"Connected Ink 2024" has come to a close.
We are excited to announce that next year’s event is scheduled for Friday, November 14, and Saturday, November 15, 2025.
Highlights from this year’s event are available soon on our YouTube channel. Don’t miss it!

Timetable

Timetable

Day 1 (11.15)

14:30- Reception open (15:00~ Gate open)

Day 1 (11.15)

14:30- Reception open (15:00~ Gate open)
15:15-15:30
Main Stage

Opening - The theme of the event is
"Ordinary Days" 

Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide

The theme for Connected Ink 2024 is “Ordinary Days". Are our Ordinary Days Creative Chaos? In the opening, Nobu Ide, President of Wacom and the Connected Ink Village, will touch on the thoughts behind this theme and declare the start of the creative chaos. Will also introduce our partners who have colored this event.

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15:15-15:30
Main Stage

 


Opening - The theme of the event is
"Ordinary Days" 

Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide

The theme for Connected Ink 2024 is “Ordinary Days". Are our Ordinary Days Creative Chaos? In the opening, Nobu Ide, President of Wacom and the Connected Ink Village, will touch on the thoughts behind this theme and declare the start of the creative chaos. Will also introduce our partners who have colored this event.

Register now

15:30-15:55
Main Stage
 
Ordinary Days x Education

Takaaki Fujii, Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide


At last year's Connected Ink 2023, we presented a session exploring the potential of handwriting and digital ink in education. Our joint efforts have now entered their fourth year, and we have made significant progress in visualizing learning through handwriting and digital ink. As we embark on our fifth year, we will continue to share our vision for the future of learning through a session featuring both CEO.

 

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15:30-15:55
Main Stage
 
Ordinary Days x Education

Takaaki Fujii, Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide


At last year's Connected Ink 2023, we presented a session exploring the potential of handwriting and digital ink in education. Our joint efforts have now entered their fourth year, and we have made significant progress in visualizing learning through handwriting and digital ink. As we embark on our fifth year, we will continue to share our vision for the future of learning through a session featuring both CEO.

 
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16:00-16:25
Main Stage

 

Fill your days with creativity through Galaxy AI

Juwan Park, Soomin Lee, Swan Kim


S Pen, the result of Wacom-Samsung cooperation, and Galaxy AI maximize users’ creativity, productivity, and convenience in life. The Galaxy Tab S10 series, Samsung's New Tablet, will bring those experiences to even more users, now on a larger, more immersive display.

 

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16:00-16:25
Main Stage
 
Fill your days with creativity through Galaxy
Juwan Park, Soomin Lee, Swan Kim


S Pen, the result of Wacom-Samsung cooperation, and Galaxy AI maximize users’ creativity, productivity, and convenience in life. The Galaxy Tab S10 series, Samsung's New Tablet, will bring those experiences to even more users, now on a larger, more immersive display.

 

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16:30-17:15
Mini Stage

 

Digital coloring workshop with Seigakuin High School


Seigakuin High School, known for its strong focus on STEAM education, is participating in Connected Ink again. Using Wacom pen displays from their box art creation class, students will host a digital coloring experience with their original sketches inspired by the theme 'Ordinary Days.' This event is open to everyone. Come and enjoy coloring your Ordinary Days with the Seigakuin students!

 

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16:30-17:15
Mini Stage

 

Digital coloring workshop with Seigakuin High School


Seigakuin High School, known for its strong focus on STEAM education, is participating in Connected Ink again. Using Wacom pen displays from their box art creation class, students will host a digital coloring experience with their original sketches inspired by the theme 'Ordinary Days.' This event is open to everyone. Come and enjoy coloring your Ordinary Days with the Seigakuin students!

 

Register now

17:30-17:55
Main Stage

 

"Connecting People and Imagination:
Learning with the Sound of Writing"

Mai Iwata, Yuki Umezawa, Ayane Tanaka, Tomohiro Matsuda (Pilot Corporation)
Shunsuke Nakamura (Shikumi Design)
Yurie Ono, Kohei Tanaka (Wacom)

This year, PILOT and Wacom collaborated to support learning through writing sounds under the theme of “Learning Experience. We have created writing sounds that make learning fun and make you want to write, with the sound professionals Shikumi Design. In this talk session, the members who actually studied the project will introduce their aims for learning with writing sounds, as well as episodes of difficulties and innovations in the development of the system.

 

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17:30-17:55
Main Stage

 

"Connecting People and Imagination:
Learning with the Sound of Writing"

Mai Iwata, Yuki Umezawa, Ayane Tanaka, Tomohiro Matsuda (Pilot Corporation)
Shunsuke Nakamura (Shikumi Design)
Yurie Ono, Kohei Tanaka (Wacom)

This year, PILOT and Wacom collaborated to support learning through writing sounds under the theme of “Learning Experience. We have created writing sounds that make learning fun and make you want to write, with the sound professionals Shikumi Design. In this talk session, the members who actually studied the project will introduce their aims for learning with writing sounds, as well as episodes of difficulties and innovations in the development of the system.

