INVITATION and CALL for Papers: “Innovation and Action for Managing Urgent Future Local and Global Issues and Domains in Japan and Europe”
INVITATION
The European Japan Experts Association (EJEA) is very happy to invite you to the EJEA International Conference 2022
The conferencewill be realized online via Zoom at 09:00-14:00 CET / 17:00 – 22:00 JST on November 24 and 25, 2022.
Participation is free of charge. The language of the conference is English.
The conference’s website https://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/ejea-conf-2022 will be continuously updated.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We welcome ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS for Contributions of 10 Minutes. No submission deadline!
Submission guidelines and template on https://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/en/business-areas/human-centered-engineering-and-design/ejea-conference-2022.html#1
Following workshops are in preparation:
Day 1:
l Sociability in Human-Robot Interactions (RIKEN)
l Kickstart a Circular Business – Sharing Experiences on an Online Tool for 2hr-Workshop-Concept for Learning Circular Economy (Fraunhofer FIT)
l Future Developments and Behavioral Change in Different Cultural Contexts (moderation tba)
Day 2:
l Workshop by Fraunhofer FIT (title tba)
l Cognitive Robotics (LINKÖPING University)
Keynote Lectures
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel
Executive Director DFKI Kaiserslautern (German Research Center for AI) & Head of Research Department Smart Data & Knowledge Services; Professor at Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems at Osaka Metropolitan University – (Germany)
“Combining Bird Eye View and Grass Root View for Earth Observation”
· Dr. Irene Ek
Director-General at Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis; Manager Government Affairs & Public Policy, GOOGLE Cloud Nordics – (Sweden)
”Megatrends – Merging Green and Secure Digital Transformation”
- Prof. Dr. Britta Essing
Head of Human-Centered Engineering & Design, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT – (Germany)
“Society 5.0 / Needs / Humability” - Prof. Dr. Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
Director of Real-time Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University – (Sweden)
“The Role of Cybersecurity in the Smart Society” - Dr. Hiroshi Nakagawa
RIKEN AIP, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project AI Utilization in Society and Legal System – (Japan)
“AI and Society －ELSI About Autonomous Avatars” - Prof. Dr. Masaaki Tokuda
Former Vice-President for International Affairs; Professor of Department of Pharmaco-Informatics, Faculty of Medicine, Kagawa University – (Japan)
“What We Learned from Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Initiatives” - Prof. Dr. Harriet Wallberg
Former President of Karolinska Institutet Stockholm; Professor of Physiology; Member of the Science and Technology in Society Forum Kyoto (STS) – (Sweden)
“The Role of Japan in the Post-Corona Era to Combat Global Challenges”
The conference is jointly organized by the European Japan Experts Association, Linköping University, and RIKEN (理化学研究所), and hosted by Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT).
Please feel free to distribute this invitation and call to related persons/institutes in your surrounding!
Register now and receive Zoom-Login information – we are looking forward to welcoming you on November 24 and 25, 2022!