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Vabel Conference

I participated in the Vabel Confrence this afternoon at the GRIPS. It was organized by Haegwan Kim, CEO of Vabel, nonprofit organization. I got a note fromHaegwan Kim quite a while ago, asking me to be one of the speakers. The concept of Vabel and the Conference was very appealing and other speakers included people that I know. So I said that I would participate without really knowing what it is all about. (As I am available today and liked the concept, why not? is what I thought.)
It turned out to be a very interesting conference with interesting group of speakers and Q& A session. I trust it was Ustreamed and some may have watched. My regret was that I missed the first presentation by Mr. Fumio Nanjo, director of Mori Art Museum. I took over the second speaker role as there was a bit of technical problem for the presentation by the second speaker, Chiaki Hayashi.
I talked about the job crisis and how we are trying to resolve by promoting the Global Mobility of Talent. As I wanted to make it relevant to the audience (majority are young students and business people, it seemed), I asked them to do something to get ready for the era of global mobility of talent. I will be working on building the mechanism and knowledge bank of good examples while in Davos and onward.
I received many good questions, some I could not answer. It was very exciting and stimulating to me.
I watched other presentations after mine. It was exciting to find that Chiaki Hayashi was involved in Ryuichi Sakamoto’s concert distributed on the Internet in January. I heard about this initiative Saturday last week at Information Session at KMD and was absolutely fascinated by it.
Presentation by William Saito on Entrepreneurship was very interesting, too. I had known William, but never heard his presentation. In particular, I liked his comment on team development, requirement for entrepreneurs and his advice to the young people.
Next was the presentation by Kiyoshi Kurokawa. I heard his presentation many times and yet, he is always dynamic, funny and stimulating. He is very outspoken and has a very nice way of making his point, powerfully and yet with some sense of humour. I always find his presentation with high level of energy which is contagious.
Last, but not least, was presentation by Ken Mogi. I heard his presentation a few times and love his natural, casual, and at the same time scientific style. I find his comment on curiosity vs. fear as driver/impediments for change insightful. He is provocative and at the same time, very encouraging and supportive.
I hope those who were there and watched Ustream were stimulated and excited as I was. Hats off to Haegwan, who single-handedly made this conference happen. He is the doer.
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I am a Sophia University student, and really enjoyed VABEL and your keynote today. I learned from you how important it is to be a unique and achieve totally new skills in this fragile world. Also, I had a very good impression of your energetic presentation, and the refined title! Thank you very much. One step at a time!