To create a resilient society and economy against disasters

International Session(10:30-12:05)

（Language : English. Japanese subtitles will be available later.） 

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​＜Speaker １: video＞　10:35~11:05

Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2)

 Recent advances in computing technologies, and data science facilitate using existing sensors to evaluate bridge conditions in real-time. This talk presents the “Bridge Rapid Assessment Center for Extreme Events (BRACE2)” focusing on the state-of-the-art post-earthquake damage and functionality assessment framework implemented on Route 580/238 Separation in Hayward. This bridge is instrumented using a sensor network with real-time data streaming capabilities. The framework uses the data to provide a real-time estimate of the bridge damage to inform decisions related to bridge closure to traffic and to expect damage locations. Moreover, this framework uses the data in near-real time to simulate the bridge response for comparison with recordings and for updating the bridge model. At the core of the framework is a Decision-Making Platform that utilizes data streamed from accelerometers along with limit states from component models and response from a global bridge model subjected to the recorded ground motion signals.

Khalid M. Mosalam: Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering, UC-Berkeley and Director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center

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​＜Speaker ２＞　11:05~11:35

Urban Safety Evaluation and ESG Investment - Market Creation Using High Resolution Simulation Technique for A Whole City

　In 2016, a simulation of the entire city of Kobe was conducted at the RIKEN AICS@Kobe, where the city was reproduced in a virtual space. This is an urban digital twin. In this way, various disaster risks can be quantified. On the other hand, non-financial information is becoming more important for improving corporation value, which is the ESG investment. The urban digital twin reveals the disaster risks to which a company is exposed. In this way, we can see a scheme in which economic activities during normal times lead to the strengthening of our national land. In other words, the disaster prevention and mitigation will be transformed from a passive defense by the government to an investment by private sectors.

Atsushi Izuka: Director of the MIRAI Alliance, Professor of Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University. President of the Association for the Study of Whole City Simulation Technologies

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＜Panel Discussion＞　11:35~12:05

Speakers：

Khalid M. Mosalam、Atsushi Izuka

Moderator：

Takashi Kamihigashi: Director of the MIRAI Alliance(After April 2022), Professor at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, and Director of the Center for Computational Social Sciences, Kobe University. 

SESSION 3(13:00-14:40)

With covid19, A new way of life in 2050

＜Social and economic countermeasures against human infectious viruses that may occur in the future＞

 

＜Speaker １＞　13:10~13:40

COVID-19 update 2022

　COID-19 was caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was identified as novel coronavirus on December 2019. Since early 2020 COVID-19 has been endemic almost all over the world. The global death toll from Covid-19 surpassed 5 million. On the other hand, we human beings get the several weapon against this virus. Here I overview the topics of COVID-19 in 2022.

Goh Ohji: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe University. Infectious Diseases Internal medicine. Certified by the International Society of Travel Medicine as a Travel Medicine Specialist, Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, Certified by the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine as a General Internal Medicine Specialist, Japanese Society of Infectious Diseases, and others.

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＜Speaker ２＞　13:40~14:10

Analysis of Crowd Behavior in Large-Scale Spaces Using Artificial Intelligence

　What can be done to safely hold a large-scale event during the spread of a new coronavirus? We have been measuring and simulating the flow of crowds at fireworks displays, theaters, and stadiums using artificial intelligence technology. In this presentation, we will introduce a recent research case where we used the results of our research.

Masaki Onishi: Research Team Leader, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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＜Speaker ３＞　14:10~14:40

Simulations of the Economy in COVID-19 Pandemic Based on Large-scale Data

　We report results of simulations of the economy in which firms interact with each other through supply chains to replicate actual and large-scale data. In this talk, we show the results of COVID-19 simulations and the capability of the simulation to estimate other economic risks, such as earthquakes and tsunamis, and extreme climate events. Since the conventional approaches of economics cannot deal with the issue, i.e., complex behavior of supply chains, the simulations are unique. Also, the simulations are interdisciplinary in the sense that they require the knowledge of network science, high performance computing, and big data treatment.

Hiroyasu Inoue: Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo

SESSION 4(14:48-16:20)

New Developments in Disaster Culture

＜Collaboration among the private sector, local governments, and universities＞

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＜Speaker １＞　14:50~15:15

New Developments in Inheriting the Memory of Disasters

Hiroshi Okumura: Professor, the Graduate School of Humanities , Kobe University. Modern Japanese history. Inheritance of disaster culture.

＜Speaker 2: video＞　15:15~15:50

The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Digital Archive Project of Sun Television’s video.

　It has been 27 years since the great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake that left 6,434 people dead. Sun TV in Kobe has been working on digital archive project about earthquake disaster video at Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake Disaster Materials Collection of Kobe University. As of March 2022, 99 video of Sun TV are available on the internet and more videos are to be added little by little in the future. The aim of this project is to make the videos taken by TV stations serve as a tool for disaster research and for students to learn about disaster prevention. However, there is a barrier to releasing the footage: portrait rights. So, what are the criteria used to discuss and decide whether or not to release the footage? I will introduce the process, problems, and future prospects.

Yuki Fujioka: News caster, Sun Television Inc.／Kazuko Sasaki: Academic Researcher, Center for Regional Collaboration, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University

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＜Speaker 3＞　15:50~16:20 

Utilization of disaster video records for research

In the case of a large-scale disaster, it is often difficult to confirm what kind of event has occurred, and this presentation will introduce research examples of how various types of video recordings have been used to confirm such events and to contribute to the resolution of the mechanism of disaster occurrence. The speaker will also talk about his actual experience of collecting and studying video records of urban fires caused by the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995 and tsunami fires caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011.

Akihiko Hokugo: Professor, Research Center for Urban Safety and Security, Kobe University

Conference for MIRAI BOSAI - DAY 2(16:28-18:00)

（A place for Co-creation in Different Fields）

 

＜Conference for MIRAI BOSAI：Theme #1:＞　16:30~17:25

"What are the social and economic countermeasures against human infectious viruses that may take place in the future?" 

１．How can we use economic simulation and behavioral analysis in policy making?

２．What is the vision of life in After-COVID-19 2050?

​３．How can disaster prevention technology be linked to business?

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Speakers：

Goh Ohji, Masaki Onishi, Hiroyasu Inoue

Moderator：

Toshimori Otazawa: Professor, Graduate School of Engineering Department of Civil Engineering, Kobe University

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＜Conference for MIRAI BOSAI：Theme #2:＞　17:25~18:00

Practice of public-private academic cooperation and the role of each sector

１．What is the power of the civilians in inheriting the memories of disasters? 

２．What is an ideal way of a university that implements the integration of theory and practice and manages the power of the people and the role of the public with intelligence?  

Speakers：

Hiroshi Okumura, Kazuko Sasaki, Akihiko Hokugo

Moderator：

Hiroshi Okumura: Professor, the Graduate School of Humanities , Kobe University.