News
Innovation World Festa 2017
Students involved in organizing the event - from start to end
Innovation World Festa 2017, a large music and technology event made possible by the collaboration of the University of Tsukuba with J-WAVE, Inc., was held on June 3 (Sat). This event was held at the University of Tsukuba Hall for the first time last year, inviting famous innovators, artists and venture companies, and attracted many people.
This year, it was held at Tsukuba Capio. The fully-packed program featured several parallel talk sessions with famous innovators and public figures as presenters, and concert performances by innovative artists. In addition, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) also participated in the talk session and workshop, shared the fascination of space and the deep ocean with technology.
The Innovation World Festa also set up multiple booths to provide visitors with experience of technologies, including the operation of Big Robot, Personal Mobility, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Internet of Things (IoT). Those workshops were great opportunities for all ages to experience future technologies.
The idea for the event germinated from our students. They were involved in organizing the event from start to end, as they did last year.
On the day of the event, the students were all over the venue, in charge of stage management for talk sessions, video direction of the music performances of guest artists together with the university's Dance Club, planning of the outdoor food court, and others.
With an audience of around 3,800 people, the event closed with a huge success.
President Nagata talking at the opening ceremony
A talk session with Soichiro Tahara (political journalist) and Takafumi Horie (Founder of SNS Inc.)
A talk session with Soichiro Tahara, Yoichi Ochiai (Media Artist / Assistant Professor of the University of Tsukuba), Yusuke Nakagawa (CEO at ASOBI SYSTEM), and Toshio Tsuchiya (Nippon TV)
A talk session with Hiroo Iwata (Professor of the University of Tsukuba), Kenji Kamiyama (Screenwriter), Masahiko Tsukamoto (Professor of Masahiko Tsukamoto), and Taku Takahashi (m-flo，block.fm)
AlakaMod NahC
Innovation Festa Tech Theater
A workshop to experience 3D origami, led by Professor Jun Mitani of the Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems
University of Tsukuba Booths
Students from each laboratories have set up booths for visitors to experience the cutting-edge technologies of the University of Tsukuba. Many visitors have tried the next-generation products.
Food court
With our students as planners, 17 restaurants, mainly from Tsukuba, have gathered and provided gourmet food.