Digitalization will help companies to ensure a better resilience to disruption and guarantee a continuity of their activities. Digitalization is also necessary to develop new forms of work practices such as working from home (WFH) and develop tele-medicine and other remote services. Finally, digital transformation will also help to achieve a green recovery.

Both Japan and the EU have placed digitalization at the center of their recovery strategy post-COVID. Therefore, this webinar will discuss the Japanese and European approaches to digitalization of industry and society, it will highlight the opportunities and challenges and identify areas of cooperation.

This webinar war held on March 3rd 2021 around:

Chair and discussion leader: Françoise NICOLAS, Director, Center for Asian Studies, Ifri

• Motohiro TSUCHIYA, Professor, Keio University
  • Digital transformation as a political and industrial priority in Japan
     
• Reinhilde VEUGELERS, Senior Fellow, Bruegel, Belgium
  • The European approach to industrial digitalization: challenges, opportunities and implications.
     
• Sébastien LECHEVALIER, Professor at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales – EHESS (Paris), President of the France-Japan Foundation
  • Industry 4.0: a comparison of the European and Japanese strategies