Track:

A1

Session Title:

Panel discussion: IT pioneers vs. students - Is open source cool?!

When

U.S.:

September 14th, 8:00pm - 9:50pm (PDT)

Paris:

September 14th, 5:00am - 6:50am (CEST)

Tokyo:

September 15th, 12:00pm - 1:50pm (JST)

Video from this program will be available online.

Overview

From the dawn of the Internet age, there has always been a policy of open standards and open minds. It goes without saying that the strong beliefs of those involved in the Internet’s early days have helped shape the entire industry. “Open source” is a concept born out of these beliefs; we would like to redefine the concept of “open source” during this discussion between some of these pioneers and current students.

This session features students - “digital natives” - who have grown up immersed in technology. We’ll give them the floor and let them ask candid questions to these established IT industry leaders. In doing so we want to examine the future of open source and what it means in business settings.

Moderators

• Masashi Kobayashi, Managing Partner, K and Company, LLP
• Takehito Akima, undergraduate student, Hosei University

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  Masashi Kobayashi
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  Takehito Akima

Panelists

• Joichi Ito, board member of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Japan
• Keiko Okawa, Professor, Keio University, Graduate School of Media and Governance
• Tsuruaki Yukawa, JIJI Press Ltd.

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  Joichi Ito
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  Keiko Okawa
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  Tsuruaki Yukawa

Undergraduate Students

• Miho Takahashi, undergraduate student, Meiji University
• Kazuma Nakatani, undergraduate student, Kuretake College of Medical Arts & Sciences
• Atsushi Harada, undergraduate student, University of Tokyo