NEST2018

OVERVIEW

Since it was first held in 2013, the New Economy Summit (NEST) has annually brought together global entrepreneurs and innovators at the forefront of business and technology. This year will again witness exciting discussions on innovation trends in Japan, Asia and beyond.

Event Name:
New Economy Summit(NEST) 2018
Date:
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Venue:
The Westin Tokyo 1-4-1 Mita, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8580, Japan
Organized by:
Japan Association of New Economy (JANE)

PROGRAM

10:00
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10:15

Opening Session

Hiroshi Mikitani Chairman & CEO, Rakuten, Inc. / Representative Director, Japan Association of New Economy

10:20
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10:50

Keynote Session

John Zimmer  Co-Founder and President, Lyft Inc.
Moderator: Akiko Fujita  Correspondent, CNBC

10:55
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11:25

Special Session

Hidetoshi Nakata  CEO, JAPAN CRAFT SAKE COMPANY

11:30
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12:00

Special Session: Bringing innovations to business and politics

Shinjiro Koizumi  Member of the House of Representatives
Moderator: Yosuke Tsuji  Founder and CEO, Money Forward, Inc. / Executive Officer, Japan Association of New Economy

12:00
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13:00

LUNCH

13:00
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14:00

Breakout A

1-A More Than a Sponsorship: Maximizing Value from Sports Partnerships

Scott Levy  Managing Director, NBA Asia
Guy Port  Managing Director Asia, Nielsen Sports
Judith Rubinat  Head of Partnership Activation, FC Barcelona
Moderator: Rahul Kadavakolu  Director, Global Marketing Supervisory Department, Rakuten, Inc.

Breakout B

1-B How the innovative startup penetrates our society - Startup’s Power of IoT, BIGDATA, AI to big companies -

Akira Shibata  Chief Data Scientist, DataRobot Japan
Ryo Shimizu  President, GHELIA
Ken Tamagawa  CEO & Founder, SORACOM, INC.
Moderator: Gen Isayama  Co-Founder and CEO, WiL, LLC. / Exective Officer, Japan Association of New Economy

14:15
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15:15

Breakout A

2-A Latest trends in AI in the world and Japan's position

Yutaka Matsuo  Project Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Masaya Mori  Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.
Global Head, Rakuten Institute of Technology World Wide
Secretary of Japan Institute of Information Technology
Yousuke Okada  Representative Director / CEO & CTO, ABEJA, Inc.
Moderator: Koichiro Yoshida  President and CEO, CrowdWorks Inc. / Director, Japan Association of New Economy

Breakout B

2-B Innovations in education - learning for the future -

Nobuo Kawakami  President, Kadokawa Dwango Corporation
Lin Kobayashi  Founder and Chair of the Board, UWC ISAK Japan
Moderator: Koji Funatsu  Chairman & CEO, transcosmos inc. / Executive Officer, Japan Association of New Economy

15:35
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16:20

Keynote Session

Marc Benioff  Chairman and CEO, Salesforce
YOSHIKI  Composer, Producer, Entrepreneur
Moderator: Hiroshi Mikitani  Chairman & CEO, Rakuten, Inc. / Representative Director, Japan Association of New Economy

16:45
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17:25

Special Session

Hisataka Kobayashi, M.D., Ph.D.  Chief Scientist / Senior Investigator, Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute / NIH
Shinya Yamanaka, M.D., Ph.D.  Director, Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University
Moderator: Hiroshi Mikitani  Chairman & CEO, Rakuten, Inc. / Representative Director, Japan Association of New Economy

17:45
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18:40

Breakout A

3-A Digital Economy in Asia

Beh Swan Gin  Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board
Arvind Gupta  CEO, MyGov India
Hurst Lin  Co-Founder of DCM China and General Partner
Moderator: Noriyuki Matsuda  Founder & CEO, SOURCENEXT CORPORATION / Director, Japan Association of New Economy

Breakout B

3-B Decrypting crypto - boom or bust? Clues to understanding digital currency innovation　

Elliot Han  Managing Director, The Argon Group
Mike Kayamori  Co-Founder, CEO, QUOINE
Moderator: Oskar Mielczarek de la Miel  Founder and Managing Partner, Rakuten FinTech Fund / Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

18:50
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19:10

Closing Session

19:30
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Networking Party