SPEAKERS
Monday, June 7 [ AM ]
Lecture "Sparking the World’s Post-Pandemic Recovery"
- Simon Segars
- CEO,
Arm, UK
Lecturer brief history
Since joining Arm as one of its first employees, Simon has driven technical and business innovations to help transform the company into the leading architect of the most pervasive compute technology the world has ever seen.
Simon led the development of early ground-breaking Arm processors – the Arm7 and Arm9 – powering the world’s first digital mobile phones. He played a key role in developing industry standards, and his engineering work led to him being granted several embedded-systems patents. He became vice president of engineering in 2001, and before being named as Arm CEO in July 2013, he held several other strategy positions including global head of sales. He was personally responsible for expanding the company’s U.S. business and strengthening its leadership and relationships in California’s Silicon Valley, where he still lives with his family.
Simon helped steer the company through the 2016 acquisition by SoftBank, and, in June 2017, was elected to serve on the SoftBank board. He also sits on the boards of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance), TechWorks and is a non-executive director at Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Simon earned his BEng in electronic engineering from the University of Sussex and an MSc in computer science from the University of Manchester. In recognition of his extraordinary lifetime accomplishments and his impact to the global tech industry, Simon was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex.
Lecture "The Future of Digital Infrastructure"
- Charles J. Meyers
- President and CEO,
Equinix, USA
Lecturer brief history
Charles J. Meyers is President and Chief Executive Officer of Equinix. He joined Equinix in 2010 as President, Equinix Americas, leading the company’s largest P&L through a time of significant growth and strong operating performance. Mr. Meyers then served as the Chief Operating Officer at Equinix, where he led the Global Sales, Marketing, Operations and Customer Success teams. Most recently, he was President, Strategy, Services, and Innovation (SSI) leading Equinix’s strategic business teams including Corporate Strategy, Technology Innovation, and Product Management and Engineering.
Meyers has built a distinguished 25-year career in the high-tech industry, serving in executive leadership positions at leading technology and IT companies, including Verisign, Level 3 Communications, BellSouth, Internet Security Systems, and Booz-Allen & Hamilton Consulting.
Meyers earned dual master’s degrees from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and McCormick Graduate School of Engineering. He also holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado.
Lecture "Data’s Role in Building a Resilient Business"
- Steve McMillan
- President and CEO,
Teradata, USA
Lecturer brief history
Steve McMillan is President and Chief Executive Officer of Teradata and joined our board in June 2020. With more than two decades of technology experience, Steve is a seasoned executive with a track record of transforming enterprise services and product businesses into industry-leading cloud portfolio offerings.
Prior to joining Teradata, Steve served as the Executive Vice President of Global Services for F5 Networks. There, Steve was responsible for more than half of worldwide operations and achieved significant top-line growth and industry-leading customer satisfaction. Prior to F5, Steve was the Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Managed Cloud Services at Oracle, and before that, Steve held increasingly senior leadership positions at IBM, driving operations and execution with a consistent record of exceeding revenue and profit targets, business transformation, and collaborative leadership.
Steve is a published author on technology and management papers, and developed a patent around Cloud Computing.
Lecture "Prioritizing IT Investments to Execute Towards a Digital Enterprise"
- Seth A. Ravin
- CEO and Chairman of the Board,
Rimini Street, USA
Lecturer brief history
Seth A. Ravin is a 30-year enterprise software veteran who pioneered the independent enterprise software support industry. In 2005, he launched Rimini Street with a mission to redefine enterprise software support using innovative, next-generation support services delivered at a 50 percent savings in fees compared to the original vendors. Ravin is credited with enacting a visionary, disruptive strategy for dramatically reducing the cost of IT and ushering in a new era of customer choice. The Company’s unique support model has won numerous awards and in 2017, Rimini Street became the first and only third-party enterprise software support provided to be listed on a public exchange.
Session 1
"Next–generation Infrastructure Supported by Mobility"
Panelist
- Eko Hisashi Taniguchi
- Founder and CEO,
ZMP
Lecturer brief history
Founded ZMP in 2001. It has been involved in the development and sales of bipedal waling robots and music robots for home use, and entered the automotive field in 2008.
