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Formerly with Morgan Stanley Investment Banking Division and former branch manager of Clay Finlay Investment Advisors. As a portfolio manager of Japanese growth stocks, he made long-term investments in companies such as Uniqlo. Launched May Corporation, a babysitting company, and sold it to an education-related company. Translated the bible of entrepreneurs, including Peter Thiel and Ben Horowitz. His book “Factfulness” has sold 1 million copies. He is an outside director of World Corporation and Daiwa House Industry Co. Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Letters and Faculty of Law. Graduated from Harvard Graduate School of Business.

Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he cofounded with Marc Andreessen in 2009. a16z has $35 billion in assets under management across multiple funds, and invests in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, and games.

*The online presentation is projected in HALL B7.

Since 2007, he worked at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC providing business strategy, M&A and IPO consulting services. In 2010, he co-founded Deloitte Tohmatsu Venture Support (DTVS), inside Deloitte Japan, to enhance the Japanese startup ecosystem. He has supported over 200 startups in fundraising and business planning, as well as provided open innovation consulting services to Japanese corporations. He is currently based in Silicon Valley and is head of the International Division of DTVS, connecting startups and corporations globally for creating new business alliances.

Dr. Asher has worked extensively in and around the US Government and the financial industry.
During the Trump administration Asher served as a senior advisor at the State Department for Arms Control and Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs.

Apart from work in the financial and think tank communities, Asher is well known as a pioneer in financial operations, financial intelligence, and economic pressure strategy within the US diplomatic, military, law enforcement, and intelligence communities.

Asher has a D.Phil in International Relations from Oxford University.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures, an early-stage tech and climate venture capital fund and ERA, a technology accelerator in New York City with 300 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.

Joined Crédit Lyonnais after Paris Political Science Institute. Established InfoPlus, which published English newsletter on Japanese finance and provided consulting. In 1992, established Forma, a strategic consulting (finance, business, leadership, communications). Senior Advisor for Japan to the World Economic Forum (Davos) between 1989 and 2005. Advisor to the President, Mori Building (major real estate developer in Tokyo). In 2004, helped create Science and Technology in Society forum, held every year in Kyoto and is Director General for International Affairs. Member of the Board, Renault.

Tim Tompkins works to understand and improve cities through SharedCitySharedSpace, which explores how the interaction of ideas, institutions, individuals and culture can contribute to prosperous and vibrant cities. He teaches at New York University and led the Times Square Alliance from 2002-2020, transforming Times Square’s public spaces and founding Times Square Arts. He has given keynote speeches about urban transformation in many cities, including Stockholm, London, Bilbao, Halifax, Mexico City, Sao Paolo, New Delhi, Barcelona, Tokyo and Toronto. He has degrees from Yale and Wharton.

Yuta Hirayama is a Smart City Project Lead at the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan. Prior to the Forum, Yuta led new business development in the private sectors, as well as startup ecosystems and smart city projects at Fukuoka, D.C, Japan. At the Forum, Yuta has engaged in the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance (GSCA) since March 2019, while actively involved in social implementation of technology as a visiting associate professor at Nagoya University, visiting associate professor at Kumamoto University, and research fellow at Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT).

Dr. Noha Ahmed Al-Harthi brings extensive experience in science and technology to her role as Emerging Technology Manager for the NEOM (Interim) Authority, where she is leading the company’s initiatives on emerging technologies, including advanced robotics and human-machine interfaces. In this role, she is helping bring to life NEOM’s vision of shaping the future of robotics with a focus on general purpose robotics.

Dr. Al-Harthi is also supporting the establishment of the NEOM Robotic Development Center, which will become the world’s most advanced robotics research and development center. In addition, she is leading NEOM’s research collaborations with world-class universities and institutions, focusing on developing cutting-edge and next-generation solutions to deliver advanced technologies that match the scale and scope of NEOM’s ambitions.

A Saudi national, Dr. Al-Harthi is the first researcher from the Middle East to win the prestigious Gauss Award in 2020 for supercomputing excellence and has published several research papers on high-performance computing and supercomputers. She is also a renowned speaker in the emerging technologies field, presenting regularly at international technology and academic conferences.

Dr. Al-Harthi holds a master’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She is also the first authorized female drone pilot in Saudi Arabia, and won the Arabian Business KSA Women Excellence Awards and have been named the 2022 Science and Technology – Woman of the Year.

