Asrar Damdam is a scientist and entrepreneur who pursued her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering with her research focusing on the Internet of Food. She is also the founder and CEO of Uvera, a cleantech startup focusing on tackling the global challenge of reducing food waste to half by 2030. Uvera products keep food fresher for longer, by up to 97% on average, within 30 seconds of use and without any use of chemicals. Asrar received the L’Oreal-UNESCO award for Women in Science (2020) for her groundbreaking scientific research. She was also named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list (2021), the Fast Company list of most creative people in business (2022), the 50NEXT list of people shaping the future of gastronomy (2022), and the Bloomberg New Economy Catalysts list (2022). Asrar is endeavoring to transform state-of-the-art technologies into products that can help reduce food waste and elevate environmental awareness and sustainability at the levels of consumers and retailers.

After graduating from Hitotsubashi University with a Bachelor of Commerce, he majored in Art Engineering at the Graduate School of Tokyo Metropolitan University. In 2014, he established no new folk studio Inc. (currently ORPHE Inc.) after commercializing the smart footwear “Orphe,” which he began developing as research for a new music performance interface. The company has been proposing new products with the keyword “IoT for Expression”. Winner of the Good Design Award, selected as a Jury Recommended Work for the Japan Media Arts Festival, Grand Prize for the INNOVATION LEAGUE Contest by the Sports Agency, etc.

Emi Tamaki is researching to interact haptic sensation and physical sensation between computer and human. Her goal is to realize BodySharing which is systems to share rich body experiences by facilitating information exchange between humans and computers. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Informatics from the University of Tokyo in 2012. She also received President’s Award of the University of Tokyo.Her research and development of PossessedHand controls human hands from computers, which was selected as one of the 50 Best Inventions by TIME Magazine. In 2012, she co-founded H2L, Inc. H2L developed a product UnlimitedHand that is a version of PossessedHand for sales. UnlimitedHand allows users input and output their hand gestures to computers. At Tech Crunch SF 2016, a virtual reality controller, “UnlimitedHand” is published. On a Kickstarter that is a crowdfunding site, UnlimitedHand reached the campaign goal in only 22 hours. She was selected for 2016 WIRED Audi Innovation Award, Nikkei Business 100 people making next generation Award. She was appointed Ambassador to WINDS (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) 2017 and STEM Girls Ambassador (Cabinet Office of Japan). New product “FirstVR” ,which corroborates with NTT docomo 5G, is released in 2019. ACM, Augmented Human 2020 Special Recognition Award. In 2021, BodySharing is known to have been portrayed in the animated film “BELLE”.

Dr. Ichiro Amimori, co-founder and CEO of Xenoma, is developing the next-generation in smart apparel. Prior to co-founding Xenoma, Dr. Amimori worked for FUJIFILM for nearly 20 years in various engineering and leadership roles where he brought a number of optical films for displays and document security to market. In his career at FUJIFILM, Dr. Amimori was the inventor or co-inventor on 95 issued patents that spanned many industries. Since leaving FUJIFILM in 2012, Dr. Amimori has devoted himself to improving social values by leveraging leading-edge technologies and working as a freelancer serving Japanese universities and companies. He prides himself as researcher of Science, Technology and Society (STS) focused on technological innovations which enhance the relationship between man and machine. As such, he joined JST/ERATO Someya Bio-Harmonized Project at the University of Tokyo as a group leader which spurred the creation of Xenoma Inc. Growing up in a Japanese generation situated between the “post-war economic miracle” and the “lost decade”, he is an advocate for a “Japan Entrepreneurship 2.0” start-up ecosystem to fuel technology innovation. Dr. Amimori received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Brown University in 2006.

Sammi is an experienced venture capitalist and serves as a proactive board member to advise the investees on corporate strategy, international business development, governance and finance. As an appointed mentor of Hong Kong Life Science Society, he enjoys mentoring students regarding entrepreneurship in the areas of biomedical and healthcare sectors. Besides, Sammi is a guest lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and Awaji Youth Federation (Japan), coaching and teaching students in new venture creation and venture capital investing. Sammi is the Founding Leader of the Hong Kong-based HKSTP Ventures, the corporate venture capital of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation focused on deep-tech investing from early to growth stages. He oversees all the transaction executions, portfolio strategy and strategic partnership development since its inception in September 2015. The AUM of HKSTP Ventures has grown by 12 times throughout his seven-year tenure. With four pillars of investment themes in Life Science, Smart City, Mobility & Automation and Semiconductor, half of the investment portfolios were established overseas in locations such as Silicon Valley, China, Taiwan, and the UK. Before joining HKSTPC, Sammi led the Greater China Distressed Investment team at Crédit Agricole CIB. Besides, he obtained solid corporate finance exposure from his previous investment banking experience at ABN AMRO and BNP Paribas. He has 10+ years of direct investment experience across various sectors in Greater China, Southeast Asia, Silicon Valley and the UK. He graduated from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford University with distinction and obtained CFA Charterholder.

