*This seminar will possibly be canceled or the one with the people concerned only due to the Covid-19 situation.

○Date:1: 30 p.m. ~ 4:30 p.m. March 23rd (Mon), 2020 (Reception starting at 1 p.m.)

○Place: OIH Osaka Innovation Hub (7th floor of Grand Front Osaka Tower)

○Theme: Future of Virtual Reality and Urban Development

~In search of implementation field of VR/XR technology toward Osaka Kansai World Expo ~

○Host: Osaka Regional Promotion Initiative Foundation (GIF)

○Co-host: Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Osaka Innovation Hub of Osaka

Business Development Agency (PIIF)

○Sponsors: Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition (PIIA), Kansai Association

of Corporate Executives (GIF) and others.

○Collaborator: ATR Keihanna Research Complex

○Objectives: The Osaka Kansai World Exposition will be held in 2025. One of the

features is said to be the virtual exhibition hall outside of the venue. Various experiments will be conducted including public viewing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games. In the coming 5 years, it is expected that such events will be the colossal experimental sites of virtual cities focusing on MICE/IR. Osaka/Kansai has a possibility to be the field of great business opportunities. But the concrete image has yet to be made, and Osaka Prefecture is planning to promote it on full scale initiating the organization called “Smart City Strategy Department (tentative name)”. In this seminar, experts and people concerned from public organizations will meet together and discuss freely with their own ideas.

○Program

Lecture 1

The Present and Future of VR/AR/MR ~ the unexpected relation with cities~ Lecturer: Syun Kubota, CEO of Mogura Inc.

Lecture 2

“Future of “Osaka Prefecture Smart City Strategy””

Lecturer: Shinji Yoshida, Chief of Preparation room of Osaka Prefecture Smart City Strategy

Panel Discussion

Report 1: Efforts for global open innovation in Kansai

Hiroyuki Suzuki, Strategy Director of Keihanna RC, Representative executive

director of ART

Report 2: Applicability of VR (XR and others) technology under urban development

Yoshito Fukazawa, Communication Director of Digital Business Bureau of NTT

Advertising, Inc.

Report3: The latest trend of XR Development Venture Community Initiating from Osaka

Naoaki Yamaji, co-founder of Osaka-Driven-Dev., Ars Edutainment, Hologram

Co. Ltd., GONENGO LLC

Free discussion by lecturers and participants above

○Capacity: about 40

*<We may ask you to wear masks and others as countermeasures against Covid-19.>

○Entry Fee: Free