We provide autonomous vehicles to manufacturers and research institutes. Currently, we are developing the RoboCar series, including the RoboCar Mini EV Bus, CarriRo and CarriRo Fork, unmanned forklift that are revolutionizing work styles in the logistics industry, DeliRo unmanned delivery robot that automates last mile deliveries, and RakuRo that makes mobility easier for the elderly, and PATORO, an unmanned security and disinfection robot.
He is pursuing a "Robot of Everything" strategy to expand its robot technology into various fields.
Panelist
- Asako Hoshino
- Executive Officer, EVP,
Nissan Motor
Lecturer brief history
Asako Hoshino serves as executive vice president for Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (NML), acting as brand champion and overseeing global marketing & sales and global customer experience. She also chairs the management committee for the Japan-ASEAN region, in which capacity she leads all business operations in the region. Hoshino is also a member of NML’s Executive Committee. She has served as an executive vice president since May 2019.
Hoshino previously served as senior vice president in charge of the Japan market. In that role, she led the successful launch of the Nissan Note, which went on to become Japan’s best-selling car for 2018. Hoshino also founded the company’s market intelligence function and played a key role in helping to guide strategies to ensure that NML’s products and technologies best meet the needs of customers and markets. Hoshino is also a leader on gender equality issues, having helped to establish NML’s Diversity Development Office to increase the number of women in leadership positions throughout the company.
Before joining NML, Hoshino served at Intage Inc., a Japanese marketing analytics consulting company. In 2001, she played a pivotal role in helping to take the company public in Japan.
Hoshino has a bachelor’s degree in economics and econometrics from Keio University and an MBA in Marketing, Management and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Panelist
- Ichiro Kawanabe
- Chairman,
Mobility Technologies
Lecturer brief history
Joined McKinsey & Company Inc., Japan, in 1997, and then Nihon Kotsu Co., Ltd. in 2000.Appointed CEO of NIHON KOTSU Co., Ltd. in 2005 then Chairman in 2015. As the third generation CEO, introduced the "Black Taxi", “Jintsu Taxi (Taxi for Expectant Mothers)” and "Kids Taxi" services. Also, expanded the operating area in the Kansai region and drew the largest scale hire taxi company in the country, with about 8,000 taxis. Furthermore, as chairman of Mobility Technologies providing a variety of IT services for keeping the mobility industry up to date, such as taxi apps and digital signage accelerated the ongoing day to day upgrading of taxis and taxi services.
Became chairman of the Tokyo Hire Taxi Association in May 2014, and chairman of the Japan Federation of Hire Taxi Associations in June 2017.
Born in 1970. Graduated the Faculty of Economics, Keio University in 1993. Completed the MBA program at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Panelist
- Shinji Makiura
- Senior Managing Executive Officer,
(Corporate Transformation and Innovation)
Yamato Transport
Lecturer brief history
Shinji Makiura joined Yamato Holdings (dominant “Last Mile” delivery provider in Japan) in 2015. Since then, he has led the corporate transformation project including “Digital Transformation”. Currently he is also responsible for innovation initiatives. Prior to Yamato, he was a Managing Executive Officer / Managing Director at Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd where he led various industry investment banking teams including those of Transportation and Logistics for 16 years. His major achievement includes turnaround of bankrupted Japan Air Line as Financial Advisor. Prior to Merrill Lynch, he was engaged in various banking activities of high-tech companies at Industrial Bank of Japan for 14 years.
Makiura received MBA from Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and BA from Keio University. He has 40 years of experience in both Noh (Japanese traditional performance arts) and Ironman Triathlon.
Moderator
- Takashi Sugimoto
- Senior Staff Writer,
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Takashi Sugimoto is a senior staff writer for Nikkei. He has over fifteen years of career as a reporter in Japan and United States. He has covered tech companies, automotive, material and electronics industries in Tokyo. As a New York correspondent, he has covered industrial news and United Nations from 2011 to 2015.
Takashi joined Nikkei in 2002 after earning a master’s degree in Economics from Kyoto University.
Monday, June 7 [ PM ]
Lecture "Realization of Resilient Society"
- Jun Sawada
- President and CEO,
NTT
Lecturer brief history
Jun Sawada is managing and orchestrating NTT as President and Chief Executive Officer since 2018.
