1. Overview

Various forerunners co-create the coming Universal Century and sustainable society.

As the 4th one of the series of WARP STATION, we are having 2 days-conference named "WARP STATION Conference Vol.1" with "Diversity & Inclusion" as a key-concept. We invite a various types of leaders from several industries, such as Human Rights and Cyber Security. Not just thinking about the future which is described through SDGs, Society 5.0, we shall co-create the Cross-Cutting Knowledge Laboratory through the discussion.

2. Overview

◇Session Overview：The language of DAY1 is Japanese only. DAY2 is English only. If you are interested in the contents of DAY1, please register from this link. （You can register from this link.)

◇Date
　・DAY1：
　　Oct. 7th 20:00-25:30 PST
　　Oct. 8th 00:00-05:30 EDT
　　Oct. 8th 06:00-11:30 CEST
　　Oct. 8th 13:00-18:30 JST

・DAY2：
　　PST：Oct 8th, 2021　17:00-20:30
　　EDT：Oct 8th 2021　21:00-24:30
　　JST：Oct 9th, 2021　10:00-13:30

◇Location
　・DAY1：CIC Tokyo
　　　〒105-0001 1-17-1. Toranomon Minatoku, Tokyo.

　・DAY2：Live stream（Zoom）

3. Timetable（Based on EDT）

• 21:00-21:15：Opening Remark
• 21:20-22:10：Session1「Human Rights × Satellite Data」
  ◇Speaker
  　　Andrew D'Uva：President of Providence Access Company
  　　Krystal Azelton：Director of Space Applications Programs at Secure World Foundation
     　Hirokazu Mori：CSO of WARPSPACE Inc
     　Facilitator：Akiko Kitahara, CFO of WARPSPACE

• 22:10-22:25：Break&Network
  
• 22:25-23:20：Session2「Cyber Security × Satellite Data」
  
  ◇Speaker
  　　Cartan McLaughlin：CEO of Nihon Cyber Defense Co., Ltd.
  　　Victoria Samson：Washington Office Director for Secure World Foundation
  　　Toshio Nawa：Specialist on Cyber Security
  　　Facilitator：Hiromitsu Azuma, General Manager of WARPSPACE

• 23:25-23:35：Closing Remark
• 23:35-24:30：Online NetWorking

4. Speakers

◇Session 1
・Andrew D'Uva：President of Providence Access Company
He is President of Providence Access Company, a government affairs, technology, and satellite consultancy. He has supported international commercial satellite and telecommunications businesses on the regulatory, policy, legal, operational and business fronts for more than two decades, with a present emphasis on government services in support of national security missions. His satellite clients have included key communication satellites owner-operators (including Airbus, Amos, Eutelsat, Hispasat, Intelsat, Inmarsat, O3b Networks, Thuraya, SES, and XTAR), trade organizations such as the Space Data Association Ltd. (SDA), to which he is an advisor, and U.S. Federal agencies.

・Krystal Azelton：Director of Space Applications Programs at Secure World Foundation

She has over 10 years of international and domestic space, public policy, and management experience. She has also served as a project manager at the Tauri Group, a leading aerospace analytics firm, providing research, analysis, strategic planning, and regulatory assessment to government and commercial clients. She led and supported production of NASA’s strategic plans, audits, performance plans, budgets, and annual reports. Her work exposed to the full range of NASA’s Earth observation, human exploration, and aviation programs. In that role, she was also recognized as a key member of a data management team that received the NASA Group Achievement Award.

・Hirokazu Mori：CSO of WARPSPACE

CSO of WARPSPACE. He entered the University of Edinburgh directly from the 2nd year, and read Theoretical astrophysics and graduated from the top. He has experience in theoretical cosmology research (gravitational waves and modified gravitational theory). After returning to Japan, he works as a business consultant at a major domestic business consulting firm in Japan, consulting on the theme of new business creation, business strategy of the space sector, and global DX strategy.
His hobbies include wreck / underwater cave diving, airplane piloting, piano performance, art, and astrophysics. He hopes to go to the moon as an astronaut.


・Moderator：Akiko Kitahara :CFO of WARPSPACE

She is an experienced finance experts with demonstrated history of working in banking industry. Formerly worked for Corporate Investment Banking Division of US and French banking group. Just before joining WARPSPACE, she was Executive Director of Credit Agricole CIB. She has contributed to business development and SDGs promotion including establishment of Women's Initiative Network within the group. Besides, she promotes SDGs to institutions, schools, and individuals. Graduated Aoyama Gakuin University in 1991.

