Joichi Ito

President,
Chiba Institute of Technology

Digital Architect, venture capitalist, entrepreneur, author, and scholar. He works to respond to complex challenges such as education, our democracy and governance, and redesigning systems of scholarship and science. He has served as Director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and as a director of Sony and The New York Times. He is a member of the board of directors of Digital Garage, Inc. He is a member of the Digital Agency's Digital Society Planning Council. He is a co-chair of the Committee on Digital Transformation in the Corporate Sector at the Japan Association of Corporate Executives. He is also the Co-founder of Neurodiversity School in Tokyo. He is the author of many books, including “Neurodiversity” (Japanese/Forbes Japan), "AI-Driven” (Japanese/SB Shinsho), “(Revised Edition) Technology as a Culture” (Japanese/Kodansha), and “Whiplash”(English/Grand Central)..　 Ito is currently working on a book titled “Practice of Change” based on his Keio University PhD dissertation with the same name.