Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference 2024 Okayama-Chugoku-Shikoku Forum

What is the Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference?

It is a place where researchers, large corporations, small factories, and venture companies, regardless of their field or industry, can fuse their knowledge and technology through discussion, identify new research themes and issues that humanity needs to face, and promote research together.

So far, RIVANES has been working to establish a business in the Setouchi area and to build an ecosystem for fostering the next generation of researchers. In biology, an ecosystem is a state of balance based on symbiotic relationships among organisms, the disturbance of which can sometimes lead to destructive consequences. However, human beings have progressed beyond the ecosystems they have built, connecting and uniting them. By holding the Okayama-Chugoku-Shikoku Forum, RIVERNESS aims to create a place to think together about new concepts and disciplines by combining the ecosystems that RIVERNESS has built in the Setouchi area, transcending generations and regions, and connecting them with ecosystems in other regions and the world.

Schedule

2024.05.18 [SAT].

Venue

Okayama Convention Center 1F Event Hall
14-1 Ekimoto-cho, Kita-ku, Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture

Organizer

Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.

Target Participants

Academia, venture companies, agricultural corporations, large corporations, town factories (fabricators), local governments, junior high and high school students, etc.

Timetable

Session List

Speakers

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  Wataru Kitamura
  • Faculty of Environmental Studies, Tokyo City University associate professor
  D. in 2011 from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Tokyo. D. in Agricultural Science. He has been a member of the Little Turn Project, a non-profit organization, since 2004, promoting the conservation of the endangered Koan Tern (now president of Little Turn Project). He is also active in the dissemination and development of ornithological research as a representative of Lifebird.

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  Yuki Sudo
  • Okayama University Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Hokkaido University in 2000 (during this period, he was a special research student at the Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) from 2002 to 2003), and a postdoctoral fellow at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Houston from 2005, He has been a professor at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Okayama University (now the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Okayama University) since 2014. Consistently engaged in education and research of "Light to Drugs! He has been engaged in education and research on the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin.

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  Yota Takakura
  • INOCA Corporation Representative Director
  Born in 1994. Born in Hyogo, Japan. After graduating from the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Engineering, he conducted research in the Junichi Rekimoto Laboratory of the Graduate School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, where he conducted research on supporting musical instrument practice using machine learning. established Inoka Inc. in April 2019. He conceived and promoted research and development of "Environmental Transfer Technology®," which reproduces coral reefs and other marine ecosystems in indoor spaces.

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  Shuhei Tsukada
  • Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. Executive Officer

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  Shogoro Fujiki
  • Biome Corporation Representative Director
  D. (Agriculture) from Kyoto University in March 2017. While in graduate school, he developed a biodiversity visualization technique using satellite image analysis. While camping in the tropical jungle of Borneo for over 2 years, he decided to commercialize environmental conservation. After obtaining his doctorate, he established Biome Inc. and became its representative director.

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  Daigo Fujita
  • Leave a Nest Co., Ltd. General Manager, Kansai Development Division

