EU-Japan AI4Good cooperation: “Leveraging Extreme-Scale Computing for Societal Challenges"

workshop

26 March 2026 09:00 to 12:00 (Tokyo time)

Delegation of the European Union to Japan, Tokyo, Japan (in-person event)

This half day event explores high performance computing collaboration between Europe and Japan, with specific focus on strengthening the links between RIKEN (Japan, operator of Fugaku), Forschungszentrum Jülich (Europe, hosting JUPITER), and NAISS (Sweden, national HPC infrastructure and gateway to Nordic and European research communities) as flagship infrastructures in the respective regions. Together these infrastructures represent complementary strengths in exascale systems, AI-accelerated simulations, and scientific user communities. The workshop will explore how these ecosystems can jointly advance AI4Good applications aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly:

Climate Action (SDG 13)
Good Health and Well-being (SDG 3)
Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11)

The goal of the event is to reinforce scientific discussions and partnerships between the EU and Japan through cooperation between RIKEN and JULICH. The expected outcomes include the establishment of a structure for sustained collaboration and an operational framework for Fugaku–Jupiter cooperation.

Organiser: Dr. Rossen Apostolov, INPACE, NAISSE, Sweden

Agenda:
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:10 Welcome by the Delegation of the European Union to Japan
09:10-09:20 Workshop opening; AI4Good vision, objectives, expected outcomes, by Rossen Apostolov
09:20-09:30 Institutional perspectives: RIKEN, by Kengo Nakajima
09:30-09:40 Institutional perspectives: JUELICH, by Mathis Bode, Director German JUPITER AI Factory
09:40-09:50 Institutional perspectives: NAISS, by Rossen Apostolov, Director Swedish AI Factory MIMER
Scientific Session I: AI4Climate
09:50-10:00 Session TBD, by Chrysi Laspidou, Vice-Rector of Innovation, University of Thessaly
10:00-10:10 Environmental and societal sustainability: challenges and priorities, by Monique Calisti, CEO, Martel Innovate
10:10-10:20 Session TBD, by Manhal Alhilali, Professor, University of Hyogo
Scientific Session I: AI4Health
10:20-10:30 AI and High-Performance Computing at the University of Debrecen: Capabilities and EU–Japan Collaboration Opportunities for Health and Climate, by Zoltán Gál, Director Debrecen HPC Center
10:30-10:40 Session TBD, Osamu Miyashita, Senior Researcher, RIKEN
10:40-10:50 Decoding Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoires using Machine Learning, by Daron Standley, Professor, Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University
10:50-11:10 Break
11:10-11:55 Panel discussion: Future EU–Japan HPC cooperation for AI4Good.

Moderator: Rossen Apostolov
Panelists: Mathis Bode, Chrysi Laspidou, Kengo Nakajima, Osaku Miyashita

12:00 Closing remarks, by Rossen Apostolov

Programme

EU-Japan-AI4Good-cooperation_2nd-EU-Japan-Digital-Week-2026-2.pdf

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