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Main Sessions (all main sessions include E/J simultaneous interpretation)
DAY 1: October 27 | West School Building 1F West Hall
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 JST |
15 | D1-S1 Opening D1-S1-1 Jun Murai (Senior Advanced Research Project Professor, Keio University) D1-S1-2 Douglas Robbins (Vice President, MITRE) D1-S1-3 Nobukatsu Kanehara (Executive Director, Sasakawa Peace Foundation) |
| 9:15 JST |
10 | D1-R2 Remarks from Keio University D1-R2-2 Kohei Ito (President, Keio University) D1-R2-1 Teruo Nakatsuma (Director of the Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI), Professor, Keio University Faculty of Economics) |
| 9:25 JST |
5 | D1-C13 ITRI-KGRI Signing Ceremony Wei-Chung Hwang (Deputy Director of ITRI) Teruo Nakatsuma |
| 9:30 JST |
30 | D1-R3 Remarks from Japanese Government (Ministrial) D1-R3-2 Satoru Tezuka (Chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission) |
| 10:00 JST |
15 | D1-S4 Keynote Speech D1-S4-1 ADM (Ret.) Dennis Blair, (Former Director of U.S. National Intelligence) |
| 10:15 JST |
70 | D1-R5 Remarks from each of the governments and United Nations
D1-R5-3 Andrew Shearer (Ambassador, Australian Embassy Tokyo) D1-R5-1 Andrew Lee (Minister-Counselor for Economic and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Embassy Tokyo) D1-R5-2 Katherine Wilde (Minister Councilor, British Embassy, Tokyo) D1-R5-10 H.E. Dr. Aurelijus Zykas (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania) D1-R5-11 Laurie Peters (Minister and Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Canada to Japan) D1-R5-9 Merike Grünthal (Counsellor / Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Estonia in Tokyo) |
| 11:25 JST |
30 | D1-S6 Keynote Speech
D1-S6-1 ADM (Ret.) Michael Rogers D1-S6-2 IIDA Yoichi (National Cyber Director, National Cybersecurity Office) |
| 12:10 JST |
65 | Lunch Break |
| 13:15 JST |
15 | D1-S7 Keynote Speech from Japanese Industry, Financial Sector Toru Nakashima (Group CEO, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group) |
| 13:30 JST |
15 | D1-S8 Keynote Speech |
| 13:45 JST |
15 | D1-S9 INCS-CoE Speech Luiz DaSilva (Professor, Virginia Tech) |
| 14:00 JST |
60 | D1-P10 Panel Theme: INCS-CoE Moderator: Luiz DaSilva Panelists: - David Luzzi (Senior Vice Provost, Northeastern University) - Anupam Joshi (Vice Provost & Chief AI Officer, UMBC) - Chris Hankin (Professor, Imperial College London) - Konstantinos Mersinas (Associate Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London) - Muhammad Salman (Head of Computer Engineering Study Program, University of Indonesia) - Kalamullah Ramli (Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia) - Rolando Martins (Assistant Professor, University of Porto) - Takao Kondo (Project Associate Professor, Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI)) |
| 15:00 JST |
75 | D1-S11 Speeches from Japanese Government D1-S11-10 KAWANO Masatoshi (Deputy Director-General for Policy Planning and Supervisory, National Cybersecurity Office (NCO)) D1-S11-6 TAKABA Yo (Deputy Assistant Minister, Foreign Policy Bureau and North American Affairs Bureau) D1-S11-9 NAKANO Shigeaki (Defense Councilor (Deputy Director General for Cyber Security and Information Technology Management), Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Defense) D1-S11-12 ONODERA Kenichi (Deputy Director General for Cyber Affairs Bureau, National Police Agency) D1-S11-4 NIKAMI Hideo (Assistant Director-General, Second Intelligence Department, Public Security Intelligence Agency) |
| 16:15 JST |
20 | Break |
| 16:35 JST |
