D1-S7 Speeches from Japanese Government D1-S7-1 FUJIYOSHI Takayuki (Assistant Minister for Cybersecurity, IT Management and Evidence-based Policymaking, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan)
D1-S7-2 OKUYA Toshikazu (Deputy Director General, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)
D1-S7-3 MORI Masahiro (Assistant Minister for Pharmaceutical Industry Promotion and Healthcare DX, MHLW)
D1-S7-4 NIKAMI Hideo (Assistant Director-General, Second lntelligence Department, Public Security Intelligence Agency)
D1-S7-5 SAWAKI Kiyoshi (Secretary General, Personal Information Protection Commission)
15:45
JST
20 Break
16:05
JST
120 D1-S7-6 MIYAKE Fumito (Deputy Director General, Foreign Policy Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Deputy Vice-Minister for Cyber Security and Information
D1-S7-7 TAKIZAWA Ken (Deputy Vice-Minister for Cyber Security and Information、Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
D1-S7-8 OKUDA Naohiko (Deputy Director General, Digital Agency)
D1-S7-9 NAKANO Noriyuki (Deputy Director General for Cyber Security, Ministry of Defense, Japan)
D1-S7-10 NAKAMIZO Kazutaka (Deputy Director-General, National Cybersecurity Office)
D1-S7-11 AKASAKA Shinsuke (Deputy Director General for Cybersecurity and Information Technology Management, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)
D1-S7-12 ONODERA Kenichi (Deputy Director General for Cyber Affairs Bureau, National Police Agency)
D1-S7-13 OKI Kenji (Deputy Director-General, Systemic Stability and Risk Strategy Development and Management Bureau Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA))
18:05
JST
5 D1-S8 Day #1 Closing Craig Wiener (Technical Fellow, MITRE)

DAY 2: October 29 | West School Building 1F West Hall

min. Content
9:00
JST
5 D2-S1 Day #2 AM Opening David Luzzi
9:05
JST
15 D2-S2 Keynote Speech Anne Neuberger (Senior Advisor a16z, Distinguished Fellow, Stanford University and Royal United Services Institute (UK), Former Deputy National Security Advisor, USA)
9:20
JST
15 D2-S3 Speech Nobukatsu Kanehara (Executive Director, Sasakawa Peace Foundation)
9:35
JST
75 D2-P1 Panel Theme: New Acts on Active Cyber Defense (Government Defense)
Moderator: Nobukatsu Kanehara
Panelists:
- Mike Studeman (retired RADM, U.S. Navy, MITRE national security fellow)
- Chris Capper (British Embassy)
- Urmas Ruuto (Head of Technology Branch, CCDCOE)
- Gloria Glaubman (Founder & Principal, GMG Consulting)
10:50
JST
35 Break
11:30
JST
15 D2-S4 Speech Maria A. Roat (the first Director of the FedRAMP program in the U.S. and the former U.S. Deputy Federal Chief Information Office)
11:45
JST
75 D2-P2 Panel Theme: National Cloud
Moderator: Maria A. Roat
Panelists:
- Chris Grady (CTO, CyLogic)
- SUZUKI Tomoharu (Leader, Security and Crisis Management, Strategy and Organization Group, Digital Agency)
- Harri Hursti (Co-founder of DEF CON Voting Village)
- Koichi Kawaguchi (Managing Director, the Organization for National Supply-Chain Vitalization (“ONSV”))
13:00
JST
60 Lunch Break
14:00
JST
5 D2-S5 Day #2 PM Opening Luiz DaSilva
14:05
JST
15 D2-S6 Speech Koichi Akaishi (JDTF Chairman)
14:20
JST
75 D2-P3 Panel Theme: Information Sharing (PIV), Public Private Partnership, Intelligence
Moderator: Koichi Akaishi
Panelists:
- Masanori Nishi (Forner Deputy Minister, Minister of Defense, Japan)
- Bruce Walker (Former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy)
- Junichi Nishiyama (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Future Engineering (IFENG))
- Barbara Grewe (CEO, Glenwood Global Risk Management LLC, USA)
- Kenzaburo Tamaru (Principal Solution Architect, Digital Agency, Japan)
15:35
JST
20 Break
15:55
JST
15 D2-S7 Speech Tim Perry (Head of Consulting, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence)
16:10
JST
75 D2-P4 Panel Theme: Active Cyber Defence (Intelligence)
Moderator: Tim Perry
Panelists:
- Hideaki Watanabe (Chairman, Defense Technology Foundation)
- Atsushi Ando (Director-General, National Cybersecurity Office)
- Greg Rattray (Next Peak)
- Gloria Glaubman
- Chris Capper
17:25
JST
15 D2-S8 Speech Giacomo Paoli (Head, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR)
17:40
JST
75 D2-P5 Panel Theme: Cyber AI, Quantum, NEXUS
Moderator: Tom Kono (Fellow, UNIDIR)
Panelists:
- Michael Karimian (Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft)
- Alexi Drew (Technology Policy Adviser, ICRC)
- Matt Mickelson (Senior Principal, MITRE)
- Yasmin Afina (Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR)
- Kazuo Noguchi (Senior Researcher, Keio University)
- Giacomo Paoli
18:55
JST
5 D2-S9 Day #2 PM Closing Craig Wiener

