Past Events

OIST Alumni Perspectives From Research to Real-World Impact: Career Journeys Beyond OIST

The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation invites you to join the next installment of our OIST Science in Focus webinar series, featuring a conversation with two distinguished OIST alumni whose careers span academia, industry, and national research institutions.

Alumni Career Talk: Gaston Sivori

Gaston Sivori (OIST PhD 2025) is currently based in Dresden, Germany, working at SpiNNcloud, a company developing brain-inspired, energy-efficient AI supercomputing systems.

In this session, he will share his career journey from OIST to industry, including how he secured his role and his experiences during the first months on the job. There will be time for discussion and questions.

1 PCD unit 

[Online] Promoting the Development and Transfer of Technology to Improve the Lives of Older Adults

Panelists: Ms. Lauren Ha from OIST’s TDIC; Dr. Michael Roizen, an expert on healthy longevity and wellness from the Cleveland Clinic; and recent winners of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI), including Ms. Li Lian Ng, whose company Tetsuyu Healthcare has developed a new wound assessment and treatment system, and Dr. Siti Anom Bt. Ahmad, whose team at Universiti Putra Malaysia developed an autonomous delivery robot to meet the need for contactless delivery that emerged out of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Register here 

[Webinar] Science/Tech/Business Innovation Book Talk Series: #2 Fail Fast - Lessons for Japan

Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder & CEO, Quality Electrodynamics |CTO, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, CT-MR Division |Member, OIST Board of Governors |Trustee and Health Innovation Ambassador, OIST Foundation |Honorary Consul General of Japan in Cleveland

In Japanese with English subtitles. Register here.

[Webinar] The Temperature of Butterfly Wings: Prospecting for Bio-inspired Materials from Nature

Dr. Naomi E. Pierce (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University) and Dr. Nanfang Yu (Dept of Applied Physics and Applied Math, Columbia University) will consider the temperature of butterfly wings from a few different angles. They will also present several technologies inspired by these studies. Moderated by Prof. Evan Economo, Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit.

Register here.

[Webinar] Extreme Events & Climate Change

Dr. Suzana Camargo at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, will give an overview of the current state of knowledge on the relationship between extreme weather and climate events and anthropogenic climate change. She will present a general overview on various types of extreme events, but provide special attention to hurricanes and typhoons.

Register here

[Webinar] The Pursuit of Positive Peace for Climate Justice

Join Dr. Maya Soetoro, Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Ms. Juno Fitzpatrick, Advisory Committee Member, Institute for Climate and Peace, and Director of Human Rights and Oceans, Center for Oceans at Conservation International for a discussion about the intersection of climate and peace.

Register here.

Climate Change: Everything Goes Somewhere

The presenters talk about their new book, A Guide to Understanding Fundamental Principles of Environmental Management: It Ain’t Magic: Everything Goes Somewhere, and how it relates to climate change and other “sticky” natural resource management problems.   

Presenters: Mr. Andrew Manale, Policy Analyst & Writer
Mr. Bengt “Skip” Hyberg, President, H&H Conservation

Register here.

[Webinar] Innovating Higher Education in Japan

Join the Japan ICU Foundation and the OIST Foundation for this new webinar series focused on the Future of Education in Japan. Panelists: Prof. Monte Cassim (President, Akita International University), Dr. Peter Gruss (President, OIST), Dr. Kohei Itoh (President, Keio University), Dr. Shoichiro Iwakiri (President, ICU)

Register here.

Online Roundtable Discussion: Chasing Coral

This is the roundtable discussion following the film screening Chasing Coral, in a Q&A style. 

Panelists: Prof. Robert Dunbar (Stanford University; OIST Foundation Climate & Ocean ambassador) / Prof. Timothy Ravasi (Marine Climate Change Unit) / Prof. Noriyuki Satoh (Marine Genomics Unit)

Register here