Program
25 November 2025 (Tuesday) 09:00 – 10:00: Opening
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Japan AI Safety Institute (J-AISI)
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
25 November 2025 (Tuesday) 10:00 – 12:00: AI in society and ecosystem (1) Chair: Dr. Roy Sugimura (AIST)
Ice break
Dr. Roy Sugimura (Supervisory Innovation Coordinator, AIST) Chair, Japan mirror committee, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42
World model (title: tentative)
Dr. Yasuhiro Katagiri (Director, Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC), AIST)25 November 2025 (Tuesday) 14:00 – 17:00: AI in society and ecosystem (2) Chair: Dr. Roy Sugimura (Supervisory Innovation Coordinator, AIST)
Overview of the AI International Standardization ecosystem (remote)
Mr. Wael William Diab (Chair, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42)
AI and data
Dr. Kyoung sook Kim (Deputy Director, Intelligent Platform Research Institute (IPRI), AIST) Ex-convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/WG2 (data)Editor, ISO/IEC 5259-2 (Data quality for analytics and machine learning (ML) — Part 2: Data quality measures)
Global/European AI policy/strategy (title: tentative) (remote)
Dr. Sebastian Hallensleben (Chair, CEN-CENELEC JTC21)25 November 2025 (Tuesday) 17:30 – 19:30: Banquet
Venue: the same room, self-paid (general attendees can participate)
26 November 2025 (Wednesday) 09:00 – 12:00: AI in society and ecosystem (3) Chair: Prof. Takashi Egawa (AIST / Keio-U)
Open-Source Software in AI
Mr. Jim Zemlin (Executive Director, Linux Foundation) (recorded) Mr. Noriaki Fukuyasu (VP of Japan Operations, Linux Foundation)
AI Policy and Standards – Navigating a Changing World (remote)
Mr. John Calhoon (Director of Standards Engagement, Microsoft) US Head of Delegate, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42
UK AI policy/strategy
Dr. Adam Leon Smith (Chair, AIQI consortium) Co-convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/JWG2 (joint w/ SC7 (testing))
Singapore's AI policy/strategy (title: tentative) (remote)
Mr. Benjamin Chua Senior Manager (AI Governance), Infocomm Media Development Authority, Singapore
Canada's AI policy/strategy (remote)
Mr. Olivier Blais (Co-founder and VP, Moov AI) Olivier Blais is the Co-founder and VP Artificial Intelligence of Moov AI, a Publicis Groupe company and a Canadian leader in artificial intelligence and data solutions, having led strategic AI initiatives for over 100 clients across the country.quality of AI systems, where he led a team of 50 experts from various countries. He also serves as Chair of the Canadian Mirror Committee on AI at ISO/IEC, ensuring that Canadian expertise has a strong influence on global AI governance efforts.
He is also Co-Chair of the Government of Canada’s Advisory Council on Artificial Intelligence, a strategic role aimed at shaping national decisions on the technological, ethical, and economic dimensions of AI.
Shaping the Future of Industry with AI: Korea's Policy and Strategic Direction
Prof. Dr. Young-Im Cho (Gachon Univ.) Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Gachon University, Korea. Head of Delegation (HoD) for Korea in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 on Artificial Intelligence.Project Editor (PE) of ISO/IEC 42111 and ISO/IEC 25258. Convenor of WG 5 on BCI Data within ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 43.
Chair of the Standards Subcommittee of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy's Committee for the Promotion of New AI Industries.
AI standardization in IEEE (title: tentative) (remote)
Mr. Srikanth Chandrasekaran (Sr Director, IEEE) Sri has been associated with the IEEE since 2012 focusing on developing key standardisation programs in emerging areas focusing on building end-to-end trustworthy devices and systems with emphasis on cybersecurity, identity and privacy through his practice. Sri also heads the standardization efforts for the Asia Pacific region and leads Business Operations for IEEE's office in India. Sri and his team in India also drive the IEEE Blended Learning Program (BLP) initiative, an eLearning platform, focused on bridging skills gap for students and lateral skilling of industry professionals.Prior to joining IEEE, Sri was associated with Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (formerly Motorola Inc.) for 17 years, managing a global Electronic Design Automation R&D team.
Sri received the Accellera Technical Excellence Award in 2009 for his leadership and contributions to design automation standardisation. Sri holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Madras University, India and Master's degree in Electrical Communication from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India.
26 November 2025 (Wednesday) 14:00 – 17:00: Towards trusted AI (1): limitation of human, AI, and the collaboration Chair: David Filip (Senior Director, Huawei Ireland Research Centre)
Human factors and AI (title: tentative) (remote)
Prof. Dr. Wendy Mackay (Research Director, Classe Exceptionnelle, Inria)
Collaboration of Human and AI (title: tentative) (remote)
Prof. Dr. Makoto Takahashi (Tohoku-U)
AI and Quality Management
Dr. Yutaka Oiwa (Deputy director, Intelligent Platform Research Institute (IPRI), AIST)
Is AI controllable by humans? Standards based approach
Dr. David Filip (Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/WG3 AI Trustworthiness) Senior Director of Standards and Industry Development, Huawei Ireland Research CentreDr. Filip serves as ISO/IEC JTC 1 PAS Mentor, ISO/IEC JTC 1 Systems integration facilitator, National chair, NSAI TC 02/SC 18 AI and thus Head of the Irish national delegation to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 AI & CEN-CENELEC JTC 21 AI, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 liaison to /SC 38, ISO/TC 37 and many others. He works as Senior Director of Standards and Industry Development at Huawei Technologies Ireland.
Standardization of human oversight
Prof. Takashi Egawa (Invited researcher, AIST / Keio-U) Editor, ISO/IEC 42105 (Guidance for human oversight of AI systems)
Human-machine teaming and its standardization
Dr. Yuchang Cheng (Senior Research Manager, Fujitsu Ltd.) Secretary, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/WG4 (use cases and applications)Project editor, ISO/IEC TR 24030:2021, 24030:2024 (AI -- use cases), ISO/IEC 5338 (AI system life cycle processes), ISO/IEC 25589 (framework for human-machine teaming)
AI x Conformity assessment (tentative)
Prof. Dr. Steve Kwan (Professor Emeritus, San Jose State University)27 November 2025 (Thursday) 09:00 – 12:00: Towards trusted AI (2): governance and management Chair: Prof. Yonosuke Harada (Professor Emeritus, Institute of Information Security)
AI governance in global context (title: tentative)
Prof. Dr. Tagui Ichikawa (Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi-U)
Conformance testing of AI and around (tentative)
Dr. Hiroki Takamura (JQA)
QI for AI
Dr. Adam L Smith (Chair, AIQI consortium) Co-convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/JWG2 (joint w/ JTC1/SC7 (testing))
Conformity assessment of AI systems - concepts, open questions and some answers
Ms. Martina Paul (Co-convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/JWG6 (joint w/ ISO CASCO)
Insight in the work of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/JWG6: ISO/IEC 42007 as one answer of building a framework for AI system conformity assessment schemes
Ms. Susanne Kuch (DAkkS) Project Editor of ISO/IEC 42007, High-level framework and guidance for the development of conformity assessment schemes for AI systems.Coordinator of the German joint initiative for digitalisation of the quality infrastructure "QI-Digital"
Current adoption and implementation of ISO/IEC42001
Prof. Yonosuke Harada (Professor Emeritus, Institute of Information Security) Ex-Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC42/JWG1 (joint w/ SC40 (IT governance))Project lead, ISO/IEC PWI 42114 (Guidelines for auditing of AI management system based on ISO/IEC 42001)
27 November 2025 (Thursday) 14:00 – 17:00: Future of AI and its standardization Chair: Dr. Fumihiro Maruyama (Invited Senior Researcher, AIST)
Agent
AIST's approach to AI agent (tentative)
Dr. Masahiro Hamasaki (Team Leader, Agentic AI Research Team, AI Research Center, AIST)
NEC's approach to AI agent (tentative)
Dr. Satoshi Morinaga (NEC Corporation)
From Human-Machine Teaming to Personal AI Agent (tentative)
Dr. Fumihiro Maruyama (Invited Senior Researcher, AIST) Ex-convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42/WG 4 (Use cases and applications)Ex-secretary, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Japan Mirror Committee
Special advisor on AI education, Chuo Computer & Communication College Group
Healthcare
AI in Healthcare: Future Perspective
Prof. Dr. Shusaku Tsumoto, M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Medical Informatics, Shimane University) Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC1/JWG3 (joint w/ ISO/TC215 (AI enabled health informatics))Ex-president, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
Standards for AI-enabled Healthcare (remote)
Peter Williams (Executive Director, Oracle) Co-editor, ISO/IEC TR 18988 (Application of AI technologies in health informatics)Oracle's Executive Director, Healthcare Industry for Japan and Asia-Pacific. Prior to joining Oracle, he held senior health IT executive roles in State and Federal Government.
Chair of Standards Australia's Technical Subcommittee on AI in Healthcare. Co-convenor of ISO TC215 Task Force 5 on AI in Health Informatics and a member of ISO/IEC SC42 Joint Working Group 3, AI in Healthcare.
Foundation Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
Robotics
AIST's approach to robots (tentative)
Dr. Yoshihiro Nakabo (Deputy Director, Integrated Research Center for Wellbeing, AIST)Finance
Standardization for use of AI in Financial Services (remote)
Aditya Mohan (Standards Development Manager, National Standardization body of Ireland) Aditya Mohan is Standards Development Manager at National Standardization body of Ireland and is Co-Chair of Joint Working Group 7 {between ISO SC42 (AI) and TC68 (Fin. Services)}. He represents Ireland at European AI Board in Standards WG and at GPAI (OECD). He has been active contributor to his national government's position while drafting of EU AIA and now with its implementation. He has been associated with Standardization work at ISO / SC42 and CEN / JTC21 and TC 307 committees. Aditya has worked at IBM in middleware platforms 'Lotus' and 'WebSphere' and on the AI platform 'Watson' as a Solution Architect and has Technology patents and publications.