Mr.Godbout Philippe
Dassault Systèmes
Managing Director
Philippe started as CAD/CAM/CAE application engineer. He acquired deep knowledge of the Aerospace and Automotive Industries during his 20 year working in different positions at Dassault Systemes.
Since 2020, he has led the Japan geo as Managing Director, building a healthy and creative organization engaging in the market transformation in Manufacturing, Infrastructure and Healthcare segments.
Philippe holds a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Master degree from Universite de Sherbrooke.
Mr.Beltran Jacques
Dassault Systèmes
Cities & Public Services / Vice President
After various positions in the public sector (French Institute of International relations, Office of the French Transport Minister, Council of Paris Region) and in the private sector (AIRBUS, ALSTOM), Jacques Beltran joined Dassault Systèmes in 2019 as Vice President for Cities & Public Services.
In this capacity he is responsible for the worldwide business development and solutions portfolio strategy of Dassault Systèmes in this sector, aiming at accelerating the digital transformation of Cities and public administrations (local & national) by leveraging the power of Virtual Twins.
He studied at Sciences Po Paris, at the military academy of Saint-Cyr and at INSEAD Business School.
Mr.Itou Hidetoshi
Chofu City
Deputy Mayor
Mr.Matsuo Eiichi
Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.
Vice President
Mr.Kuroda Ikuyoshi
PwC Consulting LLC
Technology & Digital Consulting
Senior Manager
Prof.Nakamura Ichiya
iUniversity, President
Ichiya Nakamura Ph.D.
President,iUniversity
http://www.ichiya.org
He also serves as Project Professor at Kyoto University, Advisor to RIKEN, Advisor to Japan eSports Union, Director at YOSHIMOTO, etc. Also known as chairman of Japanese government’s committees including Intellectual Property Committee, Pop Culture WG, etc. Also known as president of various consortiums such as CiP Association, Digital Signage Consortium, Super-human Sports Society, CIRIEC, etc.
He was Professor at Keio University (2006-2020),
Executive Director at Stanford Japan Center (2002-2006),
Visiting Professor at MIT Media Laboratory (1998-2002),
and a policy maker at Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications Japan (1984-1998).
Prior to joining the government, he was a director of a rock band Shonen Knife. He wrote many books and articles such as“New Edition , Super Free Society"（2021, Yoshimoto-Books） "Super Free Society"（2019, Yoshimoto-Books） "Contents and National Strategy"（2013, Kadokawa-Books） "Ichiya Nakamura's New Generation IT Business Evolution"（2011, Discovery 21）, etc.
Mr.Kato Naoto
Cluster, Inc.
CEO
Studied cosmology and quantum computing at the Faculty of Science at Kyoto University.
In 2015, he started a VR technology startup "cluster".
In 2017, he released "cluster", a VR platform that allows users to hold large-scale virtual events.
2018 ForbesJAPAN, an economic magazine, selected him as one of "30 Japanese under 30 who are changing the world".
He is the author of "Metaverse: Good-bye Atom's Era" (Shueisha/2022)
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Mr.Ishimoto Yoshinori
GS Yuasa International Ltd.
Officer Division Manager Power Supply System Production Division Industrial Batteries & Power Sources Business Unit
Mr.Miyauchi Ken
SoftBank Corp.
Representative Director & Chairman
- Oct. 1984 Joined SOFTBANK Corp. (currently SoftBank Group Corp.)
- Feb. 1988 Director, SOFTBANK Corp.
- Sep. 1999 President, SoftBank Commerce Corp. (currently the Company)
- Jan. 2003 Director & Vice President, SOFTBANK BB Corp. (currently the Company)
- Apr. 2015 President & CEO, the Company Mar. 2021 President, Representative Director (Chairperson of the Board), A Holdings Corporation (to present)
Dr.Matsumoto Hiroshi
International Institute for Advanced Studies
Director
Honorary President, RIKEN
Former-President, Kyoto University
Chairman of the Board, ATR
Dr. Hiroshi Matsumoto is the director of the International Institute for Advanced Studies. From 2015 to 2022, he was President of RIKEN. Prior to his appointment he served as President of Kyoto University from 2008 to 2014. He is a specialist in space radio science, space plasma physics and space solar power systems (SSPS). He has received many awards and honors including the Russian Federation of Cosmonautics Gagarin Medal, the Government of Japan's Medal with Purple Ribbon and the URSI Gold Booker Medal, the Chevalier in French Legion of Honor and the Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure of Japan.
Prof.Takami Shigeru
International Institute for Advanced Studies
Chief Research Fellow
President, Kyoto Koka Women’s University
Specially Appointed Professor, C-PiER, Kyoto University
Shigeru Takami is president of Kyoto Koka Women's University and also a specially appointed professor, C-PiER at Kyoto University. His major is educational administration and finance, and his research topic is public policy and educational resource allocation. He has a career over 35 years of teaching at universities, and experience in the field of educational research, mainly specialized in school governance, educational policy measures, and school management.
From 2008 to 2016, He was involved in the operation of the university, managing the University's administration, working as the Deputy Vice President, and as the Management Director of Kyoto University.
