February 2019 Vol. 17 No. 222019

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Motoyuki Ii, Senior Executive Vice President and Head ofTechnology Planning, NTT

Feature Articles
Keynote Speeches at NTT R&D
Forum 2018 Autumn
Jun Sawada, President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT
Katsuhiko Kawazoe, Senior Vice President, Head of
Research and Development Planning, NTT

Feature Articles
Value Creation by Leveraging State-of-the-art Research Results
Ensuring Greater Safety for Our Firefighters and Our Communities: Integrating FLAIM Trainer™
and hitoe™
Utilization of NTT’s R&D Technology in the Financial Industry
Initiatives in the Primary Industries (Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries) Utilizing Advanced
Technology of the NTT Group
Improving Amenities at Narita International Airport—Utilizing High-precision Indoor Maps andGeomagnetic Positioning to Facilitate the Movement of Visitors
Creating Value from Deep Learning Technology and Its Business Applications

Regular Articles
Highly Efficient Gate Controllability of Rashba Spin-orbit Interaction in a Gate-all-around InAs
Nanowire MOSFET

Global Standardization Activities
New Standardization Trends at GlobalPlatform—Secure Components for the IoT Era

Practical Field Information about Telecommunication Technologies

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Motoyuki Ii, Senior Executive Vice President and Head ofTechnology Planning, NTT▼Overview

Innovation in digital technologies is disrupting existing industries while creating newvalue. At the same time, social phenomena such as an aging population with adeclining birthrate and a shrinking labor force continue to have a major impact on
consumer lifestyles and corporate activities in Japan. NTT has formulated a digitaltransformation strategy in the face of such social issues. We asked NTT Senior
Executive Vice President Motoyuki Ii, a driving force behind this strategy, to tell us
how he plans to deal with these issues as Chief Digital Officer.

Feature Articles
Keynote Speeches at NTT R&D Forum 2018 Autumn

Jun Sawada, President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT▼Overview

This article introduces an NTT Group effort in new value creation to bring the smart
world to life. The contents of this article are based on a lecture presented by Jun
Sawada, NTT President and Chief Executive Officer, at NTT R&D Forum 2018Autumn held November 29–30, 2018.

Katsuhiko Kawazoe, Senior Vice President, Head of
Research and Development Planning, NTT▼Overview

This article introduces NTT’s latest research and development activities based on alecture presented by Katsuhiko Kawazoe, NTT Senior Vice President, Head of
Research and Development Planning, at NTT R&D Forum 2018 Autumn held
November 29–30, 2018.

Feature Articles
Value Creation by Leveraging State-of-the-art Research Results

Ensuring Greater Safety for Our Firefighters and Our
Communities: Integrating FLAIM Trainer™ and hitoe™

Investigation of the Cause of Disconnection of Call Parking on a Business Phone▼AbstractInformation

FLAIM Trainer™ is an immersive, virtual reality (VR) firefighter training simulator with biosensing andreal-time scenario analytics. It was developed in Australia through research at Deakin University andincorporates a patented digital biosensing fabric developed by NTT called hitoe™.

Report on NTT R&D Forum 2018 Autumn