Yudhistira Nugraha is a senior member of the Indonesian Government and has been a civil servant since 2006 and had been working for more than 13 years at the Ministry of Communications and Informatics. His last assignment at the Ministry was the Deputy Director for E-Government Services in Economic Affairs. He received a D.Phil. in Cyber Security from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Data Protection Officer Professional University Certificate (ECPC-B DPO) from the European Centre of Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) of Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

A futurist, facilitator and strategist, Chris holds a Master’s degree in Studies of the Future and has married his tourism, economic development, real estate, and marketing expertise with futures methodologies to help a wide variety of clients envision and create development strategies, plans, and brands that shape the future of places around the world. As President of Resonance Consultancy, Chris leads a team that has completed over 100 visioning, strategy, planning, and branding projects for developers and destinations in more than 30 destinations.

Laura Citron is CEO of London & Partners,London’s international trade, investment, and promotion agency. She leads the organisation to grow London’s global reputation and to attract business, tourists, students, events, and talent to London. Prior to London & Partners, she was Managing Director of the Government & Public Sector Practice at WPP. She taught communications for behaviour change at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS. Laura has a postgraduate degree in Economics from University College London.

Before oral Capital, James launched the first fund for 500 Startups in Japan. With about $300m under management, he’s been a seed investor in over 40 companies. He is also a Board Director at SmartHR, where he was an early investor and led their ~$14m Series B. Beore 500 Startups, James covered early stage investments for DeNA’s venture arm, focusing on Silicon Valley and Asia.

Before investing, he was the founding CEO of ResuPress (now Coincheck, the cryptocurrency exchangy in Japan), and the creator of STORYS.JP, the “Medium.com of Japan.” He has worked at J.P. Morgan in New York and Tokyo.

Mr. Kiyoshi Seko joined Kyoto Fusioneering in April 2021 as an Executive Officer. He is responsible for business development, fundraising, and also PR and marketing. Prior to joining KF, he worked for Mitsubishi Corporation for about 10 years, where he was involved in business development and strategic investments, including the establishment of overseas JVs and cross-border M&As. After obtaining MBA, he worked for Coral Capital, a leading VC firm in Japan, where he made several investments – including one in Kyoto Fusioneering before joining the company – mainly in the deeptech area.

As the CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) Bob Mumgaard is responsible for the strategic vision and direction of the company, paving the way for a future of clean unlimited fusion energy. He has grown the company to more than 300 employees and raised more than $2 billion from some of the world’s leading investors. CFS is a private commercial fusion company with a scientifically validated path to commercialization. He performed his PhD work at MIT and during that time he contributed to the design of several small superconducting tokamaks for a variety of physics missions. 

Beau Laskey is a Managing Partner at SVB Capital responsible for sourcing and executing direct venture capital and private equity investments. He spent the last 20 years in technology, finance and operational leadership roles investing across the technology landscape. Before, he was a Managing Director at Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital investment group of the Walt Disney Company. Beau has a B.S. in Economics and General Engineering from US Naval Academy with and an MBA with Distinction in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from The University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

Prior to be appointed as the Chief Global Editor and Executive Officer at PIVOT he worked as a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun economics department, a visiting researcher at Stanford University, and as editor-in-chief of the HuffPost Japan. He grew up in New Mexico and Connecticut, USA. He is the media leader for the World Economic Forum (commonly known as the Davos Conference). In May 2008, he took four months of childcare leave. Published “The New Era of Business Opened by SDGs” (Chikuma Shinsho) in the fall of 2021.

Founder and CEO of Terra Motors, Terra DX Solutions and Terra Drone Corporation. After working at the former Sumitomo Marine & Fire Insurance, he graduated with an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He then moved on to investing in and providing hands-on support for startups in Silicon Valley. Terra Motors Corporation, the electric motorcycles startup Tokushige established in April 2010, became the market leader in India. In 2016, he set up Terra Drone Corporation, a company focused on developing drone technologies in construction, inspection, UTM and flying car.

Mr. Kamarul is the Founder and Group CEO of Aerodyne Group, a Malaysian-founded drone solutions provider ranked 1st in the world by Drone Industry Insights of Germany. In just six years, he led Aerodyne from a 3-person start-up in 2014 to a global tech company with 900 employees and a presence in 35 countries. His visionary outlook for spotting opportunities and building new technology solutions has led Aerodyne to be one of the most promising tech companies.
Mr. KAmrul received many awards such as EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2020 and Technode Global’s Startup Leader of the Year 2021.

