Call for Participation: Creative City and Global Economy

Title of the Conference: Creative City and Global Economy
〜Innovative Society Empowered by Art, Design and Imagination

Date: November 23, 2011
Venue: Hosei University, Ichigaya Campus, Tokyo

Project Outline:
International Conference on the role of universities, cultural institutions, not-for-profit organizations and public/private partnerships in realization of a truly innovative society. Focuses will be on Art, Design, Food, Education and the creative use of ICT, Social Media, New Technologies and Social Entrepreneurship

Project Partners:
Hosei University, Keio University, Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Toranomon Campus in Tokyo) as the hosting institutions of the event and the steering committee consists of professors from these institutions are responsible for programming. Major funding is provided by the Center for Global Partnership, Japan Foundation, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan in conjunction with special support from the American Embassy in Japan with additional funding from Hosei University. Media sponsor for this conference is Ascii, a member of the Kadokawa Group. Bottled mineral water for speakers is supplied by the courtesy of SUNTORY BEVERAGE & FOOD LIMITED. Freshly brewed coffee is served throughout the day by the courtesy of exhibitors of the technology show case.
Embassy of the United States of America in Japan 　

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Registration：
For those of you who understands Japanese...
Click here and register on line.

or, write to: ccge2012@gmail.com

*It is free (no cost) to attend this conference.
*Most discussions will be held in English, but when necessary, Japanese-English, English-Japanese translation will be provided.

Program:

10:00~
Welcome note:
・Toshio MASUDA
President, Hosei University
・Kenji KONDO
Secretary-Genera, Intellectual Property Strategy Headquarters, Cabinet Secretariat
Co-Chairs, Steering Committee of the CCGE Conference
・Yuko ARAKAWA/Hosei University
・Junko IWABUCHI/Keio University

10:20〜
Keynote I (20 min. presentation/10 min. Q&A)
Ari WISEMAN
Deputy Director in charge of Global Strategy, Guggenheim Foundation

11:00〜
Keynote II (20 min. presentation/10 min. Q&A)
Joel SLAYTON
Executive Director, Zero1 Project

Lunch and Networking

13:30 ~15:00 Parallel Sessions:

I. Creative City and Creative Industry
Presentations (10 min. each) by:
・Kenji TAKEISHI
Director, Fukaya Cinema
http://fukayacinema.jp/ (in Japanese language only)
・Uyen NGUYEN
Co-Founder & Business Development Director, OneVietnam Network

・Polly LEGENDRE
Polish Partnerships, Partner

Additional speakers for discussion:
・Hiroshi JIMBU
Manager of Creative City Promotion Division, Culture and Tourism Bureau, City of Yokohama
・Yasunori TAMAKI
Editor in Chief, Kansai Walker Magazine
・Kenji KITATANI
Professor/Director, Institute for Contents & Technology Integration, Kanazawa Institute of Technology Toranomon Graduate School/Representative Managing Director & President, Avex International Holdings Limited

Moderator:
・Junko IWABUCHI
Professor, Keio University

II. Technology as Infrastructure of Creative City
*This session is sponsored jointly with AR Commons

・Etsuji KAMEYAMA
Genaral Manager, Solution Development Division, Knowledge Works, Inc.
・Masahiko INAMI
Professor, Keio University
・Yoshio TSUDA
Tokyu Agency, Inc.
・Hidenori KONDO
Hakuhodo, Inc.
・Yoshitomo NAKANISHI
Ascii Media Works
・Takahiko SUEYOSHI
President, CEO, Koozyt, Inc.

Moderator:
・Yukiko KAMIJO
Associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
15:00〜15:30 Coffee Break

15:30〜 Plenary Session
The role of universities and cultural institution in Creative Cities

Short Presentation:
Jun SAITO
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University

Discussion:
All speakers are invited to join this session.

17:00〜 Wrap-up
Members of the steering committee
・Yuko ARAKAWA, Professor, Hosei University
・Junko IWABUCHI, Professor, Keio University
・Yukiko KAMIJO,Associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

*There will be an ongoing technology showcase set up by AR, Motion Censor related developers during afternoon hours.