120 | D1-S11-11 IIMURA Hiroyuki (Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Deputy Director-General for Cybersecurity and Information Technology Management D1-S11-8 OKUDA Naohiko (Deputy Director General, Digital Agency) D1-S11-5 SAWAKI Kiyoshi (Secretary General, Personal Information Protection Commission) D1-S11-3 OKABE Fumiya (Deputy Director-General for Cybersecurity and Information Policy, MHLW) D1-S11-7 NAKAYAMA Yasuhiro (Deputy Vice-Minister for Cyber Security and Information Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) D1-S11-13 OKI Kenji (Financial Services Agency, Government of Japan, Banking and Securities Business Supervision Bureau Deputy Vice Commissioner for Systemic Stability and Risk) D1-S11-1 TSUGITA Akira (Assistant Minister for Cybersecurity, IT Management, and Evidenced-based Policymaking, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology - Japan Minister's Secretariat) |
| 18:35 JST |
5 | D1-S12 Day #1 Closing |
DAY 2: October 28 | 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 |
| 9:20 JST |
15 | D2-S3 Speech Matt Mickelson (PQCC Lead, MITRE) |
| 9:35 JST |
60 | D2-P4 Panel
Theme: PQC, International Emerging Technology
Moderator: Matt Mickelson
Panelists:
- Hart Montgomery (Linux Fondation) - Matt Campagna (Amazon AWS) - James Howe (SandboxAQ) - Hiroki Uchiyama (Director and Head of the Security Innovation Lab at Hitachi America R&D) |
| 10:35 JST |
25 | Break |
| 11:00 JST |
15 | D2-S5 Speech Matt Eanes (Director, PAC PMO) |
| 11:15 JST |
60 | D2-P6 Panel Theme: Intelligence, National Intelligence Agency Moderator: Matt Eanes Panelists: - Kenzaburo Tamaru (Principal Solution Architect, Digital Agency, Japan) - Junichi Nishiyama (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Future Engineering (IFENG)) - Masanori Nishi (Former Deputy Minister, Minister of Defense, Japan, CEO, Trans-Pacific Group) - Barbara Grewe (CEO, Glenwood Global Risk Management LLC, USA) |
| 12:15 JST |
75 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 JST |
5 | D2-S7 Day #2 PM Opening Anupam Joshi |
| 13:35 JST |
15 | D2-S8 Keynote Speech Matt Fussa (VP, Trust & Compliance Officer, Security & Trust Organization, Cisco Systems Inc.) |
| 13:50 JST |
15 | D2-S9 Speech Nobukatsu Kanehara |
| 14:05 JST |
60 | D2-P10 Panel Moderator: Nobukatsu Kanehara Panelists: - Shigeki Suzuki (President, Yokosuka Research Park, Former Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) - Mihoko Matsubara (Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, NTT, Inc. Security and Trust Office) |
| 15:05 JST |
20 | Break |
| 15:25 JST |
15 | D2-S11 Speech SANO Tomoki (Director General for Active Cyber Defense and Cyber Intelligence, National Cybersecurity Office) |
| 15:40 JST |
60 | D2-P12 Panel
Theme: Active Cyber Defence Utilizing Internationally, including SBOM
Moderator: Sam Hall (First Secretary British Embassy Tokyo)
Panelists:
- Urmas Ruuto (Head of TECH Branch, NATO Cooperative Defence Centre of Excellence) - Hideaki Watanabe (Chairman, Defense Technology Foundation) - Gloria Glaubman (Founder & Principal, GMG Consulting) |
| 16:40 JST |
20 | Break |
| 17:00 JST |
30 | D2-S13 Speech
- TBD - Naofumi Nagamiya (Executive Fellow, Japan Information Security Audit Association) |
| 17:30 JST |
60 | D2-P14 Panel Theme: Sovereign Cloud Moderator: Naofumi Nagamiya Panelists: - Akio Isowa (Senior Managing Executive Officer & Group Chief Digital Innovation Officer, SUMITOMO MITSUI FINANCIAL GROUP) - Masahiro Shimomura (Secretary-General, NPO Japan Network Security Association) |
| 18:30 JST |
5 | D2-S15 Day #2 PM Closing Matt Mickelson |