Sawada became Chief Financial Officer of NTT in 2014, and he was engaged in various role in technology developments, business incubation, enterprise sales, and corporate strategy planning and implementation since he joined NTT in 1978.
Sawada received his B.A. in Civil Engineering from Kyoto University in 1978.
Lecture "Tomorrow, Together: Realizing Resilient Society by Co-Creation"
- Makoto Takahashi
- President, Representative Director,
KDDI CORPORATION
Lecturer brief history
- Apr. 2018
- President, Representative Director (Current position)
- Jun. 2016
- Executive Vice President, Representative Director
- Jun. 2010
- Senior Managing Executive Officer, Representative Director
- Jun. 2007
- Managing Executive Officer, Director
- Apr. 2003
- Executive Officer
Date of Birth: October 24, 1961
Lecture "The Power of Resilience: Sustainable Society Realized by Digital
Technology"
- Takahito Tokita
- Representative Director,
CEO, CDXO,
Fujitsu
Lecturer brief history
- Apr. 1988
- Joined Fujitsu Limited
- Jun. 2014
- Head of Financial Systems Unit, Integration Services Business
- Apr. 2015
- Corporate Executive Officer
SVP, Head of Financial Systems Unit, Integration Services Business - Apr. 2016
- Corporate Executive Officer
SVP, Head of Financial Systems Unit, Global Services Integration Business
In charge of Safety Solution Business Unit - Apr. 2017
- Corporate Executive Officer
SVP, Vice Head of Global Delivery Group, Global Services Integration Business - Jan. 2019
- Corporate Executive Officer
EVP, Head of Global Delivery Group, Technology Solution Business - Mar. 2019
- Corporate Executive Officer
SEVP - Jun. 2019
- Representative Director
President - Oct. 2019
- Representative Director
President
CDXO - Apr. 2020
- Representative Director
CEO, CDXO
Lecture "Orchestrating a brighter world"
- Takayuki Morita
- President and CEO,
NEC Corporation
Lecturer brief history
Takayuki Morita became President and Chief Executive Officer (Representative Director) of NEC Corporation, a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that deliver benefits to businesses and people around the world, on April 1, 2021.
Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer, where he managed the financial strategy and operations of NEC’s 100,000 employees and total revenue of $25 billion. He was also responsible for Corporate Business Development functions, including the oversight of M&A and other investments that have reinforced NEC’s solutions for society, such as major advancements in the digital finance, digital government and drug development fields.
Having joined NEC in 1983, Morita’s experience in the global ICT industry now spans nearly four decades, six years of which he spent working in the U.S. market. In the past twenty years, he has played a central role in the development of partnerships and alliances with corporations across the globe - having completed more than forty deals of corporate mergers & acquisitions and investments.
Lecture "We will Expand into New Fields of Business that Achieve CSV×DX in
Step with Social Changes"
- Shinichiro Funabiki
- President and CEO,
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company
Lecturer brief history
- April. 2021
- Representative Director, President, Chief Executive Officer (present)
- April. 2020
- Director, Executive Vice President
- April. 2020
- Executive Officer, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc. (present)
- April. 2017
- Director, Senior Executive Officer
- April. 2017
- Executive Officer, MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.
- April. 2015
- Managing Executive Officer,
General Manager of Tokyo Commercial Business Divison 1st - April. 2013
- Executive Officer, General Manager of Corporate Planning Dept.
- April. 1983
- Joined The Sumitomo Marine and Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
Session 2
"How can we materialize DX that leads to Evolution of Business?"
Panelist
- Kenitiro Muto
- Director,
Google Japan
Lecturer brief history
Keni is a Director at Google responsible for the Japan Sales team. His mission is to help bring all Japanese businesses online and to provide support for them to succeed in the digital market.
Before joining Google, Keni started up ServiceSource International Japan office where he focused on expanding the outsourcing and cloud computing businesses. Keni started his career at Accenture in Brazil and the US, and worked 10 years at McKinsey & Company’s Chicago, Tokyo and Singapore offices where specialized in high-tech/telecom strategies.
Born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, holds an Electronics Engineering degree from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, and Master of Business Administration degree from Yale.
