German-Japanese Science and Innovation Forum
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
academyhills, Tokyo

9:30

Opening Remarks:
Japan and Germany as Strong Partners for Innovation
Professor Dr Margret Wintermantel
President, German Rectors’ Conference
Manfred Hoffmann
Executive Director, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan

9:45

Opening Addresses
Dr Georg Schütte
Deputy Minister, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Dr Martin Brudermüller
Member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE Asia

10:15

Keynote Presentations:
The Responsibility of Science in a Globalised World
Professor Dr Harald zur Hausen
Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine 2008
“Cancer Research, Global Aspects and Responsibilities”
Professor Dr Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
Director-General, Center for Research and Development Strategy, Japan
Science and Technology Agency“Interdisciplinarity and Collaboration for the Future”

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Panel Discussion:Germany and Japan as Strategic Partners in the Global Competition forKnowledge Resources – Chances for and Perspectives of Enhanced
Cooperation
Chair:
Professor Dr Dieter Lenzen
Vice-President, German Rectors’ Conference and President, Hamburg
UniversityPanelists:
Professor Junichi Hamada, Ph.D., President, The University of Tokyo

Professor Dr Hans-Jochen Heinze, Senator of the German ResearchFoundation – DFG
Professor Dr Max Huber, Vice-President, German Academic Exchange
Service – DAAD
Ralf Guntermann, Sector Energy, CFO, Siemens AG (tbc)
N.N., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
N.N., Representative of Japanese Industry

13:00
14:00

Buffet Lunch
Parallel Workshop Sessions
Workshop 1
Global Competition and Intellectual Property Strategies:
Are Germany and Japan Ready for Challenges in the Information Age?
organised by Research Center for the Legal System of Intellectual Property(RCLIP), Waseda University in cooperation with the German Academic
Exchange Service – DAAD and the Alexander von Humboldt FoundationSpeakers:Professor Toshiko Takenaka, Ph.D., University of Washington, USA (Chair)
Felix-Reinhard Einsel, Sonderhoff & Einsel Law and Patent Office, Tokyo
Takeshi Isayama, Carlyle Japan (Business consultancy)
Professor Ryu Takabayashi, Waseda University
Professor Dr Theo Bodewig, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Professor Dr Hanns Ullrich, Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property andCompetition Law, Munich
Dr Martin Schaefer, Boehmert & Boehmert, Berlin

Workshop 2
New Materials: The Joined Search for Innovative Solutionsorganised by Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering andAutomation in cooperation with Max Planck Society
Speakers:
Dr Daniel Crespy, Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Dr Oliver Jost, Fraunhofer Institute for Materials and Beam Technology IWS
Dr Hagen Klauk, Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Urszula Kosidlo, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering andAutomation IPA
Tsuyoshi Noma, Toshiba Corporation
Dr Friedemann Tonner, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineeringand Automation IPA

Workshop 3
Climate Change: Producing, Transmitting and Using Energy More
Efficiently
organised by German Research Centre for Geosciences – GFZ, Potsdam, incooperation with Fraunhofer Society
Speakers:
Thomas Janowski, Herrenknecht Vertical Company, GermanyAndreas Küppers, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Dr Saeko Mito, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the EarthRITE
Hiroshi Nawata, Ph.D., Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, RIHN
Terufumi Ohno, Ph.D., Kyoto University Museum
Dr Judith Schicks, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Gerhard Stryi-Hipp, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE

Workshop 4
Computer Science in Environmental Researchorganised by Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig
Speakers:
Professor Yasuaki Ichikawa, Ph.D., Okayama University
Professor Dr Olaf Kolditz, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchDr Thomas Kalbacher, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental ResearchWorkshop 5
Linking Neurosciences to Robotics: How Complex Machines Benefit
from Brain Theoryorganised by German Research Foundation – DFGSpeakers:
Professor Minoru Asada, Ph.D., Osaka University
Dr Tamim Asfour, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KITProfessor Dr Michael Herrmann, University of Edinburgh
Professor Jun Morimoto, Ph.D, ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs,Nara
Professor Yoshihiko Nakamura, Ph.D., The University of Tokyo
Professor Dr Helge Ritter, Bielefeld University
Professor Dr Florentin Wörgötter, Georg-August-University Göttingen
16:30/17:00

End of conference and transfer to hotel

17:30Transfer from hotel to evening reception

18:00

Evening Reception at German Embassy Tokyo

The morning plenary session will be held in Japanese and German. The afternoon sessions willbe conducted in English.
Stand 19.08.2010