Each speaker will choose one or two of the submitted questions et will give a brief talk (at most 10 minutes) about it before each session they appear in and then all speakers will discuss and address questions from the audience.

9 :30-10 :00 Pause-café and welcome

10 :00-10 :15 Introductory Vitamins

Laurent Pic, Ambassadeur de France au Japon, Gentiane Venture, Dominique Lestel

10 :15-11 :45 It's alive! Alive!

"It is curious, too, that though the modern man in the street is a robot" D.H. Lawrence

Junya Hayashi, Naoko Abe, Etsuko Ichihara

11 :45-12 :00 Pause-café and discussions

12 :00-13 :30 Beyond Human Beings

"It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists." Isaac Asimov,

Sonoe Azuma, Liz Rincon, Dominique Lestel

13 :30 - 14 :30 Lunch time (on site lunchbox will be prepared)

14 :30-16 :00 Weak robots weak humans

"Man lives like a robot: mechanically efficient, but with no awareness." Osho

Naoki Ohshima, Serge Tisseron, Tina Rosner

16 :15 – 16 :30 Pause-café and discussions

16 :30 – 18 :00 General Discussions & closing remarks

contact us: gvinfo@cc.tuat.ac.jp
a workshop organized with the support of the French Embassy in Tokyo & Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology