| 9:30~ | Registration |
| 10:00~10:05 |
Opening Remarks (Prof. Kazuhito Hashimoto, NIMS President) |
| 10:05~10:10 | Guest Speech (Cabinet Office) |
| 10:10~10:15 | Guest Speech (MEXT) |
| 10:15~11:00 |
President's Lecture "Japan's Innovation National System and NIMS's new challenges as Designated National R&D Institute" President Kazuhito Hashimoto (NIMS) |
| 11:00~12:00 |
Industry Leader Lecture (Japanese)* "Major role of NIMS for Science & Technology innovation" Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada, Chairman of the Board, TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION |
| 12:00~13:00 | Core Time for Poster Presentation |
| 13:30~13:50 | NIMS Award Ceremony |
| 13:50~14:35 |
NIMS Award-Winning Lecture 1 "Development of a New Cathode Material LixCoO2" Dr. Koichi Mizushima Executive Fellow, Toshiba Research Consulting Corporation |
| 14:35~15:20 |
NIMS Award-Winning Lecture 2 (Japanese)* "The Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery - the present, the past and the future -" Dr. Akira Yoshino, Advisor, Asahi Kasei Corp. |
| 15:20~15:50 | Core Time for Poster Presentation |
| 15:50~16:35 |
Invited Lecture 1 "MINATEC and CEA-Tech : At the core of the French innovation hub of Grenoble" Dr. Jean-Charles Guibert, Director, MINATEC, France |
| 16:35~17:20 |
Invited Lecture 2 "How can we solve our urban climate and energy problems? An integrated approach from material to city scale." Prof. Dr. Jan Carmeliet, ETH Zürich/EMPA, Switzerland |
| 17:20~17:30 | Academic Poster Session |