Mr.Bai Qiang
Dongba-tec Inc.
CEO
Qiang is an American entrepreneur who was born in China and has been living in Japan since the start of the pandemic. He has co-founded three Internet/AI companies that later went public in US and China.
Recently, he has been focusing on the business of sports using the Internet, AI, and blockchain. (Co-founded his blockchain company vSport in Singapore in 2017).
Dr.Suzuki Hiroyuki
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Executive Vice President, Representative Director
Executive Vice President, Representative Director, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
President & CEO, XBorder Innovations, Inc. (XBI)
He joined the R&D Laboratories of NTT Corporation, where he conducted and supervised basic science and developments. He then moved to ATR and is in charge of corporate management and planning, and business developments, of ATR and ATR Group. He is also developing the global innovation ecosystem in Keihanna Science City and he established XBI in February of 2021 to further strengthen the startup support activities.
Mr.Fujii Nobutada
Kobe University
Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
Associate Professor
Mr.Namaita Junichi
Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
New Business & Innovation Dept., New Downstream Business Div.
Energy Solutions Business Unit
Deputy General Manager
Ms.Uchida Mizuko
Economic and Commercial Office, Embassy of Spain in Tokyo
Economic and Commercial Office
Investment & Industrial Cooperation Market Analyst
Mr.Aktihanoglu Murat
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA)
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures (http://remarkable.vc), an early-stage tech and climate venture capital fund and ERA (http://eranyc.com>), a technology accelerator in New York City with 280 investments in tech and climate since 2011 with multiple $1B+ exits.
Murat has a Master’s Degree in Computer Science and he has started multiple technology startups in NYC after having worked in Silicon Valley as a technologist.
He started Entrepreneurs Roundtable, a non-profit, in 2007 in New York City to help the startup ecosystem grow and connect the entrepreneurial community with each other and investors through free monthly events that have been going on every month since 2007.
He is also the author of the book “Location-Aware Applications” published by Manning Publications and a frequent speaker globally on technology, climate, venture capital and entrepreneurship.
Mr.Quan Perry
The National Research Council Canada of Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC IRAP)
Director
Perry Quan is a veteran of the telecommunications and Internet industries with over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, business development, product development and operations. He is a seasoned international business executive having conducted business throughout Asia Pacific, EMEA and the Americas.
Perry is currently the Director of NRC IRAP International group where he oversees IRAP funding programs and Advisors for IRAP activities in all regions worldwide.
Previous to joining NRC, he founded Contec Innovations Inc. (TSX:BUZ.V), a mobile infrastructure software developer and supplier, and as President/CEO led the company’s successful entry into China, the world’s largest mobile market. Prior to Contec, Perry was Director of International Systems Engineering at Glenayre Technologies Inc.(NASDAQ:GEMS), a global leader in wireless infrastructure development and manufacturing, where he was responsible for systems engineering, product development, and pre- & post-sales support of products totaling over $200 million in world-wide sales. Earlier in his career, Perry held several senior consulting, management and software engineering positions in Ottawa, Canada with several companies including Mitel Corporation and Canadian Marconi, and with Transport Canada and the Department of National Defence on several government mega-projects.
Perry was also the founding President of the Wireless Innovation Network Society of BC (WINBC), an industry association representing over 250 wireless companies, and continues to serve on several boards of Canadian innovation ecosystem organizations. He was named as a Top 100 Influential Chinese-Canadian by the Vancouver Sun newspaper in 2006. Perry holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia.
Mr.Goel Abhishek
Embassy of India
Political and Commercial Officer
Abhishek Goel is a diplomat serving presently as a Political and Commercial Officer at the Embassy of India, Tokyo. He leads the initiatives related to technology and startups having previously worked as a founding member of Shuttl in India. Mr. Goel has a B.Tech from IIT Roorkee and M.S. in Supply Chain Management from the MIT Supply Chain and Leadership Excellence programme at MISI.
Dr.Wolf Ulrike
Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy
2nd Director General
Dr. Ulrike Wolf has been working as 2nd Director General at the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy since 1 August 2019. Her responsibilities include the Departments for Legislation and Legal Affairs, Investment and Finance, Foreign Trade and Location Marketing, Tourism and Regional Development. Dr. Wolf has previously been Head of the Department for Energy Policy and Energy Infrastructure since 2014 and for Foreign Trade and Location Marketing since 2010. Past positions within the ministry were, in reverse order, aviation and air navigation facilities, administrative reform (including reducing state tasks), foreign trade (China), tourism, vocational training as well as federal legislation and Community Law. Dr Wolf attended the 17th Bavarian State Chancellery’s course for Administrative Management in 2001/02. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Wolf worked as an assistant at the Institute for International Law and Comparative Law at Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich, where she earned her doctorate with a thesis on "Statute of Torts and International Environmental Law" in 1994. Dr. Wolf also holds an LL.M. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Ms.Kijimoto Yuko
Government of Catalonia
Delegated Director Tokyo
Director- Catalonia Trade＆Investment-ACCIO Tokyo
Director of ACCIO Tokyo since 2015. ACCIO is an economic promotion agency of the Government of Catalonia, Spain. The entity assists to enhance competitiveness of Catalan companies, start-ups and research institutes, and also works to promotes trade from Catalonia and investment from Japan. She started working at the Government of Catalonia 1987 in Barcelona and moved to Tokyo at its opening of Tokyo office as a chief investment officer at 1988. Prior to ACCIO, worked as a trade and law staff at a robotics company in Japan.
