【EN】AI-enabled Crisis Computing: Latest Trends and Future Direction
- Date: Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 14:00-17:00
- Venue: Large Lecture Hall, National Center of Sciences Building, Hitotsubashi University (Chiyoda Campus)
- Purpose: Open conversations on AI-enabled crisis computing with policymakers, practitioners, and media professionals
- Contents
The symposium provides open conversations on AI-enabled crisis management with policymakers,
practitioners, and media professionals, identifying challenges and opportunities.
• Part I (14:00-15:10): How AI has transformed crisis management – use cases for conflict resolution and
disaster management.
• Part II (15:20-16:30): Moderated discussions on common issues (e.g., open source AI and access to
data, multilingual and multicultural environments, and particular issues facing Japan/ Asia-Pacific)
• Networking time (16:30-17:00)
- Issues and speakers:
•AI-enabled analytics：Martin Wählisch
Associate Professor of Transformative Technologies, Innovation and Global Affairs
School of Government, University of Birmingham
•AI for Social Sensing during Crises：Muhammad Imran
Principal Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute
•AI for humanitarian action：Andro Kortis
Product Lead, DISHA (Data Insights for Social & Humanitarian Action), UN Global Pulse
•AI and Negotiating Access in Complex Environments：Charles McJilton
Senior Adviser, Frontline Associates/Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
•AI for nuclear nonproliferation：Nobumasa Akiyama
Director, Center for Global Online Education, HItotsubashi University
Director, Center for Disarmament, Science and Technology
- Moderator：
Sumie Nakaya
Associate Professor, Center for Global Online Education, Hitotsubashi University
- Participation fee：free
- Capacity limit：60 people (venue)
- Language：English * Simultaneous translation from EN to JP is available at the venue.
・Registration：https://forms.gle/r7LQ95nawL4Yqu14A
・Contact：Center for Global Online Education, Hitotsubashi University（goe-center-jimu@arinori.hit-u.ac.jp）
