A representative director and CVO of Infobahn Inc. In 1994, he published the first issue of "Wired Japan" as Editor in Chief. In 1998, he established Infobahn Inc. and has supported digital communications for companies. To support the planning, launch, and operation of web media as well as the digital marketing of domestic and foreign companies, he launched many media in both the paper and web fields, including "Gizmodo Japan." He is known as a pioneer in content marketing and owned media. In 2012, he established the 'Innovation Awards in Japan' with Dentsu Corporation to enlighten people on open innovation in Japan. He serves as a judge. Since 2016, he has been the official Japanese partner for the TOA, a tech conference in Berlin known as "SXSW in Europe." He also started Unchained, a network of innovators in business and government, in 2018. In April 2020, he established a learning community "Un-LEARN", a Radical Design Lab aiming to "redesign the world from a framework," led by artists, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

Nikolas Woischnik is the founder Tech Open, Ahoy! Berlin and TechBerlin.Over the last years Nikolas has dedicated his time to helping develop the Berlin technology and startup ecosystem, founding Berlin's first english language blog and community (TechBerlin), a 20.000 square feet space for coworking and innovation (Ahoy! Berlin) as well as the Tech Open Air Berlin Festival.He is currently serving as a Board Member at Zeitbild Stiftung and as an advisor to Stylemarks, Shadow, Flinx and Termine24.

https://toa.berlin/

Ph.D. in Engineering
Associate Professor, Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
Executive Committee Chair, 078KOBE
Director, Urban Design Center Kobe (UDC078)
President, Council for Promotion of Local Information, Communication and Technology (COPLI)

He is working on the construction of a design method based on systems approaches for new urban life starting from Kobe. His research topics include but not limited to autonomous decentralized manufacturing systems, service engineering, and smart agriculture.

A representative director and CVO of Infobahn Inc. In 1994, he published the first issue of "Wired Japan" as Editor in Chief. In 1998, he established Infobahn Inc. and has supported digital communications for companies. To support the planning, launch, and operation of web media as well as the digital marketing of domestic and foreign companies, he launched many media in both the paper and web fields, including "Gizmodo Japan." He is known as a pioneer in content marketing and owned media. In 2012, he established the 'Innovation Awards in Japan' with Dentsu Corporation to enlighten people on open innovation in Japan. He serves as a judge. Since 2016, he has been the official Japanese partner for the TOA, a tech conference in Berlin known as "SXSW in Europe." He also started Unchained, a network of innovators in business and government, in 2018. In April 2020, he established a learning community "Un-LEARN", a Radical Design Lab aiming to "redesign the world from a framework," led by artists, researchers, and entrepreneurs.

Masa co-founded an internal innovation accelerator “Game Changer Catapult” in 2016, an initiative to transform ideas into reality to make the people’s wish through open innovation for a better life, a better world at the home tech division, Appliances Company in Panasonic Corporation. Also he was appointed as Director in BeeEdge Co.,Ltd. a joint-venture business incubation company with Panasonic, Scrum Ventures LLC, a US-based venture capital firm, and INCJ, Ltd.

Founder and Director, Hakuba International School Foundation / After graduating from University of Tokyo with a BA in Economics, Tomoko started her career at Morgan Stanley. She gained her MBA from UC Berkeley and worked for Goldman Sachs in the Private Equity division. She left the finance industry when she had her first child and is now a mother of three. Inspired by the natural beauty, Tomoko and her husband moved to Hakuba in 2009 to raise their family. She aims to build a world-class international boarding school in Hakuba to be opened in 2022. Tomoko is also highly interested in sustainability and climate change. She participated in the Climate Reality Project workshop hosted by the former US Vice President Al Gore twice. She founded Hakuba SDGs Lab, a community group aiming to promote sustainability in Hakuba, as a co-founder in April 2019. She serves several committees related to education, SDGs, and renewable energy in Hakuba and surrounding areas.

A director of Morai Gakuen / A director of Japan Jenaplan Association / President of Asobusi Inc.

Representative Director, FutureEdu, Representative Director, Learn by Creation, Co-founder, Peatix.com / After working at McKinsey's U.S. office and seven international companies in Tokyo and co-founding a global event management startup, Peatix.com, Emi has shifted her focus to education in order to foster conversations on how to reimagine our education to better equip children with future ready skills and competencies. Since 2016, as the official ambassador of an acclaimed documentary film, "Most Likely to Succeed", Emi has been promoting critical conversations on the future of education by leveraging the film as a catalyst for rich conversations. And in 2019, Emi launched "Learn by Creation", a two-day conference where 2,500 people gathered to learn and talk about the future of education. Learn by Creation now hosts events and teacher training programs nationally and regionally. In July 2020, Emi released a book titled, "The New Elite - What competencies do we want to nurture for children to survive the chaotic era?" (Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing), which became the best seller among July new releases in the Amazon.co.jp Education book category. And in 2020, Emi has co-founded bridge learning, which provides 4 month training programs for teachers who want to pivot from teacher centered to learner centered education. Emi also serves as a member of the Information and Communications Council of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications and other public positions. Emi has a bachelor's degree in economics from Keio University, a master's degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a master's degree in international business from the University of Pennsylvania.