Panelist
- Keita Nishiyama
- Senior Executive Fellow
Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI)
Lecturer brief history
While at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Keita Nishiyama was engaged in various positions including Executive Managing Director of the Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), Secretary-General of the Taskforce for Management and Financial Investigation of TEPCO, Cabinet Secretariat, Deputy Director-General for the Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, Member of the Board and Director Executive Office of TEPCO, and Director-General for the Commerce and Information Policy Bureau. He retired from Japanese civil service in July 2020.
He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and from the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Course (PPE) at the University of Oxford.
He is Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo’s Institute for Future Initiatives.
Panelist
- Fujiyo Ishiguro
- President and CEO,
Netyear Group
Lecturer brief history
After working at Brother Industries in overseas marketing and Swarovski Japan as a manager in charge of new businesses, Fujiyo Ishiguro founded a high-tech specialty consulting firm in Silicon Valley and advised clients such as Yahoo!, Netscape, Sony, and Panasonic on such matters as US-Japan alliances and technology transfers.
In 1999, she participated in Netyear Group’s MBO and has assumed her current position since 2000. Netyear Group went to IPO in 2008. In 2019, NTT Data, the biggest System Integrator in Japan completed the TOB over Netyear, while Netyear keeping their position as a public company.
In recent years, she has been serving in public positions such as a member of “The Strategic Headquarters for the Promotion of an Advanced Information and Telecommunications Network Society” under the Cabinet Secretariat, member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry’s Industrial Structure Council, member of “The Future to Choose” Committee under the Cabinet Office and so on.
Graduated from the School of Economics at Nagoya University and received an MBA from Stanford University.
Panelist
- Yuta Tsuruoka
- CEO,
BASE
Lecturer brief history
Yuta Tsuruoka was born in 1989. While he was still a university student, he gained experience in back-end programming and direction for multiple Internet services.
In December 2012, at the age of 22, he established BASE, Inc. with the mission of "Payment to the People, Power to the People". He has developed businesses focusing on simplifying payments and operates BASE, one of the largest e-commerce platforms in Japan. In 2018, he was selected as one of the three best entrepreneurs in Japan by Forbes Japan, and was listed on the TSE Mothers in October 2019.
Moderator
- Takehiko “Ken” Koyanagi
- Senior Staff Writer and Editorial Writer,
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Ken Koyanagi just came back at the end of March from a 7-year stint in Southeast Asia and India as a Nikkei Asia Editor-at-large. Prior to that, he was the founding Publisher of the Nikkei Asian Review from its launch in November 2013, having led several other online product development projects mainly for the Japanese Nikkei Online Edition. He reported on the U.S. technology sector at Nikkei Silicon Valley news bureau in 2001-2005. After joining Nikkei in 1988, Ken reported on such beats as the Japanese capital markets, financial and technology sectors.
He studied the political science at the Penn State University graduate school, the French language and the political science at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
Tuesday, June 8 [ AM ]
Message from Minister for Digital Transformation
- Takuya Hirai
- Minister for Digital Transformation
Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy
Minister of State for the Social Security and Tax Number System
Lecturer brief history
HIRAI Takuya is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Takamatsu, Kagawa and graduate of Sophia University. He was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2000, since then elected 7 times consecutively. Career: Chairman, Public Relations Headquarters, LDP, Chairman, Special Mission Committee on IT Strategy of LDP. Former, Director, Economy, Trade and Industry Division of LDP. Senior Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Director. Internet Media Division of LDP. Chairman, Cabinet Committee for the House of Representatives, Minister in charge of Information Technology Policy, Minister of State for "Cool Japan" Strategy Minister of State for the Intellectual Property Strategy, Minister of State for Science and Technology Policy, Minister of State for Space Policy.
Lecture "Reinventing Business through Digital Transformation"
- Arvind Krishna
- Chairman and CEO,
IBM, USA
Lecturer brief history
Arvind Krishna is the Chairman and CEO of IBM. As a business leader and technologist, he has built new markets for IBM in AI, cloud, quantum computing, and blockchain and has played a significant role in the development of innovative IBM products and solutions based on these emerging technologies. Over his 30-year IBM career, Arvind has led many bold transformations, including the $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat -- the largest software acquisition that has defined the hybrid cloud market. Previously, he was SVP of Cloud and Cognitive Software and prior to this he headed IBM Research.
