Plenary Speaker: Jun Murai, Distinguished Professor, Keio University, Fujisawa Kanagawa, Japan
9am-11am, Oct-31, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Jun Murai established JUNET, the first network in Japan connecting multiple universities, in 1984. In 1988, established the WIDE Project, a Japanese Internet research consortium. Has long been engaged in research related to Internet technology platforms, and is known as the Father of the Internet in Japan and in international circles as the Internet Samurai. He is a Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet, an Advisor to the Digital Agency and serves on many other governmental committees, and is active in numerous international scientific associations. He was inducted into 2011 IEEE Internet Award / the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame (Pioneer).

Talk Title: Cyber Civilization: assuming “Internet is for everyone, for everything, and in everywhere”

Plenary Speaker: Kazuo Yano, Fellow, Hitachi, Ltd, Kokubunji Tokyo, Japan
9am-11am, Oct-31, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Kazuo YANO, D.Eng. is currently a Fellow of Hitachi, Ltd. He is also the leader of the Happiness Project in the Future Investment Division. Yano joined Hitachi as a researcher after receiving a M.Sc. from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 1984. He is known as a pioneer for his early works in the area of semiconductors, such as complementary pass-transistor logic (CPL) and the world-first room-temperature single-electron memories. He is also a Fellow of IEEE, a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Physical Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and the IEICE of Japan. His extensive work has been recognized through numerous awards including the including the 1994 IEEE Electron Devices Society Paul Rappaport Award, 1996 IEEE ISSCC Lewis Winner Award, 1998 IEEE ISSCC Jack Raper Award, 2007 MBE Erice Prize, Best Paper Award of International Conference on ASE/IEEE Social Informatics 2012. He has served on Technical Program Committee Members of IEDM, DAC, ASSCC, ASP-DAC, SPOTS and EmNet, as the Symposium Co-Chairman/Chairman for 2008/2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, and more recently as a member of the External Advisory Board to IEEE Spectrum, a member of Information Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, in Japan.

Talk Title: Business Creation in the Unpredictable Era: Hopeful Employees and Organizations to Create Innovation

Plenary Speaker: Katsuhiko Kawazoe, Representative Member of the Board, Senior Executive Vice President, CTO, CIO, CDO, NTT Corporation, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan
9am-11am, Nov-1, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Dr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe is Senior Executive Vice President, CTO, CIO, and CDO of NTT Corporation. After joining NTT in 1987, he had been engaged in R&D of radio and satellite communication systems. His specialized field of research was highly efficient data transmission schemes for integrated-media systems. He became the head of NTT Service Evolution Laboratories and the head of NTT Service Innovation Laboratory Group in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Since 2018, he had served as a senior vice president and the head of Research and Development Planning. He was also appointed as Director of the board of NTT Research Inc. He became an executive vice president in 2020. Then, in 2022, he has served as a senior executive vice president. He had served as Chairperson of Tokyo Section of IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communications Engineers) and President of ITE (The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers) from 2018 to 2019. Since 2020, he has been the President and Chairperson of the IOWN Global Forum. He has been elected as the president of IEICE from 2022. He received the TTC (The Telecommunication Technology Committee) Information and Communication Technology Award in 2019. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. He also received his Ph. D. in Informatics from Kyoto University, Kyoto in 2009.

Talk Title: IOWN – Breakthrough Innovation

Plenary Speaker: Zach Shelby, Co-Founder and CEO, Edge Impulse, San Jose California, USA
9am-11am, Nov-1, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Zach is an entrepreneur, angel investor and technologist in the embedded space with a passion for TinyML, embedded and Internet engineering. Zach is a former Arm VP, founder and CEO of the Micro:bit Foundation and Sensinode, active in several of his portfolio companies, and is working to bring ML to any embedded device as co-founder and CEO of Edge Impulse. Prior to this, he served in a number of roles at Arm, including VP of developers, VP of marketing, and director of technology for IoT. Zach was the co-founder and CEO of the Micro:bit Foundation and the co-founder of Sensinode, acquired by Arm in 2013, where he acted as CEO and CTO. He is an active investor and advisor for tech startups, including CubiCasa (PropTech), Augumenta (AR), Petasense (Industrial IoT) and Walkia Lighting (LED lighting). Before starting Sensinode, he led wireless Internet networking research at the Centre for Wireless Communications and at the Technical Research Center of Finland. Zach has served on the Technical Advisory Board and Board of Directors at the IPSO Alliance, has contributed to numerous IoT-related standards and was awarded the Nokia Foundation Award in 2014 for his work on the Internet of Things.

