SFC Open Research Forum 2012
26 December 2012The 2012 SFC Open Research Forum (ORF) was held at Tokyo Midtown Hall and Conference on Thursday, November 22 and Friday, November 23, attracting around 5,000 visitors over the two days. ORF is hosted every fall by the Keio Research Institute at SFC, with the aims of presenting to a wider audience the efforts of leading-edge research conducted on campus, returning to the public the fruit (seeds) of this research, and promoting further collaboration between government, business, and academia.
The theme of this, the 17th ORF, was “bazaar of intelligence”. The “bazaar of intelligence” is not just a mere fair or exhibition—it is a platform for a wide range of people, exhibitors and guests alike, to circulate freely.
Based on this theme, ORF 2012 aimed to present a forum where a natural order is generated, one in which each participant brings their own set of intelligence to the party, and new values and possibilities are formulated through spontaneous exchange.
The Midtown Hall featured various exhibition booths introducing research projects conducted, as well as a display of books from SFC related researchers. Panel discussions on those same books, and other events such as the Third Mobile Future Contest were also held as part of this year’s ORF. Over 150 different research projects were showcased in the following five categories:A: High-integrity Information Society—Ubiquitous, Infrastructure, Communication, Technology
B: Healthy Aged Society—Embodied Knowledge, Healthcare, Life Sciences
C: International Strategy Design—Politics, Culture, Governance
D: Social Innovation—Social, Global, Regional, Educational
E: Environmental Symbiosis—Design, Environmental Design
Other Keio participants included Shonan Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School, Mita Campus's Global Security Research Institute, and the SFC Academic Society, all of whose contributions added even more variety to the display.
The Midtown Conference center was bustling with visitors to the ORF who were treated to a total of thirty-eight sessions on a variety of topics. Over the course of the two days, we welcomed many guest speakers to shed light on various topics including Kanagawa Prefectural Governor, Yuji Kuroiwa, who joined in the premium session, “The Age of the Life Cloud – Infrastructure for the Application of Personal Health Information in the Information Based Society”; regional leaders who gathered together from around the country to take part in the “Municipal Government ICT summit ~ horizontal municipal to municipal collaboration after 3.11 Crisis ~ ” premium session; and several SFC faculty members who came together for the premium session, “Discussing the future of SFC”.
→SFC Open Research Forum 2012 (Currently Japanese only. The English text will be available in due course.)
(Photographer: Satoru Inoue)
(This information is released by the Public Relations Section)