A meal preparation cooking service platform
Preparing dinner everyday is a hard task. “minacena” helps the family by providing pre-made meal service by recipe and menu suggestions, meal ingredients delivery, and meal preparation.

A delicious low carb diet habit service for families
“Yorisoi Gohan” supports a delicious and healthy lifestyle for all the family members. “Yorison Gohan” provides a new low-carb diet with a satisfying texture and app to help the families’ cooking and health care.

“Achieving a diverse and fair society through the social implementation of technology” is Fumiaki Kobayashi’s political belief and he is involved in regulatory reform, especially in digital field. He serves as Secretary General of the Digital Society Promotion Headquarters of the Liberal Democratic Party. In the third and fourth Abe cabinets, as Parliamentary Secretary of Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications and of Cabinet Office, he has promoted regulatory reforms in the field of radio waves, broadcasting and telecommunications, and achieved a healthy competitive environment for the telecommunications industry from a policy perspective, including the entry of Rakuten and the corrections of the so-called “two-year lease agreement” for mobile carriers. He also chaired the Regulatory Reform Team of the Liberal Democratic Party’s Headquarters for Administrative Reform and formulated proposals for fisheries reform, civil service system reform, and other reforms. As the 50th Director, Youth Division of the Liberal Democratic Party, he has promoted the digitalization of the organization and formulated a number of proposals promoting political diversity. He is currently serving his third term in Hiroshima’s 7th Constituency. Born in 1983, in Fukuyama, Hiroshima. Graduated from Sophia University with a bachelor’s degree in science and engineering.

Nikolas Woischnik is the founder Tech Open, Ahoy! Berlin and TechBerlin.Over the last years Nikolas has dedicated his time to helping develop the Berlin technology and startup ecosystem, founding Berlin's first english language blog and community (TechBerlin), a 20.000 square feet space for coworking and innovation (Ahoy! Berlin) as well as the Tech Open Air Berlin Festival.He is currently serving as a Board Member at Zeitbild Stiftung and as an advisor to Stylemarks, Shadow, Flinx and Termine24.

https://toa.berlin/

After starting out as a teacher in a London comprehensive, Alex completed his MA at UCL’s Institute of Education before joining Teach For All, a network of independent organizations working in sixty countries worldwide to ensure that all children fulfil their potential, where he leads the Global Learning Lab for Community Impact. He is fortunate to spend much of his time travelling the world in search of the practices that will shape the future of learning – from teaching to technology, pedagogy to policy – and has written about his experiences for the Guardian, Financial Times and Wired. He recently created The Learning Revolution, a three part series on the future of education for BBC Radio 4, and is the author of Natural Born Learners (2018), a book about the global best practices that show how we can transforming learning in the twenty-first century.

Laura Bücheler is the CEO and Co-Founder of GHOST- feel it., a startup developing haptic User Interfaces to broaden the human perception. She is a biomedical engineer and entrepreneur with a mission to connect different disciplines for the best results. Her experience in the sensor industry and development, enables her to lift haptic user interfaces to the next level and grow the industry to the magnitude of its potential.

Born in 1984, Mr. Azuno graduated from Nagoya City University, School of design and architecture. Since 2014, he has worked with his wife Kanako as a space design unit "medicala." Founded ReBuilding Center Japan at Suwa, Nagano, after he was inspired by the ReBuilding Center he visited in Portland, Oregon. Their goal is to “ReBuild New Culture” and they are rebuilding and connecting reused products and culture to design a good life scene.

Born in 1975, Ms. Tanaka studied architecture herself. Since 2004, she has engaged in making media about architecture as a writer and architect communicator. Founded Ground Level Inc in 2016. Within 2 years, she opened “Cafe Laundry” in Tokyo. The cafe is awarded a special prize, a community design award, at the Good Design Award 2018. Her motto is “developing the community from the first floor”.

As a strategy consultant at Accenture and A.T. Kearney, she worked on reducing costs, formulating growth strategies, and supporting the start-up of new businesses in the manufacturing industry and other industries. After working as a brand strategy consultant at Interbrand, she joined Mercari in October 2018. She is responsible for cross-border projects as a member of the president's office. She is currently engaged in branding and ESG lead on the Branding Team.

