Yoshiki Ishikawa
Public Health Researcher
Motivation: “I want to help people learn, grow, and achieve an optimal state of well-being.”

Yoshiki earned a bachelor's degree in Health Science from the University of Tokyo, a Master of Science in Health Policy and Management from Harvard School of Public Health, and a PhD in Medicine from Jichi Medical School. As a public health researcher, entrepreneur, and science journalist, Yoshiki is working at the intersection of science, business, and government as a catalyst with the aim of advancing the well-being of society.

Kazuo Yano is a Fellow, Corporate Officer, Hitachi, Ltd. He received the B. S., M. S., and Ph. D degrees from Waseda University, Japan, in 1982, 1984, 1993, respectively.  From 1991 to 1992 he was a Visiting Scientist at the Arizona State University.

He is known for the pioneering works in the world-first room-temperature single-electron memories in 1993, which ushers in the era of room-temperature operation of nano devices. He pioneered the measurement and analysis of human big data.  His work on the multi-purpose artificial intelligence H, which has been applied to many real cases. He has succeeded quantifying the happiness of people from unconscious physical motion, which is expected to be a universal measure of everything beyond GDP. To accelerate this movement, he has founded Happiness Planet, Ltd. in 2020 and became CEO of the company.

He has provided keynote/Invited speeches on AI for human happiness at International Conferences in Colombo, Dubai, Hanoi, Kyoto, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, London, Lausanne, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, etc.

He has applied over 350 patents and his papers are cited by over 2500 papers. His book, "The Invisible Hand of Data," is cited as one of top-10 business books in Japan in 2014.

He received 2020 IEEE Frederik Phillips Award, the Best Paper Award of International Conference on ASE/IEEE Social Informatics 2012, 2007 MBE Erize Prize, 1998 IEEE Jack Raper Award, 1996 IEEE Lewis Winner Award, 1994 IEEE Paul Rappaport Award.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE. a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Physical Society of Japan, the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and the IEICE of Japan. He served on the External Advisory Board Member of the IEEE Spectrum. He served on Technical Program Committee Members of IEDM, DAC, ASSCC, ASP-DAC, SPOTS and EmNet.  He was the Symposium Co-Chairman/Chairman of 2008/2009 Symposium on VLSI Circuits.  He is the Executive Member of the Hitachi Henjinkai.

Sonja Lyubomirsky (A.B., summa cum laude, Harvard; PhD, social psychology, Stanford) is Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside and author of The How of Happiness and The Myths of Happiness, translated in 34 countries. Lyubomirsky's teaching has been recognized with the Faculty of the Year (twice) and Faculty Mentor of the Year Awards. Her research - on the possibility of lastingly increasing happiness - has received many honors, including the Diener Award for Outstanding Midcareer Contributions in Personality Psychology, the Distinguished Research Lecturer Award, and a Positive Psychology Prize. Lyubomirsky lives in Santa Monica, California, with her family.

●1994, travelled to the former Yugoslavia and reported on the war situation in Bungei Shunju, a monthly magazine.
●1990-94
Main newscaster, NHK-BS's "World Report", and NHK's "Good Morning Japan" and "Morning Wide";
●1994-98 TV Asahi's evening news broadcast "News Station." 1995, following Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, delivered reports from the ground.
●1998-2014, hosted TV Tokyo's "WBS (World Business Satellite)" covering developments in the Japanese economy and business.
has also hosted
"National Election Special Coverage", and "The Challenge of Jack Welch: The Greatest Corporate Leader".
●2005- 14, Anchor, Broadcast Satellite (BS) Japan's "Kotani Maoko's KANDAN"; interviewed numerous CEOs and business leaders on topics ranging from corporate management to personal life.
●2014-19, Anchor, Broadcast Satellite (BS) Japan's nightly news programme, "Nikkei Plus 10".
●2005-
UN WFP (World Food Programme) Adviser
●2013-
WEF(WorldEconomicForum)'s
IMC(International Media Council)member
●2015 Moderate at annual OECD Forum
●Present
TOYOTA Mobility Foundation member of the Board of Directors

Naoki Shibutani joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in 1985. Starting from 2001, he began working as NTT EAST Senior Manager of the Planning Department (while also a guest researcher at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.). In his career, he has also served as Manager of the Fukushima branch office; Senior Vice President and Executive Manager of the Plant Planning Department, Network Business Headquarters; Senior Vice President and Executive Manager of the Tokyo Olympic & Paralympic Promotion Office. After serving as Senior Executive Vice President and Senior Executive Manager of the New Business Development Headquarters of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation from June 2018, Senior Executive Manager of the New Business Development Headquarters and the Digital Transformation Headquarters from 2019, and President & CEO of NTTe-Sports from January 2020, he assumed his current position as Senior Executive Vice President of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation in June 2020.

Norihiro Suzuki joined Hitachi after earning his master's degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1986, and began his career as a researcher in digital image signal processing and embedded software systems. After serving in several management positions where he lead research in IT, he assumed the post of Senior Vice President & CTO of Hitachi America, Ltd. in 2012. He returned to Japan in October 2014 to assume the position of General Manager of the Central Research Laboratory, and also General Manager of the Global Center for Social Innovation from April 2015. He was appointed to his current position as head of the Research & Development Group in April 2016. Dr. Suzuki is also a Vice President and Executive Officer, and CTO of Hitachi, Ltd.
Doctor of Engineering.

Charles O‘Reilly B.S. (Chemistry), University of Texas at El Paso; M.B.A. (Information Systems), Ph.D. (Organizational Behavior) University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at UCLA, Berkeley, and been a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School. His teaching has concentrated on strategy, leadership, and the management of human resources. He has won teaching awards at Berkeley and Stanford and recently received both a Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Scholarly Contribution Award from the Academy of Management.

Charles' research focuses on leadership, innovation, and organizational culture and change. He has also developed and served as faculty director of numerous Executive Education programs, including Leading Change and Organizational Renewal and The Human Resources Executive Program. He has consulted widely with firms in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.

Charles has published more than 100 articles and several books. His recent research focuses on organizational culture and the impact of senior management on innovation and change. His book, Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma (Stanford University Press, 2016), explores why successful firms sometimes fail-and what it takes for leaders to help their organizations survive and prosper over long time periods.

He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and American Psychological Association as well as a member of the Academy of Management.

●1994, travelled to the former Yugoslavia and reported on the war situation in Bungei Shunju, a monthly magazine.
●1990-94
Main newscaster, NHK-BS's "World Report", and NHK's "Good Morning Japan" and "Morning Wide";
●1994-98 TV Asahi's evening news broadcast "News Station." 1995, following Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, delivered reports from the ground.
●1998-2014, hosted TV Tokyo's "WBS (World Business Satellite)" covering developments in the Japanese economy and business.
has also hosted
"National Election Special Coverage", and "The Challenge of Jack Welch: The Greatest Corporate Leader".
●2005- 14, Anchor, Broadcast Satellite (BS) Japan's "Kotani Maoko's KANDAN"; interviewed numerous CEOs and business leaders on topics ranging from corporate management to personal life.
●2014-19, Anchor, Broadcast Satellite (BS) Japan's nightly news programme, "Nikkei Plus 10".
●2005-
UN WFP (World Food Programme) Adviser
●2013-
WEF(WorldEconomicForum)'s
IMC(International Media Council)member
●2015 Moderate at annual OECD Forum
●Present
TOYOTA Mobility Foundation member of the Board of Directors