The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Next-generation of digitally-centered communities
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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2025.05.17[Sat]
17:00 ～ 19:00
(Venue Open 16:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
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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Speakers
©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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Cathy Hackl
Tech & Gaming Executive, CEO of Spatial Dynamics, Author, Keynote Speaker, Futurist, and Podcast Host
Cathy Hackl is a globally recognized tech & gaming exec, futurist, & speaker focused on spatial computing, virtual worlds, augmented reality, AI, & gaming platforms strategy. She’s the co-CEO of Spatial Dynamics, a spatial computing and AI solutions company & a top tech voice on LinkedIn. Hackl has worked at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Magic Leap, and HTC VIVE and has worked with companies like Nike, Ralph Lauren, Walmart, Louis Vuitton, & Clinique on their emerging tech & gaming journeys. As a sought-after keynote speaker, she’s spoken at Harvard Business School, MIT, SXSW, Comic-Con, WEF, CES, MWC, & more. She’s one of Ad Age’s Leading Women of 2023, was featured on the cover of Forbes Latam’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2023 issue, and is on the Vogue Business 100 Innovators inaugural list. She hosts Adweek’s highly successful TechMagic podcast and is popularly known in tech circles as the Godmother of the Metaverse. Cathy has been a fixture in the world of immersive technology for almost a decade with many media appearances in CNBC’s Squawk Box, 60 Minutes, CNN, Good Morning America, GQ, Time, The Economist, Bloomberg, and is a guest editor for Vogue Singapore. In 2022, she became the first human to ring NASDAQ’s opening bell and open the financial markets both in physical and avatar form while doing so on live television.
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Ayumu Matsuyama
X Corp. Japan K.K. Representative Director
As Head of X Corp. Japan, Ayumu leads the overall advertising business in Japan. Since joining Twitter in 2014, he has overseen the advertising business for major domestic clients across the consumer goods and telecommunications industries. Prior to Twitter, Ayumu served as Division Head of Advertising at Microsoft Japan, where he ran Microsoft’s division in charge of advertising agencies. His career began in sales at Yomiuri Advertising Inc. from 1999 to 2005.
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The Future of Community and Mobility Week
Next-generation of digitally-centered communities
-
2025.05.17[Sat]
17:00～19:00
(Venue Open 16:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking is available from the 2-month advance draw. Please check the site below for the timing of the booking start.
Please note that bookings may not be available due to the status.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
This programme is scheduled to be live streamed at the Virtual Expo. We will inform you once it is confirmed.
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