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International Conference on Creating Value for the Future of AI and Society

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dateOctober 15-17

placeKobe University, Japan


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The International Conference on Creating Value for the Future of AI and Society at Kobe, Japan (from Oct 15 to Oct 17, 2019), focuses on Value creation and Value destruction in the age of Artificial Intelligence, in particular, on Productive Collaboration between AI and Humans.

We, who took part in 1st Global Conference on Creating Value from Japan plan to hold this international conference on this important subject to all of us, our future and our lives. This conference will include people from leading ICT companies from around the world, and academic and government thinkers.

We expect the participants of this conference who are interested in analyzing and resolving the impact of AI technology on our society. For example, presentations on the following topics would be welcome.

• Research of developments in the area of value creation through AI technology

• Research of value destruction through AI technology, and how value destruction focus can help us create better value

• Research of value “recuperation” by exploring productive collaboration between AI and humans

• Practitioner papers on how technology can create better businesses that can focus on society


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venue

Sep 15th and 17th: Main Conference Room, 3rd floor, Main Building, Kobe University

Sep 16th: Presentation Hall, 3rd floor, Frontier Building, Kobe University

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Original papers are welcome under the following tracks and other allied fields in value creation for the future of AI and society.

- Creating value for yourself, business and society

- Creating value through social innovation and social entrepreneurship

- Creating value through transformative services

- Creating value in the age of disruptions

- Value creation in the sharing economy

- Value creation for employees in the age of artificial intelligence and machine learning

- Value creation and leadership

- Value creation and organization

- Measuring value creation and developing value creation related analytics

- Creating value through the use of big data

- Values as a belief, attitude and perspective

- Values and the relationship with (organizational) culture(s)

- Value destruction and dark side of value creation

- Challenges and opportunities of creating value at the Bottom of the Pyramid

- Sustainable and responsible management and value creation

- Corporate Social Responsibility and value creation

submission

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

- Interested participants should submit an extended abstract about their research and ideas not exceeding 750 words(excluding references, tables and figures).

- The abstract should outline the importance and relevance of the topic, its potential contributions, research question(s), conceptual framework, and methodology and findings if applicable, discussion, and conclusion.

- Submissions using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies and different approaches including practitioner cases are encouraged.

- Each abstract should have four to five keywords.

- All abstracts must be in English, double-spaced Microsoft Word documents using Times New Roman 12-point font.

- Referencing should follow Harvard formatting.

- At least one author from each paper must register and be present at the conference to present their paper.

- Abstracts should be submitted using the online submission link on the conference website.

- The acceptance decisions will be made by a blind review process. The author will be notified as decisions are made on a rolling basis.


At least one author from each paper must register and be present at the conference to present their paper. Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail to

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speakers



Oct 15

13:00- Registration

14:00-14:10

Welcoming Remarks by Katsuhiko Kokubu (Vice President, Kobe University)

14:10-15:10

Gautam Mahajan (President, Customer Value Foundation)

"Creating Value for and with Technology and Society"

15:30-16:30

Katsuhiko Kokubu (Vice president, Kobe University)

"Kobe University V.School: Challenge for the future"

16:30-17:30

Youji Kohda (Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

"Can Humans Learn from AI or Not? A Problem in the Age of AI"

Hiroki Tsuruta (Associate Professor, Kobe University)

"Value Creation and Academia in Future AI Society"


Oct 16

8:30-8:40

Opening Remarks by Youji Kohda (Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

8:40-9:40

Alex Rosenblat (Data & Sociesty Research institute, USA)

"Technology Rhetoric & Uncertain Governance: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Rules of Work in Uberland"

10:00-10:45

Tsuyoshi Kitani (Executive Vice President & Director, CTO, CISO, NTT DATA Corporation)

"Impact and Challenges of AI in Practice"

10:45-11:30

Amna Javed (Assistant Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

"Careem as TNC: Work Opportunities beyond the Algorithms"

11:30-12:30 General Oral Presentation and Lunch

Md. Abul Kalam Siddike, et al. (University of Dhaka)

"How Does Technology Evolve as Actors in Service Systems"

Yoshinobu Hotta, et al. (Fujitsu)

"A Case of Business Process Transformation Using AI in a Retail"

12:30-13:30

Naonori Ueda (Vice President, Center for Advanced Intelligence Project RIKEN & NTT Fellow, NTT)

"Spatio-temporal Analysis for Ambient AI"

13:30-14:15

Philip Sugai (Professor, Doshisha University)

"The 7 Directions of Value"

14:35-15:20

Hisashi Tamaki (Professor, Kobe University)

"System Informatics and Artificial Intelligence"

15:20-16:05

Akihiko Konagaya (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

"Knowledge Creation in the Life Science"

16:25-17:10

Takeshi Fukuda (Director, IBM Research)

"AI – digital Assistant or Evil Force Taking Over the World"

17:10-17:55

Takashi Mikami (CTO, AI Samurai)

"The Challenge of AI Samurai: Finding ways to innovate inventors for the AI system"

17:55-18:00

Closing Remarks by Gautam Mahajan (President, Customer Value Foundation)


Oct 17

8:30-8:10

Opening Remarks by Hiroki Tsuruta (Associate Professor, Kobe University)

8:40-9:25

Tsuneo Nakata (Senior Professional, Fujitsu Laboratories)

"East, West – Home's Best!"

9:25-10:10

Takashi Kamihigashi (Professor, Kobe University)

"Value and Evaluation in Economics and AI"

10:30-12:00

Pannel Discussion "Creating Value for the Future of AI and Society"

Alex Rosenblat (Data & Sociesty Research institute, USA)

Akihiko Konagaya (Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Tsuneo Nakata (Senior Professional, Fujitsu Laboratories)

Takashi Kamihigashi (Professor, Kobe University)

Gautam Mahajan (President, Customer Value Foundation)

Moderator: Hiroki Tsuruta (Associate Professor, Kobe University)

12:00-12:30

Closing Speech by Youji Kohda and Hiroki Tsuruta

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