DAY 3: October 30 | West School Building 1F West Hall

min. Content
9:00
JST
5 D3-S1 Day #3 AM Opening Anupam Joshi
9:05
JST
20 D3-S2 Keynote Speech Craig Wiener (invited)
9:25
JST
15 D3-S3 Speech Masaki Umejima (Project Professor Keio Global Research Institute (KGRI), Convener of Energy Resource Aggregation Business, the IEC system committee smart energy)
9:40
JST
75 D3-P1 Panel Theme: Japanese Critical Infrastructure: Energy
Moderator: Masaki Umejima
Panelists:
- Steven Kunsman (Hitachi Energy)
- Samuel Chanoski (Technical Relationship and Program Development at Idaho National Laboratory)
- Alexander Patton (Amentum)
- George Gkoktsis (Fraunhofer SIT)
- Osamu Takeda (Director, DX Promotion Department, Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc.)
- Osamu Nakamura (Project Professor, Keio Global Research Institute)
10:55
JST
35 Break
11:30
JST
15 D3-S4 Speech Mayu Arimoto (Partner, Alesia International Law Office)
11:45
JST
75 D3-P2 Panel Theme: Security Clearance and New Active Cyber Defense
Moderator: Mayu Arimoto
Panelists:
- Craig Wiener
- Barbara Grewe
- Nate Snyder (Advisor, JICSS)
- James Miller (CEO, Miller Enterprises)
- Gloria Glaubman
13:00
JST
60 Lunch Break
14:00
JST
5 D3-S5 Day #3 PM Opening Osamu Nakamura
14:05
JST
15 D3-S6 Speech HASHIMOTO Katsukuni (Planning Officer, Cyber Security Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI)
14:20
JST
75 D3-P3 Panel Theme: Emerging Technology, Economic Security
Moderator: HASHIMOTO Katsukuni
Panelists:
- Toru Tsuchiya (CEO, Cyber Defense Labs)
- Katsumi Takahashi (Chief Security Scientist of NTT Social Informatics Laboratories)
- Masayuki Kanda (Fellow, Security Center, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA))
- Tadahiko Ito (Senior Researcher at SECOM CO., LTD.)
15:35
JST
20 Break
15:55
JST
15 D3-S7 Speech Satoshi Maeda (Advisor, Cyber Defense Labs)
16:10
JST
75 D3-P4 Panel Theme: Economic Security Promotion Act
Moderator: Jun Osawa (Principal Researcher, Dentsu Soken Center for Economic Security Research)
Panelists:
- Satoshi Maeda
- Craig Wiener
- Junichi Nishiyama
17:25
JST
5 D3-S8 Day #3 Closing Muhammad Salman

