Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How Japan’s trademark system has been dealing with several key challenges posed by the ever-increasing digitization and by the integration of AI

As AI storms the industry and captures headlines, the EU lit the first torch in 2024 with regulation, prompting other jurisdictions to set their own rules. Japan answered with its own legal act. This comparative webinar will unpack these divergent models and their business impacts.

IVS2025, one of Japan’s largest startup conferences, will take place on 2-4 July at the Kyoto International Exhibition Hall (Miyako Messe).

The EU-Japan Centre has recently published two reports under the Minerva Policy Report project. The topics are on Dual-Use and Advanced AI Systems.

This report examines Japan’s evolving role in the development and governance of advanced AI systems across five interconnected dimensions: national policy, ethical direction, institutional coordination, collaboration with the European Union, and global positioning.

The EEN partner Bayern Innovativ GmbH is organizing a virtual B2B event within the frame of the IPEC 2025 International Production Environmental Community conference.

The HANAMI project, the EU-Japan collaboration around HPC is delighted to announce the first HANAMI High-level Symposium, which will take place in Barcelona on January 13-15, 2025. This event will focus on EU-Japan Cooperation: Advancing High-Performance Computing for Solving Global Challenges.

The Trilateral AI Conference 2024, held on 12-13 November, brought together experts from Germany, France, and Japan to explore risks and challenges, ethical implications, and societal impacts of Generative AI. This event focused on the responsible development of GenAI and global best practices by emphasizing international collaboration.

At the end of October, leading experts from business, politics, and media came together in Tokyo to take part in the 32nd German-Japanese Forum (DJF), the Japanese-German Track 1.5 Security Dialogue, and other meetings to discuss global challenges and future opportunities for cooperation.