Ankit Kumar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Skye Air, India’s lleading SaaS based drone delivery company enabling first mile and last mile delivery for major ecommerce, quick commerce and healthcare players. He has been instrumental in enabling just in time delivery via drones and several Industry firsts in the drone segement. Under his leadership, the firm also completed 104 Kms BVLOS drone delivering medicines to far reach areas, also setting the World Record in the category.
Also, He is an angel investor with four portfolio businesses in the EV, drone, Edtech, and IoT industries.

Naoyoshi Goto is a journalist/columnist focused on climate tech and sustainability issues at NewsPicks. He is always passionate about writing stories about those who try to build a new solution with their bare hands and creating a community to fight against the climate crisis. In 2019, he opened a San Francisco bureau, and his recent book “venture capitalist,” in which he interviews great investors who are accelerating Zero-to-One entrepreneurs, became a bestseller. On his days off, he plays African drums to restore his energy.

Shuo Yang is a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital. A serial entrepreneur and Y Combinator alum, Shuo has founded and operated companies in both the United States and China. He will always be an entrepreneur at heart, and he brings a strong founders-first mentality to every aspect of his work as an investor.

Tommy Leep invests in pre-seed climate tech startups via Jetstream, a $10M fund. In 2019 he woke up to the climate crisis and dedicated his work to moving more funding into climate tech. He previously worked with early-stage investors Floodgate, Haystack, AngelList, and Congruent Ventures. His climate tech investments include SINAI Technologies, Albedo, Pachama, Windborne Systems, and David Energy. Outside of climate he invested early in Robinhood, Patreon, Clubhouse, and Mercury.

Sampo Hietanen is an entrepreneur and globally sought-after speaker, who has invented the groundbreaking concept of MaaS, which is set to revolutionise the 10 trillion euro transport sector. His background is in civil engineering. Before founding MaaS Global he headed international businesses in the field.

Renée Kaplan is head of digital editorial development at the Financial Times in London, where she leads innovation, new editorial products and digital journalism. She works both on content and strategy and develops new ways to align journalism and business models and monetize digital journalism. She is a frequent speaker on innovation and the future of journalism at industry events. Before, she was deputy editorial director of the news network France 24 and has worked as a journalist on staff at CNN. She is now spending a year at Harvard University where she is a Nieman Journalism Fellow.

Kathy is the former Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs Japan and Chief Japan Equity Strategist. Her groundbreaking ʻWomenomicsʼ research spurred the Japanese government to promote gender diversity, and she has advised corporations on governance and diversity best practices. She has an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an AB from Harvard.

Nida is COO of Web Summit, a company from Ireland, that holds events across the world: Web Summit in Lisbon, Web Summit Rio in Rio de Janeiro, Collision in Toronto, and RISE in Hong Kong.
This year Web Summit, one of the world’s largest tech conferences, attracted more than 70k attendees from 160+ countries.

Machi Takahashi is President, co-CEO, and co-founder of Stroly. Stroly means to stroll with story and the concept is “Share the way we see the world.” We strive to contribute to creativity and diversity in the world by believing in the potential of maps as media and advancing them with state of the art. We are the first and the only map media platform in the world that integrates beautiful illustrated maps with location technology that enables users to enjoy strolling around cities. Machi Takahashi is the first Japanese startup founder to be selected SXSW pitch finalist.

Dr Sachiko Kuno is a serial entrepreneur who empowers others to change the world through socially impactful programs and businesses. As Co-founder of R-Tech Ueno, Ltd. (Japan) and of Sucampo Pharmaceuticals (US) she successfully developed and commercialized two pharmaceutical products. She also co-founded Halcyon in Washington DC (2014) and Phoenixi Co Ltd in Kyoto (2018) to support social entrepreneurs with residential incubation programs. Awards and recognitions received include Forbes 50 America’s Richest Self-Made Women (2015 and 2020). PhD earned in bioengineering chemistry from Kyoto University.

Akiko Naka is founder and chief executive officer of Wantedly. Following its official launch in February 2012, Wantedly grew to 3mil users and 40,000 corporates, and has become the leading professional social-networking service in Japan. Prior to founding Wantedly, Ms Naka was a growth co-ordinator at Facebook Japan, where she contributed to marketing and product development for Facebook in Japan. Before joining Facebook, she worked at Goldman Sachs in equity sales. Ms Naka graduated from Kyoto University in 2008 with a BA in economics.

