The speaker of First Wednesday March 2022 session is Mr. Shigeru Yamamoto, General Manager, Hydrogen Strategy Division, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2022 session is Mr. Takayuki Inagawa, General Manager, Innovation Division, NTT DOCOMO, INC. (Former President and Representative Director, NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc.)
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2021 session is Mr. Israel Strulov, Minister and Deputy Chief of the Embassy of Israel in Tokyo.
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2021 session is Mr. Makoto Enomoto, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), NEC Corporation.
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2021 session is Dr. Tsuyoshi Abe, Vice President & General Manager, Marketing HQ, Yokogawa Electric Corporation.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2021 session is Mr. Koki Igarashi, Head of APAC and Japan, Dropbox K.K.
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2021 session is Mr. Hiroshi Omata, CDMO, CIO, SOMPO Holdings, Inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2020 session is Mr. Takaaki Kato, Representative Director, MMT Global.
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2020 session is Mr. Yoshiko Kawamura, Senior Vice President and Executive Officer of Hitachi, Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday the next October 2019 session is Mr. Yoshimitsu Kobayashi, The chairman of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation, The former representative manager of Japan Association of Corporate Executives.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2019 session is Mr. Hiroshi Omata, The CDO of IBM Japan, Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2018 session is Mr. Ritsuya Oku, The Fellow of DENTSU Inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2017 session is Mr. Hiroshi Omata, The former Executive Director of Dentsu Digital inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2017 session is Mr. Fumihide Tomizawa, The president & CEO of SoftBank Robotics Corp.
The speaker of First Wednesday July 2017 session is Mr. Yoshihiro Senzai, President and CEO of Hitachi Maxell Corporation.
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2017 session is Mr. Shirou Kondou, Executive Chairman of RICOH Corporation.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2017 session is Mr. Yasuyuki Tanabe, The CEO of Airbnb Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2017 session is Dr. Noriyuki Yanagawa, Research Professor, Graduate school of Economics, Tokyo University.
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2016 session is Mr. Tetsuya Shoji, The CEO of NTT Communications Corporation.
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2016 session is Mr. Hiroshige Sugihara, The CEO of Oracle Corporation Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday October 2016 session is Mr. Haruaki Deguchi, The Chairman and CEO of LIFENET INSURANCE COMPANY.
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2016 session is Mr. Ray Zhang, The Executive Director, Industry Solutions Group, Intel Japan Asia Pacific Japan Energy & Utility Sector Director.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2016 session is Mr. Ritsuya Oku, The Chief Researcher of DENTSU Inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2016 session is Mr. Masatoshi Muto, The former Japanese Ambassador to South Korea.
The speaker of First Wednesday March 2016 session is Mr. Carsten Cramer Director of Borussia Dortmund
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2016 session is Prof. Kazuhiko Togo, Former Director-General, Treaty Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Director-General, Europe and Asia Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Ambassador to the Netherlands, Embassy of Japan. The Professor of Faculty of Law in Kyoto Sangyo University.
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2016 session is Ms. Kumi Yokoe, The Representative of PACIFIC21, the former senior researcher of Heritage Foundation.
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2015 session is Mr. Koichiro Tsujino, The former President of Google Inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2015 session is Mr. Tamotsu Hiiro, The President of Johnson and Johnson K.K.
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2015 session is Mr. Paul Yonamine, The General Manager of IBM Japan
The speaker of First Wednesday June 2015 session is Dr. Michael Doludda, The President of Nippon Aerosil Co., Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday May 2015 session is Mr. Yoshiyuki Tanaka,The President of Du Pont Kabushiki Kaisha.
The speaker of First Wednesday January 2015 session is Mr. Shuhei Aoki, Former chief of Association for Payment Clearing Services of Bank of Japan, Assistant to president of Hitachi, Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday November 2014 session is Mr. Hidenori Sakanaka, President of Japan Immigration Policy Institute, Former Chief of Immigration Bureau of Tokyo. Points:Why are we considering “Immigrant” now/ Falling population and becoming immigrant nation/ The way to sustain vibrant society (so-called “Big Japan”)/ Immigration policy and University reform/ Tokyo Olympic in 2020 – one chance in a million/ Vitalization of local communities/ Future accommodation of Japanese government/ Response from global media/ Abduction issue
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2014 session is Mr. Yoshihisa Yamada, Executive Vice President, Representative Director, and CFO of Rakuten, Inc.
The speakers of First Wednesday May 2014 session are Mr. Eugene Kaspersky, Chairman and CEO of Kaspersky Lab, and Mr. Riaz Esmailzadeh, Associate professor of Information technology and Management in Carnegie Mellon University.
The speaker of First Wednesday April 2014 session is Mr. Robert Alan Feldman, Managing director Chief economist and General Manager of fixed income research of Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2014 session is Mr. Katsuro Wakai, Advisor (Former President and CEO) of Hitachi Information & Telecommunication Engineering, Ltd.
The speaker of First Wednesday August 2013 session is Mr. Kei Furuta, President and CEO of Equinix Japan.
The speaker of First Wednesday February 2013 session is Mr. Atsushi Kunishige, Representative Director and Vice President Executive Officer of Rakuten, Inc.
The speaker of First Wednesday September 2011 session is Mr. Ritsuya Oku, Chief Researcher of DENTSU INC.
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2010 session is Mr. Georg K. Loeer, Representative Director & President of NRW Japan K.K.
The speaker of First Wednesday December 2007 session is Mr. Riaz Esmailzadeh Associate Professor of Carnegie Mellon University