Tsukuba Forum 2026

May 27th


Opening  [Tsukuba International Congress Center]

Kouji Komatsu

Vice President

NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

May 27th   10:00~10:20

Keynote Speech  [Tsukuba International Congress Center]


Photonics and AI Serve as Pillars to Make NTT Laboratories an R&D CoE
- Through Social Implementation of IOWN, tsuzumi, and Optical Quantum Computers -

Shingo Kinoshita

Senior Vice President
Head of R&D Planning Department

NTT

May 27th   10:20~11:05

Invited Talk  [Tsukuba International Congress Center]

Services and Networks in the NTT West Group:
Past, Present, and Future

Kazunori Katsura

Representative Member of the Board
Senior Executive Vice President

NTT WEST

May 27th   11:15~12:00

 

 

Technical seminars (*In Japanese only)
[NTT Tsukuba Research and Development Center]

Introduction of the latest business and R&D activities.

Technical seminar 1

Technical seminar 1

Research and Development Initiatives to Realize Future Access Networks

Tomohiro Taniguchi

Senior Research Engineer, Supervisor
Access Network Service Systems Project

NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

May 27th   14:00~14:30

Technical seminar 2


Technical seminar 2


Co-Creating with Local Communities Building Social Models that Confront and Live with Disasters
- Optimizing the Balance of Self-Help, Mutual Help, and Public Assistance through Private Sector Engagement -

Satoshi Sasakura

General Manager
Disaster Resilience and Social Innovation Institute

NTT EAST

May 27th   14:40~15:25