Talk Title: Build the Ultimate Product Experience with Embedded Machine Learning

Plenary Speaker: Hiroshi Esaki, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Bukyo-ku Tokyo, Japan
9am-11am, Nov-2, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Hiroshi Esaki Ph.D received the B.E. and M.E. degrees from Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, in 1985 and 1987, respectively. And, he received Ph.D from The University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1998. He is a co-founder of series of IPv6 special project in the WIDE project. He is an executive director of IPv6 promotion council, which is cross ministry and cross industry council to promote the IPv6 technology. As the activities of IPv6 promotion council, he has established the following working groups, that are aiming to explore and to deploy the IPv6 as the professional and business operation. He successfully standardized the TCP/IP based architectural framework as IEEE1888 in IEEE, and proposing to NIST SGIP CoS (Catalogue of Standard) in US and to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC6. He is also a vice chair of Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC), since 2006, and has served as an IPv6 Forum Fellow and chair of IPv6 Ready Logo Program Commitee. From 2006 to 2010, he served as Board of Trustee for Internet Society. He is a director of WIDE Project since 2010, director of Japan Data Center Council since 2009, and director of Green University of Tokyo Project, which is one of the important and killer application of IoT for 21st century, since 2008.

Talk Title: Digital Native Infrastructure Implementation based on Internet-by-Design with Digital Agency Japan

Plenary Speaker: Martin Maier, Professor, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montréal , Canada
9am-11am, Nov-2, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Martin Maier is a full professor with the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montréal, Canada. He was educated at the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and received MSc and PhD degrees both with distinctions (summa cum laude) in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He was a recipient of the two-year Deutsche Telekom doctoral scholarship from 1999 through 2001. In 2003, he was a postdoc fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA. He was a visiting professor at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2006 through 2007. He was a co-recipient of the 2009 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award. Further, he was a Marie Curie IIF Fellow of the European Commission from 2014 through 2015. In 2017, he received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation in recognition of his accomplishments in research on FiWi-enhanced mobile networks. In 2017, he was named one of the three most promising scientists in the category “Contribution to a better society” of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) 2017 Prize Award of the European Commission. In 2019/2020, he held a UC3M-Banco de Santander Excellence Chair at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain. He is co-author of the book “Toward 6G: A New Era of Convergence” (Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2021) and author of the forthcoming book “6G and Onward to Next G: The Road to the Multiverse” (Wiley-IEEE Press, January 2023).

Talk Title: 6G and Onward to Next G: The Road to the Metaverse and Beyond

Plenary Speaker: Lidong Chen, Manager, NIST, USA
9am-11am, Nov-3, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Dr. Lily (Lidong) Chen is a mathematician and heads Cryptographic Technology Group in Computer Security Division, NIST. Her team has been developing cryptographic standards published in Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST Special Publications (SP). The team is currently devoted to developing next generation of cryptography standards, including post-quantum cryptography, lightweight cryptography for constrained environment, and approaches many advanced cryptographic areas.

Talk Title: Cryptographic Standards in a Hyper -Connected World

Plenary Speaker: Akihiro Nakao, Professor, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
9am-11am, Nov-3, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Received B.S. (1991) in Physics, M.E. (1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory, Tokyo Research Laboratory, and IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005. He received M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been teaching as an associate professor (2005-2014) and as a professor (2014-present) in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University. From 2019 to present, he has served as Vice Dean of the University of Tokyo’s Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (2019-present). He was appointed as an adviser to the President of the University of Tokyo in 2019 and as a special adviser to the President of the University of Tokyo in 2020. He was appointed as Chairman of 5G/Beyond 5G committee, Space ICT Promotion Initiative Forum and as Chairman of International Committee, Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium (2020-present). In April 2021, he has moved to School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo (2021-present) He is serving as Director, Collaborative Research Institute for NGCI,（Next-Generation Cyber Infrastructure）, the University of Tokyo (2021-present).

Talk Title: 5G and Beyond 5G R&D for Advanced IoT

Plenary Speaker: Kazunari Ishimaru, Director, Institute of Memory Technology Research and Development, Kioxia Corporation, Kanagawa, Japan
9am-11am, Nov-4, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Dr. Kazunari Ishimaru is an IEEE Fellow and Director of Institute of Memory Technology Research and Development with Kioxia Corporation. He gave many invited talks and served as General Chair of the IEDM in 2011. He is currently serving the IEEE EDS Board of Governor Members-at-Large and Vice President of Meetings and Conferences.

Talk Title: Future Storage Technologies for Sustainable World

Plenary Speaker: Rui Luis Aguiar, Head of Networks and Services, Instituto de Telecomunicações/Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro , Portugal
9am-11am, Nov-4, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Rui L. Aguiar (born 1967) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro, where he is currently a Full Professor. He has supervised more than than 20 PhD and 100 Master students. He was the founder of the ATNOG research group, an advanced telecommunication research group at the Universidade de Aveiro and is currently co-coordinating a research line in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Services. He has been an advisory for the portuguese Secretaria de Estado das Comunicações and member of the task force for 5G cybersecurity. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM. He is serving as the Portugal Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society and has been serving as Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe, the European ETP representing the telecommunications community, engaged in the discussions of the future European R&D workprogrames for telecommunications. As further community engagement, he has served as Technical and General (co)Chair of several conferences (ICNS, ICT, ISCC, Mobiarch, Monami, NTMS, etc). He is a regular keynote speaker in the future of mobile communications and digital society, with dozens of talks across the whole world. He is an associated editor of Wiley’s Emerging Telecommunication Technologies and Springers’ Wireless Networks. He has more than 500 papers published.

Talk Title: About IEEE WF IoT 2023

Plenary Speaker: Alper Yegin, Vice-Chair of LoRa Alliance, VP of Advanced Technology Development at Actility, , France
9am-10am, Nov-7, 2022, Japan Standard Time (JST)

Alper Yegin is a technology architect involved in research, design, and standardization of IoT and mobile technologies. He is currently serving as the VP of Advanced Technology Development at Actility, the leading system vendor in the IoT LPWAN field, and Vice Chairman of BoD and Chairman of the Technical Committee at the LoRa Alliance. Prior to his current post, he has worked for Samsung Electronics Research Center where he led the 5G IP mobility, 4G WiMAX security, and ETSI M2M security design projects. He has made essential contributions to the design and standardization of networking technologies including Mobile IP, IPv6, Zigbee IP, and PANA during his tenure at Samsung, DoCoMo USA Labs, and Sun Microsystems. He has been actively involved in international standards organizations such as IETF, 3GPP, ETSI, LoRa Alliance, Zigbee Alliance, and WiMAX Forum at contributor and committee chair capacities. He is a past member of IETF Wireless and IPv6 Forum Technical Directorates, author of numerous telecom-related standards and papers with 16 granted and several pending patents.

Talk Title: LoRaWAN: Delivering LPWAN and Building Massive IoT

Plenary Speaker: Philip Wong, Professor, Stanford University, Stanford California, USA
9am-11am, Nov-7, Japan Standard Time (JST)

H.-S. Philip Wong is the Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford University as Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2004. From 1988 to 2004, he was with the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. From 2018 to 2020, he was on leave from Stanford and was the Vice President of Corporate Research at TSMC, the largest semiconductor foundry in the world, and since 2020 remains the Chief Scientist of TSMC in a consulting, advisory role. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and received the IEEE Electron Devices Society J.J. Ebers Award, the society’s highest honor to recognize outstanding technical contributions to the field of electron devices that have made a lasting impact, as well as the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award, the IEEE Technical Field Award to honor individuals for outstanding contributions to solid-state devices and technology. He is the founding Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford SystemX Alliance – an industrial affiliate program focused on building systems, the faculty director of the Stanford Non-Volatile Memory Technology Research Initiative (NMTRI), and the faculty director of the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility.

Talk Title: 3D MOSAIC of N3XT Chips: Domain-Specific Technology for Future Systems