Judy Barkal has deep experience in strategy, innovation, and complex business and technology transformation. Her earliest experiences with IoT began in the avionics industry where she developed leading-edge autopilots, incorporating real-time software to do data analytics from many environmental, mechanical, electrical, and optical sensors and systems. She has worked with sensors in retail, energy, and healthcare over the past 20+ years. She is a member of the IEEE working group on Clinical IoT Data and Device Interoperability. Judy has held executive leadership roles and led small teams in startups to teams of 2,000+ in enterprise businesses. Her work has always involved complex systems and data, data science, control systems and machine learning as well as regulatory and safety compliance. Her experience has led to many lessons learned about problem-solving, automation, agile and systems engineering methods, scaling teams, technology, and product delivery as well as financial, risk and regulatory management. Judy is currently a Managing Director at Health2047, Inc. – a subsidiary of the American Medical Association. Prior to joining Health2047 Inc., Judy served as M2Gen’s Chief Technology/Medical Informatics Officer. She held the role as Head of Strategy and Innovation at the Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health and Science University. Judy was a Partner at IBM for 15 years, leading complex global projects while living in Asia, Europe, and North America. Prior to IBM she worked at a tech startup, Sequence Computer Systems, and spent 10 years in the avionics industry at Rockwell Collins and Boeing.

Edison has 34 years of experience in the software industry. As an entrepreneur, he has co-founded two IOT and machine learning start-ups that developed novel approaches to solving problems in healthcare and industrial automation. As a software engineer, he led and contributed to several commercial software products, with over 20 granted software patents. Edison has expertise in deep learning, data science, and developing highly concurrent transactional systems, compilers and query engines. Coupling these skills with his experience in building teams and solutions from the ground up, he has been able to help companies raise VC funding while maneuver around issues associated with early staged companies. As an STSM at IBM, Edison led the development and commercialization of the company’s first big data social media analytics platform. He was involved in the development of an industry first hybrid relational / xml database management system, and contributed to pioneering work of an incremental C/C++/Java compiler for the Intel x86 family. Edison has a Masters Degree in Software Engineering and a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering.

Niki Agata, based in Tokyo, is a seed-investor (at ABBALab inc) focused in IoT and a COO (of Arblet Inc) a IoT healthcare seed start-up for 7 years, after 20+ years at Sony Corporation. Niki is a super-generalist, gathering necessary component (fundraising, product design, production, marketing, team building, legal etc) and making alliances (with large corporation or key individuals) to move project forward. Niki’s major achievement at Sony was the launch of Blu-ray format worldwide, making sure major Hollywood movies were released at the time of the launch of the players.

Nagano is a General Partner of Abies Ventures,Inc. where he specializes in Deeptech investments around the world. Prior to Abies, he founded an EV startup from Kyoto University and led a cross border IPO at 1.5Billion USD as a board of director and CFO. Nagano was also in charge of foreign corporate development overall strategy. Nagano was Vice President at a boutique PE/growth capital fund and also ht eyoungest investment banker in the world as a DCM Capital Market Division., Deutsche Securities.

He is one of the founders and shareholders of XELA Robotics, which he established with his partners in August 2018. He has been developing tactile sensors, both hardware and software, for more than 13 years, which is part of his broader work on human-collaborative robots. He received his master’s degree with honors from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 2007, and PhD degree from the University of Sheffield, England in 2011. He performed his PhD research as part of a joint location program with the Italian Institute of Technology, Italy. Currently, in addition to working at XELA Robotics, he is an Associate Professor in Waseda University, Japan. He received numerous grants, including a grant of 117 million JPY from the JST START Program (Program for Creating STart-ups from Advanced Research and Technology) and support from the NEDO Entrepreneurs Program (NEP). He has been featured in various magazines and news articles, including an article in the magazine Science about his experience as an entrepeneur. He has authored more than 100 research articles, including the world’s first research article about using deep learning for tactile sensing. He has received numerous awards for his work, such as the FANUC FA Foundation Award 2017.

Kosuke Shimizu is a Founder CEO of Arblet Inc, a wearable technology startup based in Tokyo, found in 2016 right after graduating McMaster University in Canada, where he got his degree in B. Eng. major in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering. Kosuke is a data scientist, an applied scientist, a hardware engineer, a cloud architect and an app designer.