Arvind has an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Interviewer
- Akito Tanaka
- Senior Staff Writer, Nikkei Inc.
Nikkei Asia Chief business news correspondent
Lecturer brief history
Akito Tanaka is a senior staff writer for Nikkei and Nikkei Asia's Chief business news correspondent, covering the technology sector from Singapore. Tanaka has twenty years of reporting experience and has also been covering global companies in both Japan and the United States.
Tanaka graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, with BA in political science. He spent his childhood years in Lisbon, Portugal, attending the American International School.
Lecture "Digital Workflows to Create New Ways of Working –Build Agility,
Resilience and Accelerate Digital Transformation for A Healthier
Future"
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- Bill McDermott
- President and CEO,
ServiceNow, USA
Lecturer brief history
Bill McDermott is President and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceNow, the digital workflow market leader with more than 12,000 colleagues worldwide. He is one of the most respected and admired leaders in the technology industry, with a career of leadership success spanning Xerox, Gartner, Siebel Systems, SAP and ServiceNow.
Since he joined ServiceNow in late 2019, McDermott has accelerated the company’s strategy to help its customers win the “workflow revolution.” ServiceNow’s momentum is palpable, with leading customer retention rates, high net promoter scores and near 100% growth in market value since the beginning of 2020.
In addition to his executive leadership of ServiceNow, SAP, Siebel, Gartner and Xerox, Bill has sat in the board rooms of innovative companies in a range of industries. He has served as an external director for performance apparel maker Under Armour (2005-2019), engineering software maker Ansys (2007 –2019) and cyber security maker Dell SecureWorks (2016-2019). Bill has also served on a wide range of CEO leadership coalitions, including the Business Roundtable, the Business Council and the European Roundtable of Industrialists.
Bill is passionate about engaging and mentoring young people, consistent with the real-life education of his own early days, chronicled in his internationally best-selling memoir, Winners Dream: A Journey from Corner Store to Corner Office. He has received countless awards, including the first-ever “Leader Worth Following Award” from Leader Cast and the We Are Family Foundation Promise Award. He has also been recognized by the Children’s Aid Society, City Year and the Silicon Valley Leadership Group.
Bill is a proud graduate of Dowling College, Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the Executive Development Program of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Lecture "The Next Big Thing is Search"
- Howard Lerman
- Founder and CEO,
Yext, USA
Lecturer brief history
Howard Lerman founded Yext in 2006 on the principle that the ultimate authority on a business should be the business itself. Since then Howard has developed Yext into an innovative, global brand that can live up to that principle. With a mission to help businesses and organizations around the world deliver official answers everywhere people search, Yext is delivering the future of search to thousands of brands, businesses, governments, and organizations worldwide.
He is a proud graduate of TJHSST and Duke University.
Lecture "The CEO View –Cyber Security From the Front Lines"
- Kevin Mandia
- CEO and Board Director,
FireEye, USA
Lecturer brief history
Kevin Mandia has served as FireEye Chief Executive Officer since June 2016 and was appointed to the company’s Board of Directors in February 2016. He was previously President of FireEye from February 2015 until June 2016. Kevin joined FireEye as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004.
Before Mandiant, Kevin was the Director of Computer Forensics at Foundstone (acquired by McAfee Corporation) from 2000 to 2003, and the Director of Information Security for Sytex (later acquired by Lockheed Martin) from 1998 to 2000. Kevin also served in the United States Air Force, where he was a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon, and a special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI).
Kevin holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University.
Session 3
"Workstyles in the Post–New Normal Era"
Panelist
- Tomonobu Kamiya
- President,
Adobe Japan
Lecturer brief history
Tomonobu Kamiya is President of Adobe Japan, being responsible for all three of Adobe’s cloud business segments since April 2021, comprised of Adobe’s Experience Cloud, Creative Cloud, and Document Cloud.
Prior to his appointment as President, Kamiya was responsible for Adobe’s entire digital media business, including product and sales strategy in Japan. Since joining the company in October 2014, he has led Adobe's digital transformation from a desktop-based service to the company’s current cloud-based subscription model.
