Tokyo, April 02, 2013
Fujitsu today announced that Fujitsu Forum 2013, the Company's largest annual event, will be held May 16-17 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. The theme of this year's Fujitsu Forum will be "Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business and Society."
Our world is changing very rapidly. As globalization brings the world's economies ever closer together, profoundly changing the business environment, it is creating new opportunities as well as greater market volatility. Looking at the broader forces shaping society, a rising global population is putting pressure on supplies of food, water, fossil fuels, and other natural resources, and the aging of society, particularly in the advanced industrialized nations, is bringing about a myriad of new challenges. We also face the challenge of preparing ourselves for a variety of natural disasters.
Amid these challenges, the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) is also changing. Having undergone an exponential improvement in performance, ICT is no longer simply used to improve productivity or raise operational efficiency. ICT now has the power to help solve some of the important challenges facing business and society. The power of ICT to deliver new sources of value to business and to revolutionize the infrastructure of our societies will only increase over time.
Fujitsu Forum 2013 will feature a variety of seminars and exhibit demonstrations on initiatives in which ICT is used to help improve communities and enable them to cope with the challenges they face; on the new ways of using ICT, such as mobile applications and "big data" applications, to support the transformation and growth of your business; and on the advanced products, services, and technologies that enable these transformations.
Overview of Fujitsu Forum 2013
1. Time & Date
10 am - 6 pm on Thursday, May 16 and Friday, May 17
2. Location
Tokyo International Forum, 3-5-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
3. Theme
Reshaping ICT, Reshaping Business and Society
4. Number of Expected Visitors
10,000 (admission is free)
5. Seminars
(1) Keynote Panels and Presentations (19 in total):
Speakers from around the world, including influential experts, top industry representatives, and Fujitsu executives, will give presentations on an array of topics, covering economic trends, national ICT policies, and other factors affecting the business landscape.
(2) Seminars and featured/co-hosted seminars (63 in total):
Fujitsu will introduce its solutions and initiatives to address the variety of issues facing its customers, covering topics such as the new ICT in business and society, and how ICT from Fujitsu provides support. In addition, there will be case studies of ICT applications taken from members of Fujitsu's user group, the Fujitsu Family Association / LS Research Committee. Fujitsu will also introduce ways in which ICT is being used to bring about sustainable societies and businesses. A special environmental seminar, "Fujitsu Green Growth Forum," and a special hospital management strategy forum will also be held.
6. Exhibitions (approximately 70 in total)
(1) Cutting-edge technologies and products
Fujitsu continues to pursue technologies that will bring about an affluent society in which people can live in peace of mind. The Company will introduce its distinctive cutting-edge technologies and products that can generate innovation for customers as well as for businesses and society.
(2) Ubiquitous front-end technologies
Fujitsu is working to make people's lives more comfortable and richer. These exhibits will show usage scenarios for next-generation ubiquitous front-end technologies, made possible by human centric technology that is adapted to the user.
(3) ICT innovation
This exhibit will introduce cloud integration solutions for enabling optimal application of cloud services, which are becoming increasingly complex and diverse; the next wave of security governance that can handle cyber-attacks and other issues; and high-performance, high-reliability platforms for optimizing ICT infrastructure and reducing the operational burden of managing systems.
(4) Business innovation
This exhibit features Fujitsu's new approaches to leveraging ICT to support its customers' growth and transformation, covering internally implemented and validated solutions to be used on the business frontlines, and case studies of collaborations with various customers.
Exhibits include topics such as work style changes, manufacturing innovation, reforming customer interfaces, the use of data to transform management, and field innovation.
(5) Social innovation
The domains in which ICT is used are constantly expanding. This exhibit will showcase Fujitsu's initiatives to enrich the lives of people in local communities and bring about sustainable societies. It will also show how to leverage the data that is inundating our lives to create new value and new businesses through the power of ICT.
Exhibits include innovations in data usage, innovations occurring in agriculture, hospitals, schools, banks, and other venues of our lives, leveraging ICT in addressing social issues, post-disaster reconstruction support initiatives, and biodiversity conservation and other environmental initiatives.
