Professor James Joshi was recently invited as the Keynote Speaker at the TDK Corporation’s Kick Off Meeting - held on March 28 - initiating the new mid-term plan that starts in 2024. TDK is a global electronics component manufacturer headquartered in Tokyo, Japan covering markets in Automotive, ICT, Industrial and Energy sectors. It has its global R&D center in Japan with regional R&D centers situated in USA, Europe and China. It is comprised of a diverse workforce totaling over 100,000 employees in more than 30 countries around the globe. Prof. Joshi’s keynote was attended by TDK corporate leaders and management teams in person as well as online.
This fiscal year, the theme was centered around new opportunities and innovation from AI and megatrends in digital landscape. Prof. Joshi’s Keynote Speech focused on the cybersecurity and privacy issues in AI, digital landscape and the challenges and risks that need to be addressed to avail of the unprecedented opportunities that Trustworthy AI provides for achieving global leadership in digital transformation (DX) within organizations, and more importantly, in contributing to solving challenging large-scale societal problems. Prof. Joshi highlighted the ever-increasing importance of emphasizing and operationalizing security, privacy, trust and resilience by design and by default approaches in general and more importantly in the context of accelerated developments in the areas of AI and advanced data analytics that we see today. He emphasized that the current inflection point is a moment of great opportunity for global leadership and societal impact for organizations such as TDK.
Furthermore, Prof. Joshi had interactive sessions with key technology leaders in IT and digital technologies at TDK Global R&D Center located in Chiba, Japan and exchanged ideas with key corporate officers including the Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDXO), Dr. Roshan. Thapliya, regarding potential global industry-academia interactions in the field of cybersecurity, privacy and trust networks.