Session
Advanced Technology
Technology and Legislation: Navigating Global Shifts
Explore the impact of rapidly evolving technology on laws and regulations. Discussions will cover trends in national legal frameworks, ethical issues, data privacy protection, and AI regulation, while examining a future vision that seeks harmony between technological advancement and legal systems.
Available passes
- Executive
- Business/Startup
- Rising Star
- City
Language：Japanese
Speakers
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Mariko Nishimura
HEART CATCH Inc.
Mariko Nishimura
HEART CATCH Inc. CEO, Producer
Started as an IT engineer at IBM Japan, with roles at Adobe and Bascule before co-founding HEART CATCH (Tokyo) in 2014 and HEART CATCH LA (Los Angeles) in 2020. Leveraging expertise in technology and creativity, supports startups in Japan and the US through investment, growth, and operations, while collaborating with Japanese companies and municipalities on new business initiatives. Serves as a J-Startup supporter, member of the Expert Committee for Japan Open Innovation Awards (Cabinet Office), instructor at Art Thinking Collective (ESCP), Guest Professor at Musashino Art University, Forbes Japan columnist, and Fellow for Hamamatsu and Shizuoka.
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Yusuke Tominaga
Whatever Co.
Yusuke Tominaga
Whatever Co. Producer / CEO
Yusuke Tominaga is the CEO and co-founder of Whatever. His career in the creative industry began when he helped establish AID-DCC in 2000 while still a student at Ritsumeikan University. He founded dot by dot inc. in 2014 and Whatever in 2019, the latter being a joint venture with the creative agency PARTY New York, where he served as Executive Producer from 2018. In Aug 2019, joint-invested with Tohokushinsha Film Corporation and established WTFC, Inc., inaugurated as CSO.Having earned accolades from Cannes Lions, The Webbys, Japan Media Arts Festival and more, Yusuke's experience in creative production spans across advertising, experiential marketing, music videos, fashion, and TV.Outside Whatever, Yusuke is a shareholder and executive partner of the tech director collective—BASSDRUM. He actively invests in startup products such as COTODAMA's Lyric Speaker and Yummy Sake—a free service that employs AI as a tool to profile the ideal Japanese rice wine for each user at blind tasting sessions. He also operates a co-working space "Wherever" for creative companies in Tokyo to fulfill his goal of building professional network with creatives around the world.
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Takehiro Ueda
Author
Takehiro Ueda
Author
Born in 1979 in Hyogo Prefecture. After graduating from the Faculty of Law at Waseda University, he participated in the launch of a corporate solutions company and continued writing while serving as an executive. In 2013, he made his debut by winning the 45th Shincho Newcomer Award for "Taiyo" (The Sun). In 2015, he won the 28th Yukio Mishima Prize for "My Lover." In 2016, he was selected as one of GRANTA magazine's Best of Young Japanese Novelists. In 2018, he received the 68th Minister of Education's Newcomer Award for Fine Arts for Towers and Gravity. In 2019, he won the 160th Akutagawa Prize for "Nimrod." In 2022, he received the 46th Kawabata Yasunari Literary Award for "Without Travel." In 2024, he won the 30th Shimase Award for Love Stories for Beloved. His works include The Sun and Planets, My Lover, Friends from a Foreign Land, Towers and Gravity, Nimrod, Cue, Without Travel, Lack of Gravity, Beloved, K+ICO, and The Story of the Multi-Headed Beast.
