We are also launching the “Meta University” initiative. Here is the first project.
We are launching “Meta University,” where Japan’s leading instructors will impart the knowledge essential for next-generation management—including AI, IoT, big data, design thinking, and innovation management.
Over the course of three days, through top-tier lectures and workshops, participants will gain new insights and build professional networks to help them develop their strategies. We will provide a vision to pave the way for the next decade.
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Faculty
Hiroshi Komiyama—28th President of the University of Tokyo
Kengo Kuma—Architect and Professor at the University of Tokyo
Naoto Okude—Professor at Keio University’s KMD School of Management
Masahiko Inami—Professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
Noboru Koshizuka—Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo
Yutaka Matsuo—Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Masataka Sakano—Architect
Kota Minamizawa—Associate Professor, Keio University KMD
and others

Message from Naoto Okude, President of Meta University
We are launching Meta University.
Professors who are leading the fields of AI, IoT, architecture, and innovation—essential for tackling the challenges facing modern business—are coming together across the boundaries of their home universities.
That is Meta University.At universities, we do more than simply deliver lectures to convey knowledge; we physically create academic disciplines through experiments and discussions.
Therefore, at the Meta University, participants do more than just listen to professors’ lectures; they experience, through workshops, the very settings where these disciplines are born, enabling them to learn through hands-on experience why professors make the arguments they do.Participants gain insights from the workshops and can apply them to their own businesses. Furthermore, we must not forget that university research labs are supported by networks of alumni. Therefore, Meta University also provides support for network-building so that participants can form communities as alumni and engage in active initiatives.

We look forward to your participation in Meta University, where you can experience the academic knowledge—and the wisdom and skills—necessary to solve the urgent business challenges on the horizon, not just as theoretical knowledge but through hands-on workshop experiences.