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Evangelists
The following 13 evangelists, who currently represent NTT Communications as experts in their respective fields, share information about the latest technology trends to help our clients achieve digital transformation (DX).
(Note: Lecture/article titles, organization names and other proper nouns that are not capitalized are unofficial English translations provided for viewer convenience. Also, the lectures, writings, and blogs are linked to Japanese pages.)
Yoshimasa Iwase
Comment
We promote activities to create higher value by maximizing the power of digital transformation and developer expertise as well as AI.
- Main Expertise
- AI (generative AI), agile development and organizational development
- Selected Lectures
- Selected Writings
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- Docs for Developers: An Engineer's Field Guide to Technical Writing (JMA Management Center Inc.)
- Software Design, July 2021, Vol. 3: In-house ISUCON recommendations (Gijutsu Hyoron Co., Ltd.)
- Hobbies
- Podcasts and reading
- SNS
- Web postings
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- I want to change the Japanese IT industry by changing NTT. I found a "great cause" by choosing to transfer instead of changing jobs.
- Taking a deep dive with Mr. Yoshimasa Iwase, the man behind fukabori.fm, on how to hack a traditional Japanese large company! The transformation of NTT Communications (Part 1)
- How are organizations affected by their engineering managers having too much to do? Performance-maximization secrets learned from Chatwork's failures
- For engineers who have never systematically learned how to write documentation Synopsis of book on document writing for engineers
Satoru Koyama
Comment
I hope to share the "equations" for deciphering cyber security with you.
- Main Expertise
- Cyber security
- Main Affiliations
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- President, N.F. Laboratories, Inc. (security personnel training company)
- Member, Expert Committee on Research and Development Strategy, National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity
- Member, IoT security working group, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
- Member, study group on appropriate response to cyber attacks in telecommunications business, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
- Vice chairman, cybercrime council, Metropolitan Police Department
- Chair, organizing committee, MWS Anti-Malware Research Human Resource Development Workshop 2016
- Chair, ICT-ISAC Acting Chairman
- Director, Digital Forensic Research Group
- Secretariat, council for stable internet operation, Japan Internet Providers Association
- Board member, The Association for Cybersecurity Law Society, Japan
- Selected Writings
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- Basics of digital forensics — From an overview to practical applications
- Telecommunications carrier guidelines for responding to cyberattacks and communications privacy
- IoT security guidelines ver 1.0
- Hobbies
- Pottering, random exploring and casual cooking
Akira Sakaino
Comment
Let's jointly think about companies, people, and society in the Industry 4.0 era of connected industries, while keeping an eye on SDGs.
- Main Expertise
- IoT and global data collaboration infrastructure
- Main Affiliations
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- Robot Revolution Initiative Council (RRI)
- building SMART Japan
- Smart IoT Acceleration Forum IoT Human Resource Development Subcommittee
- IoT human resource development working group, IoT promotion committee, Internet Association Japan
- Full member and auditor, Virtual Engineering Community (VEC)
- Regular member A, Data Society Alliance (DSA)
- The International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)
- Contract researcher, Industrial Open-Network Laboratory, Waseda Research Institute for Science and Engineering
- Selected Lectures
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- Digital Business Innovation Symposium, Japan Institute of Information Technology
- Smart facility study group, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
- Telecommunication Technology Committee seminar
- Manufacturing business transformation with IoT working group, Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative (RRI)
- Motion study group, Telecommunications Association
- IoT/M2M Exhibition
- Wireless IoT EXPO
- Hobby
- Art appreciation
- SNS
- Facebook(Satoshi Sakaino)
Kenichiro Shimada
Comment
I am working mainly on time-series data analysis with the goal of advancing society through AI. I would like to share my knowledge and experience with you.
- Main Expertise
- AI (machine learning)
- Main Affiliations
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- Regular Member, Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence
- Selected Writings
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- Toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution, Challenges for Innovation in Manufacturing Using AI (AI/Cloud Computing Day Tokyo, Open Compute Project Japan 2018)
- AI-based IoT data analysis case studies and future developments (AI/Artificial Intelligence Expo 2019 Mini-Seminar)
- NTT Communications' use of IoT and AI deep learning for data analysis (winner of ITpro Expo Award grand prize at Nikkei BP's ITpro Expo 2016)
- NTT Communications' cutting-edge use of AI for IoT data analysis (winner of ZDNet Japan Award at Nikkei BP's ITpro Expo 2017)
- NTT Communications' technology development department (business communications magazine, Jan. 2019)
- Hobbies
- Hawaii, watching soccer, listening to music, drumming and indoor running
- SNS
- X(shimaken_pub)
Fumitaka Takeuchi
Comment
We would like to create a forum where we can exchange information with you on how cyber risk management can enhance corporate value.