 

 

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18:00-18:25
Main Stage
 
What is the purpose of establishing
the Animation System Community?
Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide
Yasuhiro Todoroki

Japanese animation is now widely viewed in Japan and abroad through various platforms, and the market has doubled in size over the past decade. However, the number of production orders has been unstoppably increased, and the challenges of human resources to support quality and the digitization of production processes are piling up. We will discuss the purpose of establishment of the Animation System Community that effectively utilizes digital technology while looking to the future of the industry.

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18:00-18:25
Main Stage

 

What is the purpose of establishing the
Animation System Community?
Nobutaka(Nobu) Ide
Yasuhiro Todoroki

Japanese animation is now widely viewed in Japan and abroad through various platforms, and the market has doubled in size over the past decade. However, the number of production orders has been unstoppably increased, and the challenges of human resources to support quality and the digitization of production processes are piling up. We will discuss the purpose of establishment of the Animation System Community that effectively utilizes digital technology while looking to the future of the industry.

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18:30 -19:00
Mini Stage

Live demo of hand-painted Koinobori
(carp banner)


The members of the Koishi-kai will take turns to paint the 2-meter Koi Nobori (carp banner). Although they have been pursuing the same field of koinobori, their works were so different from each other. Can they make a single carp banner together?

 

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18:30-19:00
Mini Stage
 
Live demo of hand-painted Koinobori
(carp banner)


The members of the Koishi-kai will take turns to paint the 2-meter Koi Nobori (carp banner). Although they have been pursuing the same field of koinobori, their works were so different from each other. Can they make a single carp banner together?

 

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19:00-19:10
Main Stage

 

Dance performance - "Beat / Metamorphose"

NORA

"Wrapping my heartbeat warmly. And when I listen gently."

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19:00-19:10
Main Stage

 

Dance performance - "Beat / Metamorphose"
NORA
 
"Wrapping my heartbeat warmly. And when I listen gently." 
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19:15-19:30
Main Stage

 

Hamamatsu Gakugei High School's DNA for creating creators
 
Fumitake Tokai (Hamamatsu Gakugei High School)
KIMUKIMU
Ayumi Muramatsu

Mr. Fumitake Tokai, a teacher at Hamamatsu Gakugei High School will introduce the creative activities of the school's art department in the local community with a video. In addition, two former creators (KIMUKIMU and Ayumi Muramatsu) who have graduated from the school and are working on their own creative activities will appear on stage to talk about their daily lives as they pour their hearts into their creations. The two creators will also perform live production at the booth.

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19:15-19:30
Main Stage

 

Hamamatsu Gakugei High School's DNA for
creating creators
Fumitake Tokai (Hamamatsu Gakugei High School)
KIMUKIMU
Ayumi Muramatsu

Mr. Fumitake Tokai, a teacher at Hamamatsu Gakugei High School will introduce the creative activities of the school's art department in the local community with a video. In addition, two former creators (KIMUKIMU and Ayumi Muramatsu) who have graduated from the school and are working on their own creative activities will appear on stage to talk about their daily lives as they pour their hearts into their creations. The two creators will also perform live production at the booth.

 

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19:30-19:40
Main Stage

 

Vocal and guitar performance - "Music2Ink"

Hiro
Oggy

"Playing music is an art of drawing strokes. Literally."

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19:30-19:40
Main Stage

 

Vocal and guitar performance - "Music2Ink"

Hiro
Oggy

"Playing music is an art of drawing strokes. Literally."

 

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19:45-20:00
Main Stage

 

Dokomi - Partnership with the biggest
comic community in Germany

Andreas Degen (Co-Founder, Dokomi)

Dokomi is the biggest Anime Japan Expo in Germany with over 150,000 visitors. Wacom is a partner of this event, running a booth, a stage program, and inviting artists from Japan. Andreas Degen, co-founder of Dokomi, will talk about the concept and passion of Dokomi and his thoughts on the collaboration with Wacom.

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19:45-20:00
Main Stage
 
Dokomi - Partnership with
the biggest comic
community in Germany

Andreas Degen (Co-Founder, Dokomi)

Dokomi is the biggest Anime Japan Expo in Germany with over 150,000 visitors. Wacom is a partner of this event, running a booth, a stage program, and inviting artists from Japan. Andreas Degen, co-founder of Dokomi, will talk about the concept and passion of Dokomi and his thoughts on the collaboration with Wacom.

 

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20:05-20:30
Main Stage

 

Music x Drawing x Dance performance - "MUSHA"

ktmy
Masayuki Kagei
NORA

"I'm nothing. And that's my everything."

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20:05-20:30
Main Stage
 
Music x Drawing x Dance performance
- "MUSHA"

ktmy
Masayuki Kagei
NORA

"I'm nothing. And that's my everything."

 

Register now