SESSION SPEAKERS
PITCH JUDGES
PITCH SPEAKERS

SESSION SPEAKERS

Meet our speakers
Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
Tak Niinami
Suntory Holdings Limited
Chief Executive Officer
Hiroshi Mikitani
Representative Director of the New Economy Federation; Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc.
Haruka Mera
READYFOR Co.,Ltd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn, Co-Founder
Greylock, Partner
Soichiro Takashima
Fukuoka City
mayors
Julien Mialaret
Eurazeo
Operating Partner
Kazuhiko Toyama
Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI) / Japan Association of Corporate Directors
Chairman of IGPI Group
Thomas Prunel
LVMH
Director
Carmen Yuen
Vertex Ventures SE Asia & India
General Partner
Hiromi Inoue
IBM Japan
IBM Japan digital services company　Senior Partner, IBM Consulting, IBM Japan
Tohru Akaura
Incubate Fund
General Partner
Nozomi Kosaka
Business Insider Japan
Operating Officer/Co-Editor-in-Chief
Tsuji Yosuke
Money Forward, Inc.
Representative Director, President and CEO
Tak Umezawa
CIC Japan
Chairperson
Taka Nagao
Kyoto Fusioneering LTD
Co-Founder, Director and Chairman
Takafumi Horie
SNS media&consulting Co., Ltd.
founder
Soichi Tajima
Genesia Ventures, Inc.
CEO／General Partner
Andrew Sanden
Intrinsic Venture Capital
Managing Director / Founder
Matsumoto Yasukane
JOSYS Inc.
CEO
Hori Yoshito
GLOBIS University / GLOBIS Capital Partners
Founder & President / Founding Partner
Sophie Meralli
Eight Roads Ventures Japan
Vice President
Annabel Lee
Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital
Investment Manager
Christophe Blanc
Volaris
VP, Head of M&A
MEGUMI
KICKY
President
Kay Mok
Gobi Ventures
Senior Partner
Eriko Suzuki
Kind Capital
Founder/CEO
Neal Hansch
Silicon Foundry
CEO
Shiho Watabe
Shibuya Startups KK
CEO
Minoru Imano
Globis Capital Partners
Managing Partner
Ozawa Takao
BoostCapital
CEO
Tanimoto Yuka
Forbes JAPAN
Executive Manager, Managing Editor
Suzuki Eriko
Kind Capital
CEO
Kato Yukiko
SBI Investment Co., Ltd.
Director & Executive Officer, General Manager
Todd Perman
Seed Healthcare, LLC
President & CEO
Ursula Oesterle
EPFL
VP Innovation
Ruchira Shukla
Synapses Venture Capital Fund
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jeffrey Li
Tencent
Investment Managing Partner
Tim Rowe
CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)
CEO
Akihiko Nagata
UntroD Capital Japan, Inc.
Managing Director
Chris Yeh
Blitzscaling Ventures
General Partner
Bill Liao
SOSV
General Partner
Greg Horowitt
UC San Diego
Director, Innovation Design
Kato Shinpei
TIER IV
Founder & CEO
Marat Karpeko
Wargaming.net
Co-Founder and CEO
Ito Joichi
Chiba Institute of Technology
President
Nao Sudo
Impact Frontiers
Director
Ohta Hiroaki
Waseda University Ventures
Representative director
Kazuhito Hadano
Sony Ventures Corporation
CEO
Simon Lancaster
Omni Ventures
Investment General Partner
Hayashida Minoru
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Executive Director
Sakiko Yamada
Food Loss Bank Co., Ltd./Sports Doctors Network
COO/Head of Asia-Pacific
Kojiro Hatada
Innovative Space Carrier Inc.
President and CEO
Yoshiaki Ishii
Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation，JAPAN
Entrepreneur and Startup Support Department　Director General
Job van der Voort
Remote
CEO / Co-founder
Fumiko Uraki
Mitsubishi Chemical Group Corporation
Frontier & Open Innovation Division Senior Director
Miwa Seki
MPower Partners Fund
General Partner
Soichiro Murata
eiicon Co., Ltd.
Managing Executive Officer / CHRO, Head of Regional Revitalization and Innovation Creation Support Business Division
Lebre Marcelo
Remote
President / Co-founder
Eli Chuah
Remote
Solutions Consultant, APAC
Hannah Seal
Index Ventures
Partner
Rebecca Applewhite
Remote
Director, Solutions Consulting
Marie Oshioka
HERALBONY
COO / HERALBONY EUROPE CEO
Kawakami Yuko
IBM Japan, Ltd.
Managing Partner
Reiko Ayano
EventHub, Inc
Eventproducer
Sayaka Wada
BETTEI
CEO
Nicole LeBlanc
Woven Capital
Partner
Joost Segers
Toyota Motor Europe
Senior Manager Social Impact
Shunsuke Karasawa
Almoha
Co-founder, COO
Sandra Hernandez
Woven by Toyota
Strategy Manager
Michiko Kato
Woven Capital
Partner
Keishi Kameyama
DMM.com LLC
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Ben Mathias
Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India
Managing Partner
Ryo Naiki
Plug and Play Japan
Executive Officer, COO
Aki Jiang
WiL (World Innovation Lab)
US Investment Team　Principal
Rohini Chakravarthy
NewBuild Venture Capital
Managing Partner
Takada Kenichi
Incloop,inc.
CEO
Makiko "Maggie" Suzuki
Innovation Core SEI, a Sumitomo Electric Industries Company
Business Development Specialist
Michael Peng
Moon Creative Lab
Chief Creative Officer
Vishnu Amble
GreenBear Group LLC
Investments Director
Kohsuke Hamamura
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co.,Ltd.
Space Business Development Section, Commercial Market Strategy Department　Manager
Misuzu Onuki
SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd
Executive Vice President
Hiromichi Fujimoto
Thinker Inc.
CEO
Takashi Yokoyama
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
Growth Business Development Dept.　Senior Vice President
Satoshi Suzuki
Studist Corporation
CEO
Naoto Hoshi
Unifa Inc.
Board Member / CFO
Nakajima Kazuaki
bellFace.inc
CEO
Saori Nakai
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
Digital Strategy Dept.　Vice President
Namiki Ryo
PlariTwon.Inc
CEO
Yuki Goto
Cabinet Office
Secretariat of Science,Technology and Innovation Policy
Kentaro Yanashima
Logomix, Inc.
VP, Head of Synthetic Biology
Saeko Seno
Shibuya City
Global City Promotion Section　Section Chief
Kimura Naoko
Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
Director
Yuka Murata
I-ne Co., Ltd.
HR Division
Kenji Yamada
映画ドラマプロデューサー
Yuichi Suzuki
EventHub, Inc.
Marketing Manager
Takashi Uematsu
Salesforce Japan Co.,Ltd.
Commercial Sales　Area Vice President
Kazuki Nobue
Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
31VENTURES, Open Innovation Department　Principal
Moeri Yatsu
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Sustainability Development Department　Business Development Group
Hiroyuki Tanaka
TOKYU　CORPORATION
Future Design Lab Manager