Connected Industries and Data Science 

 

The Japanese government has announced “Connected Industries,” a framework that aims to create new social value through the full use of technological innovation such as IoT, AI and Big Data, and to find solutions to various problems in society.　Industries must play a key role in achieving this new endeavor, but training the human resources who can drive the creation of added value is also an urgent issue. Noticing this social demand, Yokohama City University (YCU) has taken the lead by establishing the first School of Data Science in the Greater Tokyo Area. YCU’s School of Data Science is already implementing research and training activities with companies including All Nippon Airways Trading , Macromill and Teikoku Databank with which it has concluded comprehensive partnerships. In this presentation, I will discuss the present state of research in the field of data science in Japan; the needs of companies in terms of data science; the situation of data scientist training from a social perspective; the education and research policy of YCU’s School of Data Science; and a case study of industry-university collaboration.  

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