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Healthcare Conference - Business Leaders Forum 2025
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Presential Attendance:
- 8 500 yens for members of the French Chamber
- 12 000 yens for non-members
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The Keys to unlocking Healthcare Market
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Exciting Announcement!
We are thrilled to announce that the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan (CCI France-Japon) will be hosting the 5th edition of its Healthcare Conference in partnership with leading industry experts.
This year’s theme, "The Keys to Unlocking the Healthcare Market," will delve into topics such as Healthcare Innovation Without Borders: Building Healthcare Businesses Across Cultures, Partnering for Success: Euro-Japanese Alliances, and Building Bridges: How Japan's Biotech Ecosystem Is Learning to Navigate Global Capital Markets. Attendees will benefit from testimonies of real experiences in leading pharma companies, gaining an opportunity to connect with industry experts, and finding true inspiration to drive innovation and collaboration across borders.
The panels will spotlight cross-cultural business development, collaborative Euro-Japanese partnerships, and Japan’s expanding role in the global biotech industry, all essential drivers of innovation in today's healthcare landscape.
We invite you to join us for an afternoon of knowledge-sharing, discussion, and networking!
🥂Networking : Join us for an elegant evening of connection and conversation
Speakers
PROGRAM :
14:30 -Doors Open
14:50 - 15:00
Master of Ceremony:
Philippe Auvaro, Executive Director, Medical Data Vision
15:00 - 15:05 - Opening Remarks:
Embassy of France in Japan
15:05 - 15:15 – Overview
Tomofumi Nishizawa, Director Startup Support Divisio, Innovation Dept, Japan External Trade Organization - JETRO
15:15 - 15:20
Pr Isabelle Buckle, Executive Vice-President for Technology Transfer and Industrial Partnerships, Institut Paster
15:20 - 16:05 - Panel 1: Healthcare Innovation Without Borders : Building Healthcare Businesses Across Cultures
Moderator: Gerard Lipowski, Lipowski Consulting LLC
Speakers:
Celia Belline, CEO, Cilcare,
Bilal Kharouni,CEO, Ekei Labs,
Kais Mnif, VP Radiology at Thales, CEO Trixell (France),
Nahoko Matsuyama, Group Strategy Division, Bio & Health Care Task Force, Deputy Department Manager, Horiba
16:05 - 16:15 - Q&A session panel 1
16:15 - 16:55- Panel 2: Partnering for success: Euro-Japanese alliances
Moderator: Juliana Gutierrez, Scientific Affairs Manager, Biomerieux
Speakers:
Bruno Lacombe, Vice President, Rare Disease Business Unit, Novo Nordisk,
Matthias Tacchini, Head of Multinational Corporates Coverage Japan, BNP Paribas,
Yumiko Asano, Head of Chugai-Partnering
Hideyoshi Fuji, Representative Director, Iktos KK
16:55 - 17:00 - Q&A session panel 2
17:00 - 17:25 - Coffee Break
17:25 - 18 :05- Panel 3: Building Bridges: How Japan’s biotech ecosystem is learning to reach global markets
Moderator: Jeff Volinski, Partner, A.T Kearney
Speakers:
Ken Horne, Managing Partner, AN Ventures,
Aki Tobaru, Partner, Remiges Ventures,
Yoshinori Ikeura, Representative Director, President & CEO, Axcelead,Inc.
18:05 - 18 :10 - Q&A session panel 3
18:10-18:30 – Keynote : How to enter into a technology partnership between a Japanese and a French pharmaceutical company : The case of Kyorin Parmaceutical
Yutaka Ogihara,Representative Director, President and CE0, Kyorin Pharmaceutical
18:30 - 18 :35 – Concluding Remarks
Philippe Auvaro, Executive Director, Medical Data Vision
18:35 - 20:00 - Networking Cocktail
Special Guest
We are privileged to host Mr. Yutaka OGIHARA
Representative Director, President and Chief Executive Officer KYORIN Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.
He joined Kyorin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in 1990 after graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University, Department of Science and Engineering.
In June 2011, he was appointed to the company’s board of directors and became Head of the Corporate Planning Department. He was named Representative Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer in June 2019.
Dr Isabelle Buckle, PhD, is armed with over 30 years of scientific commercial and business skills in biotechnology forged from an extensive and eclectic experience with such companies as Bruker Daltonics (Global Vice President Clinical Mass Spectrometry), CEO and Chairman at InGen Biosciences (an in vitro diagnostics French group), Life Technologies (now part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, as Global Head European Pharma’s Accounts) and at Ciphergen Biosystems Inc (as Regional Director, Head of Business Development Diagnostics), to name some of the posts occupied.
At Institut Pasteur, Dr Buckle is the Executive Vice-President for Technology Transfer and Industrial Partnerships.
The Department of Research Applications and Industrial Relations (DARRI) mission is to promote translational research in order to increase the impact of fundamental research on public health issues.
We extend our thanks to bioMérieux and Cilcare for their support of this event
Our sincere thanks to our annuals sponsors:
Nissan, Veolia, Air Liquide, Axa , Dassault Systèmes, Crédit Agricole, Toyota Tsusho, Forvia Faurecia, EY, Capgemini, Horiba, Mitsui Fudosan, Natixis, Société Générale, TotalEnergies, Life 14, Perrier, Vittel, and Sparkup.
Deadline for registration/cancellation: Friday, October 3, 2025, 17:00
*Any cancellation after the deadline or no-show will be charged.
*All participants are required to pay online before the event. Thank you for your understanding.
Contact:
Julia COLLAS - Business Leaders Forum, Director
j.collas@ccifj.or.jp (English/French)
Alice INOUE - Business Leaders Forum, Manager
a.inoue@ccifj.or.jp (Japanese/English/French)
Nicolas SASAKI - Business Leaders Forum, Project Coordinator Communication
n.smischler(@)ccifj.or.jp (Japanese/English/French)
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