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Comprehensive Exhibition of Cutting-Edge IT and Electronics, CEATEC JAPAN 2008 Announces Outline of the Life Contents Frontier Exhibit
TOKYO --(Business Wire)-- The CEATEC JAPAN Management Office today announced new details of its activities to strengthen the international digital contents market at CEATEC JAPAN 2008, scheduled to be held from September 30 to October 4 at Makuhari Messe (Chiba Prefecture). This year's show will highlight activities to realize brand new contents concepts and business models through links between contents creators, contents production companies, software developers and hardware makers. The show will use these activities to help vitalize the digital contents market and promote new business opportunities, thereby contributing to tomorrow's activities and digital contents-related businesses.
This year, CEATEC JAPAN has once again been designated an official event of the Japan International Contents Festival. Among the special programs being planned by the show sponsors is the Digital Contents Business Park, a special exhibit area where companies in digital contents businesses can introduce themselves and create business opportunities. In addition, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will sponsor the Life Contents Frontier as part of its International Contents Market Reinforcement Activities. This Special Exhibit will paint a picture of the future of diverse contents in lifestyle scenes with the goal of promoting original Japanese contents technologies.
Outline of the Life Contents Frontier
Experience the new role of contents in our society and the lifestyle scenes that will develop with these contents. At CEATEC JAPAN 2008, the Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit will gather the diverse achievements and new ideas of companies in contents-related businesses, showing the potential of contents in our daily lives beyond the framework of conventional entertainment.
Many products and services we see today use contents made possible by combining the technological prowess of software and hardware makers with the creativity of contents developers. Thanks to gentler interfaces between people and lifestyles, we stand at the threshold of a new era of safety, peace of mind, comfort and well-being on levels never experienced before.
The Life Contents Frontier will also be linked with official activities under METI's roadmap for the development of contents-related technologies. The exhibit will offer specific ideas drawing on the full potential of new "life contents" and realized through the collaboration of software and hardware that enrich both our lives and our spirits. Visitors from around the world will experience new roles and expressions of contents, and the activities being undertaken to realize this potential through innovative software and hardware technologies.
Profile of the Special Exhibit
WHEN: Tuesday, September 30, to Saturday, October 4, 2008
WHERE: Makuhari Messe (Hall 4, Digital Network Stage)
The Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit will be held as part of METI's International Contents Market Reinforcement Activities (Promotion Activities for New Life Contents through the Linking of Software and Hardware). In addition to product and technology exhibits, the Life Contents Frontier will host speeches and presentations by participating companies.
--Exhibit Space
The Life Contents Frontier will open in Hall 4 (Digital Network Stage) alongside the Information Grand Voyage Project, another promotional project by METI. Nine participating exhibitors will propose "New Roles and Possibilities of Contents" through diverse user scenes spanning a total area of 360 m2 (40 booth spaces). New industries to create new life contents will be promoted using the diverse functions of CEATEC JAPAN to publicize information to business people active in the IT and electronics fields.
--Seminar & Panel Discussion
Information will be conveyed to a wide audience via a seminar and panel discussion held as part of the CEATEC JAPAN 2008 Conference.
WHEN: Thursday, October 2, 2008 (3rd day of CEATEC JAPAN 2008)
2:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
WHERE: International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe (tentative)
SESSIONS: 2
AUDIENCE: Up to 200 seats available per session
-- Theme (tentative)
-- Strengthening the International Competitiveness of
Japan's Contents Technology Industry: Potential and
Challenges in the Contents Technology Strategy Map
-- Speakers/panelists (tentative)
-- Representative of the Commerce and Information
Policy Bureau, METI (speaker)
-- Members of the Contents Technology Strategy Map
Committee
-- Representatives of contents development/support tool
providers
--Joint Exhibit with the Grand Voyage of Information Special Exhibit
METI's Grand Voyage of Information, now in its third year at CEATEC JAPAN, will be part of a joint exhibit with the Life Contents Frontier at the 2008 show. The booth area will be the same for both exhibits at 360 m2, or 40 booth spaces. This year's booth is expected to comprise software technologies centered on data search and analysis, as well as areas of convergence in the contents field.
--Japan International Contents Festival (CoFesta)
--MULTI CONTENTS LINK--
The Japan International Contents Festival (CoFesta), the world's largest comprehensive contents festival, is a series of collaborative events with themes linked to the contents industry, including games, animation, manga & characters, music, broadcast contents and film.
This year, CoFesta kicks off on September 30 with the opening of CEATEC JAPAN 2008 and will run through October 28 via events centered in the Tokyo area, such as the Tokyo Game Show and Tokyo International Film Festival, and is designed to expand global awareness of Japanese contents. For more information, please visit the official website at http://www.cofesta.jp.
For further information, please contact Mr. Kunda or Mr. Ishizaki at the CEATEC JAPAN Management Office.
CEATEC JAPAN Management Office (Japan Electronics Show Association)
5F, Sumitomo Shibadaimon Bldg., No. 2
1-12-16 Shibadaimon
Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0012, Japan
Telephone: +81-3-5402-7603 Fax: +81-3-5402-7606 E-mail:
contact@ceatec.com
http://www.ceatec.com
Planned Exhibitors at the Life Contents Frontier Special Exhibit (no particular order)
Company Profile of Exhibit
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Axell Corporation Axell provides high-value-added LSIs
http://www.axell.co.jp/ developed with original technologies
to enhance video, audio and optical
products. As key devices in amusement
equipment, in-car equipment,
advertising terminals and more, these
LSIs make possible a wide variety of
contents expressions.
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HI Corporation HI will showcase life contents
http://www.hicorp.co.jp/ solutions that put the convenience of
computers into anyone's hands by
breaking down the barrier of computer
literacy.
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QTech, Inc. Ensuring barrier-free video contents is
http://web-shake.jp/ a global issue. QTech will demonstrate
its full line of products in the web-
shake project, a universal console on
which it is working as part of its CSR
activities.
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Suzuki Motor Corporation Suzuki is proposing two futuristic
http://www.suzuki.co.jp/ mobile tools that are "gentle on
people and the environment": the low-
speed sustainable personal mobility
tool PIXY runabout and the SSC unit, a
vehicle that can store up to two PIXY
units.
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Japan Technical Communicators The title of this exhibit is "Anywhere,
Association Anytime, Anybody Can Obtain an Easy
http://www.jtca.org Explanation." JTCA will propose new-
concept operating and product manuals.
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PDC Co., Ltd. PDC will exhibit digital signage
http://www.pdc-pana.co.jp contents, including actual case
studies of digital signage applied in
a variety of city scenes, such as
commercial facilities, airports and
office buildings.
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Microsoft Corporation Microsoft's latest Web technologies and
http://www.microsoft.com/japan platforms open new worlds of software
that "touches the spirit." This
exhibit will offer a behind-the-scenes
look at product development together
with scenes of the "next generation"
of the Web.
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Matsushita Electric Industrial People far away from one another can
Co., Ltd. easily and safely "share the same
http://panasonic.jp space" using digital televisions.
Panasonic will highlight its vision of
new audiovisual communications
systems.
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Yamaha Corporation Yamaha will introduce its ideas on how
http://www.yamaha.co.jp/ people will enjoy music in the world
of Web 2.0 and beyond through such
hardware, software and network
products as TENORI-ON and VOCALOID,
which make it easy for even amateurs
to produce their own music.
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