17 October 2024, Tokyo, Japan 

The 2nd EBC Digital Automotive Summit will bring together industry, policy and advocacy leaders of the Japanese and European Automotive Industry. Expanding and building on speakers’ keynotes, the event will discuss the industry’s future against the backdrop of an accelerated pace of digitalization and increasingly feeble markets. Viewed through a Japanese-European prism, the event will be focusing on the disruptive forces of innovation generally, and Gen AI, specifically. AI, data policies and cybersecurity are important cooperation topics in the EU-Japan Digital Partnership – a partnership for innovation & industry and digital future.

Expected speakers: Jean-Eric Paquet, Ambassador of the European Union to Japan; Ludger Trockel, CSO, TDK Corp; Ko Miyoshi, CMO, Tier IV; Peter Fatelnig, Minister-Counsellor, EU Delegation to Japan; Kai Bartlmae, CFO, Daimler Financial Services; Takuya Kuda, Partner Quantum Black, McKinsey & Company; Koichiro Takahara, CEO, NearMe.

Source: European Business Council in Japan