New software, system use cases, and R&D are presented every year at the FORUM8 Design Festival 3Days+Eve. Full-scale DX is making significant progress in enterprises, countries, and municipalities as we speak, with accelerated development into Web3 and Web4, including cloud, AI, and NFT, in addition to digital tiwns, Metaverse, VR and XR.

The 19th Design Festival will kick off Day 1 with the 10th Autonomous Driving / Sustainability Conference followed by the 24th 3D VR Simulation Contest. Various VR simulations and systems and valuable use cases involving the application of Digital Twin and Digital Garden City concepts will be presented. In terms of construction of Metaverse, we are strongly promoting deployment of Metaverse on the WebVR platform “Metavania F8VPS” and new technologies and functions will be presented again this year, such as the linkage between Metaverse and the NFT service “Majimon F8NFTS”.

In the “Published Literature Presentation” session, with the support of VR Promotion Council, the author of each of the newly published books - “Opening New Maps with VR: A Comprehensive Overview of the 3D VR Simulation Contest 2002–2024”, “Encyclopedia of Civil Engineers” – will each deliver his/her presentation, followed by and a networking party to celebrate the release of the new books.

Day 2 will feature a special lecture by Professor Miho Mazereeuw, Associate Professor of MIT School of Architecture and Planning, on “Design Before Disaster”. In addition, the final judging and award ceremony for the 13th Student Cloud Programming World Cup (CPWC) and the 15th Student BIM&VR Design World Cup (VDWC) will be held, where nominated student teams from around the world will compete against each other.

On Day 3, State of the Art Technologies in Expression Association will present the works nominated for 9th Hagura Award and give awards to the winners. The 18th International VR Symposium will also be held on this day. There will also be a special lecture by Professor Masaru Morita, Professor Emeritus of Shibaura Institute of Technology, on the “History of Flood Model Development and Future Prospects for Flood Risk Assessment Models”. The 12th National Resilience Design Award Ceremony will be held afterwards, where various technical works that contribute to national resilience and disaster prevention will be presented. There will also be presentations on the latest updates on FORUM's products and solutions including the AI-supported UC-1 series, newly developed flood inundation analysis, and FEM analysis solutions including Engineer's Studio®.

As in the previous year, we will hold a pre-event festival “Eve” in the Metaverse, a technical tour for invited students and prize winners from around the world as a commemorative event, and a social golf tournament at Camellia Hills to which SPU special users and related parties are invited.

We hope you will take advantage of this great opportunity to learn about FORUM8's software and services, and that this event would help our users and engineers improve their productivity and innovate their companies' management.

Yuji Ito, President, FORUM8 Co., Ltd.