Hiroshi Yoshida

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Director-General of the Information and Communications Bureau

Keiji Kodama

Japan Broadcasting Corporation
Senior Director, Chief of Engineering

Gordon H. Smith

National Association of Broadcasters
President and CEO

Yuki Ota

vice-president, International Fencing Federation

Yuya Hanai

Rhizomatiks
Software Engineer

Received B.S in 2008, then M.S degree in 2010 from Keio University. After working as an engineer, was engaged with AR (Augmented Reality) technology development, in the R&D department of Sony Corporation, he began his career at Rhizomatiks in 2014. Mainly developed novel visual systems such as ‘Seamless MR’, ’Dynamic VR’ and ‘interactive Laser’ in many projects for various international artists including Björk. Won the ‘Award of Distinction’ in Ars Electronica for the music video work, ‘Nosaj Thing / Cold Stares ft. Chance The Rapper + The O'My's’, was mainly engaged with camera system development. In 2018, achieved the distinct honor of winning two simultaneous awards in separate divisions of the 22nd Japan Media Arts Festival: the Art Excellence Award for the development of an AR/projection system featured in the dance installation “discrete figures,” and the Entertainment Excellence Award for the development of a visual system showcased in “Perfume × Technology presents ‘Reframe’”.

Yoshitaka Ando

CCN.
LLC

Hideo Takada

Chairman, Japan Association of Professional Recording Studios
Sound Producer Recording Engineer
MIXER’S LAB CO .,LTD.

Gakuji Okumura

Sunphonix Corp.
Sound Division
Live Sound / Recording Engineer

Yuka Saito

Fuji Television Network, Inc.
Manager, Technical Operations, Technical Department

Takehiko Abe

TV Asahi Corporation
Systems Development & Technical Maintenance Center

Shunsuke Ida

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Director of Promotion for Content Distribution Division, Information and Communications Bureau

Hiroshi Esaki

Vice Chief Director, IPTV Forum
Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo
Chief Architect of Digital Agency

Masaru Takechi

NHK Engineering System Inc.
Senior Research Engineer

Shuji Nakamura

Mitsubishi Research Institute DCS Co., Ltd.
Managing Executive Officer

Sotiris Salamouris

Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS)
Chief Technology Officer(CTO)

Ken Kerschbaumer

Sports Video Group
Editorial Director

Kiyohiko Irie

TBS Radio, Inc.
Adviser

Yoshihiro Oto

Sophia Univ
Professor, Department of Journalism

Shigenori Abe

Ibaraki Broadcasting System Co., Ltd.
President and CEO

Yoshihiro Oto

Sophia Univ
Professor, Department of Journalism

Junichi Ushiba

Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology,
Keio University

Junichi Ushiba graduated from the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology in 2001 and obtained his Ph.D. from the Keio University School of Fundamental Science and Technology in 2004. He was a guest researcher at the Center of Sensory-Motor Interaction at Aalborg University, Denmark, for a 6-month period in 2003 before returning to the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology as a research associate. He was at the Keio Institute of Pure and Applied Sciences of the Faculty of Science and Technology from 2014 to 2019, and has been an associate professor at the Keio University Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biosciences and Informatics since 2012. He is a regular committee member and chair for various conferences and awards, and he has sat on the board of the Japanese Society for Motor Control since 2016 and on the Executive and Scientific Board of the Clinical Brain-Machine Interface (CBMI) Society since 2015. He has also received numerous awards, including winning the Excellence Award at BRAVE 2017.

Takahiro Kusunoki

Principal
MACNICA, Inc.
BRAIN AI Innovation Lab.

Yuki Hirai

Business Development Div. BrainTech/DTx Project Leader
MEDIASEEK Inc.

Naotaka Fujii

CEO of Hacosco Inc, Distinguished Professor at Digital Hollywood Univ.
Graduate School, Representative Director of XR Consortium,
Representative Director of Braintech Consortium

MD, PhD, CEO of Hacosco Inc., Distinguished Professor at Digital Hollywood University Graduate School, Representative Director of XR Consortium, Representative Director of Braintech Consortium. Obtained a doctorate in medicine from Tohoku University Graduate School. After serving as a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he has been the team leader of the Adaptive Intelligence Research Team at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute since 2004. Founded Hacosco in 2014. Established VR Consortium in 2015, Professor at Digital Hollywood University Graduate School from 2018, Established Braintech Consortium in 2021.