November 19, 1999
Tokyo, Japan

Program

Place:	Akasaka Prince Hotel 3rd Floor, Queen Room 1-2, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan 102-8585 Tel: +81.3.3234.1111 Fax: +81.3.3262.5163
13:00	Registration
13:30	Welcome and Opening Remarks Seiichi Shimada, Senior Executive Managing Director & Chief Information Officer, Mitsui & Co. (Chairman, Information Industry Group, Keidanren)
13:35	Current Legislative Trends and Government Involvement Ryozo Hayashi, Director-General for Machinery and Information Industry Policy, MITI Kannichirou Aritomi, Director-General of Telecommunications, Business Department, MPT Elliot E. Maxwell, Special Advisor to the Secretary for the Digital Economy, US Department of Commerce Philippe Paulin, Councellor (Economic and Commercial), EU Delegation John Dryden (Head of Division) & Taizo Nakatomi (Principal Administrator), Information Computer and Communications Policy Division, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD (video participation)
14:35	Discussion Moderator: Takaya Ishida, Senior Chief Researcher, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. Additional Discussants: Fuminori Inagaki, Director, Office of Information Policy Planning, MITI Junichiro Miyazaki, Director of Computer Communications Division, Telecommunications Business Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MPT Mark Bohannon, Chief Counsel for Technology and Counsellor to the Under Secretary for Technology, US Department of Commerce (telephone participation) Nigel Hickson, Head, Information Security Policy, UK Department of Industry (telephone participation) Richard Schlechter, Detached National Expert, Directorate-General XIII, European Commission (telephone participation)
15:10	Coffee Break
15:30	Expert Panel Professor Takashi Uchida, Tokyo University, Faculty of Law Presentation: Preparation of Legal Environment for Electronic Signatures Stewart Baker, Attorney at Law, Steptoe & Johnson LLP Presentation: Electronic Signature and Authentication in Japan: A US Perspective Christopher Kuner, Attorney at Law, Morrison & Foerster LLP Presentation: Overview of National Regulation
17:00	Discussion Moderator: Ruth Day, Executive Director, ILPF Additional Discussants: Members of the Government Panel, ILPF and Keidanren members
18:00	Closing Remarks Masanobu Katoh, Chairman, ILPF
18:30	Reception Sponsored by ILPF member companies (additional speakers and sponsors to be decided)