Webinar: Envisioning a future EU-Japan Digital Partnership #EUJapanCooperation

Thursday, 17th February 2022, from 09:30 to 13:20 h. CET (UTC+1) | from 17:30 to 21:20 h. JST (UTC+9) Webinar ‘Envisioning a future EU-Japan Digital Partnership: A stepping stone towards greater influence in the digital transition?’ Thinking about the content and reach of a future EU-Japan Digital Partnership calls for a multi-stakeholder approach, gathering perspectives from government officials, business representatives, and academic experts. This would allow to define practical areas and modalities of digital cooperation, explore multilateral or trilateral cooperation prospects with other like-minded partners, and asses their implications for the EU’s and Japan’s technological development, their weight in the digital economy, and their capacity to frame the global digital governance. It will also help identify the challenges ahead, including how to coordinate technological innovation, the applicability of normative principles to the digital sphere, and the limits of their normative influence. . Programme / participants: 09:30 CET / 17:30 JST Welcoming words 🗣 José Juan Ruiz, Chairman, Elcano Royal Institute | @ElcanoJjRuiz 🗣 Kenji Hiramatsu, Ambassador of Japan to Spain | @JapanEmb_Spain 09:45 CET / 17:45 JST Keynote speech on the geostrategic importance of digitalization 🗣 Jun Murai, Dean, Distinguished Professor, Keio University 10:00 CET / 18:00 JST Session 1: Materializing common visions: Technological and normative benefits. Chair 🗣 Mario Esteban, Senior Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute | @wizma9 Speakers: 🗣 Akiko Fukushima, Senior Fellow, Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research | @tokyofoundation 🗣 Raül Blanco Díaz, General Secretary of Industry and SMEs, Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism of Spain | @IndustriaGob 🗣 Bruno Gencarelli, Head of Unit International Data Flows and Protection DG Justice, European Commission | @BrunoGencarelli 🗣 Andrés Ortega, Senior Research Fellow, Elcano Royal Institute @andresortegak 11:30 CET / 19:30 JST Break 11:50 CET / 19:50 JST Session 2: Shaping global digital governance: multilateralism and third-party cooperation Chair 🗣 Miguel Otero Iglesias, Senior Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute| @miotei Speakers: 🗣 Raquel Jorge, Analyst, Elcano Royal Institute | @RaquelJorgeR 🗣 Mira Burri, Professor, University of Lucerne | @miraburri 🗣 Kenichi Nakashima, Professor, Waseda University 🗣 Salvador Álvarez Pascual, Managing Director, Grupo Oesía-Tecnobit | @grupo_oesia Further information: https://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/e...