Hybrid work today has given digital workplace leaders a glimpse into the future of work tomorrow. Attendees explored the new work patterns and had a deep dive into how to enable a workplace that is innovative, inclusive, and insightful.
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Hybrid work today has given digital workplace leaders a glimpse into the future of work tomorrow. Attendees explored the new work patterns and had a deep dive into how to enable a workplace that is innovative, inclusive, and insightful.
Speakers: Michael Woodbridge, Managing Vice President
Tori Paulman, Sr Director Analyst
Speaker: Gavin Tay, VP Analyst
Speakers: Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst
Speaker: Lane Severson, Sr Director Analyst
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM JST
Michael Woodbridge, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Tori Paulman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital workplace leaders are at the forefront of a revolution in workplace technology. The shift to new ways of working has empowered employees to work virtually anywhere and the IT landscape has shifted massively to support. But where next? What will the workplace look like in five years and how will it impact DW leaders, employees and organizations? Join us for the Gartner keynote and seize this opportunity to think beyond the chaotic reality of today and rethink your strategy for the future.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM JST
Satoshi Asano, Senior Director, Digital Media GTM and Sales, Adobe KK
Improving the employee experience is essential for business expansion.
According to a survey, Japan employees feel they have too much routine tasks, 62% say companies are responsible for long working hours, and 54% want to change a company with more work efficiency tools.
Adobe offers unique solutions for document work through AI/RPA etc. with global partner network. You can see digitalization of workplace/workflow only Adobe can realize.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM JST
Tetsushi Ito, DIRECTOR, PRODUCT MARKETING, Salesforce Japan, Slack Marketing
With the increase of hybrid work styles, more companies are approaching new ways of work style. In this session, Slack, supporting the hybrid work style with the term "Digital HQ", will explain the business value created by open communication with customer use cases.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Yuko Adachi, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Many organizations’ preparations for the future of work are happening informally and fragmentedly in silos across the business. An organizationwide, unified future-of-work strategy is the most effective approach to preparing for, and shaping, the future of work. It can provide a competitive edge in the industry and labor market, accelerate action during times of disruption and enhance employee engagement. Attend this session to learn how digital workplace leaders can take a leadership role in creating a unified future of work strategy at your organization.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Gene Phifer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The digital workplace helps employees work in ways that support business capabilities. How do technology and digital dexterity enable ways of working, now and in the future? Develop a foundational understanding of what the digital workplace is, what it demands of you as leaders, and how doing it right will enable your organization's success.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Gavin Tay, VP Analyst, Gartner
The shift to hybrid work affects how organizations use AI to support well-being, prioritize digital dexterity and enable new work programs. Application leaders responsible for a digital workplace can benefit from learning how three forward-looking organizations are approaching a postpandemic future.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Tony Harvey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Organizations can outperform competitors in the battle to attract and retain digital talent by building an integrated hybrid workplace for both virtual and physical workers. Delivering on this goal will require the DWI&O team to adopt new technologies, processes and adapt the physical workplaces to meet these needs. We will cover the infrastructure changes and tools needed for this new environment.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 12:10 PM - 12:25 PM JST
Mayuko Wada, , Dreamarts Corporation
In order to digitize all the operations that exist within a company, the key is to "democratize digital" so that the frontline departments, which have a deep understanding of the business, can digitize the operations by themselves.
In this presentation, we will introduce the concept of "democratization of digital" and specific examples of using "SmartDB," a low-code/no-code development platform.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 12:10 PM - 12:25 PM JST
Tatsuki Yoshida, Executive Officer / Manager of EX Business Department, HRBrain, Inc.
EX Intelligence is an employee survey software that visualizes organizational and individual issues.
Focusing on the "experience" of each individual employee, EX Intelligence helps create an environment in which both employees and the company can continue to grow sustainably by designing the experience throughout the employee lifecycle, from hiring to retirement.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:35 PM JST
Nobuyuki Inamizu, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo,
Hybrid work, which combines office work and telework, is attracting attention in the post-Corona era. However, it is debatable how to mix office work, which promotes face-to-face communication and networking, and telework, which enables autonomous working without being confined to a specific location. This is because both are important factors for increasing creativity and productivity. In this presentation, I would like to present working styles that enhance creativity and productivity based on the results of recent research.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 01:40 PM - 02:25 PM JST
Satoshi Asano, Senior Director, Digital Media GTM and Sales, Adobe KK
While "paperless" and "remote work" are becoming popular, we often hear it is still difficult to realize "Future of Work" that we have envisioned.
