A job directory of software engineers who create the future of mobility experiences 2025

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Time schedule

Speaker

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  Takeru Ito

• Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
  Manufacturing Industries Bureau Automobile Division
  Mobility DX Office Manager
  
  Joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2005. He has been in charge of promoting high-quality infrastructure export strategies, negotiating World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, environmental and energy policies toward carbon neutrality, and promoting medical DX. He studied abroad at the National Personnel Authority of Japan (USA), worked in the Asia and Pacific Region Division of the Trade Policy Bureau, the Strategic Export Office of the Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau, the Parliamentary Secretary of the Minister's Secretariat, the Global Environment Cooperation Office/Countermeasures Office of the Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, the Trade Organization Division of the Trade Policy Bureau, and the General Affairs Division of the Minister's Secretariat at the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare before assuming his present post in July 2023.

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  Hiroaki Takada

• Nagoya University
  Director and Professor, Institute for Mobility and Society
  
  M.S. in Information Science, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 1988. After working as an assistant at the University of Tokyo and an associate professor at Toyohashi University of Technology, he has been a professor at Nagoya University since 2003. His research interests include real-time OS, real-time assurance technology, automotive embedded systems/network technology, embedded system dependability, and dynamic maps. He is the leader of the TOPPERS project, which develops open-source real-time OSs and other technologies. He is a member of the Science Council of Japan, a board member of the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, and President of the Japan Society for Software Science and Technology, Chairperson of the Mobility DX Study Group. D. in Science.

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  Kunimichi Hatano​

• Honda Motor Co, Ltd.
  SDV Business Development Division
  Executive Chief Engineer
  
  He has been leading activities for the social implementation of automatic driving at Honda Motor Co. As chairman of the Automatic Driving Subcommittee of JAMA, he is involved in activities for harmonization of international standards and international standardization. He also participates in public-private partnerships to promote automated driving. Chairman of the Automated Driving AI Challenge Executive Committee.

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  Kenichi Murata

• Toyota Motor Corporation
  Fellow, Digital Software Development Center
  
  D. in Computer Science at Keio University. He joined Toyota Motor Corporation in 2008, where he was in charge of the advanced development of in-vehicle information systems. He later became the lead developer of in-vehicle multimedia, navigation, and telematics systems, and was in charge of promoting the formulation of a connected strategy. After serving as CTO of Toyota IT Development Center (now merged into Toyota Motor Corporation), he has been in his current position since 2021.

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  Toshiro Muramatsu

• Nissan Motor Co., Ltd
  Senior Manager, Electronic Architecture Development Department, Electronic Technology & System Technology Development Division
  
  After graduating from Tohoku University with a degree in Electrical and Communication Engineering, he joined Nissan Motor Co. At the Central Research Laboratory, he was engaged in research on in-vehicle radar, in-vehicle multimedia/radio interfaces, EV value creation, digital radio services, and connected cars. During this time, he spent one year in California, U.S.A. for business training and three years on secondment to Nissan Technical Center North America in Michigan, U.S.A. He has also worked at Nissan's Central Research Center (now Nissan Research Center) since 1991.
  In 2011, he was assigned to the Connected Car & Service Business Unit for planning and design, and then moved to Silicon Valley, U.S.A. for 2 years and 8 months to set up an advanced study team. From July 2019, he has been the General Manager of Connected Technology Development & Service Operation Department, and from April 2023, he has been the General Manager of Connected Car Off-Board Development & Operation Department, where he is engaged in the development and operation of cloud systems for connected cars and services, mobile APP, and cybersecurity. He has been engaged in the development and operation of cloud systems for connected cars and services, mobile APP, and cyber security.

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  Shinpei Kato

• <  Moderator   >

  Founder and CEO of Tier IV, Inc.
  The Autoware Foundation Chairman
  Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
  
  A pioneer and international expert in computer science who has advanced open source software for self-driving technology. He also works as a specially appointed associate professor at the Department of Computer Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. From 2012 to 2016, he served as an associate professor at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, where he developed the world's first self-driving open source software, Autoware. He also worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Keio University, the University of Tokyo, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of California.

Talk session

In addition to introducing the “SDV Skill Standards” being worked on in the industry, engineers at the forefront of SDV development will discuss the challenges of working in the mobility industry and the issues and concerns faced by engineers in the IT industry, using the following themes (examples)!

• What skills from the IT industry can be used in the mobility industry?
• Prospects for Career Paths in the Mobility Industry - Is There a Future There?
• What is a software engineer's job and how to work in the mobility industry?
• What do I have to do to reskill an engineer?
• Challenges and rewards for software engineers unique to the mobility industry

Hiroaki Takada

Kunimichi Hatano​

Kenichi Murata

Toshiro Muramatsu

<  Moderator  >

Shinpei Kato

Participation target

• Those interested in the automotive/MaaS field
• Software engineers who are considering getting involved in mobility-related fields.
• For students majoring in information systems/engineering

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