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Business Summit: huge success for our 6th edition
On November 28th, around 1,000 participants attended the 6th edition of the French Japanese Business Summit titled “Innovation: Racing for a global advantage”, after a series of successful sectorial conferences held throughout the year (on Energy, Healthcare, Space, Mobility...)
Since 2018, the French-Japanese Business Summit has become a flagship event for the French and Japanese business community, aiming to strengthen and highlight partnerships towards the future.
This edition was held in Nikkei Hall in Tokyo and welcomed over 30 top-level speakers. The participants heard from top-level executives from well-known French and Japanese companies, high level government officials and prestigious academics.
The Opening Ceremony gave off an inspiring start with 4 prestigious speakers: Jérôme CHOUCHAN, President of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Japan, HIGASHIHARA Toshiaki, Vice Chair, Chair of Committee on Europe, Keidanren, Philippe SETTON, French Ambassador to Japan, and KONO Taro, Minister for Digital Transformation
Speakers then explores a broad array of topics, including:
- The necessary mindset to foster innovation
- The underestimated potential of innovation within Japanese startups
- The prominent role of gender and national diversity to spread new ideas in major companies
- The focus on user experience improvement in the automotive sector
- The need for strategic partnerships between startups, big companies and governmental institutions, the benefits from digital transformation and AI in many sectors
- The methods to support a creative innovation ecosystem.
Prestigious speakers included:
KOBAYASHI Nobuko, Managing Director & Partner, EY
FUJII Teruo, President of the University of Tokyo
Richard KATZ, Special Correspondent, Toyo Keizai
UOTANI Masahiro, Presentative Director, Chairman and CEO, Shiseido
TAKEUCHI Yasuo, Director, Representative Executive Officer, Executive Chairman, Olympus Corporation
DOI Kazuhiro, Corporate Vice President, Nissan Motor Corporation
François TARDIF, Executive Vice President, FORVIA Asia Faurecia Clarion Electronics
Raphaël KELLER, Minister Counsellor for Economic Affairs, Embassy of France in Japan
TAKAHASHI Masami, Group COO, Scrum Ventures
FUNAKI Kenichi, General Manager, Corporate Venturing Office, Innovation Growth Strategy Division, Hitachi
OKADA Kohei, Executive Officer, Deputy CSO, Toyota Tsucho
IZUMO Mitsuru, President, Euglena
Guillaume DOURDIN, CEO & Representative Director, Veolia Japan
ASHIZAWA Michiko, Associate Professor, Keio Business School
YAMAMOTO Ichita, Governor of Gunma Prefecture
ISHIGURO Hiroshi, Professor of Faculty of Systems Innovation, Osaka University, and Visting Director, ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories
TAKEMASU Sadanobu, President and CEO, Representative Director, Chairman of the Board, Lawson
Jean-Philippe BIRAGNET, Partner, Bain & Company
Bharat RUPANI, President, AEON NEXT
OYA Masahiro, Executive Officer, Group President, Global Strategic Planning & Marketing, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Fabrice BORGERS, Japan R&D Lab – Customer Strategic Partnerships Director, Dassault Systèmes
IDEZAWA Takeshi, President and Representative Director CEO, LY Corporation
OKUMURA Shigesaburo, Chief International News Center, Editorial Division, NIKKEI
KIN Syogetsu, CEO, A. Global
ADACHI Masayuki, President & COO, Horiba
Stéphane ORTIZ, Global Managing Director, Innovation & Product Development Métiers, L’Oréal
Jean-Dominique SENARD, President, The Alliance Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi
KASHIWABARA Kyoko, Director General of Multilateral Trade System Department, METI
Roland LESCURE, Ministre délégué auprès du ministre de l’Economie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique, chargé de l’Industrie
The lunch served by Chef-owner of Chez Olivier, Olivier Oddos was a great networking opportunity for speakers and participants.
In 2024, the 7th edition of the Business Summit will be held on November 26th – we hope that you will be part of the discussion! The topic will be announced soon.
Do not hesitate to contact us to be part of next year's journey!
Finally, we would like to express our gratitude again to all our sponsors and partners:
