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Hi! We are happy to announce our next QS Tokyo meetup!!

(次回QS Tokyo meetup開催概要です。日本語の案内は後半に続きます)

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There will be four speakers and some lightning talks! Any lightning talks will be welcomed. We’ll be happy to share our thoughts.

Please take a look at short reports about our previous meetups! (http://qs-tokyo.com/?cat=3) (in Japanese).

Date: June 28, 2014 (Sat) / 2pm to 4pm

Place: Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ookayama campus)

Main Bldg (本館) H111

1min from Ookayama-station, (Tokyu Meguro Line and Tokyu Oimachi Line)

Speakers:

• Atsushi Yamazaki, Kokuyo S&T Co.,Ltd. (http://www.kokuyo-st.co.jp/)

"Self management and a new working style using gadgets and cloud applications"

Yamazaki san is the developer of “CamiApp”, a notepad which allows you to digitalize handwritten notes and organize them using its mobile application. Over 1 million units has been sold. He will share his insights about using tools such as gadgets and cloud applications to change the work style.

• Yasuhiro Takeda, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc (http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/)

"The essences for making it your behavior"

Takeda san works for Sony CSL as a web service developer and released “leaploop (http://leaploop.com/)” a service to support you to make activities your habit. He will be sharing some essences needed to make an activity a habit, based on data and analysis gathered from “leaploop”.

• Daisuke Hachimura, MediThink, Inc. (http://www.medithink.co.jp) / Jibunlab KK

Satoshi Taniguchi, MYSTAR-JAPAN Business Solutions (http://mystar-japan.biz/), Inc.

"What's there beyond health management?"

Hachimura san is engaged in health entertainment business, life log apps, and Taniguchi san in diabetes, smart health business. With the development of wearables and apps, logging our life for health and utilize the data from it is becoming much easier. They think that this will give birth to new types of health services that set themselves apart from the traditional health management. By looking at their experiments done in Chiba and Aichi Prefecture, we would like to think together about how we can make the world a healthier place.

•Dr.Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University (http://dcu.ie/), Ireland and University of Tsukuba, Japan

"What can Lifelogging offer to Quantified Self"

He has been an active lifelogger since 2006 when he began to work with wearable cameras and has been a speaker at the recent global and European Quantified Self meetups. He has amassed a large archive of over 14 million sensecam images and is actively developing search and organization technologies for Personal Life Archives. He is regarded as a leading researcher in the field of Lifelogging, with his research having been featured by the Economist, New York Times, BBC and Discovery Channel in the past two years.

http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~cgurrin/

Also we'll have a Lightning Talk. If you want to give us a LT, please let us know (because of the time for LT is limited).

We'll update speakers info soon, see you there!

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