Denny Dong is the founder and CEO of LifeSmart, LifeSmart is a leading global AIOT solution provider which serves over 4M customers throughout 80 countries worldwide. Before found the LifeSmart, he was the GM of UTStarcom R&D group and he served the company for over 10 years where he managed multisite team across China, US and India. Denny graduated from SUN YAT-SEN University, majored mathematics.

Ken MATSUI is the founder and CEO of ugo, Inc. ugo is a robotics solution company that realizes a sustainable work style. Humanoid robot “ugo” can be used in various scenes such as security, inspection, and delivery, promoting operation DX. our mission is to solve the serious labor shortage in all industries with a human-robot collaboration model. We are developing a robotics platform and a next-generation avatar robot “ugo” that adopts hybrid control of remote control and AI automatic mode, and remote work style of essential workers such as security and inspection. , By automating some repetitive work and parallelizing it by supervising and instructing multiple robots by one person, we will provide a service that leads to DX and BCP measures for the on-site work of various operating companies.

Founder / CEO, the head of engineering who take lead of building our proprietary high speed simulator to find the best designing pattern for wider FOV waveguides. Prior to founding Cellid, he was doing research on the Higgs boson search in CERN where he got deep knowledge on the parallel computing to manage petabyte size data for ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. He is the SPIE photonics west 2022 invited speaker, graduated from Waseda University with M.S., in Physics.

Ming-Jye Sheng is currently a co-founder and interim CEO of IoT Eye Inc, a venture funded startup focused on Internet of Thing and Saas service for special care. He was a network architect/researcher for the EDGE Lab. of the EE Department at Princeton University. In Princeton, he has managed field trials of Smart Data Pricing with US and India’s tier one service providers. He has worked with MITRE as a lead system engineer. In this role, he supported US Army Internet (WIN-T) program managers to acquire network, communication, and sensors technologies for ground-to-ground and air-to-ground tactical wireless mesh network and mobile ad-hoc network. He is the founder of SysAir Inc. SysAir’s major product is WCDMA Software Definable Radio (SDR) running on personal computer. Previous to that period, he worked with Wiscom Technologies, a venture capital and AMD funded startup, designing WCDMA baseband chips for cellular phones. He led a team of engineers to deliver UMTS protocol software intellectual property and later acquired by top US Chip Provider. He worked with AT&T, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Laboratories and promoted to a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in four years. There he was a lead systems engineer in the NTT DoCoMo project that produced a WCDMA Radio Network Controller and Base Station. His team’s WCDMA protocol design is incorporated in NTT DoCoMo WCDMA commercial prototypes and contributed to the Alcatel-Lucent UMTS 3G cellular products in commercial use today. He published papers in the areas of military communications, parallel and distributed algorithms, and cellular internet of things. He received B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from NCKU, Taiwan, M.Sc. in Computer Science from NTU, Taiwan, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Ohio State University.

Sloane Tilley is CEO and co-founder of E-Sentience. She is currently a Global Executive MBA candidate at the Duke Fuqua School of Business. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in Environmental Health Science and Engineering from the University of Carolina, Chapel Hill. Sloane has five years of experience working in sales, product management and business development in start-up and scaling biotechnology companies and is an avid triathlete who has qualified for the Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii.

Master of Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. More than 16 years of experience in the IoT industry Solution Architect and Co-partner of Ganwei Software.

Dr. Bruce Yu is the founder & CEO of BROADSIMS Inc. BROADSIMS is leading and providing an APP-Installable vital-sign solution as an open-innovation platform (VS-OIP), including built-in functions: 12-lead ECG, SpO2, and blood pressure, in addition to add-on functions: portable ultrasound, EEG, stethoscope, thermal meter, for clinical research and care providers. Bruce academic background include multi-disiplines, including EE, biomedical engineering, and EMBA in National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan.

Shao-Wei Lu is currently the CEO of Artise Biomedical Co., Ltd, a Taiwan-based company providing Brain-Computer Interface solutions from system design to SaaS products. He leads to establishment and commercialization of the first dry and wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) system in Taiwan since 2009. Now with Artisebio, the vision is to embed neurotechnology into daily life, offering advanced neural gears for biometric data to characterize human behavior and cognitive status, applying to healthcare, education, marketing, and more.

Tomasz Zernicki, co-founder, and CEO of Zylia (www.zylia.co) innovative company which provides tools for 3D audio recording and music production. Tomasz holds Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications. His professional interests concentrate on: 360/VR music production, spatial sound processing, and recording. As an audio expert, he takes an active role in the Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) standardization committee work. He has significant contributions to the audio compression standards such as MPEG-D USAC and MPEG-H 3D Audio. He was also Awarded by The Polish National Centre for Research and Development for outstanding young scientists in Poland. Moreover, he was selected as one of the New Europe 100 challengers and innovators. More Info: http://pl.linkedin.com/in/tomaszzernicki