CFIEC Webinar "Frontiers of AI Governance" - The Realities of Social Implementation from the Perspective of Regulations, Standards, Certification and Internal Controls

Date: Friday, October 3, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Organized by: Center for the Promotion of International Economic Cooperation (CFIEC) Institute for Digital Society
Speaker: Hiroki Habuka, Specially Appointed Professor, Lawyer, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University ＜and moderator＞.
Tatsuhiko Inatani, Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University
Ryoichi Sugimura, Chief Collaboration Officer, Information and Ergonomics, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Kumiko Takahashi, Senior Researcher, Social Infrastructure Business Division, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
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Format: Online seminar (YouTube Live)
Capacity: 200 people
Admission: Free

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Contents
With the emergence of extremely high-performance and versatile AI such as generative AI, multimodal AI, and agent AI, AI is being integrated into all products and services in society. However, AI also involves various risks, including security, privacy, ethics, and safety. The problem is that it is very difficult for consumers, or even governments and experts, to judge from the outside whether such risks have been adequately addressed in AI products.

With regard to the development and use of safe and secure AI products and services, a system for auditing the management of individual risks (specific measures and means to reduce or maintain risks) and the management of organizations that develop and use them is being discussed worldwide. Furthermore, companies in Europe and the U.S. are considering methods to integrate them and evaluate the entire process of developing and utilizing AI. In particular, in fields that require a high level of safety, such as automated driving and medical devices, there is an urgent need to establish standards and frameworks that can determine the trustworthiness of AI. The establishment of such standards and frameworks requires an extremely multifaceted perspective that takes into account not only laws and regulations, but also the obligation of companies to establish internal control systems and the relationship with international standards and certification systems.

In order to ensure equal footing between Japanese and foreign companies, and to enable companies and individuals to utilize AI technology with confidence, Japan needs to actively participate in international discussions while developing and commercializing AI technology.
In this webinar, the following four experts involved in solving these issues will introduce and discuss domestic and international trends.

Hiroki Habuka, Professor of Governance Mechanisms in the Digital Age, Graduate School of Kyoto University, will introduce and summarize AI legal systems in various countries.
Mr. Tatsuhiko Inatani: Professor at Kyoto University Graduate School and an expert on criminal law, Mr. Inatani will give a presentation on liability and sanctions under the AI legal system and how people and machines should interact.
Mr. Ryoichi Sugimura: Mr. Ryoichi Sugimura is engaged in ISO and other technical standardization activities at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and will talk about the evaluation criteria for AI systems and the status of their standardization.
Kumiko Takahashi: She has been researching the use of AI at a think tank and will speak from the perspective of corporate risk management.

Program
1. 10:00 - 10:02（ 2 minutes） Program description, introduction of speakers (Secretariat)
2. 10:02 - 10:05（ 3 minutes） Introduction by Hiroki Habuka
3. 10:05 - 10:45 (40 minutes) Presentations (10 minutes for each panelist)
4. 10:45 - 11:30 (45 minutes) Discussion and Q&A based on preliminary questions
5. 11:30 Closing

Panelist Biographies
Hiroki Habuka
Specially Appointed Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Law, Attorney at Law
Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 2008 and the University of Tokyo Law School in 2010; joined Mori Hamada & Matsumoto in 2013 after serving at the World Trade Organization (WTO); transferred to the Corporate Disclosure Division, General Affairs and Planning Bureau, Financial Services Agency in 2015 (as a specialist officer) and studied abroad; graduated from Stanford Law School in 2017 (Fulbright Scholar). After returning to Japan, he worked at the Information Economy Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (International Coordinator for Governance Strategy) before becoming a part-time lecturer (Digital Governance) at the University of Tokyo School of Public Policy in 2020 and a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law in 2022. In 2020, he was selected by the World Economic Forum and Apolotical as one of the "World's 50 Most Influential People Transforming the Public Sector. He also serves as President of the AI Governance Association, Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Chair of the Expert Panel for the Study on the Use of Generated AI in the Field of Children and Childrearing, and Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Tatsuhiko Inatani
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University
Graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters in 2005, and completed the Graduate School of Law, Kyoto University in 2008. After working as an associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law, he has been a professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law since 2021.
From 2013 to 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the law school of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
He specializes in criminology (corporate crime) and has recently been studying agile governance (especially risk governance of human-non-human interactions) and the rule of law in the digital society, as well as issues related to DFFT (Data Free Flow with Trust) from the perspective of the integration of law and technology. He is also studying issues related to DFFT (Data Free Flow with Trust) from the perspective of the integration of law and technology.

Ryoichi Sugimura
Chief Collaboration Officer, Information and Ergonomics Area, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
He joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. in 1980 and was seconded to the Institute for the Development of New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT) in 1984, President of Panasonic OWL (UK) in 1999, Director of Matsushita Mobile Network Laboratory in 2001, Director of Panasonic Mobile Communications Mobile System Development Center in 2004, Symbian Supervisory Board Member, etc. In 2006, he became Vice President of ESTEEMO, Founding Member of LIMO Foundation, Finance Director. Director of Mobile Systems Development Center, Symbian Supervisory Board Member, etc. 2006 Vice President of ESTEEMO, Founding Member of LIMO Foundation, Finance Director. 2012 Joined NTT DOCOMO, General Manager of Strategic Alliances, General Manager of Product Innovation, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TIZEN Association, Chair of FIDO Alliance D@SWG. 2016-present: Chair of ISO / IEC JTC 1 / SC 42 National Technical Committee, April 2018.
D. in Engineering (Kyoto University), Master of Liberal Arts (Lancaster University, UK) IMPM, IMPM Diploma (INSEAD, France). He has served as a board member of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, a board member of the Software Science Society, and a councilor of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers. Member of the AI Principles and Practices Review Committee, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Member of the Expert Committee for the Study of Smart System Standardization, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Visiting Professor, University of Tsukuba.

Kumiko Takahashi
Senior Researcher, Social Infrastructure Business Division, Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc.
Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Science and Technology in 2014, completed the Graduate School of Science and Technology in 2016, and the Graduate School of System Design and Management in 2022. joined Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. in 2016.
Responsible for supporting DX promotion and advancement of safety governance and management in the field of industrial safety for government agencies. For corporate clients, he provides support for the development of risk management strategies and business continuity plans (BCP).
His outside activities include serving as an expert member of the IPA (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan) Digital Architecture and Design Center.
His expertise is in the area of technology and regulatory integration, including DX on industrial safety, design and operation of safety governance and management, support for BCP (Business Continuity Plan) development, and RegTech (Regulatory Technology).

Webinar Office
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