Prior to joining Adobe Japan, Kamiya served as Managing Director of the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions at D&M Holdings Inc. (now Sound United) from 2012 to 2014, where he drove revenue and EBITDA growth through sales, marketing, and culture transformation. Prior to that, Kamiya held a number of key marketing and sales positions at AMD Japan and Dell Japan (now Dell Technologies, Inc.), to expand their business in Japan.
Kamiya graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University with a Bachelor of Arts in Private International Law, and went on to complete the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Panelist
- Miku Hirano
- CEO,
Cinnamon
Lecturer brief history
Serial Entrepreneur. MSc, in Artificial Intelligence, from Tokyo University. Engaged in research on Recommendation Engine, Complex Network, Clustering. Won the Innovative Software Creation Program (Super Creator Award) under Information-technology Promotion Agency Japan (IPA) in 2005 and 2006. Started her first business to create the middleware which enables to develop iOS / Android / Feature Phone simultaneously, and sold the company to mixi.inc. Founded Cinnamon in Singapore in 2012.
She has received various awards, including St. Gallen Symposium Leaders of Tomorrow, Forbes Japan "Entrepreneur Ranking 2020" BEST10, Woman of the Year 2019 Innovative Entrepreneur Award, and Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award 2019 New Generation Award.
She has been a member of the IT Strategy Office, Cabinet Secretariat and a special member of the Tax Commission, Cabinet Office since 2020. In 2021, she has become an expert member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, Cabinet Office.
She is the mother of two children.
Panelist
- Shinichi Koide
- Chairman, President and CEO,
Salesforce.com, Japan & Korea
Lecturer brief history
After graduating from university, Shinichi Koide began his career at IBM Japan in 1981. He assumed multiple roles at IBM Japan including the Strategy Division role at the US Headquarters, President’s Office Manager, and Board Director. In 2006, he joined SoftBank Telecom (formerly Japan Telecom) as Representative Director and Chief Operating Officer.
In December 2007, he joined Hewlett-Packard Japan as the Chief Executive Officer and President. In April 2014, he joined Salesforce as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
Currently he is also serving as an Outside Director of Mitsubishi UFJ Bank since June 2018 and Director of Special Olympics Nippon Foundation since March 2019.
Born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1958.
Panelist
- Katsunori Furuichi
- President and Managing Director,
Box Japan
Lecturer brief history
Katsunori Furuichi is President and Managing Director of K.K. Box Japan, who leads Box’s growth and development in Japan. Prior to joining Box, Katsunori was the President and Chief Executive Officer of VeriSign Japan K.K. He was a Partner at PRTM Management Consulting (Currently PwC Consulting). Katsunori had worked at NTT for more than 13 years where he had fulfilled a variety of functions such as system engineering, overseas business development, sales, marketing, and corporate planning.
Katsunori earned a B.A. from Kyoto University and an MBA from London Business School.
Panelist
- Shin Murakami
- Japan Country Manager,
LinkedIn
Lecturer brief history
Shin Murakami joined LinkedIn in November 2017, and leads the company’s mission to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful in Japan.
Shin is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the mobile space. He started his first company Dennotai, one of earliest mobile companies in Japan, with his friends while studying at Aoyama University in 1996. After the company was acquired by Yahoo! Japan, he first led Yahoo! Japan’s mobile initiatives as an engineer, and subsequently served as its Executive Vice President and Chief Mobile Officer in April 2012. Shin is passionate about diversity initiatives and entrepreneurship.
He currently also serves as technical advisor for, and board member on various Japanese startup companies.
Moderator
- Waichi Sekiguchi
- Visiting Senior Staff Writer,
Nikkei Inc.
