Taro Shimada, Corporate Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Toshiba Corporation; Has Agreed to Keynote the “QKD & Quantum Networking Vertical” at IQT-NYC on May 19
(IQTEvent) Taro Shimada, Corporate Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Toshiba Corporation; has agreed to keynote the “QKD & Quantum Networking Vertical” at IQT-NYC at 1:10 on May 19 at IQT-NYC. Toshiba is the Vertical Sponsor of the “QKD & Quantum Networking Session.”
Taro Shimada joined Toshiba in October 2018 as Corporate Digital Business Chief Strategy Officer. In April 2019 he was appointed Chief Digital Officer, responsible for supporting Toshiba’s digital transformation and spearheading strategic business creation and promotion.
In carrying out these responsibilities, Mr. Shimada draws on a wealth of experience in hardware development, including aircraft; in process consultation ranging from automobiles to precision machinery design and heavy industry; and in product life cycle management software. An expert in Factory Automation, he has advised many of Japan’s leading global manufacturers on digitization, and is currently an advisor to the Robot Revolution & Industrial IoT Initiative, and to the IoT Acceleration Lab. He has also contributed to the activities of Industrie 4.0 in Germany and Connected Industries in Japan.
Mr. Shimada began his career in1990 at ShinMaywa Industries Kobe, where he worked on aircraft for Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. In 1999 he joined Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, a part of Siemens, and took on a series of progressively senior post at Siemens KK, and at Siemens HQ in Germany. Immediately prior to joining Toshiba, Mr. Shimada was Executive Operating Officer at Siemens K.K.
Mr. Shimada is a graduate of Konan University. His relaxes by playing the drums, and enjoys all genres of music.
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