Shunsuke Managi is the Distinguished Professor & Director of Urban Institute at the Kyushu University, Japan. He has been a director for Inclusive Wealth Report (IWR), ISC working group member for UN’ The Global Sustainable Development Report 2023, a lead author for the IPCC, a coordinating lead author for the IPBES, lead author of Policy Briefs T20 for the Presidency of G20 in 2022, and is the author of “Technology, Natural Resources and Economic Growth: Improving the Environment for a Greener Future”. He was the recipient of a JSPS Prize and council member of The Science Council of Japan.

Deputy General Manager of KDDI Corporation’s Business Creation Division, responsible for start-up investment and other open innovation activities, alliance strategies with local governments and large companies, and new businesses across the company

Member of the Startup Development Subcommittee of the Council for the Realisation of New Capitalism
Member of J Startup nomination committee, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Member of Keidanren Startup Ecosystem Reform TF
Part-time lecturer at the University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering
And many others

Leading Japanese music producer and keyboardist who has produced numerous mega-hits such as Mr. Children and Back Number.

He founded “”ap bank””, a non-profit organisation for a sustainable society, and organised “”ap bank fes””, an outdoor music event. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, he started reconstruction support activities and held an art festival “”Reborn-Art Festival”” in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, and opened a recycling-oriented agricultural facility “”KURKKU FIELDS””, and was one of the first comprehensive producers to take initiatives for a sustainable society.

His debut as a child actor in 1988 and appeared in many productions including NHK’s “Churasan.” After taking a break from acting in 2007 to study abroad in the U.S., he began producing films and events, and made his directorial debut in 2012 with the film “DON’T STOP! Since then, he has brought “ULTRA JAPAN” and other events to life in Japan, where he also served as creative director.

He was the show director for the closing ceremony of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, and was appointed as the event planning producer for the Japan International Expo to be held in 2025.

Ayano comes to CIC with passion to develop a biotech/healthcare startup ecosystem in Japan. She received Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Tokyo before joining the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). At MEXT, she worked on policy making in the life science field and medicine and was assigned to design the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). In 2017, she started to study at MIT’s system design and management program and researched about the difference of startup ecosystems especially in the life science field between Cambridge/Boston and several cities in the U.S. and Japan. After returning to Japan, she worked on the science, technology and innovation policy at the Cabinet Office and on the research and on the research and development project for the nuclear fusion field until she joined CIC Japan in 2021.

Marc is Founder and President, leading global growth and impact. Prior to founding Startup Genome, he co-led the startup ecosystem development unit at Silicon Valley-based Startup Compass. At PwC, KPMG, and Bayer Group’s internal management consultancy, Marc advised top executives across various sectors.

He also founded a nonprofit organization to catalyze social innovation and was appointed Expert in Entrepreneurship, IT and Future of Economic Progress by the World Economic Forum. In 2017, his work to develop startup ecosystems everywhere has led him to receive a U.S. Visa for Individuals with Extraordinary Ability.

Victor Mulas is Senior Advisor of Cambridge Innovation Center (CIC). He serves on the Japan Cabinet Office advisory committees on startup ecosystems and is Executive Advisor of Smart City Institute Japan. Victor’s 12-year career at the World Bank includes leading the Disruptive Technology for Development Program with the President Office.

Eiko Ooka has been heading SMBC’s North America Group of Corporate Advisory Division since 2013 and building relationship with local VCs and startups to provide Japanese clients with information on emerging technologies and alliance opportunities, supporting their innovation projects. Prior to that, he worked in Financial Sponsor Group where he originated M&A/LBO deals. Before that, he worked at Financial Markets Department of Bank of Japan and ALM Group at SMBC’s Treasury Department. He holds BA in Laws from Waseda University and MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He graduated from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and completed the Master’s Program in Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering at the same university. He studied urban infrastructure and the living environment of slums in developing countries at university, and housing facilities at graduate school.He worked on sensor and control development at the world-renowned digital art collective teamLab, among others. He later founded an energy tech startup and sold it. As CEO of WOTA, he aims to provide structural solutions to water problems.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Remarkable Ventures, an early-stage tech and climate venture capital fund and ERA, a technology accelerator in New York City with 300 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.