DAY 3: October 29 | West School Building 1F West Hall
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 JST |
5 | D3-S1 Day #3 AM Opening Muhammad Salman |
| 9:05 JST |
15 | D3-S2 Keynote Speech Christopher A. Ford (Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, currently director of the School of Defense and Strategic Studies for Missouri State University) |
| 9:20 JST |
15 | D3-S3 Speech KAGEI Takayoshi (Director, Secretariat of the Personal Information Protection Commission, Personal Information Protection Legal and Policy Office) |
| 9:35 JST |
60 | D3-P4 Panel Theme: Enhancing Technology, PETs Moderator: Katsumi Takahashi (Chief Security Scientist of NTT Social Informatics Laboratories) Panelists: - Yoshinori Sato (Project Manager Hitachi, Ltd. Business Architecture Research Department, Systems Innovation Center, Research & Development Group) -Ryosuke Takahashi (Chairperson, Privacy Tech Association) |
| 10:35 JST |
25 | Break |
| 11:00 JST |
15 | D3-S5 Speech |
| 11:15 JST |
60 | D3-P6 Panel Theme: AI Panelists: - Sarah Sloan (Head of Cybersecurity Policy, Asia and the Pacific, Government Affairs and Public Policy, Cisco) - Michael Karimian (Director, Digital Diplomacy, Microsoft) |
| 12:15 JST |
75 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 JST |
5 | D3-S7 Day #3 PM Opening Katsuya Yamamoto (Rear Admiral (retired), JMSDF Strategy and Deterrence Program Director Senior Research Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation) |
| 13:35 JST |
15 | D3-S8 Keynote Speech Shunsuke Fukuda (Sr. Director / Evangelist, Trend Micro Inc. TrendAI Japan Marketing) |
| 13:50 JST |
15 | D3-S9 Speech - Jun Osawa (Senior Fellow, Sasakawa Peace Foundation・Research Director, DENTSU SOKEN Center for Economic Security Research (DCER)) |
| 14:05 JST |
60 | D3-P10 Panel Theme: Economic Security and Cybersecurity Moderator: Jun Osawa Panelists: - Takashi Ito (Deputy Executive Director, DENTSU SOKEN Center for Economic Security Research (DCER)) - Arata Kuno (Research Director, DENTSU SOKEN Center for Economic Security Research (DCER)) |
| 15:05 JST |
20 | Break |
| 15:25 JST |
5 | D3-C16 Fraunhofer-KGRI Signing Ceremony - Michael Eckel (Head of Security for Critical Infrastructures / Principal Investigator, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT | ATHENE) - Georgios Gkoktsis (Deputy Head of Security for Critical Infrastructures, Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT | ATHENE) - Teruo Nakatsuma |
| 15:30 JST |
15 | D3-S11 Speech Puesh Kumar (SVP, Enterprise Security, Resilience, and National Security Policy American Electric Power) |
| 15:45 JST |
60 | D3-P12 Panel Theme: Critical Infrastructure, i.e. Energy Moderator: Tadashi Kaji (Distinguished Researcher, Hitachi, Ltd.) Panelists: - Steven Kunsman (Hitachi Energy) - George Gkoktsis - Toru Tsuchiya (CEO, Cyber Defense Labs) |
| 16:45 JST |
20 | Break |
| 17:05 JST |
15 | D3-S13 Speech Ares Cho (Co-Leader, SEMI Taiwan Equipment and Information Security Task Force; Chair, WG1, SEMI Taiwan Cyber Security Committee; Distinguished Researcher, Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI); Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Janus Cyber) |
| 17:20 JST |
60 | D3-P14 Panel Theme: Critical Infrastructure, i.e. Semiconductor Moderator: Albert Cheng (CEO, InfoKeyVault Technology Co., Ltd.) Panelists: - Ares Cho - Wei-Chung Hwang - Takahiro Fujishiro (Senior Director, Business Innovation Operation, Government &Public Corporation Information System Division, Hitachi, Ltd.) - Satoshi Kai (Project Associate Professor, Keio Global Research Institute) |
| 18:20 JST |
5 | D3-S15 Day #3 Closing Konstantinos Mersinas |
