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December 5, 2023: Avatar pilot license test

August 7, 2023: A demonstration experiment will be conducted on Starlink operation in mountainous areas in Totsukawa Village, Nara Prefecture.
July 29, 2023: The 1st Avatar Driving Experience Session will be held at Keihanna Plaza Middle Conference Room (Volga).

July 28, 2023: The 2nd Avatar Driving Experience Session will be held in the Keihanna Plaza Middle Conference Room (Volga).
July 28, 2023: A workshop for children titled “Let’s make an avatar” will be held at the International Institute for Advanced Study.

June 5, 2023: Poster exhibition at the general meeting of the Keihanna Information and Communication Open Lab Research Promotion Council.
May 17, 2023: At the 24th Management and Research Subcommittee of the Keihanna Information and Communication Open Lab Research Promotion Council, a seminar for children entitled “Let’s make an avatar,” the “Preparation Working Group for Implementation of a Safe and Secure Avatar Competition Using Remotely Operated Robots” He was promoted to the Working Group for the Implementation of Safe and Secure Avatar Competitions Using Model Robots.

April 29, 2023: An avatar experience demo using temi will be exhibited at Maker Faire Kyoto 2023.
April 21, 2023: Avatar pilot training
March 24, 2023: We were accepted as a special member by the Keihanna Information and Communication Open Lab Research Promotion Council.

February 28, 2023: The first general meeting of the Keihanna Avatar Challenge was held, and the 2022 business report and 2023 business plan were approved.
February 20, 2023: The first Keihanna Avatar Challenge board meeting was held.

January 29, 2023: We applied to the Keihanna Information and Communication Open Lab Research Promotion Council WG activation proposal call, and the “Preparation Working Group for Implementation of a Safe and Secure Avatar Competition Using Remotely Operated Robots” was established under the “Planning and Public Relations Subcommittee.”
January 27, 2023: Technical Reports

January 27, 2023: Avatar Challenge Cup
December 8, 2022: The 3rd Keihanna Expo Seminar was held on December 8th (Thursday) from 18:00 to 20:00 at Keihanna Plaza Lab Building 11th floor “Milky Way +”, so I would like to discuss the current situation.

November 26, 2022: Handing out flyers for next year’s Avatar Challenge at the 50th anniversary celebration of Heijo and Soraku New Town.
November 20, 2022: At the Seika Festival in Seika Town, we handed out flyers for next year’s Avatar Challenge and conducted a mobile phone network characteristics test.

October 27, 2022: The Keihanna Expo Preparation Committee will be held at Keihanna Plaza in Seika Town.
October 12, 2022: At the 2nd plenary meeting of Seika Town’s “Seika Festival Executive Committee” (15:30 @ Council room on the 6th floor of the Seika Town Hall Building, the chairman is Tadashi Sugiura, Mayor of Seika Town), the 2023 “Seika Festival” was held. Announced that they are considering a pre-tournament.

October 1, 2022: The Keihanna Avatar Challenge Office, a specified non-profit organization, is located within the International Telecommunication Technology Research Institute (ATR), 2-2-2 Hikarudai, Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0288 (Keihanna Science City). Officially installed.
September 28, 2022: Inauguration ceremony of the Keihanna Avatar Challenge, a specified non-profit organization.

July 22, 2022: Registration of Keihanna Avatar Challenge, a specified non-profit organization, has been completed.
Keihanna Avatar Challenge Launch Ceremony
June 17, 2022: General meeting for the establishment of Keihanna Avatar Challenge, a specified non-profit organization. Chairman (Toru Asami), Vice Chairman (3 people, Masanaga Nakagawa, Yasuhiro Araki, Yoshihisa Tajiri), Directors (5 people), Secretary (1 person).

March 17, 2022: The plan is to organize the “Keihanna Avatar Challenge” as an NPO and run the avatar competition.
March 14, 2022: Participants agreed on three ways of thinking about wide-area collaboration (cooperation as Keihanna Science City, collaboration with Expo, and collaboration with wide-area related organizations), and six types of units for the “preparatory committee” to be launched in July. Details of event costs will be discussed by the Preparation Committee, not the Expo Working Group. At the next working group meeting in April, the secretariat will present a summary of the “basic concept” and hold a final discussion.

February 14, 2022: At the 3rd Expo WG, we summarized the theme as “Keihanna Academy City where you can experience the future” as proposed by the secretariat. We shared the implementation status of the Kyoto Regional Creation Fund application from citizen teams. Each project created an executive committee. It was agreed that the project would be implemented as a PLL Co-Creation Challenge theme project.The implementation plan year is 2024, and the period is September 12-28, 2025.
January 5, 2022: At the Seika Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s New Year’s Greeting Party, he talked about the “Keihanna Avatar Challenge” concept and gained many supporters. Since then, we have repeatedly explained to the government, including Mayor Seika and Mayor Kizugawa, educational and research institutions such as Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Nara Women’s University, and companies such as Kyocera along Seika Boulevard, and by March, we had obtained 63 supporters. At the same time, we will negotiate with NTT Docomo and KDDI and collect information on 5G services.

