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WEDNESDAY 3 OCTOBER 2007
Industry-Academia Collaboration in Japan : The Search for Innovation
Speakers:
Organised by Asia-Pacific Technology Network
Location: Imperial College, 58 Princes Gate, London SW7 (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?oe=UTF-8&hl=en&tab=wl&q=)
Nearest tube station: South Kensington
Timing: 17.30 - 19.00
Pricing: £40 + VAT (Executives)
£20 + VAT (Asian citizens/institutions, officials, executives from Small Companies)£10 + VAT (Academics), Free for the Media.
To Register: please go to www.aptn.org/Events/R710Toshiba.htm
Contact: Louis Turner 0790 5204 677 or biz@aptn.org
Website: www.aptn.org
He received Ph.D. in Control Theory from Imperial College, London in 1978. He joined Toshiba Corporation in 1979 and started his carrier as a systems engineer. He was the Technology Executive for Systems Integration from 1997-1999. He then became the Deputy General Manager for the Corporate Strategy Planning Division in April, 1999, where he led the team to draw business strategy for Toshiba in 21st century.
In April 2000, he became the Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer of iValue Creation Company, an in-house company of Toshiba Corporation and was responsible of business strategy, business development and strategic investment in the area of Internet Services, including mobile Internet.
He is currently the Chief Fellow of Corporate Technology Planning Division and also Corporate Research & Development Center. He is working on university collaboration both in Japan and overseas. He is a fellow member of the Operations Research Society of Japan, and a member of International Board of Overseas for Sabanci University, Turkey
Cav Professor Sandro Macchietto
Sandro is Professor of Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College London. His research is on methods to support integrated process design and operations and their industrial applications, on which he has published widely and is a frequent invited speaker. Particular attention is dedicated to the understanding, development, and optimisation of sustainable energy systems. A co-founder and former director of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Process Systems Engineering at Imperial College (Queen’s Award for Excellence, 2001), he also led the creation and establishment of a software spinout, Process Systems Enterprise Ltd. (Queen’s Award for Enterprise–Innovation, 2001, Sunday Times-TechTrack100 list of Britain’s fastest-growing unquoted companies, 2001 and 2002, Royal Academy of Engineering MacRoberts Award for Innovation 2007). He is a Director the Energy Futures Lab, an activitity promoting interdisciplinary energy projects at Imperial, Director of a new cross faculty MSc in Sustainable Energy Futures and European editor, Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy.
He is a Member of the Court (supervisory body) of Imperial College London, of the Advisory Board, ENSIACET, Institut National Politechnique of Toulouse, France and a director of APTN (Asia Pacific Technology Network). He was made a Cavaliere of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2004.
Dr Etienne Burdett
Dr. Etienne Burdet is Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London. He is doing research at the interface of robotics and bioengineering, and his main interest is in human-machine interaction. He is using an integrative approach of neuroscience and robotics, to i) investigate human motor control, and ii) design efficient assistive devices and virtual reality training systems for rehabilitation and surgery. A complementary goal is to use present state robotics for creating novel techniques for the life sciences. This approach has generated achievements such as a comprehensive method for the modeling and adaptive control of parallel manipulators, the first clear evidence and computational model of how humans use impedance learning to control movements in unstable situations, a novel method for microassembly of tissue engineering scaffolds, and the first fMRI-compatible haptic interfaces for neuroscience experiments. Dr. Burdet is involved in several international collaborations, in particular with Japanese and Singaporean institutions.
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