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Shintaro Yamamichi received his M.E. and Ph. D. degrees in electrical engineering, from Kyoto University, Japan in 1989 and 2002, respectively. He was involved in semiconductor R&D in NEC and Renesas Electronics. He was also a visiting industrial fellow at University of California, Berkeley in 1997. In 2013, he joined IBM, Science and Technology team in Tokyo. From 2016, He led the research projects, including quantum computer installation, AI hardware, advanced packaging, and material informatics. From 2013, he is the Director of IBM Semiconductors Japan, IBM Research -Tokyo, leading circuit design, chiplet technology, fab automation and data science activities and also the collaboration with research partners in Japan.

Jun Makino received PhD from the University of Tokyo. After he received PhD, he worked at University of Tokyo, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo Institute of Technology. For 2014 to 2021, he worked at RIKEN AICS as a a subleader of the Flagship 2020 project. Since 2016, he works at Kobe University, and since 2023 also at Preferred networks as VP CTO of Computer Architecture. His research interests are stellar dynamics, large-scale scientific simulation and high-performance computing.

"Dr. Richard Dasher has been Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center and Adjunct Professor at Stanford University since 1994. His research focuses on the impact of new technologies on industry value chains, open innovation management, and the flow of people, capital, and knowledge in regional innovation systems. He concurrently served as Executive Director of Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems (1998 – 2015).

Dr. Dasher was the first non-Japanese person invited to join the governance of a Japanese national university, serving on the Board of Directors and Management Council of Tohoku University (2004 – 2010). He rejoined the Management Council of Tohoku University in 2024. He has served on the Program Committee of Japan’s Word Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI Program) since its beginning in 2007. Dr Dasher advises business accelerators, startups, and think-tanks in the U.S., Canada, and several Asian countries. In 2022, he became a Founding Partner of the Tokyo- and Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm Global Hands-On Venture Capital (GHOVC). He received the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Commendation in 2023 for long-term promotion of economic relations between Japan and the U.S.

Dr. Dasher received the Ph.D. in Linguistics with a minor in Japanese language from Stanford University."

Keiji Numata earned his Ph.D. (2007) with a thesis centered on enzymatic degradation and synthesis with hydrolases of biopolymers, especially poly(hydroxyalkanoate), under the supervision of Prof. Yoshiharu Doi, Tokyo Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis includes works on enzymatic polymerization to synthesize branched biopolymers, which has been performed in Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) under the supervisions of Prof. Ann-Christine Albertsson and Prof. Anna Finne-Wistrand. He worked as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad at Tufts University (USA) where he studied biosynthesis of silk-based polymers via bacterial pathways as well as silk-based gene carriers in the laboratory of Stern Family Professor in Engineering David L. Kaplan. He moved to RIKEN as a Senior Scientist in 2010 to start up a laboratory to investigate biosynthesis and material design of structural proteins and poly(amino acid). He has been a Team Leader (PI) of the lab since 2012 and Research Director for JST-ERATO Numata Organelle Reaction Cluster Project (2016-2023), Research Director for JST-COI-NEXT, Research Director for MEXT Program: Data Creation and Utilization-Type Material Research and Development Project (2022-). In 2020, he moved to Department of Material Chemistry, Kyoto University, as a full professor. He received Nagase Prize from the frontier salon foundation (2022), the 2020 ACS Macro Letters/Biomacromolecules/Macromolecules Young Investigator Award (American Chemical Society, 2020), SPSJ Asahi Kasei Award (2019), Award for Encouragement of Research, Japanese Society for Plant Cell and Molecular Biology, Japan (2019), Bio-Environmental Polymer Society Outstanding Young Scientist Award, USA (2018), The Young Scientists’ Prize for Minister of MEXT, Japan (2018), and so on. He was appointed as an associate editor of Polymer Journal (2018-2020) and is currently an associate editor of ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering. In July 2024, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

An infrastructure business consultant with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors. After earning a master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Tokyo, he worked at Nomura Research Institute. Later, He joined Swiss Reinsurance and subsequently served as Vice President of a space venture. In 2023, He established IN-Lab., a consulting firm specializing in infrastructure business, with a proven track record in policy proposals about infrastructure management and PPP/concession bid advisory. He hold an MBA from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Global Environmental Engineering from Osaka University. He also serves as an invited researcher in Osaka University and an advisor to a startup, as well.

Moriyama is the CEO of Carbon Xtract Corporation, a developer of direct air capture technology and solutions based on separation membranes. Before joining Carbon Xtract, he spent 15 years at Sojitz Corporation, one of the major Japanese trading and investment houses. There, he was responsible for sales and investment management in its metal resources business division, and for new business development related to nanomaterials and climate tech solutions. In 2023, Sojitz and Kyushu University, which has advanced R&D in direct air capture technology that captures and condenses CO2 simply by passing air through a membrane system, jointly established Carbon Xtract. At that time, he was appointed as CEO.