In this session, JX Nippon Mining & Metals Corporation who work with Adobe to realize "Future of Work" will join us to talk about what challenges they face, what they focus on, what they struggle with, and how they have improved. QA session and interactive activities will also be provided.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 01:50 PM - 02:10 PM JST
Yoshiki Sato, Head of Google Workspace Customer Engineering Southeast Asia, Greater China, Korea, Australia and New Zealand, Google Asia Pacific
Google Workspace provides the solution which enables realtime collaboration not only at the office but also for frontline workers. Google Workspace is equipped with the basics (Cloud-base technology, devices free and advanced security) to drive this change. In this session, we will introduce the latest corporate case studies (Retail, Food & beverage, Manufacturing, etc.) and the benefits of digital utilization.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 01:50 PM - 02:10 PM JST
Hiroshi Urayama, Executive Officer, Sales & Marketing, LegalForce, Inc.
Interest in legal tech has increased sharply these days in Japan. On the other hand, technology has been used overseas to improve the efficiency of legal work since the 2000s. CLM - Contract Lifecycle Management - is currently the mainstream in the overseas legal tech market. We will introduce the latest situation of legal tech including CLM and the solutions provided by LegalForce, Inc.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 02:25 PM - 02:55 PM JST
Tapan Upmanyu, Assoc Principal Analyst, Gartner
Hybrid working is changing the way we meet and collaborate. IT leaders need to rethink how meetings are supported and ran in their organization to ensure equitable opportunity to collaborate regardless of location or device.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 02:25 PM - 02:55 PM JST
Adam Preset, VP Analyst, Gartner
Anywhere, anytime work demands new thinking about how to be resilient in the face of uncertainty. Why, how, and where organizations leverage technology to accelerate productivity will make all the difference. Your future-proof workplace will be emboldened and enabled by these essential strategies and lessons learned.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 02:25 PM - 02:55 PM JST
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
While face-to-face communication within and outside the company has long been limited by COVID-19, the use of tools such as unified communications and web conferencing, which can be used from anywhere, is expanding. In this session, we will discuss the various challenges in face-to-face communication today that continue to be explored and the technologies that can solve them.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 02:25 PM - 02:55 PM JST
Akira Umehara, Fellow / Chief Officer, IT Division, TOYOTA FINANCE CORPORATION,
In order to promote DX, we were required to make changes that were not bound by conventional wisdom, and to be agile enough to respond to rapidly changing circumstances on a daily basis. One of the challenges was to improve agility in communication for this purpose. The scope, speed, and man-hours of communication have improved as a result of the work style reforms that were implemented with the development of the digital workplace. In addition, collaboration has been activated, and individual information and findings have begun to be utilized as organizational knowledge and information, and the company is still promoting initiatives centered on mind competency.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:00 PM - 03:45 PM JST
Takanori Seki, , Slack
Coming soon!
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:10 PM - 03:30 PM JST
Shinji Koshikawa, CEO/Aggregator, Cross River Co.,Ltd
Masako Matsushita, Marketing manager, LumApps KK
Did you know that employee working hours have increased by about 14% compared to 2019 before the epidemic of Covid-19? How much does remote work or hybrid work employee engagement affect each employee's performance? In this session, We invite Mr. Koshikawa, the representative of Cross River, with all employees work remotely and have 3 days off a week to hear the secret of maximizing the work force through internal communication DX.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:10 PM - 03:30 PM JST
Daisuke Yokoyama, Head of Video Collaboration Business Japan Interim, Logicool Co Ltd.
Abstract coming soon
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Matt Cain, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
In this session, we tell a story around how an urban professional spends her day in 2030. We examine the technology supporting her day, and analyze the job skills needed to provide the services that are utilized throughout the day. The day shows how business models will be changing and how advances in AI, networking, IoT, robotics and data collection will change how we live.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Christopher Trueman, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
This session is your introduction to the metaverse — The persistent, always-on, fusion of our digital and physical worlds.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:45 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Release of Windows 11 was an unexpected event for many organizations: what kind of operating system is Windows 11 for the enterprise? This session will provide an overview of Windows 11 trends and recommendations that digital workplace professionals should be aware of, including the timing of introduction and how security will change with Windows 11.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM JST
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
Takeshi Ikeda, VP Analyst, Gartner
While face-to-face communication within and outside the company has long been limited by covid-19, the use of tools such as unified communications and web conferencing, which can be used from anywhere, is expanding. This session will answer questions from participants about what to do and how to proceed in developing a communication environment that will replace face-to-face communication in the future.