Lecturer brief history
Waichi Sekiguchi is a visiting senior staff writer for Nikkei. After graduating from Hitotsubashi University, he joined Nikkei in 1982. Sekiguchi has worked as an editorial writer for 15 years and has covered the IT industry as a senior staff writer for 24 years. As a Washington correspondent during the Bush and Clinton Administrations in the early 90s, Sekiguchi covered US trade and government policies. He was a Fulbright fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University in the late 80s and a chief writer for the English edition of the Nikkei. After becoming a visiting senior staff writer in 2019, Sekiguchi served as president of MM Research Institute, a Japanese research and consulting firm catering to the IT industry. He also served as a news commentator on NHK World TV program "Nikkei Japan Report" and was a lead newscaster on BS TV Tokyo program "NIKKEI × BS Live". Sekiguchi was a visiting professor at the University of Tokyo and Hosei Business School. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), the International University of Japan.
Tuesday, June 8 [ PM ]
Lecture "Sony's Turnaround –Becoming a resilient company"
- Kazuo Hirai
- Senior Advisor,
Sony Group
Lecturer brief history
Kazuo Hirai began his career with CBS/Sony Inc. (Now Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)) in 1984. In 1995 he joined Sony Computer Entertainment America with responsibility for the PlayStation business in North America. From 2007, he served as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. extending his responsibilities to the PlayStation business worldwide.
In April 2012, Hirai was appointed Representative Corporate Executive Officer, President and CEO, Sony Corporation, and led the entire Sony business for 6 years as its Chief Executive. From April 2018 until June 2019, he held the position of Chairman, Sony Corporation, and then, in June 2019, he became Senior Advisor.
Hirai received his Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.
Lecture "SoftBank's Evolution –Creating the Future with Technology"
- Junichi Miyakawa
- President and CEO,
SoftBank
Lecturer brief history
- Dec. 1991
- Representative Director and President, KK Momotaro Internet
- Jun. 2000
- Representative Director and President, Nagoya Metallic Communications Corp.
(currently the Company) - Jan. 2002
- Representative Director and President, Tokyo Metallic Communications Corp.
(currently the Company) - Aug. 2003
- Director, SOFTBANK BB Corp. (currently the Company)
- Nov. 2014
- Technical Chief Operating Officer, Sprint Corporation
- Dec. 2017
- President and CEO, HAPSMobile Inc. (to present)
- Apr. 2018
- Representative Director and CTO, Technology Unit Head and Technology Strategy Unit Head, the Company
- Jan. 2019
- President and CEO, MONET Technologies Inc. (to present)
- Apr. 2021
- President and CEO, the Company (to present)
Lecture "From Remote to Hybrid, Securing Workforces in the New Normal"
- Shawn Henry
- President of CrowdStrike Services and CSO,
CrowdStrike, USA
Lecturer brief history
Shawn Henry serves as president of CrowdStrike Services, leading a world-class team of cybersecurity professionals in investigating and mitigating targeted attacks on corporate and government networks globally. Under his leadership, CrowdStrike engages in significant proactive and incident response operations across every major commercial sector and critical infrastructure, protecting organizations’ and governments’ sensitive data and networks around the world. Henry’s work includes educating boards of directors and executives of key companies on critical proactive security measures, governance, and corporate readiness in the event of a breach. He also oversees all security aspects of global CrowdStrike facilities, personnel, executive protection, and corporate events.
Henry’s legendary commitment to “One team. One Fight.” resonates throughout the entire organization, unifying CrowdStrike’s rapidly growing and geographically dispersed workforce. He joined CrowdStrike in 2012 after retiring from the FBI, where he oversaw half of the FBI’s investigative operations, including all FBI criminal and cyber investigations worldwide, international operations, and the FBI’s critical incident response to major investigations and disasters. He also received the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Executive for his leadership in enhancing the FBI’s cyber capabilities. He serves as a keynote speaker at major cyber security conferences around the world and is regularly interviewed on cyber security issues by major broadcast, cable, online, and print media.
EXPERIENCE: Executive Assistant Director, FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch
(Served in wide range of operational and leadership roles in FBI Field Offices and FBI Headquarters during his 24 year FBI career)
EDUCATION:
B.B.A., Hofstra University
M.S.in Criminal Justice Administration, Virginia Commonwealth University
Graduate, Homeland Security Executive Leadership Program of the Naval Postgraduate School
Lecture "Catalyst for Sustainable Innovation"
- Bernard Charlès
- Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO,
Dassault Systèmes, France
Lecturer brief history
Bernard Charlès joined Dassault Systèmes in 1983, and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in September 1995, growing the company from a CAD software startup to a world leader in 3D software. Since being appointed Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in May 2016, he has further solidified the company’s dedication to supporting innovation and strengthening corporate and societal resilience, in line with its purpose of "providing business & people with 3DEXPERIENCE® universes to imagine sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature and life.”
