5/29/2024 (WED) 12:30 ～ 13:10K1-3WJWTPKeynote Speech Venue
KDDI's Initiatives through the enhancing the power to connect.
KDDI group set forth a vision, “KDDI VISION 2030: The creation of a society in which anyone can make their dreams a reality, by enhancing the power to connect”. We aim to connect and protect lives, connect day-to-day lives, and connect hearts and minds with utilizing 5G communication as the core.
Under this vision, we have launched “Satellite Growth Strategy”, pursuing our business growth strategy in the focus areas centered on 5G. With telecommunications which is the power to connect at the center, we will make new expansions into business areas that are positioned like satellites.
In this session, we would like to share this strategy with you, and introduce our fundamental research initiatives that align with this strategy, as well as our social implementation initiatives carried out in collaboration with our partners.
KDDI CORPORATION
Advancing Technology R&D Division Advancing Business Technology Sector General Manager Tomohiro OTANI
Tomohiro Otani is a general manager of advancing technology R&D division of KDDI Corporation. He is responsible for R&D activities related with beyond 5G networking technologies, connected car, and IoT platform. Prior to that, he was an executive vice president of KDDI Research, Inc. He has also led the development of the operation supporting systems (OSS) for fixed and mobile networks as a director of Operation Support System Development Department of Operations Sector. He is a board of directors in Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC) and Intelligent Optical and Wireless Network Global Forum (IOWN GF). He has been a member of the technical programming committee of international technical conferences and was a co-chair of TPC of MPLS2007 and iPOP2017. He is one of authors of IETF RFCs (5146, 6205, 6825, 7025).