Lecturer Hayashi organized a special session titled "Understanding New Markets by Data Science, Social Science, and Economics" at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2023 (IEEE BigData2023) on 16th December 2023, with Associate Professor Hiroki Sakaji (Hokkaido University) and Professor Naoki Watanabe (Keio University).

https://tetsuwaka.net/UNMDSSSE2023/

Dolores Ordoñez (Director of AnySolution), the Vice President of GAIA-X, Spain, and the member of various data projects and WGs in EU, gave the invited talk entitled "Data Spaces, the new paradigm in the new data economy".

Many presenters and audience attended the special session and engaged in lively discussions about international and domestic data strategy initiatives, technical challenges, and potential new collaborations.