Preparing the city for 100-year-old people

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Ms. Charlene Chang was appointed Group Director of the Ageing Planning Office in the Ministry of Health on 1 April 2019. She oversees the development and implementation of the national ageing agenda, to bring about the national vision of opportunities, communities and a city for all ages. Prior to this, Charlene was the Senior Director (Transformation) at the Public Service Division (PSD), res

Since Yumiko joined OECD in 2013 as the head of OECD Tokyo Centre, she has been at the forefront of policy discussions between OECD and governments, businesses and academia in Japan and Asia, covering a wide range of economic policy issues. She has been leading discussions with various stake holders in Japan and Asia, particularly in the areas of Corporate Governance, tax guidelines, gender dive

Associate Professor Sonja Pedell is Director of Swinburne University’s Future Self and Design Living Lab (FSD LL). The FSD LL has core development capabilities in the area of innovative socio-technical systems and design solutions for health and wellbeing with a focus on the ageing population and people living with dementia. As Theme Leader ‘Designing with Users’ in the Smart Cities Research Inst

Takashi Sonoda, Founder & CEO, started Uhuru as a 3 person operation in 2006 with the aim of bringing new users to the internet. The following year, Uhuru became a salesforce.com partner to accelerate cloud computing adoption among enterprise users in Japan. In the years since, Sonoda has driven Uhuru to acquire expertise in the ever expanding offerings of Salesforce and other cloud platform prov