The keynote lecture given by Dr. Jun-ichi Sato (President, The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies / Former President, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers / Advisor, IH) provided with us of the resilience characteristics in terms of mechanical and energy engineering, reflecting the soul-searching in the cases of design of structures and accident response. Also, we have shared the recognition form the keynote lecture presented by Prof. Erick Hollnagel (University of Southern Denmark / Chief Consultant at the Centre for Quality Improvement, Region of Southern Denmark). In addition, Prof. Noriyoshi Tsuchiya（Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Tohoku University）, Mr. Akira Doi (Corporate Officer , Kokusai Kogyo Co., Ltd.), Prof. Motoaki Sugiura (Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University) and Dr. Norishige Morimoto (Director, IBM Research – Tokyo) respectively presented the lectures about the application of geothermal energy, building resilient towns “Green Community Tagonishi, identification and measurement of the factors of power to live, The future vision of resilience by cognitive computing. Form their illustrations of some real-life examples, an orientation towards the implementation into societies could be obtained.

Prior to the panel discussion, Prof. Makoto Takahashi (Faculty of Engineering, Tohoku University), who is one of the translators of the book written by Prof. Hollnagel, explained the idea of resilience engineering and pointed out that we had to not only “never repeat the same mistake”, but also “anticipate the mistake in advance and have it never made“. Then, in the panel discussion, the methodologies to realize his assertion were discussed animatedly. From the successful examples after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake presented by each panelist, we found that experts or experienced engineers, who have operated machines or system, involved in the actual places and prioritized in their responses under the circumstance of insufficient amount of time and resources. On the other hand, due to the lack of reliance from citizens in general, there were some examples in which knowledge of experts or functions of mass media could not fully be exploited. Also, our age has yielded to the process-cut civilization in which people tend to gain consciousness on the direct relationship between their own acts and results, and they have had a higher propensity for to behave within the limited scope of experiences than before. Then the panel reached the conclusion that experts and citizens in general have to have the same recognition that the actual places, actual things and realities can successfully be explained in terms of science and technology. Then, we have found that gathering such experiences is most probably important, and confirmed the importance of mass media and activities of academic societies.