Past years renowned speakers and experts from top companies and innovative startups.
Audrey Tang
Accelerator Fellow, Institute for Ethics in AI at University of Oxford, Taiwan’s Cyber Ambassador-at-large, 1st Digital Minister, and Digital Democracy Pioneer
Charles Hoskinson
CEO and co-founder of Input Output Global (formerly IOHK)
Kathy Matsui
General Partner at MPower Partners
Ken Shibusawa
CEO of Shibusawa and Company Inc., CEO of & Capital, CEO of Commons Asset Management, Senior Advisor of Brunswick Group
Rika Nakazawa
Chief Commercial Innovation, NTT
Jesper Koll
Expert Director for the Monex Group and the Japan Catalyst Fund
Michael Levin
Vannevar Bush Distinguished Professor of Biology at Tufts University
Haruka Mera
CEO of READYFOR
Takuya Kitagawa
President at QuEra Computing
John Donoghue
Professor of Neuroscience, Engineering and Cognitive and Psychological Sciences Brown University
Ken Suzuki
Project Researcher - The University of Tokyo
Anna Ciaunica
Principal Investigator, INESC_ID, Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Arisa Koyama
Gates Foundation, Japan Head
Alex Zapesochny
Co-founder and CEO of Clerio Vision, Chairman of Turbett Surgical
Shion Kubota
Owen Chamberlain Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Shumpei Tatebayashi
Deputy General Manager, Open Innovation Promotion Division / General Manager, Business Co-Creation Promotion Office at KDDI Corporation
Kohei Yamamoto
Managing Partner at X&KSK
Hajime Hotta
Empathic AI Researcher / Cinnamon AI Founder / Nexus FrontierTech Founder
Masaki Yamamoto
CEO of kubell
Masataka Uo
Ecosystem builder for impact economy and philanthropy
Kohei Katada
CFO at Gojo & Company
Naoto Tomono
Principal at Keio Innovation Initiative
Shogo Ishida
CEO- EMURGO Middle East & Africa
Seira Yun
Founder & CEO of Socious / Impact Angel Investor
Kozo Takei
Management Thinker/ Social Activist/ Social Systems Designer
Hector Zenil
Founder of Oxford Immune Algorithmics and Associate Professor at King's College London
Yurie Kibi
株式会社日建設計/PYNT イノベーションデザインセンター アソシエイト
Yoshiko Tsuwaki
Director of Innovation Policy, Cabinet Secretariat of Japan
Phillip Pon
CEO of EMURGO
Ken Kodama
Chairman at EMURGO
Shunsuke Murasaki
Chief of Staff at EMURGO
Hinson Wong
Co-founder & CEO of DeltaDeFi
Hinza Asif
Founder and CEO of Blockza
Scarlett Chen
Managing Partner - Verge HealthTech Fund
Hideaki Sone
COO of Heralbony
Jingles K.
Founder - Mesh SDK and UTXOS
Alexandre Maaza
Sustainability and Innovation Lead at the Cardano Foundation
Mariko McTier
Co-CEO of Social Innovation Japan
Fumiko Inada
CEO of Bee Informatica
Takaya Taguchi
Helical Fusion, Co-Founder, CEO
Itsuki Kanda
Co-Founder & COO at Pedal
Alexandru Dochioiu
Founder and CEO- Vespr
Mario Larangeira
IOG/Institute of Science Tokyo Researcher/Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Kiyoshi Seko
Kyoto Fusion Engineering Co., Ltd. Director and COO
Masami Takahashi
Scrum Ventures, General Partner & COO
Mai Katagiri
Novartis Pharma, Head of Business Excellence & Execution Ecosystem & Healthcare Solutions
Alex Pestchanker
Token Allies CTO & CoFounder
Ruiki Kaneyasu
BIOTOPE Managing Partner / Business Designer
Shigeru Handa
AAIC Investment, Director
Takumi Kubo
Scrum Inc./ Impact Cube Fund CEO
Kazumasa Yamada
BIOTOPE Managing Partner
Masayuki Iga
Honda R&D Staff Engineer
Momoko Imamura
BIOTOPE Business Designer / Sustainability Strategist
Peter MacMillan
The Moon is a Boat, Representative Director
BTBF
SPO JAPAN GUILD Founder
Santiago Carmuega
TxPipe CEO
Shantnoo Saxsena
Anzens Inc. CEO
Saeda Makimoto
Japan International Cooperation Agency, Senior Deputy Director General
Jude Elie
Sove Lone, President
Kohjiro Akiyama
Forbes Japan Columnist, Representative director of Kodomo Shokudo Support Center
Eriko Suzuki
Kind Capital CEO
Ranket
Cardano DRep, Asst. Prof. in Japan (Ph.D)
Dave Dionisio
Chief of Staff to the COO
Mai Thanh Binh
Co-founder and CEO of BTCGrow
Ken Komatsu
CEO of Wonder Wall Co.,Ltd. / GOLFIN
Mari Sekino
CEO/Founder of QERA
Manuel Gimenez
Eryx cooperativa de trabajo, Partner/ Business development
Clark Alesna
Chief Executive Officer of SAIB Inc.
Navjit Dhaliwal
CEO of Iagon
Carlos Oba
CEO & CIO / Founder - Dots for Inc.
Yoram Ben-Zvi
Thought Leader / 5am.earth
Tomoko Matsuoka
Contemporary Artist
Emi Tamaki
CEO, Co-founder, H2L, Inc., Professor at University of the Ryukyus and the University of Tokyo (Graduate School)
Jack Briggs
Executive Director (interim) - Intersect
Kriss Baird
Project Catalyst General Manager
Ahmed M Amer
CEO of EMURGO Labs
Giorgio Zinetti
Cardano Foundation Chief Technology Officer
Arisa Chelsea Ueno
Investor / Accelerator Director - DraperU Ventures
Philip DiSarro
CEO - Anastasia Labs
Taichi Yokoyama
Japan Community Manager - Input Output Global
Nathan Barkell
CEO and Co-founder - Olympus Insights
Kotaro Motoshima
Co-Founder of Co-Create DAO
Danielle Stanko
IOG Governance
Bilal Kharouni
CEO of ekei labs
Margarida Mendes da Maia
Catalyst Head of Product
Phillip Gillespie
Managing Partner - AWR Capital
Kyle Solomon
CEO - Drip Dropz
Tatsuo Ogura
Venture Café Tokyo, Global Gathering 2026 Co-lead
Harry Plumstead
Senior Credit Analyst - RealFi
Mariko Nishimura
HEART CATCH Inc. CEO
Sandeep Casi
Partner at Antler | Head of Antler Ibex, Japan
Beatrice Anihiri
Co-founder - Konsensis
Christine Bagarino
Founder and CEO - Social AI
Mohamed A. Haggag
Founder, Agentis Labs
Shiho Watabe
Chair, Shibuya Startups KK
Mayumi Wakebe
Founding Managing Partner – Africa-focused Fund
Scott Collen
Midnight Foundation - VP, Ecosystem
Hiraku Iwashita
Representative Director - Japan Web3 Tourism Association