The 10th International Symposium on "Dialogue for Global Innovation"

Technologies for Human Flourishing

2024.9.18(Wed.)-19(Thu)
Venue : Austrian Embassy London - Residency
Language : English

Co-organized and cooperated by

What the 10th "Dialogue for Global Innovation" is all about

Since 2010, Dialogue for Global Innovation (DFGI) has been accelerating borderless innovation in Japan and European countries. Over the past 10 years, DFGI has held industry-academia collaboration symposiums at embassies, national laboratories, and leading universities to exchange the latest results and business insights from various fields.

Although interrupted for three years after the 7th symposium in 2019 due to the new coronavirus infection, the 8th symposium was held in October 2022 in London, UK, and the 9th symposium was held in September 2023 at Oxford University, UK.

Following the 9th Symposium, the 10th Symposium will discuss the topic "Technologies for Human Flourishing". Join this symposium and be a part of global innovation.

Program

Leaflet

Speakers

Keynote Speaker：

Sir Hermann Hauser, Amadeus Capital Partners

Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover. He has founded and invested in many technology companies including Acorn, ARM, Solexa which was bought by Illumina, CSR, Graphcore and Photonic.
Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded an honorary KBE in 2015.

Keynote Speaker：

Mr. Vishal Chatrath, QuantrolOx

With over 27 years of experience in deep-tech, Vishal is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for building innovative products using cutting-edge technologies. He is the co-founder and CEO of QuantrolOx, a spinout from Oxford University that is developing automation software to accelerate the scaling of quantum computers. He has founded and led several startups, including Secondmind, an AI company, and VocalIQ. He is also an active advisor to several deep tech startups. Vishal is a global citizen who has lived in 15 cities across 6 countries, from the Equator to the Arctic.

Special speaker at the reception：

Sir Peter Gluckman, International Science Council

Sir Peter Gluckman is President of the International Science Council (ISC) and Distinguished University Professor in the University of Auckland where he heads Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures. He. He was foundation chair of the International Network of Government Science Advice (INGSA) (2014-2021). Sir Peter originally trained as a pediatrician and biomedical scientist. Between 2009-2018 he was first Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand. He was made a Knight of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2009, a member of the Order of New Zealand (2015, limited to 20 living New Zealanders,) and received the Rutherford Medal in 2001. He holds honorary chairs at the University College London, University of Southampton, and National University of Singapore. He was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (1992-2001) and founding Director (2001-2009) of the Liggins Institute of the University of Auckland. He has published over 750 scientific papers in developmental and perinatal physiology, endocrinology, neurodevelopment and in evolutionary biology as applied to medicine. He has written extensively on the science-policy and science-diplomacy interfaces and co-authored both technical and popular-science books. He leads work on the factors affecting social cohesion and how societies respond to new technologies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London (2001) and the Royal Society of New Zealand (1986), a member of the National Academy of Medicine (USA, 2004), a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK, 2006), a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (2021) and a fellow of the International Science Council (2022). Amongst international awards he was awarded Singapore’s highest scientific honour, the Presidential Science and Technology medal in 2021 and the American Association for Advancement of Sciences Science Diplomacy award in 2016.

Invited Speaker：
Dr Norihiro Suzuki, Hitachi Research Institute: Norihiro Suzuki joined the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi, Ltd. in 1986, and began his research career in video signal processing. After taking the role of Hitachi America Ltd. SVP&CTO and the GM of Central Research Laboratory, he became the first GM of the new Global Center for Social Innovation/R&D group, established to lead collaborative creation activities worldwide, in April 2015. Then he was elected as Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd. and CTO, and appointed as the head of the R&D group in April 2016. Further, he helped to establish the Corporate Venturing Office of Hitachi, Ltd. and served as its first GM from April 2019 to March 2022, In April 2023, Suzuki was assigned as Chairman of the Board, Hitachi Research Institute. He is the President of ITE (the Institute of image information and Television Engineers), and a senior member of IEEE.

Invited Speaker：
Prof. Andrew Briggs, University of Oxford and QuantrolOx: Andrew Briggs is Emeritus Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford and Executive Chairman of QuantrolOx. His research interests focus on nanomaterials for quantum technologies with machine learning for controlling the experiments, and the nanoscale thermodynamics of timekeeping and learning. From 2002-2009, he directed the UK Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration in Quantum Information Processing. From 2010-2020 he led grant making by Templeton World Charity Foundation. In 2021 he co-founded QuantrolOx to commercialise machine learning for tuning and characterizing quantum devices, with performance that greatly exceeds what is feasible for humans.
He is a Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion, and Member of Academia Europaea, and serves on many advisory boards. He has over 650 publications, with more than 30,000 citations.
His books for a general readership include “The Penultimate Curiosity: How Science Swims in the Slipstream of Ultimate Questions”, for which there is a documentary film and a six-book series for children; “It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion”; and “Human Flourishing: Scientific Insight and Spiritual Wisdom in Uncertain Times”. His most recent book carries endorsements by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Astronomer Royal, and has won an ISSR 2023 Book Prize.

- Industry Perspective -

Dr Christian Ertler: ParityQC
Dr Nobuko Ohba: Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc.
Dr Ryuzo Okada: Toshiba Corporation
Mr. Tomohiko Adachi: Mazda Motor Corporation
Mr. Dominic Vergine: Monumo Limited
Mr. Satoshi Shigemi: Honda Research Institute Japan Co., Ltd.

- Technologies Perspective -

Prof. Shinichi Yorozu: RIKEN, Japan
Prof. Vincent Wade: "Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin"
Prof. Yoshikazu Nakajima: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Prof. Yvonne Rogers: University College London

- Human and Social Perspective -

Prof. Koichi Sumikura: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Prof. Pierre Pinson: Halfspace.ai
Prof. Hiromi S. Nagane: Chiba University
Mr. Eitaro Kono: Aidemy Inc.

- Panel discussion -
* Technologies for Human Flourishing

Prof. Ichi Kanaya: Nagasaki University
Prof. Marianna Obrist: University College London
Mr. Tomohiko Adachi: Mazda Motor Corporation
Prof. Andrew D. Briggs: University of Oxford and QuantrolOx
Prof. Yvonne Rogers: University College London
Prof. Jörg Schmiedmayer: Technische Universität Wien