SESSION SPEAKERS
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PITCH SPEAKERS

2024 SPEAKERS

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Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
Masataka Matsumoto
WiL
General Partner & Co-Founder
Tak Niinami
Suntory Holdings Limited
Chief Executive Officer
Takashi Kambayashi
Eco-Pork co., ltd.
CEO
Julien Mialaret
Eurazeo
Operating Partner
Hiroshi Mikitani
Representative Director of the New Economy Federation; Chairman and CEO of Rakuten Group, Inc.
Ryo Harada
Green Carbon, inc.
Thailand Branch manager
Koichi Maruo
Add11th Inc.
Representative Director
Haruka Mera
READYFOR Co.,Ltd
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Takashi Seki
MiDriq NbS, Inc
Representative director
Masahiro Suemitsu
SPACECOOL INC.
CEO
Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn, Co-Founder
Greylock, Partner
Chunmei Huang
Impact Capital Limited
Representative Director
Soichiro Takashima
Fukuoka City
mayors
Julien Mialaret
Eurazeo
Operating Partner
Nana Hori
Tensor Energy Inc.
CEO
Kazuhiko Toyama
Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI) / Japan Association of Corporate Directors
Chairman of IGPI Group
Nicole Jang
Rakuten Ventures
Partner
Ryo Yamada
WOTA Corp.
VP, Incubation Clan Leader & VP, Global Relations
Atsushi Kitagawa
Sony Ventures Corporation
Managing Director Japan
Michiko Kato
Woven Capital
Partner
Thomas Prunel
LVMH
Director
Wataru Chino
Ashirase, inc.
CEO
Yusuke Murata
Incubate Fund
Representative partner
Yuki Akiyama
Globe Advisors Ventures LLP
Partner
Hiromi Inoue
IBM Japan
IBM Japan digital services company　Senior Partner, IBM Consulting, IBM Japan
Ivan Seleznov
Flora Co., Ltd
Co-Founder & CTO
Tohru Akaura
Incubate Fund
General Partner
Kay Mok
Gobi Ventures
Senior Partner
Taku Nakahara
Metagen Therapeutics, Inc.
Founder and CEO
Nozomi Kosaka
Business Insider Japan
Operating Officer/Co-Editor-in-Chief
Tokuhisa Akihiko
Hakuhodo DY Ventures Ltd
CEO
Katsutoshi Matsushita
SMBC Venture Capital Co., Ltd.
Executive Officers
Tsuji Yosuke
Money Forward, Inc.
Representative Director, President and CEO
Tsujimoto Kazuya
PITTAN Inc.
Co-Founder & CEO
Shun Nagao
White Star Capital
Venture Partner
Masato Kishida
United Immunity, Co., Ltd.
President
Akinori Mochizuki
Vetanic Inc.
CEO
Tomohiro Uchida
Translink Capital
Partner
Tak Umezawa
CIC Japan
Chairperson
Taka Nagao
Kyoto Fusioneering LTD
Co-Founder, Director and Chairman
Takafumi Horie
SNS media&consulting Co., Ltd.
founder
Michele Guarnieri
hibot Corporation
CEO
Soichi Tajima
Genesia Ventures, Inc.
CEO／General Partner
Katsumi Tanaka
IWAYA INC.
DIRECTOR,GENERAL MANAGER
Yuko Nakanishi
SHISEIDO
R&D Strategy Dept.　Group manager
Andrew Sanden
Intrinsic Venture Capital
Managing Director / Founder
Yukako Yokota
One Capital
Healthcare　Partner
Matsumoto Yasukane
JOSYS Inc.
CEO
Thomas Prunel
LVMH
IT Digital Director
Andrew Sanden
Intrinsic Venture Capital
Managing Director / Founder
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
Alan Du
PayPal Ventures
Investment Partner
Yusuke Tanaka
Ocean Eyes Co., Ltd.
MEGUMI
KICKY
President
Annabel Lee
Tokyo University of Science Innovation Capital
Investment Manager
Kay Mok
Gobi Ventures
Senior Partner
Naohisa Hosikawa
ookuma diamond device
CEO
Takuma Kobayashi
ORBIS, Inc.
CEO
Daichi Tachibana
PeopleX.inc
CEO
Eriko Suzuki
Kind Capital
Founder/CEO
Atsushi Takata
Space Data Inc.
Executive Vice President
Neal Hansch
Silicon Foundry
CEO
Shiho Watabe
Shibuya Startups KK
CEO
Minoru Imano
Globis Capital Partners
Managing Partner
Michael Feldman
Vision Asia
Partner
Ishida Tomomi
Energy & Environment Investment
Capitalist/ Impact Officer
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
Kato Yukiko
SBI Investment Co., Ltd.
Corporate Venture Capital Department
Todd Perman
Seed Healthcare, LLC
President & CEO
Ursula Oesterle
EPFL
VP Innovation
Kenneth Li
MDI ventures
Managing Partner
Ruchira Shukla
Synapses Venture Capital Fund
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Jeffrey Li
Tencent
Investment Managing Partner
Bill Liao
SOSV
General Partner
Todd Perman
Seed Healthcare, LLC
President & CEO
Tim Rowe
CIC (Cambridge Innovation Center)
CEO
Sophia Nadur
bp Ventures
Managing Director - Asia Pacific & MENA
Akihiko Nagata
UntroD Capital Japan, Inc.
Managing Director
Chris Yeh
Blitzscaling Ventures
General Partner
Fuyuki Yamaguchi
Abies Ventures, Inc.
Investment Department　Managing 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
General Partner
Takeaki Kokubu
Lotte Ventures Japan
CEO
Hayashida Minoru
Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
Executive Director
Sakiko Yamada
Food Loss Bank Co., Ltd./Sports Doctors Network
COO/Head of Asia-Pacific
Chandra Firmanto
Indogen Capital
Managing Partner