Monday, 29 August, 2022 / 03:45 PM - 04:30 PM JST
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
Akira Umehara, Fellow / Chief Officer, IT Division, TOYOTA FINANCE CORPORATION,
In this session, we will welcome Toyota Finance to discuss the challenges and real-world solutions for collaboration based on the content of their case study session.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM JST
Miyako Tanaka-Oulevey, Ph.D., Sport Psychologist /Synchronized Swimmer (1988 Seoul Olympics Duet Bronze medal) /Project associate professor, Keio University,
This seminar introduces the mental management of elite athletes that can be applied to business people, based on the stress coping theory and case studies.
Participants will learn how to "reduce stress", "deal with stress" differently for each individual, as well as how to "utilize stress" through the seminar, and learn what leaders in organizations can do from today.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 10:50 AM - 11:35 AM JST
Hiroshi Urayama, Executive Officer, Sales & Marketing, LegalForce, Inc.
Coming soon
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM JST
Yasuhiro Kawashima, Senior Manager, Sales Div. 1, WalkMe K.K.
An increasing number of companies rapidly introduce multiple new business applications now. This has, however, highlighted issues with business systems in the workplace, such as low employee satisfaction and lack of utilization. This session will introduce how a Digital Adaptation Platform help organizations analyze system adoption levels and improve user experience.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM JST
Shinji Kawaguchi, Global Black Belt | Asia, Microsoft Corporation
There is a growing need for hybrid work that combines remote and office work. However, there are many challenges to its adoption. How to achieve both security and flexibility while minimizing the impact on existing systems? In this session, we will introduce our client solutions (Azure Virtual Desktop / Windows 365) where work can be performed securely and without being restricted by location.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Remote work has continued in Japanese organizations for a long period of time, some employees have returned to the office and are now in hybrid work. Many organizations have embraced this as a matter of course, bringing with it the opportunity to fundamentally rethink the way they work in a step-advanced way. This session analyzes how to advance digital workplace transformation for the future hybrid work.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Charlie Winckless, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Zero trust is a key security initiative for many organizations, driven by vendors and governmental interest. This session will cover how zero trust initiatives will impact the hybrid workforce (and the hybrid application landscape!) and how technology solutions can support the initiative to provide a common user and security experience regardless of employee location.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Christopher Trueman, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
Traditional video conferencing and meeting solutions can fill the role of most in-person meetings, but they cannot replace the interpersonal conversations and social engagement that happen spontaneous in a physical office. That's where ambient social meeting apps step in — a new category of application that allows for persistent conversation spaces or even video game-like virtual offices!
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:05 PM JST
Koji Motoyoshi, VP Analyst, Gartner
Japanese organizations face the new challenge of taking the appropriate balance between employee engagement/monitoring. The expert will introduce useful and practical cloud applications (SaaS) for employee management in remote work based on the latest workplace transformation trend.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 11:35 AM - 12:35 PM JST
Ryuichi Tsuchiya, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The complexity of Microsoft's licensing scheme and the number of contractual options often make it difficult for IT leaders to negotiate contracts and renewals. This interactive clinic describes strategies for IT leaders to successfully negotiate such contracts, which encourage both risk reduction and value maximization.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
The times are changing drastically toward new world. After 2030, there will be enterprises that can make full use of technology as superpower and enterprises that cannot. The former may be a leader in a new era, and the latter may face a decline and a crisis of survival. In this session, we will discuss how enterprises should respond to the turbulent changes of the times.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Tori Paulman, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The acceleration of digital ways of working has been transformational. To ensure meaningful engagement continues, Digital Workplace application leaders must prevent the fatal flaw of an IT-only team. This session will help DW leaders solidify their role, build a team around them, and deliver meaningful business transformation.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Melissa Hilbert, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
"We've deployed all this technology to help our employees work from wherever, yet they're still frustrated and dissatisfied with the experience." Does this resonate with you? If so, attend this session to understand how digital adoption solutions rapidly deliver an improved user experience, while also decreasing support tickets, improving data quality, completeness, and increasing efficiency and engagement. We'll share customer stories that highlight the use cases and functional areas that can benefit from this solution as well as the metrics to track success.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Masaki Suzuki, VP Analyst, Gartner
COVID-19 and following hybrid work demands, coupled with the law amendments, have accelerated the paperless initiatives in Japan. These efforts require document management and workflow mechanisms, but so many options cause market turmoil in Japan. In this session, Gartner will discuss the measures that companies should take to proceed with the initiatives in Digital Workplace.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 12:50 PM - 01:20 PM JST
Lane Severson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The new digital transformation is radical flexibility. Digital transformation challenged entrenched process and technology for everything from taking a product to market to onboarding new employees. Enabling radical flexibility and targeting a 25-hour work week is the next market disruptor. This session shares Maverick research from Gartner and inspires you to imagine new goals and outcomes for your digital workplace.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 01:35 PM - 01:55 PM JST
Eriko Asaoka, Head of Japan Marketing, Atlassian K.K.
