Featured Speakers


Keynote Speaker: Mark Lucovsky

Technical Director, Engineering, Google Inc.

Wednesday, October 18
9:00-9:20am, Insights Tent

Mark Lucovsky is a Technical Director of Engineering at Google Inc. Before joining Google, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, Mark was a founding member and principal architect of the 32-bit Windows team where he designed and coded major portions of the Windows operating system.

Prior to Microsoft, Mark has designed and coded operating system internals for a variety UNIX and proprietary os based mini-computers, mini-supercomputers, mainframes, pcs, and workstations.


Guest Speaker: Yoshimitsu Kobayashi

CTO and Managing Executive Officer, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Wednesday, October 18
11:45-1:30pm, Insights Tent

Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, received a Master degree of Science and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He studied radiation Physics in Israel and Italy, after that, joined Mitsubishi Chemical Industry Limited (the previous name before merger with Mitsubishi Petrochemical Company) in 1974. He started his service developing heterogeneous catalysts at the Yokohama Research Center and jumped into the world of Optical Recording Media in 1984. Dr. Kobayashi was General Manager of Information Storage Products Department and served as a President of Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM), CEO of MKM, and was Executive officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation.

He has been a Chief Technology Officer and a Managing Executive officer of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and also a President of Mitsubishi Chemical Group Science and Technology Research Center Inc since 2005.

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation is the largest integrated chemical company in Japan and one of the world's largest. In October 2005, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation and Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation jointly established a holding company, Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation by a stock-for-stock exchange. www.m-kagaku.co.jp/index_en.htm.