Hosted by Digital Garage
Collaboration Partners : Japan Society of Northern California

*In-person Event

Digital Garage will host a seminar on AI with the Japan Society supporting the event as a collaboration partner. Joi Ito, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who is working to transform society and technology, and other AI leaders will be speaking at this seminar.

The theme will be “Building Useful and Trustworthy AI”. The latest AI application cases, several experts will consider from various perspectives how reliable AI should be implemented in society, AI regulations, and technologies to be combined with AI that takes approaches other than large language model (LLM).

最新のAI 活用事例も踏まえながら、信頼性の高いAI をどのように社会実装していくべきか、AI のレギュレーション、大規模言語モデル（LLM）以外のアプローチをとるAIと組み合わせる技術などさまざまな観点から多数の有識者と考えていきます。カンファレンス後にはネットワーキングも開催いたしますので、ぜひご参加ください。

Date & Time:
Friday, November 17, 2023
1:00 pm – 6:00 pm 

Venue:
Digital Garage @ 717 Market Street | 717 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

Admission:
$25
For the latest info, please visit https://ncc.garage.co.jp/2023fall/

Agenda:
12:30-1:00pm  Doors Open
1:00-1:05pm  Opening
– Rocky Mitsuhashi, President, Digital Garage U.S., Inc.
1:05-1:35pm  GenLab Startup Studio & Keynote
– Daniel Riedel, Executive Director, GenLab
1:35-1:40pm  Opening Remarks about NCC
– Rocky Mitsuhashi, President Digital Garage U.S., Inc.
1:40-2:05pm  Keynote
– Joichi Ito, Board Member, and Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Architect, Digital Garage, Inc., President of Chiba Institute of Technology
2:05-2:50pm  Session 1: Trusted AI and Regulation
– Merve Hickok, President and Research Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy
– Joichi Ito, Board Member, and Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Architect, Digital Garage, Inc., President of Chiba Institute of Technology
– Daniel Riedel (Moderator), Executive Director, GenLab
2:50-3:00pm  First Break
3:00-4:00pm  Session 2: Advertising and IP in the AI Era
– Rei Inamoto (Moderator), Founding Partner, I&CO
– Hikaru Senju, Founder & CEO, Omneky
– Lisa Katayama, Principal, SYPartners
– Ray Hatoyama, CEO, Hatoyama Studio
4:00-4:20pm  Second Break
4:20-5:45pm  Session 3: Useful and Trustworthy AI
– Vikash Mansinghka, Principal Research Scientist, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
– Mizuki Ota, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Tsukuba / Visiting Researcher, Chiba Institute of Technology
– Karthik Dinakar, Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital
– Joichi Ito (Moderator), Board Member, and Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Architect, Digital Garage, Inc., President of Chiba Institute of Technology
5:45-6:30pm  Wrap Up & Networking
– Joichi Ito (Moderator), Board Member, and Senior Managing Executive Officer and Chief Architect, Digital Garage, Inc., President of Chiba Institute of Technology
– Merve Hickok, President and Research Director, Center for AI and Digital Policy
– Vikash Mansinghka, Principal Research Scientist, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT

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