The Association for the Promotion of Electric Vehicles (APEV) has 
announced the launch of the fifth "EV Design Contest for International 
Students." 
From 2013 to 2019, APEV organized biannual "EV Design Contest for 
International Students" in conjunction with the Tokyo Motor Show. In 
2021 it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the fifth 
contest will be held with a major revamp in 2022. 
We are pleased to announce the report of the pre-workshop held on March 
27th.

★Date and time: Sunday, March 27, 2022 from 13:00 to 17:40
★ Participants: Students, teachers, sponsors, supporters, executive 
committee, total of about 60 people
★ Place: Hybrid of webinar by Real and WebEx in the conference room of 
IBM Japan Headquarters
★ Timetable
<Start time> <Lap time > <Title>
13:00 　　0:05 　Orientation
13:05　　 0:10 　Contest overview
13:15 　　0:30 　How to proceed with the workshop (1)
13:45　　 0:25 　Keynote Speech: Chairman Dr.Fujiwara
14:10　　 0:05 　Short break
14:15　　 1:00 　Announcements from supporting companies + Things I want 
students to think about
15:15 　　0:05 　How to proceed with the workshop (2)
15:20 　　0:20 　Long break
15:40 　　0:15 　How to proceed with the workshop (3)
15:55 　　1:25 　Workshop: Future Exploration & Future Scenario Creation
17:20 　　0:05 　Short break
17:25 　　0:15 　Summary

★ Contents
■ Orientation
The following items were explained by the material (* Note) from 
Genichiro Yasujima, Administrator of the executive committee.
1. Today's menu
2. Timetable
3. Introducing the executive committee

■ Outline of Design Contest 2022
Mr.Toshio Yamashita, Chairman of the Executive Committee, explained the 
following items using materials (* Note).
1.Purpose
1）Theme : "Social Design and EV" Creation of society in 2040
2）Finding："Mobility Architect" as next-generation human resources
3）Student⇔Company ：Searching for a valuable future together
4）Collaboration： Creating a team that transcends schools and countries 
2. Schedule
3. Jury members and supporting companies
4. Draft scoring criteria

■ How to proceed with the workshop
Mr.Toru Nakayama IBM Japan Business Transformation Consultant explained 
the following items using materials (* Note).
1. What I would like you to take home at the pre-workshop
2. Flow of EV design contest period and positioning of pre-workshop
3. About the approach to construct the future hypothesis
4. How to proceed with the pre-workshop-Overall flow
5. First half Keynote speech ・ Setting "future issue" from corporate 
presentation
6. Worksheet (1) Future issue (hypothesis of change)
7. Second half: Exploring the future & emergence of future scenarios in 
the breakout room
8. Future exploration
9. Worksheet (2) Creating a hypothesis of unexpected changes
10. Emergence of future scenarios

■Lecture "Social Design in 2040 from the Viewpoint of Mobility x IT [
Creation]"
Screening committee chairperson Dr.Hiroshi Fujiwara explained the 
following items using materials (* Note).
  -Consideration of social background in 2040-
1. Social conditions (what are the means of people's lives and 
transportation?)
2. How is mobility, including EV, evolving?
3. How is social infrastructure evolving?
4. What value does technology give people?

■ Announcement of 3 sponsors
1. Mr. Takeru Kyan, Principal of Car Design Academy, explained with the 
material (* Note).
• The Car Design Academy (CDA) is an international educational service 
that offers design courses online.
• What to expect from this contest
 Emotional proposals / Proposals that focus on people, not things
 For technical students: Don't be technology first
 For design students: Don't be styling first
2. Mr. Yoshiyuki Kawashima, CTO Automotive Industry IBM Japan, explained 
using the material (* Note).
・Circular Economy/What is Electric Vehicle ?/ Architecture change of 
the Car/Similar lesson learned in the past - Case Home Electric 
appliance/The figure of Car: Internet of the Things Device/Increasing 
data: example of car probe data/IT Technology's Evolution
3.Mr. Akihiro Kawanabe, Director Product Planning Department, MONET 
Technologies Inc. explained using the material (* Note).
• Company profile / Society that MONET aims for / Social issues that it 
faces / MONET = Platformer in the age of autonomous driving / What is 
MaaS? System x Mobility x Know-how / Case study
■ Workshop: Future exploration & future scenario creation
In the second half, we created two breakout rooms (BOR) with WebEx and 
asked the participating students to select them, in which we made a 
hypothesis of unexpected changes from future exploration.
BOR1: People and EV and society / environment and EV 　　BOR2: 
Technology and EV
Participating students, supporting companies, supporters, and organizers 
actively exchanged opinions online.
＊Note: Presentation materials (Japanese and English) are summarized 
here.
<https://www.apev.jp/contest/2022/work_files.html>

■Summary
Finally, after thanking the students and related parties who 
participated the pre-workshop, Mr,Toshio Yamashita stated "The 
sponsoring companies are interested in what kind of society students are 
envisioning and trying to create in 2040. I look forward to the 
proposals that come out of everyone's hearts."
Finally, I concluded that I would like you to apply by the deadline for 
participation on May 10th, and also to talk to your acquaintances. 

■ Click here for a report with photos
https://www.apev.jp/en/news/20220327Pre-workshop report_APEV.pdf
■ Video recording: Will be released on YouTube later.

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