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The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'What does the future of digitally-centered communities look like? What are the hurdles to realization?'

Cast

Moderator

Yoichiro Miyake

Specially appointed professor,Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo

He researches and develops “artificial intelligence for digital games”, and aims to apply it to the real world as “spatial AI”. He majored in mathematics at Kyoto University, and has a master's degree in physics from Osaka University and a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Tokyo. He is a specially appointed professor at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo, a specially appointed professor at the Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence and Science, Rikkyo University, a visiting professor at Kyushu University, a board member of the Digital Games Association of Japan, and a board member and chair of the editorial committee of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence.

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©Niantic, Inc.

Masashi Kawashima

VP, Games & Publishing, Niantic, Inc.

Masashi Kawashima is Vice President of Publishing (Ingress, Peridot). Niantic initially started as a “startup” within Google, and spun out from Google in October 2015. He joined Niantic Labs in 2013 as a UX/Visual designer and designed Ingress’ visual and user experiences.
Masa also contributed to the launch of a new ground-breaking project for mobile game called “Pokémon GO”, in which players can look for and capture Pokemon in the real world.

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Myo Nyein Aung

Associate Professor, Department of Global Health Research, Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University

Dr. Myo Nyein Aung MD, MSc, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Health Research at the Graduate School of Medicine, Juntendo University,Tokyo, Japan. He is also affiliated with the Juntendo Advanced Research Institute for Health Sciences and the Faculty of International Liberal Arts. Dr. Aung is the principal investigator of the Digitally Inclusive Healthy Ageing Communities (DIHAC), a cross-cultural study in, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand and India. In 2024 He was invited several times by UN-ESCAP and international conferences to talk about digital literacy for older persons.
He is dedicated to health promotion, community-based social innovation for healthy ageing, and digital inclusion research internationally. His current research focuses on empowerment models of older people’s digital inclusion in cross-cultural contexts. He organized series of multidisciplinary meetings entitled as DIHAC meetings that are being participated by academics and professionals from Asia, Europe, Africa and America.
He is also the principal investigator of Community Integrated Intermediary Care (CIIC) for Thai older persons, a cluster randomized controlled trial funded by the World Health Organization, The study implemented and evaluated a new prevention based long-term care model for low- and middle-income countries. Furthermore, he conducted preventive intervention, randomized controlled trials and many observational studies in multi-disciplinary approaches.
He teaches courses on global gerontology and policy in collaboration with WHO, JICA, and JAGES study experts,for graduate students. He has served as an adviser for health systems strengthening low- and middle-income countries, with JICA and USAID.
Dr. Aung has authored more than 80 original research articles, with his work published in top journals such as The Lancet and The Gerontologist. Research website https://digital-ageing.com/

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The Future of Community and Mobility Week

Next-generation of digitally-centered communities

  • 2025.05.17[Sat]

    17:0019:00

    (Venue Open 16:30)

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