<Report>The 5th GSDM International Symposium 
” Population Decline in Japan: Can Artificial Intelligence Balance Labour Shortage?”
2nd Mar, 2018   13:30-17:20 (Ito Hall, Ito International Research Center, Hongo Campus of the University of Tokyo)
							Scene Setting
● Vision of Rengo
 Yasunobu Aihara, General Secretary, RENGO(Japanese Trade Union Confederation)
● Viewpoints of Industry
 Kazuo Yano, Corporate Officer, Corporate Chief Scientist, Hitachi, Ltd.
 
Cross-cutting session
● Keynote speech 1
 Dominique Guellec, Head of the Science and Technology Policy (STP) Division,
 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
● Keynote speech 2
 Yoichi Ochiai, Associate Professor, Advisor to President, University of Tsukuba /
 CEO, Pixie Dust Technologies Dust Technologies
 
Panel debate session (part 1)
● Introduction from the moderator
 Hideaki Shiroyama, GSDM Program Coordinator, / Professor, Graduate Schools for
 Law and Politics, Graduate School of Public Policy, the University of Tokyo
● Debate part 1 
 
Panel debate session (part 2)
● Debate part 2
● Summary from the moderator
 Hideaki Shiroyama
Panelists
– Sadanori Ito, Counsellor, Human Resources Policy Office, Economic and
 Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
– Dominique Guellec
– Yoichi Ochiai
– Masahiro Fukuhara, Founder and CEO, Institution for a Global Society (IGS)/
 Visiting Professor, Keio University / Adjunct Professor, Hitotsubashi University
– Pilar Manchon, Director of Cognitive Interfaces at Amazon AI





