NEC's New Strategy for Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation
Transcript of NEC's New Strategy for Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation
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NEC's New Strategy for
Inbound/Outbound Open Innovation
May 7, 2019
Motoo Nishihara
Executive Vice President and CTO
NEC Corporation
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7 Themes forSocial Value Creation
SDGs
NEC’s Social Value Creation
Sustainable Earth
Safer Cities & Public Services
Lifeline Infrastructure
Communication
IndustryEco-System
Work Style
Quality of Life
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Creating Societiesthat are Safe, Secure, Efficient, and Equal
NEC’s Social Value Creation
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4.2 Billion → 6.7Billion
2018 2050
1.6 times
The increased movement of people and things emphasizes the need for maintaining peace and order and ensuring the safety and security of infrastructures.
From: United Nations Population Forecast (2018)
Increase in urban populationSocial Problems
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PublicSafety
Criminal fingerprint matching
Immigration control
Urban surveillance
DigitalGovernment
Prevention of identity theft
SmartTransportation
Efficiency & EqualitySafety & Security
Voice
Finger vein
Ear acoustics
Face
Iris
Fingerprint/palmprint
Watch list face recognition
Improvement of citizen services
Detection of fraud
Police, Public safety, Judiciary
CitiesAirports
Educationalinstitutions
Governmentagencies
HealthcarePublic housing
Buses
Transport IC cards
Trains・・・National ID
Driver’s license
Safe and secure cities
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Tigre
Tigre, Argentina
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80% reduction in vehicle theftBased on 2008 to 2013 comparison, according to research by Tigre city government
City × Digital
Tigre, ArgentinaCaseStudy
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Wholesale and retail trade
Living-related, personal, and amusement services
Transport and postal services
Medical, health care, and welfare
Real estate, goods rental and leasing
Manufacturing
Academic research, professional and technical services
Information and communications
Construction
Finance, insurance
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D.I. for determining part-time labor shortage by industry
Hotel and food services
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare “Survey on Labour Economy Trends”(Nov. 2016 Summary)
Labor shortage Restaurant & retailSocial Problems
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More comfortable and convenient
Focus more oncustomer relations
OperationalExcellence
CustomerExperience
Labor-less type store
Smart purchase Provide safe and secure food
Efficient Store operation Reduce workload
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NEC Contributions for Social Value Creation
Santander, SpainEfficient city operation
SingaporeContribution to the innovative safer city concept (SSIPO)
Tigre, ArgentinaReal time city surveillance
Retail Store in TaiwanNew shopping experiences while streamlining store operations
IndiaContribution to economic development via “Make in India”
Kagome in PortugalContribution to Low Input/High Output crop yield
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NEC Global R&D Network
NEC Labs. AmericaDevelopment of cutting-edge core technologies
NEC Labs. ChinaDevelopment of core technologies in AI and NW
NEC Labs. EuropeR&D through EU projects and standardization activities
NEC Labs. SingaporeCo-creation of innovative solutions with customers and partners, mainly for developed countries.
Central Research Lab(Japan)
・Value Co-creation Center・Data Science Research Lab・Biometrics Research Lab・Security Research Lab・System Platform Research Lab
NEC Labs. IndiaCreate core technologies to address the challenges of emerging countries
Israel Research CenterPromote marketing-type research.
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PrescriptionAnalysisVisualization
RealWorld
SocialValue
Computing
Networking
Security
AI (Data Science)
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NEC’s Cutting-edge AI Technology Suites “NEC the WISE”
Visualization
Digitalization, Improvementof data quality
Learning basedsuper-resolution
Multi-modalimage fusion
Analysis
Understandingof meaning &
intent
Analysis withinterpretation
High-precisionanalysis
Invariant analysis
Heterogeneousmixture learning
RAPID machine learning
Textual entailment recognition
Profiling across spatio-temporal data
Crowd behavior analysis
Customer profile estimation
Prescription
Planning & optimization
Autonomous andadaptive control
Predictive robustoptimizationframework
Acoustic situation awareness
Automated Security Intelligence
Predictive analyticsautomation technology
Image clarification
Recognition &identification
usingthe five senses
Face recognition
Speech, emotionrecognition
Object fingerprintrecognition
Optical vibration sensing
Ear AcousticsAuthentication
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*1:Ranked 1st four consecutive times in task assessment sponsored by NIST, *2:Ranked 1st five times in task assessment sponsored by NIST, *3:Ranked 1st in task assessment sponsored by NIST(2018)*4:Ranked 1st in task assessment sponsored by NIST(2012), *5:Ranked 1st in task assessment sponsored by IEEE AASP Challenge DCASE2016
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Discovery of rare critical events
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Graph-basedrelation learning
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Security• High visibility at top-level conferences
in secure computation area (e.g. CCS, Eurocrypt, S&P)
Achievements of Conference Presentation
The last 3 years Whole period
1 Microsoft Microsoft
2 Google IBM
3 IBM Google
4 DeepMind Yahoo
5 Yahoo NEC
6 Facebook DeepMind
7 Baidu Facebook
8 NEC AT&T
9 Adobe NTT
10 Amazon Baidu
※1 NIPS、ICML、KDD、ECML-PKDD、ICDM※2 ICML、CVPR、IJCAI、KDD、ECCV、ICCV、NeurIPS (NIPS)、AAAI
Artificial Intelligence• Ranked 5th place at the benchmark of
academic paper since 2000• Numbers of papers were accepted by
top-level conferences. (e.g. KDD)
Network• Number of papers were accepted by
top-level conferences. (e.g. OFC)
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Ting WangManmohan Chandraker
NetworkingDevelopment of the world’s highest level optical communication network using AI
Hitoshi Imaoka
Visualization
* No.1 at the NIST(National Institute of Standards and Technology) competition for 4 consecutive years
Hans Peter Graf Development of “Torch”, a worldwide used framework for deep learning, and its product version.
