Program and Featured Speakers
Featured Speakers
Yozo Yokota
ABMC/ACPEL Keynote Speaker
Jerry Platt
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker
Peter Gardiner
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Featured Speaker
Peter Gardiner is a Director of the Department of International Relations and Licenses for the Bridgestone Corporation, and a Japanese resident of nearly thirty years. Following qualification as a Chartered Accountant in his native Scotland, he first moved to Tokyo in 1985 to study Japanese language and culture, as well as the martial art, Aikido.
After a brief return to the UK working for Deloitte in London to promote Japanese investment into Britain, the role was expanded with the setting up of a specialized unit in the Tokyo offices of Deloitte Japan, to provide mergers and acquisition advice to major Japanese corporations expanding overseas, and to American and European corporations making investments in Japan. In his current role, as a Director in the Department of International Relations and Licenses at Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, his department is involved with all major strategic investments and divestitures made by the company on a global basis.
Edward Yagi
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Featured Speaker
Edward Yagi is full professor at the Nanzan University Graduate School of Business Administration in Nagoya, Japan. His primary areas of research and teaching are international personnel management and international marketing, and he is currently writing a book about large organizations and organizational dysfunction.
Professor Yagi is now on his fourth career, having first served in the US Military, before then becoming a marketing manager with U.S. and Japanese multinationals in both the U.S. and Japan, and subsequently joining the US Foreign Service, from which he retired to become a professor in 2011.
He was a flight officer in the U.S. Navy, serving two deployments during the 1980’s Iran-Iraq conflict, as well as in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Decorated by the governments of both Japan and the U.S., he retired from the U.S. Navy in 1999 with more than twenty years of combined student officer, active duty, and reserve service.
In the Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Yagi supported U.S. commercial interests and advanced U.S. strategic and policy objectives worldwide, serving at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan as Commercial Attaché (1993-2000), at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt as Deputy Senior Commercial Officer (2000-2004), at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya as Senior Commercial Officer and Counselor for Commercial Affairs (2004-2007), and at the U.S. Consulate in Nagoya, Japan as Commercial Consul (2007-2011).
Professor Yagi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, the International Program of the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, and in 1990 was the first non-Japanese to graduate with an MBA from the Keio Business School.
He is an active pilot in both the U.S. and Japan and has extensive experience with Japan’s Nagoya-based aviation and aerospace industry. His hobbies include mountain climbing, flying, skydiving, and driving his BMW Z3 convertible.
Conference Registration and Information Desk
The Registration and Information Desk will be open from 15:00-18:00 on Thursday afternoon, and from 8:00-18:00 on Friday and Saturday, and from 8:30-18:00 on Sunday.
Presentation Schedule
Parallel panels are organized into thematic streams and run on Saturday and Sunday. The plenary session will be on Friday morning.
Yozo Yokota
ABMC/ACPEL Keynote Speaker
Professor Yozo Yokota is an internationally renowned jurist and diplomat. He is currently President of the Japanese Center for Human Rights Affairs, Special
Adviser to the Japanese Ministry of Justice, Chairman of the
International Labor Organization Committee of Experts, Special Adviser
to the Rector of the United National University, and a Commissioner of
the International Commission of Jurists.
Professor Yokota started his career as Legal Counsel to the World Bank in Washington before holding professorships in International Law at International Christian University (Tokyo), International Economic Law at the University of Tokyo, and Law at Chuo University. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and the Law schools of the universities of Michigan and Columbia. An internationally respected proponent of human rights, he has extensively advised the United Nations, serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar between 1992 and 1996.
Professor Yokota started his career as Legal Counsel to the World Bank in Washington before holding professorships in International Law at International Christian University (Tokyo), International Economic Law at the University of Tokyo, and Law at Chuo University. He has also held visiting professorships at the University of Adelaide in Australia, and the Law schools of the universities of Michigan and Columbia. An internationally respected proponent of human rights, he has extensively advised the United Nations, serving as the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar between 1992 and 1996.
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Conference Co-Chair and Featured Speaker
Dr. Platt is Professor Emeritus at San Francisco State University, and Vice-Chair of the International Academic Forum's IAB.
His interests span business, technology and public policy. Jerry previously served as dean at two American business schools. He spent most of his academic career at San Francisco State University, in their AACSB-accredited College of Business that enrolls more than 6,000 students from more than 70 countries. He started as a part-time lecturer one night a week while working in industry, became a fulltime Professor of Finance, and rose through the ranks to become the first internal selection as Dean of the College. Later, Jerry moved to Southern California to accept appointment to the initial Senecal endowed chair and School of Business deanship at the University of Redlands. Balancing industry with academic interests, Jerry also served as head of financial analysis for a Bay Area Fortune 500 company, and as CEO of an aviation firm. He has been Principal Investigator on more than twenty U.S. federal research grants.