DAY 4: October 31 | West School Building 1F West Hall

min. Content
9:00
JST
5 D4-S1 Day #4 AM Opening Karl Steiner
9:05
JST
5 D4-R1 Remarks from each of the governments Aaron Snipe (Deputy Chief of Mission, United States Embassy in Tokyo)
9:10
JST
15 D4-S3 Speech Yutaka Saito (Commissioner, IPA)
9:25
JST
75 D4-P1 Panel Theme: Basic Act on the Advancement of Public and Private Sector Data Utilization, Trust Act, Act on Personal Information Protection
Moderator: Naoto Kikuchi (Vice Chairman, Digital Policy Forum, Project Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University)
Panelists:
- Koichi Akaishi
- Noriaki Okui (President and CEO, Data Society Alliance)
- Hiroshi Mano (Executive Director and Secretary General, Data Society Alliance)
- Takashi Kai (Project Researcher, Keio Global Research Institute)
10:40
JST
50 Break
11:30
JST
15 D4-S4 Speech Hiroshi Mano
11:45
JST
75 D4-P2 Panel Theme: Applications on Dataspace, ABtC (Battery Passport), CBAM (CO2), Invoice (Finance), Medical
Moderator: Hiroshi Mano
Panelist:
- Kenji Hiramoto (Head, IPA Digital Infrastructure)
- Akira Sakaino (Evangelist, NTT Communications)
- Shinji Abe (Chief Technology Director, NEC Corporation)
- Taka Matsutsuka (Senior Research Director, Fujitsu)
13:00
JST
60 Lunch Break
14:00
JST
5 D4-S5 Day #4 PM Opening Konstantinos Mersinas
14:05
JST
15 D4-S6 Speech Vicente NAVARRO (EU Commission, DG CNECT, Policy Officer, Digital Identity and Trust)
14:20
JST
75 D4-P3 Panel Theme: Digital Identity Wallet, Electronic Attestation of Attributes
Moderator: Vicente NAVARRO
Panelists:
- Satoru Yamadera (Specially Appointed Professor, Saitama University Graduate School of Economics and Management)
- Ivan Marin Santamaria (Business Development Manager, GLEIF)
- Akira Ito (Project Director, Data Governance PJ, Data & Security Laboratory, Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu Limited)
- Hiroshi Nakatake (Senior Director, Keio University & GLEIF Managing Director)
15:35
JST
20 Break
15:55
JST
15 D4-S7 Speech Apostolos APLADAS (EU Commission, DG DIGIT, Head of Sector, International Trust and Identity services)
16:10
JST
75 D4-P4 Panel Theme: Public Trust, ISO (Trusted List)
Moderator: Apostolos APLADAS
Panelists:
- Viky Manaila (President, Cloud Signature Consortium)
- Vijayakumar Manjunatha (Asia PKI Consortium)
- Jean-Emmanuel Pelaez, Hernandez (eSignature & eID expert Expert)
- Akira Nishiyama (Senior Researcher, Keio University)
- Satoshi Kai (Project Associate Professor, Keio Global Research Institute)
17:25
JST
10 D4-S8 Closing D4-S8-1 Craig Wiener
D4-S8-2 Jun Murai

Parallel Sessions

Day 2: October 29(conducted in Japanese)

North Building 1F North Hall

min. Content
10:00-10:50
JST
50 D2-T1-S1 DSA

Moderator: Hiroshi Mano (Executive Director and Secretary General, Data Society Alliance)
Panelists:
- Sakaino Akira (Director, Evangelist, Smart Industry Office/ Smart City Office, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, inc.)
- Kenji HIRAMOTO (Senior Executive Officer, Director General of Digital Infrastructure Center, Information Technology Promotion Agency, Japan)
- KIKUCHI Naoto (Project Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University, Vice Chairman, Digital Policy Forum)
- Toshikazu YOSHIDA (Board Member, Japan Digital Trust Forum (JDTF))
11:00-11:50
JST
50 D2-T1-S2 RRI

Title: What are the Trust and Trustworthiness needed for the future of manufacturing? ― Value creation in supply chains connected by data
Moderator: FURUKAWA Ayaji (Member,Affiliation Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT initiative Industrial Trustworthiness &Security Action Group)
Panelists:
- Fumikado Anzai (Engineering Manager ,MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD. Digital Innovation HQ. EPI Department)
- Takashi Ogura (Senior Researcher ,Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group, Mobility & Automation Innovation Center, Autonomous Control Research Department)
- Takeshi Kawabata (Senior Manager ,Toshiba Corporate Laboratory AI Digital R&D Center Security Research Dept.)
- Hirozumi Eki (Chief Technical Architect ,ARGO GRAPHICS Inc. ALM Business Promotion Division)
- MAHARA Kumiko (Senior Manager,Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation IS Business Strategy Department)
13:00-13:50
JST
50 D2-T2-S1 The Japan Institute for Cyberspace Studies (JICSS)

Title: Stakeholder Engagements: How Cybersecurity and Resilience Make Japan's OT Sector Globally Competitive
Moderator: Gloria Glaubman (Founder of GMG Consulting and JICSS Special Advisor)
Panelists:
- James Miller

English Session (no Japanese)
14:00-14:50
JST
50 D2-T1-S3 JDTF

Title: Promoting digitalization of Public Notices
Moderator: Naoki Ushijima (GMO GlobalSign Holdings K.K., General Manager)
Panelists:
- Masamitsu Kimura (SKYCOM Corporation, Executive Office)
- Tetsuro Kubota (CIO Adviser at Fukuyama-city and Manazuru-town)
- Daisuke Chiba (Digital Government Labs, President and CIO Adviser at Susono-city)
15:00-15:50
JST
50 D2-T1-S4 CyLogic

Title: True Sovereign Cloud for Japan: From challenges to practical solutions
Speaker: Chris Grady (CTO, CyLogic Inc.)

