Date
Sept. 21st(Thu) - Sept. 22nd(Fri), 2017 (2 days)

Venue
Nakano Sunplaza (4-1-1 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-8512 JAPAN)
https://www.sunplaza.jp/en/about/#access

Held by
The Japan TRIZ Society, NPO (JTS)

Sponsored by
Intellectual Property Association of Japan
Robust Quality Engineering Society

Supported by
Japan Creativity Society
Japan Society for Design Engineering
Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Japanese Society of Applied Statistics
National Statistics Center
Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun
Risk Analysis Research Center, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Society of Japanese Value Engineering
Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers

Main theme
"Create Future Value with TRIZ!"

Purposes
#To provide an opportunity for openly presenting, discussing, and communicating on TRIZ,
a methodology for creative problem solving and innovation, and its related areas.
#To encourage the improvement of the TRIZ methodology itself and to enhance penetration,
promotion and application of TRIZ.
#To provide opportunities for making personal relationships among the people interested
in and working with TRIZ in Japan and in the world, and to encourage the understanding
and penetration of TRIZ.

Aims
#To openly call for contributions of presentations and participation not only from Japan but
also from all over the world, so as to make the Symposium an open conference.
#To help establish deeper and wider understanding of TRIZ and promote real use of TRIZ in
industries and in academia.
#To introduce TRIZ and make it to penetrate widely into people engaged in SMEs and at schools.
#A Symposium primarily Japanese national and partially (but as much as possible) international.
#To hold the General Assembly Meeting of Japan TRIZ Society within the Symposium period.

Contents
#Opening Address by Mr. Yuji Mihara Chairperson of he Jpan TRIZ society
"Opening Remarks"

#Special Lecture by Mr. Hiroshi Takagi (OBAYASHI CORPORATION)
"The Construction of Tokyo Skytree: A Challenge toward the World's Tallest" :

#Special Lecture by Dr. Makoto Takahashi (SOKEN Research Institute)
"The Moment of Spark Ideas" :