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THE NEW CONTEXT CONFERENCE, an annual conference hosted by Digital Garage co-founder and Director of MIT Media Lab, Joi Ito, will be held this year on June 24 in Tokyo, Japan. Held since 2005 the conference is aimed at those interested Internet Technology and the businesses which emerges from it. Since 2011, the conference has been held annually in both Tokyo and San Francisco, Digital Garage’s US branch. Marking its nineteenth edition, DG Lab (open innovation R&D organization) will cover the trending theme: How to Build a Data Ecosystem. Globally acclaimed leading researchers, entrepreneurs, and experts of the field will come together to discuss and debate on the data ecosystem.

Date June 24 (Monday), 2019,

9:30 a.m. (Doors Open at 9:00 a.m.) Co-host Digital Garage, Inc.; Kakaku.com, Inc.;

Credit Saison Co., Ltd.; KDDI CORPORATION Venue Roppongi Academyhills,

Roppongi Hills Mori Tower 49F Theme How to Build a Data Ecosystem

“In Search of a Scheme to Use and Protect Our Data”

It is said that in year 2025, total data volume in the world exceeds 160 trillion GB. The volume of personal data will explode as web services, mobile apps and IoT devices become widely used. Discussions cover issues including: ownership of consumer generated data; corporate data utilization with personal privacy protection, also how technology and rules should be applied to provide good services; GDPR enforced in EU, uniquely evolving Chinese ecosystem, Japanese market actualizing the information bank framework; and how the data ecosystem should be formed.