Open Data Symposium 2014

Now That Open Data Is Available, Let’s Make Better Use of It ! -The Role Our Society Plays in Regional Revitalizations-

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Location
Hitotsubashi Hall, Hitotsubashi University
Date
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Host organization(Sponsor)
Vitalization Local Economy Organization by Open data & Big data(VLED), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Co-sponsor
National Strategy office of Information and Communications Technology, Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Economy, Trade and
Supporter
Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport, National Diet Library, KEIDANREN, ASP-SaaS-Cloud CONSORTIUM, OpenCorporatesJapan

Program and Schedule

Hour Length Session Speaker
12:30 Open
13:00 Start
Session 1 Welcome and Introductionyoutube
13:00-13:05 5 minutes Opening Remarks

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)

13:05-13:15 10 minutes Introduction of Guest Speakers

Cabinet Secretariat, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry

13:15-13:20 5 minutes Introduction about VLED Dr. Ken Sakamura, Director of VLED
13:20-13:30 10 minutes (Commemorative) Photo Session
Session 2 Symposium
13:30-13:45 15 minutes “Consortium’s Activities and What We Expect on VLED”youtube

Deputy President of Open Data Promotion Consortium
Mr. Noboru Koshidukappt

13:45-14:25 40 minutes Keynote Speech
“Open Corporates: opening up the world's company data, and why it's important”youtube

Co-Founder & CEO of OpenCorporates
Mr. Chris Taggart pdf

14:25-14:35 10 minutes Break
14:35-14:55 20 minutes Speech 1
“Our Calil: So Far and From Now On“

Calil Inc, CEO
Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto

14:55-15:15 20 minutes Speech 2
“Our Service on Sale: Open Data Analysis for Purchase”youtube

HALEX CORPORATION, Data Scientist Girl
Ms. Yume Yamamoto ppt

15:15-16:30 75 minutes Panel Discussion
“Open Data’s Role in Regional Revitalization”youtube

OpenCorporates
Mr. Chris Taggart

Calil Inc
Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto

HALEX CORPORATION
Ms. Yume Yamamoto

CIO of Saga Prefecture
Mr. Toshio Morimotoppt

Deputy Director,
Statistics and Information Division, Department of General Policy,
Fukui Prefectural Government
Mr. Masayuki Emorippt

Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc, Moderator
Mr. Fumihiro Murakami

16:30 Closing Remarks

* Program and Schedule are subject to change

13:30 - 13:45

Mr. Noboru Koshiduka

Mr. Noboru Koshiduka
Deputy President of Open Data Promotion Consortium
The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies

13:45 - 14:25 Keynote Speech

Mr. Chris Taggart

Mr. Chris Taggart
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenCorporates

Profile

Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to and reuse of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but giving access to the underlying data through its API and with a licence that allows free reuse under a share-alike licence. Since its launch in December 2010, OpenCorporates has grown from 3 million companies in 3 jurisdictions to over 80 million in 95 jurisdictions.

14:35 - 14:55 Speech 1

Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto

Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto
Calil Inc, CEO

Profile

He was born in Gifu prefecture in 1982 and is a graduate of the faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University.He has learnt programming by himself since he was 3rd year elementary school student.
He started working as a freelance programmer as he launched RY system Co.,LTD. in his high-school days. Since then he has built up various information systems and have offered web services.
His commitment to library online services and e-book originated from his web service called “Calil” in 2010. Calil was originally the name of a library search engine which enables us to search books at the most of the libraries all over Japan, and now is his company’s name since 2012.

14:55 - 15:15 Speech 2

Ms. Yume Yamamoto

Ms. Yume Yamamoto
HALEX CORPORATION

Profile

She is a certified and accredited meteorologist of Japan and also called a “data scientist girl”.
After her career as an actress at theatrical production (Age 19-23), she passed the meteorologist exam only once and started working at Harex Corp.
She likes “listening to people”. She is introduced as one of the “data scientist girls” in the article of Nikkei Information Strategy Magazine, February 2014.

15:15 - 16:30 Panel Discussion

Mr. Chris Taggart

Mr. Chris Taggart
Co-Founder & CEO of OpenCorporates

Profile

Chris Taggart is the Co-founder and CEO of OpenCorporates, the largest open database of companies in the world. OpenCorporates is revolutionising access to and reuse of company data, making it not just freely available on the web, but giving access to the underlying data through its API and with a licence that allows free reuse under a share-alike licence. Since its launch in December 2010, OpenCorporates has grown from 3 million companies in 3 jurisdictions to over 80 million in 95 jurisdictions.

Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto

Mr. Ryuji Yoshimoto
Calil Inc, CEO

Profile

He was born in Gifu prefecture in 1982 and is a graduate of the faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University.He has learnt programming by himself since he was 3rd year elementary school student.
He started working as a freelance programmer as he launched RY system Co.,LTD. in his high-school days. Since then he has built up various information systems and have offered web services.
His commitment to library online services and e-book originated from his web service called “Calil” in 2010. Calil was originally the name of a library search engine which enables us to search books at the most of the libraries all over Japan, and now is his company’s name since 2012.

Ms. Yume Yamamoto

Ms. Yume Yamamoto
HALEX CORPORATION

Profile

She is a certified and accredited meteorologist of Japan and also called a “data scientist girl”.
After her career as an actress at theatrical production (Age 19-23), she passed the meteorologist exam only once and started working at Harex Corp.
She likes “listening to people”. She is introduced as one of the “data scientist girls” in the article of Nikkei Information Strategy Magazine, February 2014.

Mr. Toshio Morimoto

Mr. Toshio Morimoto
CIO, Saga Prefecture

Mr. Masayuki Emori

Mr. Masayuki Emori
Fukui Prefectural Government
Department of General Policy
Statistics and Information Division
Deputy Director