October 1st - October 5th 2013
Makuhari Messe
CEATEC JAPAN 2013 featured exhibits from 587 companies and organizations (Overseas participants: 163 companies/ organizations from 18 countries) and was held over 5 days from October 1st to 5th at Makuhari Messe.
Under the theme “Smart Innovation — Technology for Future Society and Lifestyles — this year’s CEATEC JAPAN saw a number of proposals in technological innovations by uniting of diverse industries such as “automotive”, “medical and healthcare”, and “energy”, as well as new lifestyles made possible by next generation video technologies such as 4K and 8K televisions that showcased the latest trends in IT & electronics and the industry’s vitality and underlying power.
What’s more, the linkage between the IT & electronics and automotive industries has further tightened this year. Various exhibits/ events representing the deeper connection between IT & electronics and automobile were on display, such as demonstrations of more realistic autonomous driving and devices that support automobile safety/comfort, as well as cooperative symposiums with two other shows – ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013 and the Tokyo Motor Show 2013 both coming to Tokyo in Autumn 2013.
At Lifestyle & Society Stage, technologies, products and services that make people’s lifestyle more flourishing and comfortable garnered attention, such as the next-generation video technologies like 4K TV, the latest mobile devices including wearable terminals, the next-generation wireless communications technologies like 5G anticipated for ultra-fast, large-capacity communications, V2H (vehicle-to-home) and HEMS that interconnect and control homes, energy, and consumer electronics, and cloud services that promote usage of ICT.
At Key Technologies Stage, the world’s leading-edge, highly functional electronic components and devices were introduced that support “innovations” including automotive sensing devices to control automotive equipment and product functions, NFC (near-field communications) technology to realize non-contact information transmission system, key devices to support the development of more compact and energy-efficient smartphones and tablets, and various devices for medical and welfare equipment.
At Lifestyle Innovation 2013, a large vehicle demonstration area was setup inside Halls 7 and 8, where Toyota and Honda gave demonstrations and prepared test-drive sessions for personal vehicles and mobility equipment, as well as autonomous driving demonstration by Nissan.
At the ICT Suite/Electronics Suite, various business trend Theme Plazas gathered including cloud computing plaza and programmable device plaza. At the Research Park, R&D technologies of IT & electronics by university labs, university- venture corporations, corporations and public institutions were introduced.
Because the admission on the last day of the show (Saturday, October 5th) was free of charge, special workshops such as Electronics Workshop for Juniors/Kids, and All Japan Robot Sumo Tournament were held again, filled with young future engineers.
| Stage/Zone | Exhibitors | No. of booths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | Overseas | Total | |||
| Lifestyle & Society Stage | 122 | 58 | 180 | 832 | |
| ICT Suite | 19 | 43 | 62 | 125 | |
| Key Technologies Stage | Semiconductors, Devices Zone | 58 | 30 | 88 | 357 |
| Electronic Components Zone | 34 | 15 | 49 | 107 | |
| Batteries, Materials, Manufacturing Equipment Zone | 67 | 5 | 72 | 83 | |
| Electronics Suite | 25 | 10 | 35 | 32 | |
| Lifestyle Innovation 2013 | 99 | 2 | 101 | 803 | |
| Total | 424 | 163 | 587 | 2,339 | |
| Tue. Oct.1 | Wed. Oct.2 | Thu. Oct.3 | Fri. Oct.4 | Sat. Oct.5 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registrants/Japan | 13,406 | 20,969 | 26,869 | 34,039 | 18,667 | 113,950 |
| Registrants/Overseas | 197 | 323 | 289 | 401 | 177 | 1,387 |
| Registrants/Press | 5,573 | 5,114 | 4,725 | 4,670 | 4,179 | 24,261 |
| Exhibitor-related | 7,301 | 5,824 | 5,183 | 5,027 | 4,525 | 27,860 |
| Total | 20,211 | 26,597 | 32,074 | 39,333 | 23,133 | 141,348 |