Mathias Niepert
Development of AI technology that logically infers and creates predictions from incomplete information.
Ghassan Karame Kazue Sako
Security Development of the high-speed, secure and scalable blockchain technology.
• Steering Committee of IACR Real World Cryptography (2018-)• President of the Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2017-2018)
Former NEC researchers in the various fields.
Thai Jaw Shen,
Yasunobu NakamuraFirst demonstrator of electrical coherent control of a qubit. One of quantum computing’s basic requirements.
Vladimir N. VapnikThe co-inventor of the support-vector machine method
Kai YuHorizon Robotics, Founder & CEO
Yidong HuangProfessor, Chair of the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University.
Analysis
Leon BottouWin Test of Time award at NeurIPS 2018
Ronan Collobert, Jason WestonWin Test of Time Award at ICML 2018
Yann LeCunWin ACM A.M. Turing Award 2018
Development of the world’s No.1* Face recognition technology
Development of Video recognition and scene understanding under various conditions.
World top-level Researchers
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Startup
invest
Investors
launch business
EntrepreneursNEC
Inbound
“Inbound” Open Innovation
Monetization of laboratory technologies used to focus primarily on product development within the company. Although Japanese companies are actively investing startup businesses in the Silicon Valley ecosystem,
most are focused on inbound collaboration.
Accelerators
participate in planning
Japanesecompanies
CVC etc.
Silicon Valley
Startup
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RetailAcademia
NEC’s Inbound Open Innovation Scheme
One to Many
Customer Segment
Value
First customers Second or later customers
ExpandingValue
Immigration control
Fast travel
Counter-terrorism
Facility monitoring
Safety
Startups
VC/Startup
BusinessUnit
StartupRelationwith CVC
(CTO Office)
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Problems in Large Companies
Where are talented people?
How can we accelerate commercialization?
Startups Large Companies
Startups Large Companies
Research Commercialization Research Commercialization
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BusinessOpportunity
Cutting-edge Technologies
NEC
AI Network Security
NEC’s New Strategy : R&D Ecosystem
Field of R&D For Real-World
UsecaseMarket Needs
BusinessKnowledge
TechnologiesTalents
NewStartupSpin Out
Spin In
Customers BusinessPerson
Partners/Startups
Academia ExternalFund
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Promptly developing business
from the white-box type AI technologies
Accelerating business development by capitalizing on external resources
A global first
Tapping new talents
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North America
dotData as a strategic carve-out from NEC
Maximize monetization speed of cutting-edge core technologiesOUTSIDE NEC as an independent company
dotData, Inc.
VC
Capital, Accelerator,Credibility in Market
Japan
NEC
IP, SW, People, Capital
Capital Gain, Reselling Right
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BusinessOpportunity
Cutting-edge Technologies
NEC
AI Network Security
Integration of Inbound and Outbound
Field of R&D For Real-World
UsecaseMarket Needs
BusinessKnowledge
TechnologiesTalents
NewStartupSpin Out
Spin In
Customers BusinessPerson
Partners/Startups
Academia ExternalFund
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Silicon Valley
Startup
invest
Investors
EIR
Entrepreneurs
participate in planning
Accelerators
NEC XNEC Outbound
NEC X has been launched within the Silicon Valley ecosystem to enable rapid business deployment based on cutting-edge laboratory technology seeds (outbound collaboration)
NEC X’s Prospective Initiatives
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Shigeto Ihara, CEO
Menlo Park, CA
Accelerating new business development with cutting-edge technologies
We welcome
Business Leaders and VCs
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Open Our Cutting-Edge AI Engines
NEC-X provides opportunities for potential users and solution partnersto try-out our cutting-edge and brand-new technologies.
Early adoption of advanced technologies
(α-level)
20+ AI technologies New cutting-edge technologies
We welcome
Startups and Partners
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Vector Engine Data Acceleration Center
Remote access to NEC’snew AI Platform
100x faster with Apache
Spark-compatible APIs
https://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/globenewswire/7588368.htm
We welcome
Data Scientists
Recently opened in silicon valley
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Safety, Security, Efficiency, Equality
To pursue “For all people, an abundant society,”we are strengthening activities towards respect
for privacy and human rights
Towards the provision of socially accepted AI
“NEC Group AI and Human Rights Principles”Published in April 2019