Digital innovation towards sustainable society
Dr. Akio YAMADA, NEC Corp.
Akio Yamada received Ph.D. in electronic and information engineering from Nagoya University and joined Central Research Laboratories of NEC Corporation in 1993. He started his research career in digital media distribution system and expand it to media content recognition, ICT system architecture, and knowledge discovery science. After having business experiences in enterprise DX market as Vice President on Technology, he is now Senior Vice President and Head of NEC Laboratories. He has also contributed to many international standards in media content distribution and processing area, known as MPEG and JPEG, for about 20 years and received a lot of awards.