DAY 4: October 30 | West School Building 1F West Hall
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 JST |
5 | D4-S1 Day #4 AM Opening Luiz DaSilva |
| 9:05 JST |
15 | D4-S2 Keynote Speech |
| 9:20 JST |
15 | D4-S3 Speech Tatsuhiko Yamamoto (Professor, Keio University Law School) |
| 9:35 JST |
60 | D4-P4 Panel Theme: The Significance of Individual “Consent” in the Age of AI Moderator: Tatsuhiko Yamamoto Panelists: - Naoto Ikegai (Professor, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law) - Mieko Tanno (Senior Advisor, Japan Association of Consumer Affairs Specialists, Former Chairperson, Personal Information Protection Commission, Japan) - Seiwa Fujiwara (Attorney-at-Law, Kitahama Partners/European Centre for Certification and Privacy (ECCP)) -Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche, (Partner, Taylor Wessing Partnerschaftsgesellschaft mbB) |
| 10:35 JST |
20 | Break |
| 10:55 JST |
15 | D4-S5 Speech Noriaki Okui (President, Data Society Alliance) |
| 11:10 JST |
60 | D4-P6 Panel Theme: Digital Nippon, Priority Plan for Realizing a Digital Society Moderator: Hiroshi Nakatake (Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Japan Office Managing Director and Japan representative) Panelist: - Takahiro Sato (Representative Director, President and CEO, TradeWaltz Inc.) - Akira Sakaino (Director, Evangelist, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc., Trusted Data Fabric Department Social Innovation Business Solution Division) - Satoru Yamadera (Senior Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC, Visiting professor, Saitama University Graduate School of Economics and Management) |
| 12:10 JST |
80 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30 JST |
5 | D4-S7 Day #4 PM Opening Christine Callsen (Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Operations, MITRE) |
| 13:35 JST |
15 | D4-S8 Keynote Speech Yasuhiko Taniwaki (Member of the Board, Representative Director, President and Co-CEO & COO, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.) |
| 13:50 JST |
15 | D4-S9 Speech Akaishi Koichi (JDTF Chairman) |
| 14:05 JST |
60 | D4-P10 Panel Theme: Digital Trust Infrastructure Moderator: Koichi Akaishi Panelists: - Naoto Kikuchi (Vice Chairman, Digital Policy Forum, Project Professor, Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University) - Takashi Kai (Researcher, Keio University, KGRI(Global Research Institute)) - Hideki HANAMI (Innovation Platform Agency,Japan (IPA) Digital & AI Systems Design Center (DADC) Deputy Director General) - Naohiko Irie (Hitachi, Ltd. Infrastructure Control System Division Senior Strategist) |
| 15:05 JST |
20 | Break |
| 15:25 JST |
15 | D4-S11 Speech Jean-Emmanuel Pelaez, Hernandez (eSignature & eID expert Expert) |
| 15:40 JST |
60 | D4-P12 Panel Theme: Public Trust, ISO (Trusted List) Moderator: Jean-Emmanuel Pelaez, Hernandez Panelists: - Wei-Chung Hwang - Akira Nishiyama (Senior Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC) |
| 16:40 JST |
20 | Break |
| 17:00 JST |
15 | D4-S13 Speech Nick Pope (Chair, ETSI Technical Committee on Electronic Signatures and Trust Infrastructures (TC ESI)) |
| 17:15 JST |
60 | D4-P14 Panel Theme: Digital Identity Wallet, Electronic Attestation of Attributes Panelists: - Hiroshi Nakatake - Takashige Noguchi (Global Business Division Co-head of Global Business, WingArc 1st Inc.) |
| 18:15 JST |
15 | D4-S15 Closing D4-S15-2 Jun Murai |
| 18:30 JST |
15 | Move to Reception |
| 18:45 20:00 JST |
75 | Reception Seikyo Shokudo |
Parallel Sessions
Day 2: October 28(conducted in Japanese)
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S1 |
