City-Tech.Tokyo | One of the Japan’s Largest Global Event for Startups "City-Tech.Tokyo" (2024)

DAY1

10:15-11:00

HALLB7

Ben Horowitz is a cofounder and general partner at the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which he cofounded with Marc Andreessen in 2009. a16z has $35 billion in assets under management across multiple funds, and invests in seed to venture to late-stage technology companies, across bio + healthcare, consumer, crypto, enterprise, fintech, and games.

*The online presentation is projected in HALL B7.

DAY2

9:00-9:45

On-line

Kengo Kuma was born in 1954. He established Kengo Kuma & Associates in 1990. He is currently a University Professor and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo after teaching at Keio University and the University of Tokyo. KKAA projects are currently underway in more than 30 countries. Kengo Kuma proposes architecture that opens up new relationships between nature, technology, and human beings. His major publications include Ten Sen Men (“point, line, plane”, Iwanami Shoten), Hito no Sumika (“shelters for people”, Shincho Shinsho), Makeru Kenchiku (Architecture of Defeat, Iwanami Shoten), Shizen na Kenchiku (Natural Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho), Chii-sana Kenchiku (Small Architecture, Iwanami Shinsho) and many others.

DAY2

17:15-18:00

HALLB7-a

■Profile of the Governor
　Born:　July 15, 1952, in Hyogo Prefecture
　Education:　BA in Sociology, Cairo University (October 1976)

DAY1

9:30-10:00

HALLB7

Akiko Naka is founder and chief executive officer of Wantedly. Following its official launch in February 2012, Wantedly grew to 3mil users and 40,000 corporates, and has become the leading professional social-networking service in Japan. Prior to founding Wantedly, Ms Naka was a growth co-ordinator at Facebook Japan, where she contributed to marketing and product development for Facebook in Japan. Before joining Facebook, she worked at Goldman Sachs in equity sales. Ms Naka graduated from Kyoto University in 2008 with a BA in economics.

DAY2

13:35-14:20

HALLB7-b

Challenergy's story began with the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and the nuclear power plant accident. As an engineer, I decided to challenge the energy shift. It is our responsibility to show the next generation the path to a sustainable society. If we look at the world, about 1.3 billion people, mainly in emerging countries, are still living without electricity. The key to solving these two problems is the innovation of wind turbines. We believe our brand new vertical axis wind turbine can contribute to the energy shift.

DAY1

12:00-12:45

LobbyGallery

Andrew Kimball is President & CEO of New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he leads NYCEDC’s work growing an innovative and inclusive economy for all New Yorkers. Prior to his appointment in 2022, Andrew served as the CEO of Industry City, where he directed the transformation of the long-underutilized industrial facility in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Under his leadership, Industry City invested over $450 million in infrastructure and place-making initiatives, and grew thousands of jobs and hundreds of businesses, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

DAY1

13:35-14:20

HALLB7-a

Ankit Kumar is the Co-Founder & CEO of Skye Air, India’s lleading SaaS based drone delivery company enabling first mile and last mile delivery for major ecommerce, quick commerce and healthcare players. He has been instrumental in enabling just in time delivery via drones and several Industry firsts in the drone segement. Under his leadership, the firm also completed 104 Kms BVLOS drone delivering medicines to far reach areas, also setting the World Record in the category.
Also, He is an angel investor with four portfolio businesses in the EV, drone, Edtech, and IoT industries.

DAY2

10:00-10:45

HALLB7-b

Arnaud Ngatcha is an audiovisual, media and cultural professional. His interest in international affairs, gender diversity, and integration is longstanding. He is also very active in fighting discrimination.

After completing his degree, he joined the private TV channel Canal+ as a journalist for the daily program ""La Grande Famille"". He pursued his professional career in journalism at the French newspaper Figaro and then at the Public TV channel France 2. He also directed documentaries on social and political issues: “the first Nuit Blanche created by the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë”; two documentaries for the series ""Un maire, une ville"" (A Mayor, A City). The first one on François Baroin in Troyes, in collaboration with the Figaro's political journalist Anne Fulda (2003). The second one on Jean-Marc Ayrault in Nantes in collaboration with Catherine Pégard, then editor-in-chief of the political department of the weekly newspaper Le Point' (2006).

Active in promoting social and community equity, he directed the documentary entitled “Noirs, l'identité au cœur de la question noire” (Blacks, at the heart of blackness identity) on slavery, colonization and the representation of black people in French society nowadays.

DAY1

18:00-18:30

HALLE

Ayano comes to CIC with passion to develop a biotech/healthcare startup ecosystem in Japan. She received Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Tokyo before joining the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT). At MEXT, she worked on policy making in the life science field and medicine and was assigned to design the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED). In 2017, she started to study at MIT’s system design and management program and researched about the difference of startup ecosystems especially in the life science field between Cambridge/Boston and several cities in the U.S. and Japan. After returning to Japan, she worked on the science, technology and innovation policy at the Cabinet Office and on the research and on the research and development project for the nuclear fusion field until she joined CIC Japan in 2021.

DAY2

10:00-11:00

HALLE

Beau Laskey is a Managing Partner at SVB Capital responsible for sourcing and executing direct venture capital and private equity investments. He spent the last 20 years in technology, finance and operational leadership roles investing across the technology landscape. Before, he was a Managing Director at Steamboat Ventures, the venture capital investment group of the Walt Disney Company. Beau has a B.S. in Economics and General Engineering from US Naval Academy with and an MBA with Distinction in Entrepreneurship and Corporate Strategy from The University of Michigan Ross School of Business.

DAY2

13:35-14:20

HALLB7-a

Bob was the Chief Innovation Officer of Kansas City, Missouri where he forged relationships among city government, community, business, and academic stakeholders to improve citizen services. He developed one of the early, comprehensive North American Smart Community initiatives. Today Bob is an Alderman in the City of Parkville and Chair of the Cities Today Institute, which provides convening, research, training, and mentoring activities to city and ecosystem leaders to develop and implement civic tech initiatives.

DAY1

14:35-15:05

HALLB7-a

As theCEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) Bob Mumgaard is responsible for the strategic vision and direction of the company, paving the way for a future of clean unlimited fusion energy.He has grown the company to more than 300 employees and raised more than $2 billion from some of the world’s leading investors. CFS is aprivate commercial fusion company with a scientifically validated path to commercialization. Heperformed his PhD work at MIT and during that time he contributed to the design of several small superconducting tokamaks for a variety of physics missions.

DAY2

13:35-14:20

HALLB7-a

Cao Tinghe is the Chief Analyst at 36Kr Global, an information and service platform that promotes innovation and exchange between China and the rest of the world. With local and cross-regional operations in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe, and New Zealand, 36Kr Global is committed to establishing ties among global stakeholders and providing the most vital information about China’s tech scene and capital markets. Prior to joining 36Kr Global, Tinghe received his Master of Science degree at the University of Pittsburgh and Bachelor of Engineering Science degree at Tsinghua University.

DAY1

16:00-16:45

HALLB7-b