Tomosaku has over 10 years experience of international finance and investment especially mobility and energy related projects in Europe and Latin America region. And founding member of growth fund with 1 billion AUM, and has led the venture investment in Europe. In 2019 moved to Helsinki at the same time as the foundation of NordicNinja VC and have made several investments into early stage companies. Focus areas are Climatetech, Mobility, Blockchain so on. Supervisory board member of NAVA (Nordic Asian Venture Alliance), Visiting Lecturer for innovation at BBT school.

Susan Su is a partner at the venture capital firm Toba Capital, where she leads the firm’s climate tech practice. Susan is a former operator with a background in building and scaling technology products at Stripe, Reforge, and Google. Today, she brings a builder’s ethos to her work investing in founders dedicated to reversing climate change and restoring nature.

Shuo Yang is a Partner at Lowercarbon Capital. A serial entrepreneur and Y Combinator alum, Shuo has founded and operated companies in both the United States and China. He will always be an entrepreneur at heart, and he brings a strong founders-first mentality to every aspect of his work as an investor.

Rainer has 20 years of experience in building technology businesses across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including 5 years in VC. He was CEO & co-founder of Planet OS, a climatetech company focused on Earth Observation and energy data (acquired by Intertrust). Rainer’s focus areas are AI, climate, and platforms, i.e. Veriff, Varjo, Mavenoid. Rainer has served on the White House Open Data Roundtable, and led the ABB global team to establish the world’s first nationwide EV charging network. Trained as a robotics engineer in Unmanned Vehicles & Product Development; MSc from TalTech (cum laude).

Mr. Yoda started his career in agency consulting business after gaining experiences in sales and sales planning at Recruit. After leaving Recruit, he engaged in projects such as new business development and strategy planning/ execution at consulting firms of Avergence and YCP Group. He joined INNOPHYS in 2018 and appointed as Executive Officer after serving as a Head of Sales and International Business Department.

Graduated from Keio University, Faculty of Science and Engineering. Founded inQs Co., in 2011 after developing photovoltaic devices that generate electricity from light. Received the Venture Award Special Award for Technology Innovation from SME Support Japan and the Special Award for Entrepreneur of the Year from EY. Aim to create new energy by generating electricity on the spot from the light in the place and use it there. In addition to producing electricity, engaged in research on light related information transmission, artificial photosynthesis, and cultivation of microorganisms.

Joined Boston Consulting Group in 2015 and experienced new business development, global strategy, and organizational reform projects. Founded Techmagic in 2018. TechMagic develops “cooking robots” and “business robots” with the vision of “realizing a sustainable food infrastructure society through technology. TechMagic has collaborated with food manufacturers such as Ajinomoto, Kewpie, and Nissin Foods, as well as major restaurant companies such as Pronto Corporation, to sell “noodle robots,” “washing and sorting robots,” and “serving robots” that integrate hardware and software.

Joined RevComm in 2021 and is now active in MiiTel marketing projects for Japan, Indonesia, and the United States to pursue its mission: “Reinventing communication to create a society where people think of others”. She worked at Accenture Japan for 3 years before joining RevComm in a project where artistic creativity, and digital communication were involved. Her career started in Brisbane, Australia as an actor, and as VFX production assistant after graduating QUT (Bachelor of Creative industries). Her has a deep interest for IT & Creativity especially in the ‘Communication’ field and Yoga.

Prior to establish Human life CORD Japan inc., Masa Harata has more than 20 years of experience in clinical development and medical affairs working at two major global biopharmaceutical companies, AMGEN and Celgene, as well as at SymBio as Chief Business Officer and Head of Sales and Marketing with extensive leadership role and responsibilities.

Phillip is the Managing Partner of Plug and Play East Asia and CEO of Plug and Play Japan, a subsidiary of Plug and Play Tech Center located in Silicon Valley. In 2014, he started working in the Silicon Valley headquarters and headed both the IoT and Mobility vertical division before moving to Tokyo to launch Plug and Play Japan in 2017.

Originally hailing from Australia, Krishan has worked in a variety of engineering, product and leadership roles in Australia and Japan. Prior to joining Tellus, Krishan cofounded a Construction Tech startup and turned it into a multi-million dollar business serving customers around the globe. He graduated from the Australian National University with an honors degree in Systems Engineering.