| 11:00-11:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S2 |
| 13:00-13:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S3 Data Society Alliance Title: Highly Reliable Data Platform with the Data Credit Guarantee Organization (DCGO) Moderator: Dr.Hiroshi Mano (Secretary General, Data Society Alliance) |
| 14:00-14:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S4 Privacy Tech Association Title: Sovereign AI, Data Sovereignty, and the Deployment of PETs — Cybersecurity Across National, Economic, and Social Security Moderator: Tsubasa Takahashi (Chief Scientist / VP of Research & Development, Acompany Co., Ltd.) Panelists: - Daisuke Inoue (Director General of Cybersecurity Research Institute, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology) - Seira Hidano (Senior Manager, Cyber Intelligence Laboratories, KDDI Research, Inc.) - Takeharu Kondo (Director / Solutions CTO, Acompany Co., Ltd.) |
| 15:00-15:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S5 Japan Digital Trust Forum Title: What is needed to make e-Seal standard practice? Moderator: Koichi Shibata (Steering Committee Chair, Japan Digital Trust Forum) Panelists: - Naohiko Sagara (General Manager, Secom Trust Systems CO., LTD.) |
| 16:00-16:50 JST |
50 | D2-T1-S6 Digital Policy Forum Japan Title: AI Governance and Digital Sovereignty Moderator: Naoto Kikuchi (Digital Policy Forum Japan, Acting Chairman) Panelists: Yasuhiko Taniwaki (Digital Policy Forum Japan, Chairman) |
Day 3: October 29(conducted in Japanese)
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S1 |
| 11:00-11:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S2 |
| 13:00-13:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S3 InfoKeyVault Technology / WiSECURE Technologies Corporation |
| 14:00-14:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S4 Keio University Global Research Institute, Cyber Civilization Research Center (CCRC) |
| 15:00-15:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S5 Defense Technology Foundation Title: MOSA, SBOM, and RMF for Continuously Evolving Defense and Critical Infrastructure Moderator: Hideaki Watanabe (Chairman, Defense Technology Foundation) Panelists: - Yoshihiro Sawada (Director, JADC(Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting) /SHIFT) - Hideao Mori (President, JADC(Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting) /SHIFT) - Takashi Kanno (JADC(Japan Aerospace & Defense Consulting) /SHIFT) |
| 16:00-16:50 JST |
50 | D3-T1-S6 |
Day 4: October 30 | North Building 1F North Hall (conducted in Japanese)
| min. | Content | |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00-10:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S1 |
| 11:00-11:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S2 Trend Micro Incorporated Title: Cyber Risks and Practical Governance for AI Agents Moderator: Naonari Tanimoto (Specialist, Solutions Engineering Private Sector SE2 Group) |
| 13:00-13:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S3 Google Title: The Forefront of Autonomous Defense Against AI-Driven Cyber Threats (AI Threat Defense) Speaker: Itsufumi Murayama (Japan Head of Security Sales, Google Cloud Japan, Head of Google Cybersecurity Center of Excellence) |
| 14:00-14:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S4 Cisco Systems G.K. Title: Cyber Threats in the AI Era: Evolving Risks and Resilience Speaker:Kenichi Terashita (CxO Advisor, Cisco Systems G.K.) |
| 15:00-15:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S5 |
| 16:00-16:50 JST |
50 | D4-T1-S6 |
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