15:05-15:15

Opening - What is "Back to the Forest"

Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide

The theme for Connected Ink in 2023 is "Back to the Forest". In the opening, Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide, CEO and President of Wacom and the President of Connected Ink Village, will touch on the thoughts behind this theme and declare the start of Creative Chaos.

15:15-15:45

Examples of Creative Education

Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide, Hamamatsu Gakugei High School, Kazuki Umezawa

Wacom is taking on the challenge of creating new ways of learning from various perspectives, regardless of whether they are digital or analog, in educational settings throughout Japan. Case studies from Hamamatsu Gakugei High School in Shizuoka Prefecture, Omiya Koryo High School in Saitama Prefecture, and Saitama Sakae High School, also in Saitama Prefecture, via live broadcast from the sites and with invited guests.

15:45-16:00

Boost Your Curiosity

Mayu Morimoto

Introducing the latest information about Casio Computer's education business.

16:00-16:30

Expanding Learning with Handwriting and Digital Ink

Takaaki Fujii, Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide

At last year's Connected Ink 2022, the CEOs of both companies communicated through sessions on the possibilities of education with handwriting and digital ink. Now in its third year, the initiative between the two companies has made progress in visualizing learning through handwriting and digital ink. As we enter the fourth year of the project, we will continue the session with the CEOs of both companies to discuss how we aim to expand learning.

16:30-17:00

Galaxy Tablet Strategy and S Pen

Asher Choi, Juwan Park, Choonghyun Nam

Samsung's team of speakers have gathered to share their story on how this year's Galaxy Tab S9 series were made. Why did we decide to enable the S Pen on all 5 tablets launched this year? Find out the strategy behind our product planning and much more at our session.

17:00-17:30

Shirogumi's remote production

Harunobu Fujii, Momiji, Tatsunori Kato, Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide

Introduce examples of the use of remote desktop to support Shirogumi's content production, and the latest information of Project Mercury, which is currently under development.

17:30-18:00

WacomVRPen Tracking Technology

Hiroshi Fujioka, Kei Aoki

Will introduce the latest status of Wacom's new XR business ”VR Pen project” and 3D space Pen tracking technology, as well as the talk about importance of tracking technology for Wacom's XR business inviting tech partner "3D incoporated".

18:00-18:30

Wacom Yuify Update

Ryo Inaba, Hirotaka Suzuki, Jeff, Ko, Ryoji Ishii

Celsys x Wacom joint talk session to discuss ”Wacom Yuify”, a new service under development for secure record of creation and beyond. 
Talk participants will provide basic introduction of Wacom Yuify first and then share current service development status. Future plans of Wacom Yuify will be discussed as well, including possibility of adding new value/features of "KISEKI Art ", another ongoing research project.

18:30-19:00

LIMITS High School Exhibition

Saitama Sakae High School, Eiri Girl's High School, Masaaki Fujita, ktym

LIMITS, the Freestyle battle of Creative. Within 20 minutes, creators challenge  and go beyond their limits of creative expression. The first LIMITS High School tournament was held in August 2023, with 100+ high school students from multiple genres such as fine art, manga, animation, and 3D. At this Connected Ink 2023, We will see an exhibition by the winner and the runner-up of this LIMITS High School tournament. 

19:00-20:00

Nuko-sama chan’s Online seminar

Nukosama chan

We will be broadcasting the popular 'Wacom Online Seminar' live on the Wacom official YouTube channel, featuring Nuko-sama chan as a guest lecturer. Join us for a live drawing and talk event, where we'll delve into the behind-the-scenes of creating trending content, including daily posted illustrated diaries! We will also be taking questions from the audience via comments on the day. Please feel free to ask plenty of questions!"

20:00-20:15

Noh x Contemporary Dance

Shonosuke Okura
NORA(Mizuki Mizokami, Midori Ide, Yukina Shimizu, Saaya Takaoka)
Costume : Yoichi Iwato

Welcoming Mr. Shonosuke Okura, a Noh performer, will create the future from the fusion of the traditional Japanese classical art (Noh) and contemporary dance.

20:15-20:30

EARTHFUL SONG

Shinnosuke (from Scissors)

Performance by filmmaker/musician Shinnoske. This is an unreleased song by the band Scissors. The band felt it would be in sync with the worldview that Connected Ink has been theming to date. Earthful is a coined word. We are living on this earth. We were born in this time. The EARTHFUL SONG is sounded by gently placing a big question. There is no answer in this song.