Thriving companies have been adapting to change, being very flexible in how they're building their workforce and infusing the digital mindset. What does it mean to be a digitally mature company and what skills do you need to have?
In this session, we’ll talk about the transformations required for companies to thrive the digital age from leadership, culture and organizations perspectives, and the technologies and practices that supports it.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 01:35 PM - 01:55 PM JST
Tsuneaki Miki, Deputy Division Director Service Product Business Division, Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
With the advent of the Internet, the economy, society, and our lives have changed dramatically as time and place no longer limit us. Now, corporate networks are at a tipping point.
In a future where digital workplaces and hybrid work will become the norm, the "norm" for corporate networks will change. In this session, we will discuss the changes that are occurring now and the possibilities that lie ahead.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Joe Mariano, Director Analyst, Gartner
The new work hub is a customer-assembled collection of team productivity components for a particular constituency, augmented with services for development, automation, and analytics. The modular nature of the new work hub lends itself to growing your composable business. In this session, IT leaders will learn how to apply the new work hub strategies to their enterprise to drive greater collaboration and productivity.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
Insider threat is one of the serious security risk that comes with enterprise digital workplace. It is more complicated to manage user and data access control. This session will cover new approach for the insider threat.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:10 PM - 02:40 PM JST
Katsuya Kokubo, Vice President /Enterprise Service Management, Enterprise Information Solutions, Global, Kao Corporation,
Provide "a pleasant and safe working environment anytime, anywhere". Even before the Corona disaster, that has been one of the key roles of the Information Systems Department. In order to provide employees with such a comfortable environment even in the midst of major changes where hybrid work styles are becoming the norm, we are driving activities such as promoting the use of collaboration tools and organizing and strengthening security measures based on the zero-trust premise. Examples of our efforts and the direction where we are aiming for will be presented, including activities in which they are exploring various options.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:45 PM - 03:30 PM JST
Coby Kobayashi, Head of Google Workspace New Business Sales, Google Cloud Japan
Digitalization of front line workers has become a challenge for many companies. In this roundtable, we will share the challenges and discuss solutions for each company, and introduce case studies of companies that use Google Workspace. The target audience is companies with a large number of employees in the retail, manufacturing, and restaurant industries, as well as companies that want to promote digitalization in the future.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM JST
Yoshinori Endo, Executive Manager, NTT DATA Corporation
In this session, we will consider what is needed to realize a workspace that diversifies work style options.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 02:55 PM - 03:15 PM JST
Hiroshi Nagasawa, senior managing director, Tec Nagasawa Co.,Ltd
Akira Uchino, Japan Marketing Lead, Asana Japan K.K.
Due to the intensive global competitiveness, companies are forced to tackle building new strategies, causing rapid change in the organization. Ironically, it might lead to obstacles in smooth communication and a productive working style. Communication strategies in the organization shouldn’t be missed. In this session, we introduce the work management platform and practical organizational strategy to contribute to the outcome.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Matt Cain, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Existing digital enablement strategies have underperformed and a new approach is needed to improve workforce digital dexterity. The key is to pair the factors that drive employee engagement -- such as autonomy, manager support, career advancement opportunities, with digital enablement strategies. The strategy results in organization-wide participation fostering a culture of workforce digital dexterity.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Helen Poitevin, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Hybrid work changes how many leaders think about employee experience, productivity and well-being. How do you know if hybrid work approaches are working? Measurement is not simple. However, strategies, data and measurement techniques will give digital workplace leaders the insights they need to drive improvements and course correct for missed targets.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM JST
Stuart Downes, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
UEM, DaaS, Modern Management, Analytics, Automation, Immersive Technologies! Making sense of the future of end-user computing and support can be difficult. As tools advance and the insights from analytics increases, how can I&O leaders translate information into action, action into automation, and still deliver compelling user experiences.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Tadaaki Mataga, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
With the arrival of the New World in 2030, companies need to acquire a new mindset. This session will provide leaders with new insights through questions to analysts about the mindset to survive in the coming era.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM JST
Kaoru Yano, Director Analyst, Gartner
Eri Hariu, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
IT Leaders are facing many security challenges such as policy management, identity and access management, data security, detection and response, security awareness, etc. This session will provide best practices and recommendations through interactive Q&A with an analyst and audience.
Tuesday, 30 August, 2022 / 04:20 PM - 04:50 PM JST
Yuko Adachi, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Traditional values and behaviors are one of the biggest roadblocks in the journey toward the Future of Work. What should leaders do to build a team that embraces changes and takes on challenges while never forgetting its respect for the past? CIOs and DW leaders will learn critical leadership skills required to lead culture and behavior changes in 2022.