Dr. Platt received a B.S. cum laude at Michigan State University, an MBA from Wayne State University, an M.S. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University, and an M.S. in Statistical Computing from Stanford University. He was granted the first Ph.D. degree from what is now the John Glenn Graduate School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
His interests span business, technology and public policy. Jerry previously served as dean at two American business schools. He spent most of his academic career at San Francisco State University, in their AACSB-accredited College of Business that enrolls more than 6,000 students from more than 70 countries. He started as a part-time lecturer one night a week while working in industry, became a fulltime Professor of Finance, and rose through the ranks to become the first internal selection as Dean of the College. Later, Jerry moved to Southern California to accept appointment to the initial Senecal endowed chair and School of Business deanship at the University of Redlands. Balancing industry with academic interests, Jerry also served as head of financial analysis for a Bay Area Fortune 500 company, and as CEO of an aviation firm. He has been Principal Investigator on more than twenty U.S. federal research grants.
Dr. Platt received a B.S. cum laude at Michigan State University, an MBA from Wayne State University, an M.S. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University, and an M.S. in Statistical Computing from Stanford University. He was granted the first Ph.D. degree from what is now the John Glenn Graduate School of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.
Peter Gardiner
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Featured Speaker
Peter Gardiner is a Director of the Department of International Relations and Licenses for the Bridgestone Corporation, and a Japanese resident of nearly thirty years. Following qualification as a Chartered Accountant in his native Scotland, he first moved to Tokyo in 1985 to study Japanese language and culture, as well as the martial art, Aikido.
After a brief return to the UK working for Deloitte in London to promote Japanese investment into Britain, the role was expanded with the setting up of a specialized unit in the Tokyo offices of Deloitte Japan, to provide mergers and acquisition advice to major Japanese corporations expanding overseas, and to American and European corporations making investments in Japan. In his current role, as a Director in the Department of International Relations and Licenses at Bridgestone Corporation, Tokyo, his department is involved with all major strategic investments and divestitures made by the company on a global basis.
Edward Yagi
ABMC/ACPEL 2013 Featured Speaker
Edward Yagi is full professor at the Nanzan University Graduate School of Business Administration in Nagoya, Japan. His primary areas of research and teaching are international personnel management and international marketing, and he is currently writing a book about large organizations and organizational dysfunction.
Professor Yagi is now on his fourth career, having first served in the US Military, before then becoming a marketing manager with U.S. and Japanese multinationals in both the U.S. and Japan, and subsequently joining the US Foreign Service, from which he retired to become a professor in 2011.
He was a flight officer in the U.S. Navy, serving two deployments during the 1980’s Iran-Iraq conflict, as well as in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Decorated by the governments of both Japan and the U.S., he retired from the U.S. Navy in 1999 with more than twenty years of combined student officer, active duty, and reserve service.
In the Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Yagi supported U.S. commercial interests and advanced U.S. strategic and policy objectives worldwide, serving at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo, Japan as Commercial Attaché (1993-2000), at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt as Deputy Senior Commercial Officer (2000-2004), at the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya as Senior Commercial Officer and Counselor for Commercial Affairs (2004-2007), and at the U.S. Consulate in Nagoya, Japan as Commercial Consul (2007-2011).
Professor Yagi is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, the International Program of the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden, and in 1990 was the first non-Japanese to graduate with an MBA from the Keio Business School.
He is an active pilot in both the U.S. and Japan and has extensive experience with Japan’s Nagoya-based aviation and aerospace industry. His hobbies include mountain climbing, flying, skydiving, and driving his BMW Z3 convertible.
Conference Registration and Information Desk
The Registration and Information Desk will be open from 15:00-18:00 on Thursday afternoon, and from 8:00-18:00 on Friday and Saturday, and from 8:30-18:00 on Sunday.
Presentation Schedule
Parallel panels are organized into thematic streams and run on Saturday and Sunday. The plenary session will be on Friday morning.
***Please note that this schedule may be subject to change***
Programme
Thursday November 21
Optional Pre-Conference Tour of Osaka (See Registration page for details)
Thursday Registration: 15:00-18:00
Thursday Welcome Reception: 18:00-19:30
Friday November 22
Friday Plenary Session: 9:00-12:00
Friday Featured Speaker Session: 13:00-14:00
Friday Workshop Session: 14:30-18:00:
"Data Science for Luddites: An IAFOR Workshop"
WHO were/are the Luddites?
On the cusp of the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago, a group of textile artisans in Leicestershire actively opposed machines that clearly provided labor-saving work efficiency, fearing rather than embracing progress. For our purposes, a “Luddite” is any IAFOR attendee who fears getting their hands dirty while playing in a data sandbox, fears letting go of their spreadsheet security blanket, or fears the movement from tightly-controlled commercial products to open-source software.
