As a "Space Business Evangelist", Hide Aoki has been working to promote the space business and create the private-sector-led space industry with his expertise in both the space business and space technology. After receiving a master's degree in aerospace engineering and a pilot's license in the U.S., he worked at Mitsubishi Electric, where he developed Japan's first spacecraft, Kounotori, and won a number of awards. He now oversees investment activities for space and other deep tech startups as a venture capitalist. He also co-founded SPACETIDE and co-founded and serves as a director of Space Port Japan. He also serves JAXA and government committees in his varied career.

Masayasu Ishida is co-founder, president and CEO of SPACETIDE foundation which organizes a yearly space business conference aimed at promoting the rise of private space industry. He is also a Director of global management consulting firm A.T. Kearney. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, and has specialized expertise in the industries

TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association TX Entrepreneur Partners (TEP) is a startup supporting organization to develop business from technologies and promote their greater adoption and usage.
TEP creates one of the world's top technology startup ecosystems including the network with not only angels and mentors, but also large corporations, venture capitals, universities, research institutions, local governments and global partners.

 Kinoshita Taro is a Growth Manager of Real Tech Holdings.
 He started his career at a major materials manufacturer, where he was involved in research and development of new materials and new business planning. He then joined the Real Tech Fund in 2017. He has accompanied and supported startups to solve social issues such as AMI, which develops super stethoscopes, ANSeeN, which develops next-generation X- ray sensors, and MetroWeather, which has wind observation technology.

He obtained his Masters degree in Science and Engineering and MBA. He begins his career in heavy electric related institute of Toshiba implementation, in alliance with consumer Electronics Company in Sweden. His responsibility was focused in product planning of white goods by offshore production in China, Thailand and Europe. He then joined Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., which carried the whole world communication device technology business of Motorola. He was involved in building corporate strategy for telecommunication fields at corporatemarketing. He continued his career path by joining Nobot, participating in smartphone advertisements, primarily expanding to overseas as company's Marketing Director. He led all the events and marketing, representing the company. After the buyout of Nobotby KDDI group, he adjusted the M&A, and develop overseas expansion plan of KDDI group subsidiaries until March 2012. At present, He is co-founder of 01Booster. 01Booster is a seed accelerator, which focuses on Asian market. They collaborate with Japanese large to middle size companies to support Startups. They also support Japanese Rural area and international business.

At Fukuoka Branch Office, he engages in the establishment of a startup ecosystem connecting Japan and overseas in Kyushu, including support for overseas expansion of small and medium enterprises and start-ups in Kyushu, support for R&D-oriented start-ups, implementation of entrepreneurship programs, and support for industrial policy formulation. He is a program manager of an open innovation program that aims to solve social problems in Africa with the technology and ideas of college students from National Institute of Technology. In the previous position, he engaged in supporting the entry of Japanese companies into overseas markets and research, planning, and implementation of industrial policies in 7 overseas countries. Master of Engineering. NEDO SSA fellow.

At Plug and Play Japan, Yoshitake takes care of startup investment and corporation’s open innovation in the areas of deep-tech, space, food and agriculture tech.
He holds a Master of Engineering from Tohoku University.
Prior to Plug and Play Japan, Yoshitake worked at a Japanese consultancy where he was involved in space-related projects for both the public and private sectors.

D4V is a venture capital which is the first VC with the design support capability in Japan. At D4V, Fumiaki draws on his technical and science background in service of deep-tech, healthcare and digital startups.
Fumiaki holds a BA and MA in Neuroscience from Keio University and an MA in Biotechnology from Lund University, Sweden.
Prior to D4V, Fumiaki worked at PwC's Strategy& where he consulted across industries–including trading, insurance, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing–on M&A, business strategy, portfolio management, cost reduction, and due diligence.

Engaged magazine production as student and charmed by theme of "technology and human being".
Experienced designing, from product design to new business development as a new graduate of listed communication equipment company.
Joined Japan Sky Broadcasting Co., Ltd. in 1996 for launch project of digital satellite broadcasting, worked until now.
Expertized in project designing with various work skills such as element technology to UI/UX design, corporate planning and M & A.
An intropreneur always searching the essentials of technology, business model and corporate collaboration to keep initiative in ongoing rapid organic fusion between media's and networks.

Takeshi Hamachi has over 5 years experience of director at startup accelerator, planning and operating startup/entrepreneur hands-on program, and also corporate innovation program including education programs, sessions, workshops for large corporation.
He graduated Waseda University MBA, during the period, built "WBS Entrepreneur's Club" with school friends who will launch their own startups.
At the accelerator, he mainly has done startup/entrepreneur mentoring, matching and connecting networks between each entrepreneurs/enterprise, planning programs for business development education, developing tools for programs, investment, creating/building network of entrepreneurs/intrapreneurs.
Currently he is COO/CFO at autonomous indoor drone startup, and also be a mentor for Japanese/global startup, do small angel investment at his own project OpenCrucible.

Norishige Hayakawa is a founder and CEO of Hagaminomori Design and a professor of the Graduate School of Project Design. Utilizing his 30 years’ experience of Mitsui & Co., he supports several Japanese leading companies, governmental organization and SMEs by designing their business structure for commercialization, maximization of profits and expansion to overseas market, and by advising project management and intellectual assets strategy including new IP profit models combining IT and FT. He also lectures regularly on the importance of intangible assets for corporate strategy to Japanese executives.

Ikkei established SARR. LLC ‒Science, ART & Research for Reconstruction, in April 2011, after the Earthquake and Tsunami 3.11. Out of SARR activities, he is also co-founder of Soramitsu, one of the leading blockchain company in the world and creates Hyperledger Iroha.

MBA at INSEAD, PhD(Med.) at Hokkaido University, Visiting Professor at Kobe University

Masato MIYAKE (Ph.D, Technology)
Birthday 15 Aug. 1965 (Tokyo, Japan)
1990-1999
AIST (MITI) researcher: Photosynthetic production of fuel by bacteria.

1999-2001
Human Frontier Science Fellow at The Scripps Research Institute: Development of analytical technologies of functional interaction networks of genes in mammalian cells.

2001-2004
Research Team Leader, Tissue Engineering Research Institute of AIST. Development of high-throughput functional screening system of human genome.

2004
Launching a venture company, CytoPathfinder Co. based on the AIST technologies.

2004-2008
CSO of CytoPathfinder Co.

2008-2010
Research Group Leader of Biomedical Research Institute of AIST.

2010-2011
Manager of collaborative research in life science.

2011-2014
Senior manager of Innovation Promotion.of AIST

2014-
Innovation Coordinator of AIST

Academic specialties: Microbiology, Mammalian cell biology, Systems biology, Bioengineering