Baltimore, MD - January 14, 2021 - The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced that Dr. Norihiro Hagita, Program Director of the Japan Science & Technology Agency (JST) Moonshot Program Goal 1, will deliver a keynote presentation at the next annual NISO Plus conference to be held virtually, February 22-25, 2021. Dr. Hagita is Chair and Professor of the Art Science Department at Osaka University of Art. He serves as the research supervisor in the JST CREST research programs on intelligent information processing systems, creating co-experience knowledge and wisdom with human-machine harmonious collaboration, and is a member of the Science Council of Japan . The JST Moonshot Program Goal 1 , which Dr. Hagita is leading, aims to overcome the challenges of a declining birthrate, aging population, and associated labor shortage by realizing a society in which human beings can be free from limitations of body, brain, space, and time by 2050. In