Date
Sept. 3rd(Thu) - Sept. 4th(Fri), 2020 (2 days)

Venue
3F Building C, Ritsumeikan University Osaka Ibaraki Campus(OIC)
(2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-8570 JAPAN)
http://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/access/

Held by
The Japan TRIZ Society, NPO (JTS)
Center for Global MOT Research, Ritsumeikan University

Main theme
"Now is the time for sparkling ideas 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.

Application Outline
#Call for presenters
Call for Papers to "The 16th TRIZ Symposium in Japan, 2020"
by Executive Committee Chairman, Japan TRIZ Society, NPO

Go to the "For both Oral and Poster Presenters" page

#Contact point for the Symposium
　　　　　16_sympo@triz-japan.org

Contents
#Keynote Lecture by Yongwei Sun, PhD(TRIZ Master, Vice President of MATRIZ Asia and Oceania)

#Special Lecture by Takashi Natori Ph.D(Graduate School of Technology Management Ritsumeikan University)