A student M1 Junyan CHEN from our laboratory won the travel grant for SYWL (Student, Young Professionals Women in Engineering, Life Members) Workshop from IEEE Japan Council Student Activities Committe. Congratulations, Junyan! Such a highly collaborative opportunity over different generations and areas with much diversity should be an essential key to accerelate digital innovation and sustainable development. I believe IEEE/IEEE Computer Society strongly support such acitivity and direction.

If elected as IEEE CS President-Elect 2024, I will strengthen digital open science and environments such as providing remote conference and community building facility supports, reducing barriers to digital libraries and conferences, enriching online courses, and accelerating related standardization to handle the current difficult circumstances with much more geographic, gender, generation diversity and inclusion. Take a look at my position statements at http://www.washi.cs.waseda.ac.jp/washizaki/ And, don’t forget casting your vote for IEEE-CS Election by Sep 11th!