After launching a woman empowerment project at HR agency, Mr. Mauchi joined Minnadenryoku Inc. in 2014. He worked as an assistant manager of the electric power development division, and now he is a manager of business headquarters. He is engaged in SDGs/ESG related projects and also responsible for new business areas in fashion and education industries.

Mr.Inatsugi joined Bridgestone Corporation in 2004. He was responsible for developing environment improving technologies, environmental strategic projects, refining the environmental statement, and making the corporation's environmental strategy. Since 2015, he has been promoting CSR strategic planning by organizing and planning the global CSR system ”Our Way to Serve”. Since 2019, he is working to strengthen sustainable development.

Online Art Gallery Service
Sometimes you cannot go to the exhibitions due to busy schedules or locations. Also, it is difficult to present the entire atmosphere of the art gallery through SNS. We provide an online gallery service so that users can experience the entire space of artwork.

Auto-editing and distribution platform for Sports video
Not always parents can go see their kids’ soccer games. Spodit automatically films and edits your kids’ sports games and sends them as a digest video so that you will never miss the memorable plays of your children.

Boris runs the European business for design firm Goodpatch with studios in Berlin and Munich. He also serves as an executive board director at the HQ in Tokyo. Goodpatch went public in 2020 at Tokyo Stock Exchange, making it Japan's first IPO as a design firm. Before joining Goodpatch, Boris helped run University of St.Gallen’s joint Design Innovation program (ME310/SUGAR) with Stanford University. Boris holds a Master’s degree in Media Design from Keio University, Japan and a CEMS Master’s degree in International Management from University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.

Sissel founded Startup Guide, a creative content and media company known for the book series „Startup Guide“ often described as the Lonely Planet for entrepreneurs. The first book came out in 2014 and is today in 50+ cities around the world. She has a background from the Kaospilot in Aarhus, where she studied for one year in 2015 before dropping out and to develop Startup Guide full-time. Since, she learned by doing, built a global business, and is today leading a team of 20 people in Lisbon, Berlin and Copenhagen, while being responsible for all new bizz activities in the company and working on various impact entrepreneurship projects, like the „Impact the Future“ Impact Conference in Denmark.

Nikolas Woischnik is the founder Tech Open, Ahoy! Berlin and TechBerlin.Over the last years Nikolas has dedicated his time to helping develop the Berlin technology and startup ecosystem, founding Berlin's first english language blog and community (TechBerlin), a 20.000 square feet space for coworking and innovation (Ahoy! Berlin) as well as the Tech Open Air Berlin Festival.He is currently serving as a Board Member at Zeitbild Stiftung and as an advisor to Stylemarks, Shadow, Flinx and Termine24.

https://toa.berlin/

Bert van Son is founder and CEO of MUD Jeans, a fast growing sustainable jeans company from the Netherlands. The company allows customers to shop guilt free and do good for the environment, while looking fashionable and modern. As a 23 year old he moved to China his 30 years experience in the fashion industry has made Bert van Son see the impact fast fashion has on the environment and made him believe that there is an alternative way. In 2012 he started the idea “Lease A Jeans”, a concept that makes it possible for customers to use jeans and give them back after use. From ownership to performance. Allowing customers to regularly renew their wardrobe, while MUD Jeans makes sure the materials will be recycled after use. Bert van Son knows about the challenges in today’s (fast) fashion industry and how he and his team try to implement the circle economy in the fashion industry.

Previous rolls and responsibilities：20 years of automotive expertise in product engineering, production, logistics, HR related areas and business development, thereof 8 years in corporate top management positions / - Director Lab1886 Global, the Mercedes-Benz Innovation unit / - Advisory board member of 5 New-Tech companies in the field of Smart Mobility, Applied AI & Data, Green Energy (e.g. Volocopter GmbH) / - Director Corporate Organization & Member of HR Executive Committee, Daimler AG

A representative director and CVO of Infobahn Inc. In 1994, he published the first issue of "Wired Japan" as Editor in Chief. In 1998, he established Infobahn Inc. and has supported digital communications for companies. To support the planning, launch, and operation of web media as well as the digital marketing of domestic and foreign companies, he launched many media in both the paper and web fields, including "Gizmodo Japan." He is known as a pioneer in content marketing and owned media. In 2012, he established the 'Innovation Awards in Japan' with Dentsu Corporation to enlighten people on open innovation in Japan. He serves as a judge. Since 2016, he has been the official Japanese partner for the TOA, a tech conference in Berlin known as "SXSW in Europe." He also started Unchained, a network of innovators in business and government, in 2018. In April 2020, he established a learning community "Un-LEARN", a Radical Design Lab aiming to "redesign the world from a framework," led by artists, researchers, and entrepreneurs.