First International Symposium on Open Energy Systems

The 2nd International Symposium on Open Energy Systems
(OES-2015)

Sponsor: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
Co-organizer:Sony Computer Science Laboratories (SONY CSL)


Date: February 2-3, 2015
          February 2, 2015: 9:00-18:00 (Working Dinner 18:00-20:00)
          February 3, 2015: 8:30-15:30

Venue: OIST Main Campus, Center Building Seminar Room B250
            1919-1 Tancha, Onna, Kunigami, Okinawa 904-0495
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Program
Program with Abstracts

Confirmed Speakers (alphabetical order):
1. Mr. Riccardo Amoroso, Chief Innovation Officer, ENEL Green Power
2. Mr. T.P. Chopra, President & CEO, Bharat Light & Power
3. Mr. Jon Dogterom, Venture Services Lead, MaRS
4. Mr. Didar Islam, Managing Director & Founder, Solaric
5. Prof. Hiroaki Kitano, Professor, OIST
6. Mr. Akihiro Kogure, Executive Managing Director, Eneco-op
7. Dr. Philip E. Lewis, CEO & Founder, VaasaETT
8. Dr. Ariel Liebman, Director Energy and Carbon Programs, Monash University
9. Mr. Vincent Paul Ponthieux, Director & CTO, Blue Planet Research
10. Mr. Leon Roose, Specialist, University of Hawaii
11. Mr. Laurent Schmitt, Vice President for Smart Grid, Alstom
12. Mr. Toru Tanaka, Senior Researcher, NTT Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories
13. Dr. Mario Tokoro, Founder, SONY CSL
14. Prof. Patrick Whitney, Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Language: English and Japanese (Simltaneous Interpretation Available)

Registration is necessary to join the event.
For general inquiry, contact us at oesws@oist.jp

 

The First International Symposium on Open Energy Systems

14-15 January 2014
Sponsored by: Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST)
Co-Organized by OIST and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL)

Supported by: Australian Embassy, French Embassy in Japan, Victoria Government Business Office in Tokyo,
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and Okinawa Prefecture

Venue: Room B250, OIST

The Symposium successfully finished.
Please access presentation files, photos and articles from the symposium.

Energy supply and demand control is one of the most urgent and critical issues in the current global energy agenda today. Shifting to renewable energy sources is claimed to have high priority, yet numbers of technical, economical, and social issues remain. For industrial countries, the issue is how to transfer the current energy mix into more sustainable sources while maintaining the quality and cost of current service. With regard to developing countries, a “leap frog strategy” that promotes the use of renewable energy along with their economic development could reduce the dependence on fossil fuels.

However, there are many challenges including;

  • Overcoming the unstable and low density per area characteristics of renewable energy sources
  • Matching the energy storage and distribution systems to the renewable energy souce in an optimal manner
  • Integrating the energy demands control and supply scheduling
  • Identifying and solving the economical bottlenecks
  • What are possible identifying and establishing policies, funding models and business strategies that enable practical and sustainable introduction of such systems

The Open Energy Systems (OES) concept is formulated to signify a novel electricity supply and demand control system that assumes open-ended, heterogeneous, fluctuating, and unreliable energy sources. It is a distributed DC grid architecture that can scale from an isolated node to large-scale interconnected systems that may ultimately be connected with the main power grid. OES are expected to embrace the heterogeneous and dynamical nature of renewable energy to mitigate some of the issues. Currently, OIST and Sony CSL are engaged in a joint project on the OIST campus to develop distributed DC-based micro-grid system aimed at fully utilizing renewable energy sources such as solar phot-voltaics, wind turbine, etc. The produced energy is stored on a Li-Ion based energy server units installed in each node of the micro grid system. Sony CSL, with the support of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is deploying such systems in the northern part of Ghana to electrify some villages.

The symposium is framed around "Open Energy Systems" and its applications to various social and geographical situations such as industrialized cities, isolated islands and remote areas with unstable electricity.

The symposium wishes to bring together technical experts, government officials and business leaders that are potentially interested to co-develop and deploy such systems.   

While electrical energy is the core topic, we wish also to take a broader perspective and address various vital needs and integrative systems including water supply, medical care, education, etc. Consideration must also be given to how societies in various locations can introduce such ideas.

The symposium will also introduce research and development projects on renewable energy production and distribution currently on going in Okinawa, at OIST and at other institutions.

The symposium will take place at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST: http://www.oist.jp/ ).

Organizers:

  • GeneralChair: JONATHAN DORFAN, President of OIST
  • Organization Co-Chair: PATRICK VINCENT, Vice President of OIST and MARIO TOKORO, Founder & Executive Advisor, SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL)
  • Program Chair: HIROAKI KITANO, Adjunct Professor, OIST and President and CEO, Sony CSL
  • Publicity Chair: TAICHIRO SAKAGAMI, Technical Staff, OIST
  • Local Arrangement Chair:TAKANARI ICHIKAWA, Senior Manager, Business Development, OIST

Kenote speakers:

  • Prof. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri [Live Video from Delhi], Chairperson,The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
  • Professor Dave Griggs, CEO ClimateWorks Australia & Director of Monash Sustainability Institute, Monash University, Australia
  • Dr. Stephen Ronan, Chief Innovation Officer, ALSTOM
  • Dr. Thomas Rivera, Orange Labs Networks
  • Mr. Dennis Teranishi, CEO, Pacific International Center for High Technology Research, Hawaii
  • Mr. Yuki Shimazu, Deputy Director, New and Renewable Energy Division, Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
  • Mr. Toshiyuki Hayashi, Senior Advisor, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
  • Professor Toru Morotomi, Kyoto University
  • Associate Professor Kenji Tanaka, The University of Tokyo
  • Dr. Hiroshi Fujiwara, President&CEO, BroadBand Tower, Inc

Symposium Date: January 14, 2014 09:00- to January 15, 2014  09:00-15:30
Venue: Seminar Room B250, Center Bldg. in OIST (Access to OIST)　
             OIST address: 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami, Okinawa 904-0495 Japan

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