○Date：　1:30 p.m. ~ 4:30 p.m. on May 13rd (Fri), 2022

○Place：　Sky Room at Hotel NCB(31st floor of Nakanoshima Center Building, 6-2-27,

Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka, Osaka)

○Program　

Opening Ceremony 13:30

Guest Speech: Masatoshi Kimata, Chairman and executive director of Kubota

Corporation, Vice president of Kansai Economic Federation (PIIF)

13:45　Part 1: Talk Session

Atsushi Horiba: Chairman and executive director of HORIBA, Ltd. and the group’s CEO, Chairman of Public Foundation of

Kansai Research Institute (PIIA)

Kazuhiro Shiozaki: President of Nara Institute of Science and Technologies

(National University Corporation)

Yoshiki Nishizawa, Executive Director of University Public Corporation Osaka

Theme: East-West axis and Railway DX

Theme: Craftsmanship and Industrial Innovation

Theme: Possibility of East-West Axis Scheme

100. (The capacity limits and remotely live streaming may be carried out according to the situation of Covid-19.)

Free

Kansai Innovation Forum Executive Committee

15:00　Part 2 : Panel Discussion

Session 1 Theme: East-West axis and Railway DX　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Session 2 Theme: Craftsmanship and Industrial Innovation　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Wrap-up Session Theme: Possibility of East-West Axis Scheme

16:50 Closing ceremony

〇Capacity： 100. (The capacity limits and remotely live streaming may be carried out according to the situation of Covid-19.)

〇Entry Fee： Free

〇Co-hosts： Kansai Innovation Forum Executive Committee

〇共　催： Public Foundation of Kansai Research Institute (PIIA), University Public Corporation Osaka, Osaka Regional Promotion Initiative Foundation

(GIF)

Sponsors (requested): Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition (PIIA), Kansai Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, Kinki Regional Development Bureau, Osaka Prefecture, Kyoto Prefecture, Kansai Economic Federation (PIIF), Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kansai Association of Corporate Executives (GIF) and so on.

○Objectives: Preparation for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan has been rapidly progressing. Expo 2020 Dubai was a part of urban development project based on the assumption that the land would be used for another purpose after the exposition. The pavilions shouldn’t be just temporary, but how the legacy should be used has become a major issue.

We think of the year of 2025 as the “kick off” of the development of the site and its surrounding area, and regard the east-west axis* which links the exposition site succeeding to the legacy of World Exposition with Kansai Gakken City where intelligent institutions and research centers gather as “the east-west axis which leads the design of the future society”. In this forum, specialists and key persons of related institutions will join so that it will be the place to discuss freely with their own ideas. It’s also aiming at creating possibility as the field of innovation and infrastructure development as well as the cutting- edge demonstration project through industry-academic-government collaboration among local universities, research institutions, small-and-middle sized companies and municipalities.

* Kansai Gakken City ~ Higashi Osaka~ Morinomiya (University Public Corporation Osaka) ~ World Exposition/IR

<Application>

Fill in your name, where you belong, address, E-mail address and send the form

through FAX or E-mail no later than May 10th (Tue.)

<Where to Apply>

Shirashoji, Osaka Regional Promotion Initiative Foundation, General Incorporated Foundation

E-mail:info@daichishin.org / TEL・Fax:06-6777-5184