ASPIRE & Moonshot Joint Symposium "Enhancing Humanity - Inclusive Future through Human Augmentation"

15:00-17:30, Wednesday, 18 March 2026 | OIST Auditorium

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Schedule

15:20-15:40

Introduction to Moonshot "Project Cybernetic being" & ASPIRE "Enhancing Humanity"

Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design

15:40-16:20

Keynote Talk "From Global South to Global Futures: Human Augmentation for Real Social Challenges"

Catherine Holloway, University College London - Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub

Talk details: https://augmented-humans.org/keynote/

16:20-17:20

Panel Discussion "Enhancing Humanity - Inclusive Future through Human Augmentation"

Speakers (listed in alphabetical order by last name)

  • Giulia BARBARESCHI, University of Duisburg-Essen / Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security
  • Olaf BLANKE, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • Yuji HATADA, The University of Tokyo
  • Catherine Holloway, University College London - Global Disability Innovation (GDI) Hub
  • Shunichi KASAHARA, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
  • Pedro Lopes, University of Chicago
  • Kouta Minamizawa, Keio University Graduate School of Media Design
  • Yoshihiro TANAKA, Nagoya Institute of Technology
This Joint Symposium is co-sponsored by JST Moonshot R&D Program Goal 1 "Project Cybernetic being (Developing cybernetic avatar technologies and social infrastructure to realize embodied co-creation)", Grant Number: JPMJMS2013, and JST ASPIRE "Enhancing Humanity: International Research Collaboration Network Towards an Inclusive Future through Human Augmentation", Grant Number: JPMJAP2504.