◇Session 2
・Cartan McLaughlin：CEO of Nihon Cyber Defense Co., Ltd.

He has worked for 27 years based from Japan in the Financial Technology Sector. He has worked with all of Japan’s Financial groups both in Head office and their International Branches. He has a strong background in Security technology and pioneered security surrounding SWIFT and International payments systems. He developed around the first TCP/IP stack on the IBM AS400 and has a strong background on networks and security. He is currently the founder and CEO of Nihon Cyber Defence bringing US and UK skilled government assets to the Cyber arena in Japan/Asia and Japanese institutions Internationally. He has enlisted decades of expertise and experience in the cyber and defence arena through his globally recognized team.

・Victoria Samson：Washington Office Director for Secure World Foundation

She has over twenty years of experience in military space and security issues. Before joining SWF, Ms. Samson served as a Senior Analyst for the Center for Defense Information (CDI), where she conducted analysis and media commentary on space and security topics. Prior to her time at CDI, Ms. Samson was the Senior Policy Associate at the Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers, a consortium of arms control groups in the Washington, D.C. area, where she worked on issues dealing with national missile defense and nuclear weapons reductions. Before that, she was a researcher at Riverside Research Institute, where she worked on war-gaming scenarios for the Missile Defense Agency's Directorate of Intelligence.

・Toshio Nawa：Specialist on Cyber Security

After engaged in CIC (Combat Information Center) operations for destroyer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force, he became a program executive in the Air Self-Defense Force. He was in charge of credibility encryption / communication operations, communication coordinatior between the U.S. Air Force in Japan, and security operations such as air defense command systems. Then, he joined the Cyber Defense Institute after the JPCERT Coordination Center. He provides support services as a domestic leader in CSIRT development and cyber exercises utilizing his experience and achievements in incident handling. Currently strengthening his cyber intelligence and active defense activities.

・Moderator：Hiromitsu Azuma :General Manager of WARPSPACE

He is an embedded engineer, telecommunication, and cloud application engineer, and also an entrepreneur. He founded two companies in Osaka and Tokyo which are IT solution service vendors, and grew those businesses. Recently he joined a deep-tech company which provided cybersecurity service, worked on technical development and also business development. This is why he is a project manager of WarpHub InterSat and manages all staff of this project.

5. Current Condition of Space Industry

In recent years, space industry is rapidly expanding centering on the earth observation market using LEO satellites. Space development used to be limited to the national projects, but technological advances enable public sectors and University projects to develop the smaller and cheaper satellites. Now, satellite development can be a hobby. The key driver behind such rapid expansion of space industry is earth observation market, which acquires and utilizes various data of the Earth seem from space.

The range of industries to which the earth observation market can contribute is the primary sector (more sustainable agriculture and fishery), monitoring buildings, financial sectors, climate change, disaster management, etc. These are the essential industries to accelerate the activities related to SDGs and ESG, and thus space development is not just field of the dream, but can be a realistic solution for the social problems.

It’s been a long time since people call space development led by private sectors “New Space” though, it is also true that space industry is just dawn. Yet, investment in space industry hits record in 2020 and study reports that growth of market will keep rapid expansion for next decades.

Then, the question is "why will the exponential growth of market keep going on despite the pandemic around the globe?".
It is because that people have a high expectation as a potential solution to the global social issues, such as global warming, povety, cyber attach, etc. Through the sessions, we are going to explore the solutions in order to realize the future vision (after post-COVID19) described in SDGs or Society5.0 centering on the "issue-driven discussion".

【Organizer】WARPSPACE Inc.
Established in 2016. We have launched three communication satellites, including the predecessor university satellite project. We work on the commercialization of the world's first inter-satellite optical communication network, with strengths in partnership with research institutes such as JAXA and abundant experimental and test facilities owned by Tsukuba Science City, in addition to high expertise in space and artificial satellites.

◇Company profile
Established: August 3, 2016 Location: 2-5-1-203 Azuma, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture
Official homepage: https://warpspace.jp/

◇Business:
・Communication infrastructure business for low earth orbit satellites
・Small satellite module development business

◇Major shareholders:
・ Space Frontier Fund
・ Mitsubishi UFJ Capital
・ SMBC Venture Capital
・ Nobuyuki Idei (former Sony Chairman)
・ Yuka Tanimoto (Forbes Japan Web Editor-in-Chief)
・ Keisuke Honda (professional soccer player) and others