Dr.Suzuki Hiroyuki
Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
Executive Vice President, Representative Director
Executive Vice President, Representative Director, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR)
President & CEO, XBorder Innovations, Inc. (XBI)
He joined the R&D Laboratories of NTT Corporation, where he conducted and supervised basic science and developments. He then moved to ATR and is in charge of corporate management and planning, and business developments, of ATR and ATR Group. He is also developing the global innovation ecosystem in Keihanna Science City and he established XBI in February of 2021 to further strengthen the startup support activities.
Mr.Tal Roy
SOLO Wellbeing
Founder & CEO
Mr.Patil Sumeet
Ethereal Machines
Head of Operation
Ms.Matsumoto Yuri
Halu Co .Ltd.
CEO
Mr.Imai Nobuyushi
ProGlove
Senior Business Development Manager
Mr.Duchaine Simon
Dyze Design
Chief Commercial Officer
Mr.Zama Kentaro
iROBOTICS.,Inc.
Business Development
Dr.Aragonés Raúl
AEInnova (Alternative Energy Innvoations)
Chairman
Mr.Sawamura Kenichi
eSep Inc.
CEO
Mr.Kato Kensuke
Stem Cell & Device Laboratory, Inc.
CEO
Mr.Oki Kazunori
mui Lab, Inc.
Co-Founder, CEO
Mr.Furumoto Junichi
Metro Weather Co., Ltd.
CEO
Mr.Okada yuki
DataGrid Inc.
CEO
Mr.Mitsunobu Yuji
Cisco Systems G.K.
Public Sector
Managing Director
Mr.Suzuki Kazuhiro
Group Senior Managing Executive Officer of Rakuten Group, Inc.
Representative Director, Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Communications Corp.
Representative Director and President of Rakuten Energy, Inc.
Earned Bachelor of Economics at Keio University. Developed business executives career starting from IBM Japan as a Business Unit Executive, Executive Officer Microsoft Japan, Chairman & Representative Officer Cisco System Japan and joined Rakuten Group as a Senior Managing Executive Officer in April 2022. Acting a secretary of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and vice-chairman of the Regional Co-Creation Committee.
Mr.Watanabe Hiroyuki
Nikkei inc
Board Member
Senior Managing Director
Prof.Yamakawa Yoshinori
BRAIN IMPACT / Graduate School of Management President
Kyoto University / Adjunct Professor
2000 M.S., Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University
2000 - 2005 NEC Corporation
2008 Received Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University (Human and Environmental Studies)
2008 - 2010 GCOE Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University
2010 - 2020 Director, Neuro Innovation Unit, NTT Data Institute of Management Consulting, Inc.
2014 - 2019 Program Manager, ImPACT, Cabinet Office Government of Japan
2020 - Director, PwC Consulting LLC Japan
President, BRAIN IMPACT, Adjunct Professor, Kyoto University, Visiting Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor, Kyoto University
Mr.Mitera Ayumu
Mitsufuji Corporation
CEO
Born in Kyoto, Japan. After graduating from university, I joined Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.(now Panasonic) and worked for Cisco Systems before I became CEO of Mitsufuji Textile Industry (now Mitsufuji) in 2014. We released the wearable IoT product hamon in 2016. I was awarded the 1st Forbes JAPAN SMALL GIANTS Grand Prix in 2018 for my efforts to transform the Nishijin textile factory into a wearable IoT business, and received the 2021 Kyoto Creator Award for product development aimed at solving social issues.
Mr.Nagae Koji
Amazon Web Services
Worldwide Public Sector
Account Executive
Mr.Morikawa Masaharu
Amazon Web Services
Worldwide Public Sector
Business Development Manager
Mr.Tsutsumi Hiroyuki
Fujitsu Limited
SEVP, CEO, Japan Region
Mr.Morisawa Yusuke
NTT Communications Corporation
Smart City Office
Senior Manager
Mr.Chitose Takao
ANA X Inc.
Business Development
Vice President
- • 25+ years of experience in large variety of marketing role at global tech company such as Dell & Microsoft.
- • Spent most of time for Digital Marketing, Integrated and Direct Marketing.
- • Also capable on B to B enterprise, channel and partner marketing.
- •Most Recently, served as a VP of business development at ANA X Inc.
Mr.Imagawa Kentaro
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
Pifaa Business Sec. Business Incubation Center, Corporate Technology & Business Development Unit
Senior Manager
Mr.Hasunuma Masahiko
NICHICON CORPORATION
DISPERSED POWER SOURCE GROUP NECST BUSINESS HEADQUARTERS
BUSINESS GROUP LEADER