In his role he works at the intersection of digital transformation in Public Sector, and the value that startups in Education, Government, Health, Space, Sustainability can play in accelerating citizen services across the region. He drove the launch of multiple programs in-region to support these founders, entrepreneurs grow and connect with Government stakeholders. With a background in EdTech and Education, he has been at AWS for ten years, supporting the growth of the ecosystem here in Asia-Pacific and Japan.

He started his career in Silicon Valley as an engineer at KLA in San Jose. He then joined The McKenna Group, as a consultant in technology marketing. After returning to Tokyo, he served as a director in a startup company designing ASICs, before joining Globis Capital Partners as a venture capitalist.

Yuta Hirayama is a Smart City Project Lead at the World Economic Forum Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Japan. Prior to the Forum, Yuta led new business development in the private sectors, as well as startup ecosystems and smart city projects at Fukuoka, D.C, Japan. At the Forum, Yuta has engaged in the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance (GSCA) since March 2019, while actively involved in social implementation of technology as a visiting associate professor at Nagoya University, visiting associate professor at Kumamoto University, and research fellow at Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies (ISIT).

Worked in Deloitte & Touché LLP New York Office as a risk advisory consultant for a year providing the service of establishing internal governance and auditing IT risks. In 2019, has joined the startup support division in Japan, mainly worked as a specialist in charge of overseas expansion strategy planning and new business marketing.

Currently working in TBM, one of the unicorn startup in Japan, and has been involved in a wide range of tasks in global alliance strategies. Also committed as product manager for scopeX, the carbon accounting SaaS from the product establishment.

Kenta Kawai is a member of The Council for Area Development and Management of Otemachi, Marunouchi, and Yurakucho. In Committee for Smart City Planning and Promotion of the council, he carries out urban planning as area management model partnering up with corporations, organizations, and the government under the “Smart City Vision of the Area”, and has been involved in several demonstrations of automated mobility and robots. Also he promotes other city planning projects in Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

Eriko is an impact and ESG minded investor, particularly in the areas of sustainability, wellbeing and Web3. Eriko started her career in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and later became Japan country manager of Silicon Valley based drone startup, and most recently was the founding member and Managing Director of Japan’s first ESG focused VC MPower Partners.

Author of “How we live, will be how we work” (Daiwashobo, 2018) and translator of New York Times best seller “Mission Economy: A moonshot guide to changing capitalism” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2021). Mother of two children.

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D. is the Founder and CEO of Pegasus Tech Ventures. With US$2 billion under Pegasus Tech Ventures’ management, Anis is responsible for overall global investments and operations of the firm. Anis also serves as the Chairman of Startup World Cup, a global platform that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship around the world.

Anis holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, a Master of Science in Engineering from Oklahoma State University in the USA, and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Tokyo Metropolitan University in Tokyo, Japan.

Anis is a Forbes Finance Council member and contributor at Forbes. Anis is also a contributing editor at Inc. Magazine, and an Entrepreneur Leadership Network Contributor at the Entrepreneur Magazine. Anis is an honored guest speaker in international conferences, workshops and seminars, has published more than 30 technical papers, and is the author of several books published globally.

He will be the instructor for the DAY 1 (11:30-12:30) and the DAY 2 workshop (11:00-12:00).

Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He established Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990. He is currently a University Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo after teaching at Keio University and the University of Tokyo. KKAA projects are currently underway in more than 30 countries. Kengo Kuma proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology, and human beings. His major publications include Ten Sen Men (“point, line, plane”, Iwanami Shoten), Hito no Sumika (“shelters for people”, Shincho Shinsho), Makeru Kenchiku (Architecture of Defeat, Iwanami Shoten), Shizen na Kenchiku (Natural Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho), Chii-sana Kenchiku (Small Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho) and many others.

■Profile of the Governor
　Born:　July 15, 1952, in Hyogo Prefecture
　Education:　BA in Sociology, Cairo University (October 1976)

■Career:
　July 2020　Re-elected to a second term as Governor of Tokyo
　July 2016　Elected Governor of Tokyo
　October 2011　Director, Committee on Budget, House of Representatives
　September 2010　Chairperson, General Council, Liberal Democratic Party
　July 2007　Minister of Defense
　September 2006　Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for National Security Affairs
　September 2004　Minister of the Environment and Minister of State for Okinawa and Northern Territories Affairs
　September 2003　Minister of the Environment
　July 1993　Member of the House of Representatives
　July 1992　Member of the House of Councillors

*Appear at the DAY 1 Opening (9:30-10:00) and DAY 2 Closing (18:00-18:30).