TechBiz Pitch Battle! –Towards the International Business of Content Technology– Part-1more

"TechBiz Creation & Matchmaking" is a project to support companies that aim to expand overseas with advanced content technologies. In this session, four companies selected from a large number of applicants will be challenged to make a three-minute pitch in English to showcase their technology.
This is a must-attend pitch battle in which experts of technology, business media, investors, and guests from SIGGRAPH and SXSW are invited to comment on the pitches of the four companies, giving dry comments and sharp advice!

*Simultaneous translation will be provided for the discussion.
*On the same day at 4:00 p.m., Part-2, another four companies will be pitching in Avatar in the VR space, so be on the lookout for this as well.

Live broadcasting by Winner of Innovative Technologies 2020more

Live broadcasting will be performed remotely from the technology research site that has been adopted and awarded as an excellent technology at Innovative Technologies 2020. Sending out the latest technology from the research site with a sense of reality.

DCEXPO Special Session: The Future opened up by Intelligence and Art - Commemorating the 2020 Tsumugi & Takumi Awards - (Co-located with Inter BEE 2020)more

"ASIAGRAPH Tsumugi & Takumi Awards" Professor Kawaguchi, the world-renowned CG artist has presided over is in its 14th year.
This year’s Tsumugi Award will be given to Sputniko! who is an artist and Professor of Tokyo University of the Arts. Takumi Award will be given to Yutaka Matsuo, a leading AI resercher and Professor of the University of Tokyo.
Now that the COVID-19 makes it difficult to see the future. What kind of hope for the future can intelligence and art lead to? How will the world and Japan change in the future?
Stay tuned for their heated discussion from an evolving AI and creative perspective!

Human Interaction Technologies in the era of "New Normal after Covid-19" more

TechBiz Pitch Battle! –Towards the International Business of Content Technology– Part-2 in the VR Space (Co-located with Inter BEE 2020)more

"TechBiz Creation & Matchmaking" is a project to support companies that aim to expand overseas with advanced content technologies.
In this session, four companies selected from a large number of applicants will be challenged to make a three-minute pitch in English to showcase their technology.
This is a must-attend pitch battle in which experts of technology, business media, investors, and guests from SIGGRAPH and SXSW are invited to comment on the pitches of the four companies, giving dry comments and sharp advice!

*This session will be pitched in the VR space "NEUTRANS BIZ" with an avatar. *Consecutive interpreters will be available for discussion.
*Stay tuned for Part-1 at 10:00am on the same day, where another four companies will be conducting pitches.

Areas where digital content is activatedmore

The Power of Positivity paves the Future ~ Discussing life After Covid around Technology (Co-located with Inter BEE 2020)more

Featuring women in tech who are active in the field of digital content, they will talk about the technologies that are hot right now and the future of society.

Communication in the era of "New Normal after Covid-19" : Feasibilities & Issues on Digital Transformation connected by Customer Experiencemore

Starting from the theme of Innovative Technologies 2020, "New Communication Technology - What will be born from No-Meet / No-Touch !?", based on communication Technology born from such era, the panelists will discuss a wide range of what should be done, in the society now and in the future, from the standpoint of people in the industry who are active in the field, those who propose the politics, and those who study in the field of academics.

Innovative Technologies 2020 Awarding Ceremony more

We will hold an award ceremony for six technologies that have been selected as excellent technologies for Innovative Technologies 2020. The "Innovative Technologies 2020 Special Prize" will be awarded to these six outstanding technologies. At the same time, a "sponsor award" was awarded by a company that sponsors this Innovation Technologies business and supports developers of excellent technologies. In addition, the "DCAJ Chairman's Award" will be presented by the Digital Content Association of Japan.

The Panel, New Technologies emerged in the era of "New Normal after Covid-19"more

Innovative Technologies 2020 Special Prize winners will introduce a wide range of development technologies, and make reviewing together with the selection committee members who have adopted these technologies, with reference to the symposium Communication in the era of "New Normal after Covid-19" held in advance.

A Better Future Created by Interaction
- Award Ceremony of ACM SIGGRAPH Special Prize and DCEXPO Special Prize -more

Talk session with Dr. Paul H. Dietz, SIGGRAPH 2021 Emerging Technologies Chair and Professor Susumu Tachi, Professor Emeritus of The University of Tokyo. [Simultaneous translation is provided.]
We will introduce their latest research and discuss how our future will evolve as a result of technological advances in interaction.
Award ceremonies for the SIGGRAPH and DCEXPO prizes will also be held.

Special Lecture by Professor Hiroshi Ishii of MIT Media Lab "Making Digital Tangible: The Battle Against the Pixel Empire"more

Professor Hiroshi Ishii, Associate Director of MIT Media Lab has been studying "Tangible" for many years. "Tangible" is a concept that makes digital tangible by giving physical form to digital information and computation. He is the first person in Asia to win SIGCHI LIFETIME RESEARCH AWARD that is given to a person who has made significant contributions to the academic field of human-computer interaction.

He said that today's technology becomes obsolete in a year, but true visions will last beyond 100 years.
What is "true vision"?
How do science, art and design interact to create a new vision for the future?
Professor Ishii's motto is "Be Artistic and Analytic. Be Poetic and Pragmatic."
A hint for those of us who live in today's uncertain future with COVID-19 will surely be hidden in those words and his lecture.

DCEXPO Special Session: Future of Digital Content, interacting with Neuroaesthetics 2
―The Role of Advanced Imaging in the Post-Covid Era
(Co-located with Inter BEE 2020)more

In the DCEXPO 2019 keynote speech, an important proposal was made: digital content oriented towards "humanity" through the framework of neuroaesthetics. Subsequently, the role of advanced imaging technologies and content is once again being questioned at a time when the spread of the new coronavirus has forced a global behavioral change.
In this special lecture, we will delve into further discussions on the prospects for the social significance and ideal of digital content in the post-Covid era.

SIGGRAPH2020 Computer Animation Festival Traveling Show in DCEXPO 2020 ONLINEmore

The best CG animations screened at SIGGRAPH2020 Computer Animation Festival Electronic Theater will also be shown at DCEXPO 2020 ONLINE!
This event is limited to 80 people.
Please click the button to register!