Schedule

TIME	THEME	SPEAKER
09:30	MAIN ROOM Opening Ceremony
09:40	MAIN ROOM Short presentation by junior high and high school students "Science Castle Splash". Session Partners: The Chugoku Bank, Ltd. RIVANES has hosted the Science Castle Chugoku-Shikoku Conference, a conference for junior high and high school students, from 2021 to 2023 as a gateway to success for junior high and high school student researchers in the Chugoku-Shikoku region. Numerous junior high and high school student researchers have been active in this conference. In this year's "Science Castle Splash," these junior and senior high school student researchers are invited to present their research at a super interdisciplinary conference, putting their enthusiasm and curiosity into a 5-minute presentation. The aim is for all conference participants to hear the voices of the next generation of researchers and generate new ideas from each other. In the poster presentations that follow, the junior and senior high school student researchers and the visiting researchers, including university researchers and business people, will engage with each other, learning from each other and developing into deeper discussions on how they can collaborate, with the aim of leading to the creation of joint research. Twelve presentations in this session will be given by junior high school, high school, and technical college students who have registered poster abstracts for the Japan Society for Hyperdifferential Research 2024 Okayama-Chugoku-Shikoku Forum, as selected by the secretariat. We look forward to receiving registrations from the next generation of researchers from here on. List of Presenters
10:50	MAIN ROOM Short Pitches by Researchers and Venture Companies "Super Heterodox Splash The name "Splash" comes from the meaning of the word "splash," which means "a splash of water or other substance." Researchers and venture capitalists give 90-second pitches to the audience, telling them what they want to do and what they are looking for from the participants. The aim is to find passionate researchers and to use their pitches as inspiration to come up with new ideas. We then aim to develop the discussions into more in-depth discussions at the poster presentations, leading to the creation of new collaborative research. List of Presenters
11:30	Poster and booth Poster Booth Core Time You can check the list of abstracts below. List of Abstracts
	Poster and booth Super Generation Challenge As one of the projects during the poster presentation core time, we will hold the "Super Generation Challenge," in which junior high and high school student researchers will present their research to each other along with researchers from academia and venture companies. The first 35 minutes of the poster presentation core time (11:30-12:55) will be separated as the "Super Generation Challenge" time to provide an opportunity for cross-generational research presentations and Q&A sessions between junior high and high school student researchers and researchers from academia and venture companies. A five-minute poster presentation and three-minute Q&A period will be provided for next-generation researchers, including junior high and high school students, to present their research to professional researchers, and a five-minute poster presentation and three-minute Q&A period will be provided for next-generation researchers by professional researchers. This project will serve as a springboard for subsequent poster presentations, etc., which will not only provide training in communicating research in an easy-to-understand manner, but will also deepen collaborative hypotheses and next research plans. release
12:55	MAIN ROOM Lunch break
13:30	MAIN ROOM keynote speech Dr. Sudo of Okayama University is working on the regulation of diverse biological functions using the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin under the slogan "Light to Medicine! he is working on the control of various biological functions using the photoreceptor protein rhodopsin. The regulation of biological functions such as intracellular H+ concentration, bacterial motility, and cranial nerve response by the power of rhodopsin should lead to various changes related to our health and environment, such as overcoming the growth limit of green algae and promoting the advancement of human use of light. In this session, Dr. Sudo will talk about the progress of his research and how the possibilities created by light and rhodopsin will be opened up through collaboration between very different fields. session release	Yuki Sudo (Okayama University)
13:50	MAIN ROOM Research and Business to Make Chugoku and Shikoku a Sanctuary for Biodiversity Session Partners: The Chugoku Bank, Ltd. Until now, humankind has relied on the natural environment for all of its resources to form societies. While we realized early on that these resources are not infinite, the environment is being destroyed and biodiversity is being lost in an economy-first society. At the same time, the Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) has been established, and its importance is increasing in business. In this session, two young entrepreneurs, Mr. Yota Takakura of INOCA Corporation and Mr. Shogoro Fujiki of Biome Corporation, who are challenging to make the Chugoku and Shikoku area a leading area for such advanced efforts, and Mr. Kitamura, Associate Professor of Tokyo City University, who is seeking symbiosis between humans and natural animals from birds with biodiversity as the theme. Associate Professor Wataru Kitamura of Tokyo City University will be invited to discuss how research and business can help restore ecological diversity. session release	Yota Takakura (INOCA Corporation) Shogoro Fujiki (Biome, Inc.) Wataru Kitamura (Faculty of Environmental Studies, Tokyo City University) [Moderator]. Shuhei Tsukada (Riverness Inc.)
14:40	Travel & Rest
15:00	MAIN ROOM Session 2
15:55	MAIN ROOM Awards Ceremony and Closing Ceremony (~18:00)
16:10	MAIN ROOM (cultural) exchange
16:30	closing of a place