Presentations

Nobuhiro Endo

President, NEC Corporation

With the world's population now having topped seven billion, we as a society are facing countless issues–including resource and energy problems, natural disaster response, environmental issues and intensification of global competition.
As such, the role of ICT will become increasingly important in solving these and other issues.
In this presentation, NEC will introduce the progress being made towards the creation of an information society friendly to humans and the earth, including cloud services the NEC Group is working on together with its customers, case studies on the use of Big Data in the dynamic fields of smart business and smart energy, and the technologies and services that are making all of this possible.

Naoki Izumiya

President and Representative Director COO, Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd.

The environment surrounding corporate management both in and outside Japan is becoming increasingly severe. Since last year, Japan has been hit hard by not only the Great East Japan Earthquake but also the steep rise of the yen, high corporate tax rates, delayed response to trade liberalization, labor regulations, environmental regulations and electricity shortages. Meanwhile, overseas, there are still concerns about the ultimate outcome of the European financial crisis. In addition, in Japan there are those who worry about how the consumption tax rate hike expected in 2014 or 2015 and the pension and medical insurance issues facing the country will affect consumption.
Amidst this business climate, Asahi Group Holdings is deploying its Long-Term Vision 2015 and Medium-Term Management Plan 2012, which is a stepping stone towards the achievement of its long-term vision. In addition, the company is poised to begin new efforts under its next medium-term management plan in 2013. Believing that times of change bring tremendous opportunities, the company is devoted to promoting strategic and intense management practices that will enable it to overcome the crisis at hand.

Sheena Iyengar

S.T.Lee Professor of Business and Director of the Global Leadership Matrix (GLeaM),
Columbia Business School

You want to make good choices for yourself, your employees, your customers, your global business. You want to be a kind of superhero when you choose, leaping over or smashing through the wall of options to get to the best one. You want to be so skilled at the art of choosing that people gather in crowds to hear about your exploits in the vast universe–and parallel universes–of choice. Sheena Iyengar can't grant you special powers, but she can help you understand the inner workings of choice so that you can develop those powers on your own. In particular, she can help you lead your global business by choice as she reveals what effective global leaders need to know about choice and shows you how to choose your way to success. Sheena believes that all of us can develop and benefit from leadership skills, no matter what title or position we hold, but in order to do that, we have to learn to choose with wisdom, compassion and humility.