Guest Speech

Akira Amari, a Member of the House of Representatives

Invited Talk: Japan Semiconductor Policy and Memory Industry

Kazumi Nishikawa, Principal Director, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, 

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan

Invited Talk: Current state of the art in semiconductors in Japan

Tetsuro Terry Higashi

Chairperson of the Executive Board, TIA(Tsukuba Innovation Arena),

Chairman emeritus, Tokyo Electron Limited

Invited Talk: The Role of Data Storage in the digital economy

Dr. Atsuyoshi Koike

President, Western Digital Japan and Senior Vice President of Technology and Fab Operations, Western Digital 

Invited Talk: Flash: Technology trends that enable the digitization revolution

Dr. Siva Sivaram

President, Western Digital Corporation

*Dr. Sivaram will join the symposium remotely due to immergency case.

Break

Panel Discussion: Opportunities and roles of Japanese semiconductor industry toward the shift from “CPU Core” to “Memory Core”

Moderator:

 Kiyo Osato, Independent Financial Reporter

Panelists:   

 Kazumi Nishikawa, METI

 Tetsuro Terry Higashi, TIA

 Atsuyoshi Koike, Western Digital Japan 

 Siva Sivaram, Western Digital

Closing