WHAT is Data Science for our purposes?
“Data Science” is the integration of clear thinking, statistical reasoning, and modern technology with content domain expertise to examine data of interest. The intended result is to uncover patterns, discern meaningful links and relationships, and generate data visualizations in support of a compelling story.
How Can I Join the Workshop?
There are no prerequisites to the Workshop, other than bringing your own laptop, and it is being offered as part of the conference registration.
Participants who attend the Workshop and engage with its content will:
Better understand the limitations and perils of spreadsheets for data analysis, Learn of the many advantages possible through open-source alternatives, Gain entry-level competence working with “R”, a free open-source program, and Benefit from exposure to the many advantages of working in “R”, including: Using “R” as the world’s most advanced calculator, Gaining insights and developing an intuition for regression analysis, Systematically incorporating new information to update beliefs, Transforming numbers or words into riveting graphs and visual displays, Easy implementation of powerful tools and techniques for data mining, Access to about 5,000 packages and content domain applications written in “R”
About the presenters
The Workshop presenters are Jerry Platt and Bryce Platt. Jerry is a professor at Akita International University (AIU) in Japan, and Vice Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. He earned a post-doctoral degree in Statistical Computing at Stanford University, and previously served as dean at two U.S. business schools. His son Bryce is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, has recently completed a graduate degree in Global Communications at AIU, and for several years has served as a program developer for Apple and Google, and is Technology and Communities Coordinator at IAFOR.
Friday Conference Dinner: 18:30-22:00 (ticketed and optional)
Saturday November 23
Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:00
Saturday Featured Speaker Session: 16:15-17:45
Sunday November 24
Sunday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:00
Sunday Closing Session: 16:45-17:00
Monday November 25:
Optional Post-Conference Tour of Kyoto (See Registration page for details)
Thursday November 21
Optional Pre-Conference Tour of Osaka (See Registration page for details)
Thursday Registration: 15:00-18:00
Thursday Welcome Reception: 18:00-19:30
Friday November 22
Friday Plenary Session: 9:00-12:00
Friday Featured Speaker Session: 13:00-14:00
Friday Workshop Session: 14:30-18:00:
"Data Science for Luddites: An IAFOR Workshop"
WHO were/are the Luddites?
On the cusp of the Industrial Revolution 200 years ago, a group of textile artisans in Leicestershire actively opposed machines that clearly provided labor-saving work efficiency, fearing rather than embracing progress. For our purposes, a “Luddite” is any IAFOR attendee who fears getting their hands dirty while playing in a data sandbox, fears letting go of their spreadsheet security blanket, or fears the movement from tightly-controlled commercial products to open-source software.
WHAT is Data Science for our purposes?
“Data Science” is the integration of clear thinking, statistical reasoning, and modern technology with content domain expertise to examine data of interest. The intended result is to uncover patterns, discern meaningful links and relationships, and generate data visualizations in support of a compelling story.
How Can I Join the Workshop?
There are no prerequisites to the Workshop, other than bringing your own laptop, and it is being offered as part of the conference registration.
Participants who attend the Workshop and engage with its content will:
Better understand the limitations and perils of spreadsheets for data analysis, Learn of the many advantages possible through open-source alternatives, Gain entry-level competence working with “R”, a free open-source program, and Benefit from exposure to the many advantages of working in “R”, including: Using “R” as the world’s most advanced calculator, Gaining insights and developing an intuition for regression analysis, Systematically incorporating new information to update beliefs, Transforming numbers or words into riveting graphs and visual displays, Easy implementation of powerful tools and techniques for data mining, Access to about 5,000 packages and content domain applications written in “R”
About the presenters
The Workshop presenters are Jerry Platt and Bryce Platt. Jerry is a professor at Akita International University (AIU) in Japan, and Vice Chair of the IAFOR International Advisory Board. He earned a post-doctoral degree in Statistical Computing at Stanford University, and previously served as dean at two U.S. business schools. His son Bryce is a graduate of Gustavus Adolphus College, has recently completed a graduate degree in Global Communications at AIU, and for several years has served as a program developer for Apple and Google, and is Technology and Communities Coordinator at IAFOR.
Friday Conference Dinner: 18:30-22:00 (ticketed and optional)
Saturday November 23
Saturday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:00
Saturday Featured Speaker Session: 16:15-17:45
Sunday November 24
Sunday Parallel Sessions: (1) 9:00-10:30, (2) 10:45-12:15, (3) 13:15-14:45, (4) 15:00-16:00
Sunday Closing Session: 16:45-17:00
Monday November 25:
Optional Post-Conference Tour of Kyoto (See Registration page for details)
21-24 November Osaka, Japan