With his leadership, Dassault Systèmes has consistently been chosen as one of the world's most sustainable corporations by Corporate Knights since 2012.
session 4
"Information and communication networks in the post–new normal era"
Keynote
- Yoshiaki Takeuchi
- Director-General of the Telecommunications Bureau,
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC)
Lecturer brief history
Yoshiaki Takeuchi joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), Japan in 1985. He has been in charge of ICT policy for more than thirty years, consistently. After serving as Deputy Director-General for IT Strategy, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Yoshiaki Takeuchi was appointed as Director-General of Radio Department, Telecommunications Bureau, MIC. Prior to the current position, he had worked as a several senior positions, including Director-General for Cybersecurity.
He has been in his current position as Director-General of the Telecommunications Bureau since July 2020.
Lecture
- Matti Latva-aho
- Director for 6G Flagship,
University of Oulu, Finland
Lecturer brief history
Matti Latva-aho received the M.Sc., Lic.Tech. and Dr. Tech (Hons.) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland in 1992, 1996 and 1998, respectively. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Research Engineer at Nokia Mobile Phones, Oulu, Finland after which he joined Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC) at the University of Oulu. Prof. Latva-aho was Director of CWC during the years 1998-2006 and Head of Department for Communication Engineering until August 2014. Currently he serves as Academy of Finland Professor and is Director for National 6G Flagship Programme. His research interests are related to mobile broadband communication systems and currently his group focuses on 6G systems research.
Prof. Latva-aho has published over 500 conference or journal papers in the field of wireless communications. He received Nokia Foundation Award in 2015 for his achievements in mobile communications research.
Lecture
- Thyaga Nandagopal
- Deputy Division Director,
Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, USA
Lecturer brief history
Dr. Thyaga Nandagopal is the Deputy Division Director of the Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) Division in the Directorate of Computer & Information Science and Engineering (CISE) at the National Science Foundation. In this role, he oversees the division's investments in the theory and foundations of computing systems and communications technologies, with an annual budget of nearly $200M.
His current interests are in research policy, quantum computing, artificial intelligence and advanced wireless networks (beyond 5G). He has brought in over $100M from external partners into NSF-funded research programs. He previously served as a Program Director at the NSF in the Networking Technologies and Systems (NeTS) program, where he managed mobile systems and wireless networking research across multiple funding programs with an annual budget of over $50M. At NSF, Thyaga is also leading the Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research program, a $100M effort over the 2017 - 2024 timeframe. He serves as the co-chair of the Wireless Spectrum Research and Development Senior Steering Group (WSRD SSG), which co-ordinates spectrum-related research and development activities across the Federal government. Dr. Nandagopal is also a co-chair of the NSF-wide Quantum Leap Steering Committee, that coordinates NSF investments in inter-disciplinary research in quantum computing, communications and sensing.
He is an IEEE Fellow, and holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lecture
- Akihiro Nakao
- Professor,
the University of Tokyo, Japan
Lecturer brief history
- 1991
- B.S. in Physics, University of Tokyo
- 1994
- M.E. in Information Engineering, University of Tokyo
- 1994-2005
- IBM Yamato Laboratory
Tokyo Research Laboratory
IBM Texas Austin - 2001
- M.S. in Computer Science, Princeton University
- 2005
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Princeton University
- 2005-2014
- Associate Professor in Applied Computer Science
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo - 2014
- Professor in Applied Computer Science
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo - 2019
- Vice Dean Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
- 2019
- Advisor to the President of the University of Tokyo
- 2020-present
- Special Advisor to the President of the University of Tokyo
- 2020-present
- Chairman, 5G/Beyond 5G, Space ICT Promotion Initiative Forum
- 2020-present
- Chairman, Beyond 5G Promotion Consortium
- 2021-present
- Professor in School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
- 2021-present
- Director, Collaborative Research Institute for NGCI,
(Next-Generation Cyber Infrastructure), The University of Tokyo