English Session (no Japanese)
16:00-16:50
JST
50 D2-T1-S5 CyLogic
Title: True Sovereign Cloud for Japan: panel discussion and technical demonstration
Moderator: Yogev Moyal (COO, CyLogic Inc.)
Panelists:
- Maria Roat (the first Director of the FedRAMP program in the U.S. and the former U.S. Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer)
- Louis Mayberg (CEO, CyLogic Inc.)
- Chris Grady

English Session (no Japanese)

Day 3: October 30(conducted in Japanese)

North Building 3F Large Meeting Room

min. Content
11:30-13:30
JST
120 D3-T1-S1 UNIDIR RAISE

Title: Responsible AI by public private partnership with UNIDIR RAISE (Roundtable for AI, Security & Ethics)
Moderator: Tom Kono (Fellow, UNIDIR)
Panelists:
- Yasmin Afina (Researcher, Security and Technology Programme, UNIDIR)
- Michael Karimian (Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft)
- Kazuo Noguchi (Senior Researcher, Keio University)
- Atsushi Ikegami (Senior Research Fellow, National Security Institute of Fujitsu Defense & National Security)

English Session (no Japanese)

North Building 1F North Hall

min. Content
14:00-14:50
JST
50 D3-T1-S2 Defense Technology Foundation (DTF)

Title: Integration of cutting-edge technologies, primarily from startups in the defense sector, and the Risk Management Framework
Moderator: Hideataki WATANABE (Chairman, Defense Technology Foundation, The 1ST commissionner of Acquisition, Technology and Loistic Agency)
Panelists:
- Yoshihito Watanabe (Deputy Chairman / Managing Director of Defense Technology Foundation)
- Yoshihiro Sawada (Director, Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting Inc.)
- Manabu Koike (Executive Officer and Section Manager of Consulting Unit, Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting Inc.)
- Ryu Kanno (Manager of External Affairs Office, Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting Inc.)
15:00-15:50
JST
50 D3-T1-S3 InfoKeyVault Technology / WiSECURE Technologies Corporation

Title: Now it’s the time for PQC Migration
Speaker: Albert Cheng (CEO, InfoKeyVault Technology Co., Ltd.)
Agenda:
- Why PQC
- The standardization status of PQC
- The requirement of PQC Migration
- The challenges of PQC Migration

English Session (no Japanese)
16:00-16:50
JST
50 D3-T1-S4 JCIC

Title: No More "By Mistake" and "Should Be OK"
Moderator: Toshinori Kajiura (JCIC President)
Speakers:
- Masahiro Sawada (JCIC Visiting Fellow)
- Toshihiro Hirayama (JCIC Visiting Fellow; Professor of iU)
17:00-17:50
JST
50 D3-T1-S5 Keio University Global Research Institute, Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC)

Title: Home Appliance Open Innovation Workshop: Activity report on the international deployment of the open-standard protocol “ECHONET Lite” and Distributed Energy Resource Aggregation Business “ERAB”
Moderator: Maaski Umejima (Project Professor, Cyber Civilization Research Center, Keio University)
Panelists:
- Akinori Kahata (Deputy Director of Natural Resources and Energy Agency, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)
- Hiroshige Muraoka (President, Nomura Research Institute of Singapore)
- Masato Nagasawa (Director, Echonet Consortium)

Day 4: October 31 | North Building 3F Large Meeting Room (conducted in Japanese)

min. Content
11:00-11:50
JST
50 D4-T1-S1 Google

Title: Decoding the Future of Attacks: Actionable Defense Strategies and Security with Google
Speaker: Jay Uchiyama (Head of Google CoE)
14:00-14:50
JST
50 D4-T1-S2 TrendMicro.Inc

Title: The Frontline of Cyber Threats: Latest Trends from State-Sponsored Groups
Speaker: Hiroyuki Kakara (Sr. Threat Researcher, Trend Micro Cybersecurity Institute)
15:00-15:50
JST
50 D4-T1-S3 Cisco

Title: Cutting Edge of "Economic Security" and "Cyber Security" for Private Companies to Understand
Panelists:
- Isamu Monji (Principal Sales Architect, Service Provider Operations, Cisco Systems)
- Takahiro Takeda (Research Engineer, Outreach, Threat Inteligence & Interdiction, Cisco Talos)
- Shigeru Kimura (National Cybersecurity Advisor, Security & Trust Organization, Cisco Systems)
16:00-16:50
JST
50 D4-T1-S4 Hitachi

Title: The reality of migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC)
Moderator: Tadashi KAJI (Deputy General Manager, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.)
Panelists:
- Tatsuya Tomaru (Quantum Computing Project, Next Research, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.)
- Kazuo Noguchi (Senior Research, Keio University)
- Naoto Kawaura (Department manager, Security Product Division, Hitachi Solutions)
17:00-17:50
JST
50 D4-T1-S5 ACCJ

Title: Towards a More Secure Digital Japan
Moderator: Scott Warren (Partner, Squire Patton Boggs Tokyo)
Panelists:
- Jared Ragland (BSA)
- James Miller (Director, JICCS)
- Michael Karimian (Microsoft)

English Session (no Japanese)

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