- Main Expertise
- Cyber risk management
- Selected Writings
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- Definitive cyber risk management (published by NTT)
- Four perspectives on the essentials of risk management (Telecommunications, Jan. 2019, The Telecommunications Association)
- Selected Lectures
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- Cyber risk management initiatives to support DX (Information security symposium hosted by Japan Institute of Information Technology; Security seminar hosted by Toyo Keizai Shinpo, 2019 MPOWER Cybersecurity Summit, Cyber Defense Live Tokyo 2019, etc.)
- Accountability in the zero trust era (seminars for overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies, such as ICT seminar sponsored by Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Brazil)
- Cyber risk management in the era of zero trust to enhance corporate value (training sessions for group companies)
- Moderator at numerous roundtables on cyber risk management
- Hobbies
- Golf and dog walking
- SNS
- Facebook(Fumitaka Takeuchi)
Yoshiaki Tobioka
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I am always looking at how networks can and will evolve through integration with software in the future. My favorite quote is, “In the end, it's all about physics."
- Main Expertise
- Cloud computing and SDN/NFV
- Main Affiliation
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- Japan Network Operators' Group (JANOG)
- Hobby
- Raising children
- SNS
- Facebook(Tobioka Yoshiaki)
Kaname Nishizuka
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Where does data leveraging start? The ultimate goal of data utilization is to use the results for business decisions and strategies. Based on our experience, we wish to explain the processes and appropriate means (data infrastructure, machine learning, generative AI, etc.) to reach this goal.
- Main Expertise
- Data science, network security and AI (generative AI)
- Main Affiliations
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- Steering committee, JANOG
- IPv6 education expert team (JPNIC)
- Selected Lectures
- Main Writings
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- RFC8903 Use Cases for DDoS Open Threat Signaling
- RFC9133 Controlling Filtering Rules Using Distributed Denial-of-Service Open Threat Signaling (DOTS) Signal Channel
- Hobbies
- Clarinet and composition
- SNS
- X(@__kaname__)
- Blog
- The quickest guide to Trino, a high-performance distributed SQL engine (NTT Communications engineers' blog)
- Article
- JPNIC Newsletter No. 67, March 2018
- Web
- Kaname Nishizuka, Evangelist (Shines)
Masayuki Hayashi
Comment
I would like to help promote digital transformation (DX), with a focus on cloud computing, by disseminating information and participating in industry associations.
- Main Expertise
- Cloud computing
- Main Affiliations
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- Visiting researcher, The Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM)
- Samurai cloud supporter, Nippon Cloud Working Group
- General advisor, CSPA
- Member, Conference toward AI Network Society, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (2016–2018)
- Main Writings
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- Cloud basics (SB Creative)
- Smart machines: The age of machine thinking (Yosen-sha)
- Open data super-introduction (Impress R&D)
- Introduction to open cloud (Impress R&D)
- Introduction to cloud business (Sogensha)
- Enterprise cloud system construction guide (co-author, Shoei-sha; others)
- Nikkei BP technology roadmap 2020–2029 (Cloud)
- Internet white paper 2011–2019: Cloud sector (Impress R&D; others)
- Hobbies
- Jogging and travel
- SNS
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- X(@masayukihayashi)
- X(@cloud_1topi)
- Facebook(Masayuki Hayashi)
- Facebook("Business 2.0" perspective)
- Blog
- Perspectives on Business 2.0
Shin Miyakawa
Comment
I am working on various Internet technologies and aim to help realize a faster, more stable, secure and affordable Internet that can be used freely by all.
- Main Expertise
- Networks, IoT and cybersecurity
- Main Affiliations
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- Senior Researcher (Visiting), Keio Research Institute at SFC, Keio University
- Secretariat, Cyber security committee 192, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
- Main Writings
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- Using BSD by a factor of 256 (ASCII Media Works)
- Quick understanding UNIX PC (Kyoritsu Shuppan)
- RFC6888 / 3769 / 4241 / 4925 (IETF)
- Hobby
- Model railroads
Tomoya Yoshida
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I would like to inform everyone in easy-to-understand ways about the latest trends in network technology and the possibilities of the Internet.
- Main Expertise
- Networks and internet
- Main Affiliations
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- Chief director, Council for Network Efficiency by Cross-layer Technical members (CONECT)
- JANOG and JPNIC
- Telecom ISAC BGPWG
- IPv6 geographic information sharing working group, etc.
- Main Writings
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- Routing control technology and routing security
- Nikkei NETWORK
- Nikkei Communications
- IDG NetworkWorld
- Cyber security management, etc.
- Hobbies
- Composition (classical music) and shogi (secretary general, Chiba branch, Japan Shogi Association)