December 27, 2021: We proposed the “Keihanna Avatar Challenge” concept to Tajiri, chairman of the Seika Town Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and invited supporters to join us.
December 24, 2021: Yasuhiro Araki, president of Keihanna Co., Ltd., and Masanaga Nakagawa, Kyoto Prefecture’s Keihanna Gakken, have proposed the “Keihanna Avatar Challenge” concept, which involves switching the remote control target from drones to avatar robots that have the potential for technological implementation, and holding an avatar sports day on Seika Boulevard. After coordinating the proposal with city councilors and proposing it to Kyoto Prefecture Vice Governor Akimasa Yamashita, the proposal was approved, and the project will now begin gathering supporters to set up an executive organization.

December 22, 2021: At the 2nd Expo Working Group, it was reported that the idea of creating a “cyber-physical game using ultra-low latency video” was “abandoned as it turned out to be technically difficult.”
November 11, 2021: 2nd Innovation Promotion Council.

September 9, 2021

1st Innovation Promotion Council.

May 21, 2021

At the 5th general meeting (held in writing) of the Keihanna Science City “New City Creation Council”, the following five years will be
ⅰ) Leading the “experimental site of future society” for the Osaka/Kansai Expo (smart city, DX, deregulation, etc.)
ii) Promoting further innovation by strengthening “industry-academia-government proximity”
ⅲ) Startup support (cooperation with domestic and overseas base cities, etc.) We have decided to make this a priority development direction.

3/29 The following policy of the executive committee was approved. Within the new City Creation Council, there will be an “Innovation Promotion Subcommittee” that will consider promotion measures and problem-solving solutions for the formation of “a world-class R&D-type open innovation center” and will promote R&D and make policy recommendations. and three working groups will be established.

-1. New Project/Global Collaboration/Startup Support WG
-2. Data Utilization WG
-3. Research and Development Promotion WG (commonly known as Expo WG)

In addition to proposing a “Keihanna-based Osaka-Kansai Expo Study Group,” we aim to implement cutting-edge technologies from Keihanna and promote exchanges between industry, academia, and government, including those in the surrounding area, and consider measures to realize ideas. We will consider ideas for experiencing the Keihanna Science City in collaboration with the Expo, such as showing future life in Keihanna.

March 29, 2021: At the “Secretary Meeting” (web) of the “New City Creation Council”, Kankeiren Director Nojima will be the chairman of the “Innovation Promotion Subcommittee”, and “Three Working Groups” will be established as subordinate organizations of this subcommittee. Approved to start working group activities from 1st of this month. The “Expo WG” of the “Innovation Promotion Subcommittee” has started.
January 29, 2021: “TEAM EXPO 2025” program co-creation partner registration (Keihannade Osaka/Kansai Expo Thinking Group).

June 12, 2020: The Keihanna Osaka/Kansai Expo Study Group proposed 15 plans to the International Exposition Association.
May 28, 2020: 4th general meeting of the “New City Creation Council”.
The “Innovation Promotion Council” was reorganized into the “Innovation Promotion Subcommittee.”

April 28, 2020: The rescheduled “3rd Keihanna Osaka/Kansai Expo Consideration Meeting” will also be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Start creating a proposal scenario.
March 23, 2020: Keihanna’s efforts will be announced at the 5th PLL Promotion Conference based on information from March 2nd.

March 9, 2020: The “3rd Keihanna Osaka/Kansai Expo Thinking Group” has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
March 2, 2020: The 2nd Keihanna Platform has been canceled. However, on Google Drive, we will summarize the ideas for “Keihanna’s proposal (draft) for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, and others”.

December 26, 2019: At the Keihanna Platform (1st meeting), it was confirmed that members would present their proposals for the Expo to a discussion group. We will introduce “Super Avatar Project and related technology introduction, utilization of local resources and contents in the Keihanna region, near future creation workshop”. Decide on the speaker from Keihanna at PLL and the format of the Expo proposal.
November 26, 2019: Near future workshop.

October 29, 2019: The Keihanna Platform (abbreviation: KPF) is a working-level meeting of the Keihanna Osaka-Kansai Expo Thinking Group (abbreviation: Thinking Group).
September 17, 2019: Keihanna meeting to discuss the Osaka/Kansai Expo (2nd meeting). The secretariat is Masazumi Hiratsuka, Director of the Business Promotion Department, Kansai Research City Promotion Organization. The plan is to come up with a comprehensive proposal by the BIE general meeting in June 2020.

July 10, 2019: Secretary-General Ishige of the Expo Association visited Keihanna Science City. The report posted on the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s website clearly states “Collaboration with Keihanna Science City.”
May 21, 2019: In response to the decision to hold the 2025 Japan World Expo Osaka-Kansai Expo, we held a “Meeting to think about the Osaka-Kansai Expo in Keihanna”. Convened by the Business Promotion Department of the Kansai Research City Promotion Organization. We proposed and received approval from the executive committee to make this meeting a meeting of the “New City Creation Council.” It was also confirmed that the person who will respond to the specific working group hearing will be determined.