Innovation Forum

Experience tomorrow's IT today

The Innovation Forum takes a longer-term view of IT, highlighting how new developments can help develop society in many different areas. By providing you with a snapshot of the technologies designed to improve tomorrow’s world, it enables faster, easier IT planning and decision-making.  You can see the technologies themselves, and listen to five high profile speakers from Fujitsu Laboratories in Japan and Europe – presenting the latest developments on the following key topics:

Innovation Forum – 1st day, Wednesday, November 9th

Technology Innovations from Fujitsu Laboratories: On the Way to an Intelligent Society
10:00 – 10:45 hrs.		Tatsuo Tomita, President of Fujitsu Laboratories Dr. Hirotaka Hara, Head of Software System Laboratories

The activities of Fujitsu Laboratories are inspired by the vision of a Human-Centric Intelligent Society. The objective is to improve the quality of life and provide a safer environment by harnessing the power of information and communications technology (ICT). This presentation focuses on the progress Fujitsu researchers are making in the implementation of new technologies and development of concrete solutions that will transform their visions into reality. It will also introduce visitors to several important core technologies such as temporal-spatial data handling and dynamic optimization as underlying solutions for realizing a truly intelligent society.

Cloud Fusion – Above the Hybrid Cloud
12:30 – 13:15 hrs.		Dr. Hiro Kishimoto, Research Principal, Cloud Computing Research Center

The levels of performance and security in IT provisioning from the cloud are on the rise – as is the number of enterprises sourcing their IT services from private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. Future challenges involve how to manage the cloud effectively while delivering maximum security and flexible service levels. In Munich Fujitsu Laboratories will present the latest technologies designed to meet these challenges – the range of innovations includes PaaS operation lifecycle management, cloud network visualization as well as analysis and information-centric security.

On the Way to Human Centric Computing
14:00 – 14:45 hrs.		Dr. Ichiro Iida, Head of Human Centric Computing Laboratories

Human Centric Computing is a new technology paradigm that involves providing computing resources according to human circumstances anywhere and anytime. The main focus is on the needs of people, with technology playing the supporting role. The provisioning of innovative and ubiquitous computer resources opens up a number of new perspectives for ICT. They extend far beyond the scope of today's technology and will evolve into a huge and dynamic new market in the future. This presentation highlights the Fujitsu Laboratories approach to human-centric computing.

Innovation Forum – 2nd day, Thursday, November 10th

Applications and Challenges in High Performance Computing
9:00 – 9:45 hrs.		Dr. Ross Nobes, Assistant Division Manager, Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe

After a gap of more than 15 years, Fujitsu recently regained the No. 1 position in the TOP 500 list of the world's most powerful computers. Developed jointly with RIKEN, the K Computer makes use of world-leading high-performance computing (HPC) technology. HPC is absolutely vital to tackling many problems facing society, such as the development of alternative energy sources or mitigating the effects of natural disasters. At the same time HPC is also an effective tool for improving the competitiveness of small, medium-sized and large enterprises. This presentation will focus on the current status of HPC and outline the next steps for realising future developments.

The Next-Generation Green Data Center
12:00 – 12:45 hrs.		Kouichi Kumon, Head of IT System’s Laboratories and Member of the Board of Fujitsu Laboratories

The Green Data Center project is one of Fujitsu Laboratories’ core strategic research activities. The project's main objective is to achieve tangible power reduction. In addition, the development activities in this area of research are aimed at improving the architectures and structures of data centers to achieve more flexibility at reasonable cost, as well as finding new methods for reducing the complexity of managing and operating ICT facilities. This presentation will outline the project’s basic concepts and technologies, and reveal some of the preliminary results.