Workshop Schedule: Overview

Workshop venue

Workshop Programme [pdf]

18 June 2008 Wednesday:

• Arrival of participants during the day
• 18:45 Meet in the lobby of Hotel Celestine and walk over to reception
• 19:00 Reception:
  * Faculty Club of Keio University (Mita Campus, North Building)

19 June 2008 Thursday:

• 9:30 Opening of Workshop (Keio Mita Campus, South Building)
  * Norbert Streitz (Fraunhofer): Introduction and Overview
  * Masa Inakage (Keio University, Dean): Welcome and Overview over the new School of Media Design
  * Adrian Cheok ((Keio University): Information on local arrangements
  * Patricia Ho-Hune (ERCIM): Organization and reimbursement information
  
• 10:15 Session I:
  Short Presentations of Background of Participants (including a tea/coffee break)
• 12:45 - 13:45 Bento Box Lunch
• 13:45 Session II:
  * Norbert Streitz: Presentation of “white paper” draft version
  * Presentations of plans for “Smart Cities”
    - We-Duke Cho (Ajou University): Ubiquitous Cities in Korea.
    - Yow Kin Choong (Nanyang University): Towards an Intelligent Nation - An Overview of Singapore's iN2015 Masterplan
    - Keiji Yamada (NEC): Towards Symbiotic Society
  * Feedback and discussion of white paper
  * Identification of main thematic clusters
  * Assignment of participants to subgroups for the next day
  
• 15:45 End of Session and Coffee and Tea
• 16:00 Departure for Social Event
  * Guided Tour at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT)
• 19:30 Dinner:
  * Japanese Yuba-Tofu Kaiseki dishes (Umenohana Restaurant, Ginza)

20 June 2008 Friday:

• 9:30 Session III
  * Splitting up in subgroups for discussion of main thematic clusters
• 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
• 11:15 Session IV
  * Continuation of work in subgroups
• 12:45 - 14:00 Lunch at restaurant nearby
• 14:00 Session V:
  * Reports from subgroups in plenary
  * Evaluation of results in subgroups
  * Discussion of clusters and strategies for “white paper”
• 15:45 Tea/Coffee Break
• 16:00 Time for Preparation of Summaries
• 16:30 Session VI (with additional attendees from Keio University):
  * Summary presentations from subgroups
  * Discussion of next steps for “white paper” preparation
• 18:00 End of Session
• 19:30 Dinner at restaurant

21 June 2008 Saturday:

• Departure day
  * Option to attend a tea ceremony at 11:00 and 11:30 a.m.