Work experience:
JR-West
Joined the company/ April 1997
Section Manager, Global Environment Protection Promotion Group,
Innovation Department, Railway Operations Headquarters/ June 2021-May 2023
Manager, Green Transformation Strategy Group,
Innovation Department, Railway Operations Headquarters/ June 2023-May 2024
General Manager, Green Transformation Strategy Office, Innovation Department,
Railway Operations Headquarters/ June 2024-Present

Kentaro Kaneko obtained Ph.D degrees in Engineering from Kyoto University in 2013. He was engaged in research of gallium oxide (Ga2O3) in his early career. He founded a venture company when he was a Ph.D student, who sells -Ga2O3 Schottky barrier diode power device from 2020.
As an academia, he started his career in 2014, as an assistant professor (2014-2018) and a lecturer (2018-2022) at Kyoto University. He has been a full-professor in Ritsumeikan University since 2022. He also serves as a director of semiconductor application research center in the University (RISA) since 2024. He has won 25 awards and has given nearly 90 invited talks.
During his academic career, he explored p-type layer for Ga2O3, for example Iridium oxide (α-Ir2O3) and Rhodium oxide (α-Rh2O3). He began a research of germanium dioxide (GeO2) for power device application in 2021 and founded venture company for social implementation of GeO2 power devices.
He also has been explored other new materials and new applications. SnO2 is applied to polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) coating for enhancing compatible corrosion resistance and conductivity, MgZnO is a light emitting material instead of mercury lamp (185nm), Y2O3 is researched for insulating layer of Si semiconductor foundry process.

After graduating from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Kyoto University in 1979, he joined Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. (now GS Yuasa Corporation) and later earned his Ph.D. from The University of Aberdeen. At Japan Storage Battery, he led the development and manufacturing of the world's first rectangular Ni-Cd batteries, contributing to the realization of Motorola's MicroTAC mobile phones and Sony's cassette-sized Walkman. He also spearheaded numerous innovative battery development projects, including Li-Al thermal batteries for defense applications and thin lithium-ion batteries for portable devices.

In 1999, he established Quallion LLC in Los Angeles, serving as CEO/CTO to develop and manufacture high-reliability lithium-ion batteries for medical, satellite, and military applications. The company's implantable batteries with magnetic remote charging capability have been implemented in tens of thousands of patients, and numerous U.S. military satellites utilize Quallion's batteries. His achievements earned him prestigious recognitions including the International Battery Material Association Technical Award, the Frost & Sullivan Award, and Boeing's Technology Supplier Award.

In 2011, he founded CONNEXX SYSTEMS Corporation to leverage the battery technology and expertise cultivated in specialized fields for grid and mobility applications. He continues to serve as the company's CEO, driving technological innovation in new domains.

Joined Mitsubishi Fuso in 2003. Engaged in overseas strategy and overseas sales (mainly Europe, North America markets). From 2016, engaged in the sales network enhancement for Light Commercial Vehicles at Nissan Motors. Returned to Mitsubishi Fuso in 2019, and he has been engaged in building the electric truck eCanter ecosystem. Working for FUSO eMobility Solutions, in charge of charging services and consulting. In charge in the areas of service development, partnership building, charging-related demonstration projects, etc.

University of Kent at Canterbury, MA.
Keio University, MA in Graduate School of Media and Governance

Prof. Shutaro Takeda co-founded Kyoto Fusioneering in 2019. He is responsible for international relations and technological strategic planning. He became the youngest-ever appointed associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School at the age of 31, and currently serves as an associate professor at the Kyushu University Urban Research Center. He has received many prizes, including NIG Early Career Award 2021 from the Institute of Physics and the Director General’s Recognition Award. He formerly worked at the IAEA, and was the first Japanese citizen to work for the UN as an Associate Officer in the fusion division. He has also served as a member of IAEA International Program Advisory Committee Member for Fusion Enterprises Workshop, and as an Expert to the Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee: Japanese MEXT. Shutaro has a PhD in Energy Science from Kyoto University, and M.S. in Sustainability from Harvard University.

Takaya TAGUCHI started his fruitful career in the business world in Japan at Mizuho Bank,
Japan Bank for International Cooperation(JBIC), PwC Advisory and Dai-ichi Life.
He has also experience as COO in a start-up company in Japan.
Education: The Graduate School of Letters (Ethics), Kyoto University

Ayumi started her career at Career Design Center in 2002. After working as a sales manager at Google, she founded at Will Work in 2016. After working at Money Design, worked at Plug and Play K.K. as CMO, overseeing marketing and PR. 2022 founded the Startup Ecosystem Association and became its president. She is a Startup Strategy Fellow at Tokyo Metropolitan Government, an Ambassador for Entrepreneurship Education Program at the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and an expert member of the Startup and Investment Working Group at the Cabinet Office's Council for Regulatory Reform.

He conducted and supervised basic, applied and commercialization R&D at NTT Laboratories, and then moved to ATR for corporate management and planning as well as business developments at ATR and ATR Group. He is also leading the establishment of a global innovation ecosystem and various startup support platforms in Keihanna Science City. In February 2021, he established XBorder Innovations (XBI) to further strengthen startup support activities.

Researched Lithium-ion Battery at R&D department and Canadian joint venture as an engineer of Sony Corporation. Led the project of mid-term plan of Energy Storage System Division. Supported major corporations in planning and executing new business strategies in cutting-edge areas such as AI, new mobility, smart city and carbon neutrality at MURC, a management consulting firm. Since 2021, leading Deeptech Vertical as Vice President at Plug and Play Japan.