Huei Peng, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and Director of Mcity, joins John Nunneley from Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Harsha Badarinarayan from the Detroit Research Center and Subrata Kundu from the Automotive Products Research Lab in a discussion on how autonomous vehicles drive changes in society.

Yoshua Bengio, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Montreal and Founder of Mila, a research group in the fields of deep learning and artificial intelligence, joined Yuichi Yagawa, Deputy General Manager of the Center for Technology Innovation at Hitachi Ltd., to discuss the societal impact of artificial intelligence and the collaboration between Mila and Hitachi.

Ed Mayo from Connected Places Catapult and Didier Stricker from The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, join Jim Donaldson from Hitachi Social Innovation EMEA, Massimiliano Lenardi from the Automotive and Industry Lab, Giulio Moffa from the Experience Design Lab and Nick Blake from Hitachi Europe’s Big Data Lab to discuss the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in transforming mobility.

Christopher Saldana and Nagi Gebraeel from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Jean Lau from Hitachi Vantara join Sudhanshu Gaur of the Global Center for Social Innovation – North America, to discuss the challenges and opportunities for Hitachi in collaborating with customers and academia to benefit society worldwide through industrial IoT.

James Destro, Vice President, Product Management, Hitachi Vantara, and Rajesh Devnani, Vice President, Global Solutions Management, Hitachi Consulting Corporation join Chetan Gupta, Chief Data Scientist, Global Center for Social Innovation - North America, to discuss industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and how Hitachi is collaborating with customers and partners worldwide to resolve issues facing society and organizations today.

Beverly Rider, Sr. Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer – Americas, Social Innovation Business, Brijesh Khanna, Sr. Vice President & Innovation Leader, Social Innovation Business, and Brad Surak, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, Hitachi Vantara, join Umeshwar Dayal, Global Head of the Insights Laboratory, to discuss Hitachi’s approach to digital transformation to deliver positive business and societal outcomes for Hitachi customers through collaborative creation.