On December 12, I will have the honor of delivering delivered the closing keynote at the 11th FIDO Tokyo Seminar.
The title was “The Global Landscape of Digital Identity.”
241212-FIDO-01The program & speakers are listed below. Tickets are available from the official website. Please invite your friends and colleagues and join us.
Event Overview
- Date & Time: December 12 (Thursday), doors open at 12:00, program begins at 13:00
- Venue: Otemachi Place Hall & Conference, 2F Hall [Details here]
Otemachi Place (East Tower), 2-3-1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 2F - Fee: Free (advance registration required); networking reception: paid (we will collect ¥2,000, tax included, at reception and provide a receipt)
*Student discount for the networking reception: ¥1,000 (tax included) – Please present your student ID at reception. - Capacity: 400 people [registration is limited to 100 people and will close when capacity is reached].
- Target Audience: Corporate and organizational executives, corporate planning departments, business divisions, IT systems departments, university-related departments, and students
(*Simultaneous interpretation receivers will be available.)
| Start Time | End Time | Session Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Registration & Demo Viewing | |
| 13:00 | 13:05 | Welcome Address | FIDO Alliance Executive Council and Board Member; Chair, FIDO Japan WG Koichi Moriyama, Chief Security Architect, NTT DOCOMO, INC. |
| 13:05 | 13:25 | Guest Keynote: “Internet Civilization: People and the Planet” | Jun Murai, Professor, Keio University |
| 13:25 | 13:45 | Keynote: Update from the FIDO Alliance | CEO & Executive Director, FIDO Alliance Andrew Shikiar |
| 13:45 | 13:50 | The Momentum of Passkeys (Video Message) | Co-chair, FIDO2 Technical Working Group, FIDO Alliance; Christiaan Brand, Google Tim Cappalli, Senior Architect for Identity Standards, Okta |
| 13:50 | 14:05 | Google’s Latest Passkey Initiatives | Aiji, Developer Advocate, Google LLC |
| 14:05 | 14:11 | Sponsor Presentation – Authentication Innovation by Aflac & Transmit Security: Case Studies in Passkeys and Orchestration | Transmit Security Japan Co., Ltd. Solutions Engineer Hiroshi Matsumoto |
| 14:11 | 14:17 | Sponsor Presentation – Global FIDO Success Stories in Financial Services | Paul Kenny, VP of Customer Success for EMEA & APAC, Daon, Inc. |
| 14:17 | 14:46 | Break & Demo Viewing | |
| 14:46 | 15:03 | Passkey Implementation at Sony Interactive Entertainment | Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. Division S, Department 2, Section 7, Platform Systems & Experience Design Headquarters; Takahiro Ishikawa, Software Engineering Sr. Manager |
| 15:03 | 15:20 | The Future of Payment Authentication with Mastercard Passkeys | Manager, Products & Solutions, Mastercard Hikaru Kato |
| 15:20 | 15:25 | Stage Change & Break | |
| 15:25 | 16:05 | Panel Session: From Passkey Hackathon 2024 | Moderator: Aiji, Developer Advocate, Google LLC Kosuke Koiwai, ID Authentication Development Expert, KDDI CORPORATION Panelists: Keio University SFC-RG pkLock team – Takuto Honda, Keio University SKKN (Waseda University) – Ken Watanabe TOKYU ID – Hinata Tsukui, Server-side Engineer, TOKYU CORPORATION Team Nulab (Nulab) – Satoshi Suzuki, Nulab Inc. Nikkei ID – Yuya Urano, Deputy Department Manager, Nikkei Inc. |
| 16:05 | 16:22 | Expectations for FIDO Authentication Initiatives | Professor Kazue Sako, Waseda University |
| 16:22 | 16:39 | A Security-Psychology Approach to Passkey Challenges | Associate Professor Midori Inaba, Institute of Information Security |
| 16:39 | Sponsor Presentation – Single Sign-On from Windows to SaaS with Just One Smartphone Authentication at PC Startup! Introducing MagicEndpoint FIDO Passwordless Authentication Software | Hiroyuki Tanuma, Technical Director, WinMagic Japan Co., Ltd. | |
| Sponsor Presentation – Log In to YubiOn and Remote Desktop with FIDO2 Authentication (Tentative) | Mitsuru Furuya, Technical Sales Engineer, Soft Giken Co., Ltd. | ||
| Sponsor Presentation – The Future of Passkeys and Business Strategies Enabled by Nok Nok Labs | Kenji Hirai, Country Manager, Nok Nok Labs, Inc. | ||
| 16:54 | Sponsor Presentation – Making Safe, Robust Authentication the Default (Tentative) | International Systems Research Co. Raul Mendez, President & CEO | |
| 16:54 | 16:59 | Stage Change & Break | |
| 16:59 | 17:39 | Panel Session: Challenges and Benefits of Implementing FIDO Authentication, and Future Prospects2025 | FIDO Alliance Board Member and Vice Chair, FIDO Japan WG / General Manager, ID Division, LY Membership Services Headquarters, LY Corporation Yuya Ito Kensei Kubo, Manager in Charge of Security Infrastructure, First Product Design Department, Smart Life Company, NTT DOCOMO, INC. Personal Systems Headquarters, Platform Business Department, KDDI CORPORATION Hideki Sawada Foundation Product Management Div., IDP team, Mercari, Inc. Kotaro Oi |
| 17:39 | 17:54 | Passkeys and Me | Director, Identity Unit / Chief Identity Architect, Digital Agency Tatsuya Hayashi |
| 17:54 | 18:11 | Closing Keynote: The Global Landscape of Digital Identity | Natsuhiko Sakimura, Chairman, OpenID Foundation |
| 18:11 | 18:16 | Closing Remarks | FIDO Alliance Board Member Koichi Moriyama |
| 18:16 | 19:16 | Networking Reception / Demo Viewing |
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