Germany and Japan are central partners for industrial digitization. The aim of this year’s Germany-Japan Expert Forum is to highlight the bilateral cooperation in the field of Industrie 4.0/Connected Industries and to share ideas how to support and strengthen enterprises in their digitization processes.

Experts from industry, science and politics will discuss developments in the fields of secure and sovereign data infrastructure, IT-Security and Standardization. From a scientific point of view a Joint Whitepaper on Human-Machine Interaction will be presented.

Program

12:30 - Registration / Moderator Mr. Marcus Schürmann (Delegate of German Industry and Commerce in Japan)
13:00 - Welcoming Remarks / Mr. Markus Heß (Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy)
13:10 - Speech 1: "Investing in Industrie 4.0 in Germany" / Claudia Grüne (Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI))
13:20 - Speech 2: "Cloud and Data Sovereignty: GAIA-X, International Data Spaces and International Interoperability" / Prof. Dr. Boris Otto (CEO of International Data Spaces Association)

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IIoT-IT Security in international context
13:40 - Speech 3: "Standardization Roadmap Industrial Security: New Challenges and Opportunities" / Dr. Wolfgang Klasen (Plattform Industrie 4.0 / Head of Security for Embedded Systems, Industry 4.0, IoT, Siemens)
14:00 - Speech 4: "IIoT Security: The role of trustworthiness" / Mr. Tsutomu Yamada (Industrial Security AG, RRI, Group Leader Engineer, Control System Engineering Department, Omika Works, Hitachi, Ltd.)

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IIoT-Standardization in international context
14:20 - Speech 5: "Standardization and B2B-Platforms Roadmap Industrie 4.0" / Dr. Ulrich Löwen (Plattform Industrie 4.0 / Senior Principal Key Expert Engineer, Siemens)
14:40 - Speech 6: "Joint White Paper: Revitalizing Human-Machine Interaction for the Advancement of Society" / Prof. Fumihiko Kimura (Chairman of International Standard AG, RRI / The Univ. of Tokyo)

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Where to go from here? Discussion Panel on Future Cooperation of Industrie 4.0 / Connected Industries
15:00 - Panelists: Prof. Boris Otto / Prof. Fumihiko Kimura / Dr. Ulrich Löwen / Dr. Wolfgang Klasen / Mr. Tsutomo Yamada / Moderator: Ms. Susanne Welter (Minister Counsellor for Economic and Scientific Affairs at the German Embassy)
15:20 - Closing Remarks

We look forward to welcoming you at this exchange. Please register beforehand. You can find more information on the event and the registration form on the website below.

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