11th G1 GlobalConference Report
2021.11.03
G1 InstituteMessage from the Chair
Thank you for your support and participation in the 11th G1 Global Conference!
I hope you had a wonderful time.
At the largest G1 Global ever, 294 people (191 in Tokyo; 103 online) from
more than 25 countries and 10 time zones gathered to discuss the theme“Innovative Resilience in Politics, Business, Technology, and Society.” In theOpening Plenary, Minister Audrey Tang and Mr. Taro Kono challenged us toincorporate technology as we pursue innovative resilience and move forward
out of the pandemic. Throughout the breakout sessions during the day, we
fully understood why none of us can do it alone and working together isessential.
We heard Innovative Resilience Proposals from G7/G20 Youth Japan leaders
at lunch. During the Closing Plenary, Japan's Digital Minister Karen Makishima
and other panelists shared how to do "constructive collaboration" acrossideological and political divides. We wrapped up with networking in the foyer.

Our vision of G1 has always been “Group of One, Globe is One.” We seek tocreate a multi-stakeholder forum in which people can share and learn fromeach other through dialogue, to make a better Japan and a better world. The
success of G1 Global is all thanks to your participation, your passion, and yourcommitment to this community. Audience feedback has been quite strong, andmany have commented on the positive energy throughout the sessions. We
truly appreciate your contributions. We hope that you were able to use theseopportunities to make new friends. Thank you for engaging with each otherand enriching the G1 Global community.
Please keep the conversation going on social media by using the hashtag#G1Global. To rewatch the sessions, or to catch any sessions you may havemissed, please check the G1 Global website and Youtube Channel. We will
announce each session's release on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
I wish all the best to you and hope to see you again at the 12th G1 Global
Conference on Monday, October 10th, 2022.
Yours,
Yoshito Hori
President, G1 InstituteFounder & President, GLOBIS University
Founding Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners

2Advisory Board Members

Minako Iue
Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
MUFG Securities, Co., Ltd.
Professor, Tokyo University of Science

Chair and CEO
Sailors for the Sea Japan

President, G1 Institute; Founder andPresident, GLOBIS University; FoundingPartner, GLOBIS Capital Partners

Managing Director, Corporate
Education, GLOBIS Corporation

Expert Director
Monex Group

Chairperson, LDP Public Relations
Headquarters; Member of theHouse of Representatives

Senior Managing Director, Co-head ofGroup Corporate Communications,
Nomura Holdings

Chief Executive Officer
Visional

Professor Emeritus
Keio University

Japan Chairman and Partner
A.T. Kearney
Chairman, CIC Japan

General Partner
MPower Partners

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11th G1 Global Conference Overview

Time & Date
9AM – 6:00PM, Wed. Nov. 3, 2021
(followed by Networking Time in Foyer until 6:30PM)

Venue
GLOBIS University, Tokyo, Japan and online

Number of Participants:
294

Theme
“Innovative Resilience in Politics, Business,
Technology, and Society”

HostG1 Institute4

#1 Plenary Session: Innovative Resiliencein Politics, Business, Technology, and Society

Opening Session: Yoshito Hori
President, G1 Institute; President, GLOBIS University
Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners

Taro Kono, Chairperson, LDP Public Relations Headquarters;
Member of the House of Representatives
Audrey Tang, Digital Minister of Taiwan
Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Positions listed are as of Nov 3, 2021.

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#2 Breakout Sessions[Business] Investing & Diversity:
The Changing Faces of Venture Capitalists• Cheryl Beninga, Managing Director, Wai Mohala
Ventures; Co-Founder, Fouthwave• Jonathan Epstein, Managing Director, CornerstoneOnDemand• Cindy Jin, Partner, Investment Team, SoftBank
Ventures Asia
• Seiji Inagaki, President, Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.
• Yumiko Murakami, General Partner, MPowerPartners[Politics] Communicating Japan's Contribution in
an Uncertain World• Billie Cole, Vice General Manager, Corporate
Communications, Rakuten Group & Rakuten
Mobile• Richard W. Edelman, CEO, Edelman• Kana Inagaki, Tokyo Bureau Chief, The FinancialTimes Ltd.
• Taro Kono, Chairperson, LDP Public Relations
Headquarters; Member of the House ofRepresentatives• Ross Rowbury, Senior Managing Director, Cohead of Group Corporate Communications,
Nomura Holdings[Technology] Innovative Resilience in Greentech:Will Technology Beat Climate Change?
• Patricia Bader-Johnston, CEO, Silverbirch
Associates KK• Mitsuru Izumo, CEO, Euglena Co., Ltd.
• Eriko Suzuki, Managing Director, MPowerPartners• Robert Alan Feldman, Senior Advisor, Morgan
Stanley MUFG Securities Co., Ltd.; Professor,
Tokyo University of Science[Society] Resilience in Well-Being: Strengthening
the Ability to Live Through the Changing Times• Alden Lai, Assistant Professor, New York University;
Executive Advisor, Wellbeing for Planet EarthFoundation• Angus MacGregor, International Head of HumanResources, MUFG Securities; Head of Global
Human Resources, MUFG Bank• Daiko Matsuyama, Deputy Head Priest, Taizo-in
Zen Buddhist Temple• Vickie Skorji, Lifeline Services Director, TELL Japan• Takashi Mitachi, Senior Advisor, Boston Consulting
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#3 Breakout Sessions[Business] No Exit? Economic Policy Stuck
Between Big Government, Excess Liquidity, andAccelerating Disruption• Leo Lewis, Tokyo Correspondent, Financial Times• Aya Murakami, Investor• Yusuke Narita, Assistant Professor, Yale
University; Founder / Representative Director,Hanjuku-kaso, Inc.
• Jesper Koll, Expert Director, Monex Group[Politics] Geoeconomic Challenges:
Economic Dimensions of US-China Competition• Christina Davis, Professor, Department ofGovernment, Harvard University• Nobuhiro Hemmi, Partner, Monitor Deloitte Chief
Strategist, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting LLC• Eric Sayers, Nonresident Fellow, American
Enterprise Institute• Ken Jimbo, Professor, Faculty of Policy
Management, Keio University[Technology] Tech in Gaming, Anime, and Manga:
How can Japan Stay Competitive in the Media andEntertainment Industry?
• Naomitsu Kodaka, Representative Director &President, Tokyo Otaku Mode Co. Ltd.
• Yuri Sawaragi, Manager, Anime Business & IP
Scouting team, Netflix Japan• Justin Waldron, Co-Founder / President, Playco• Masayuki Ikegami, CEO, SAKURAS CO., LTD.

[Society] Japan's Tourism Going Forward:Sustainability, Luxury, Nature and Culture• David Mark Atkinson, CEO, Konishi Decorative
Arts and Crafts Co., Ltd.
• Satoko Nagahara, Co-Founder & CEO, DENEB• Taku Yamada, CEO, Chura-boshi Co., Ltd.
• Tak Umezawa, Japan Chairman and Partner, A.T.
Kearney; Chairman, CIC Japan7

Lunch: Innovative Resilience Proposals from G20 Youth8

#4 Breakout Sessions[Business] Creative Startup Minds: Designing aMore Vibrant Japanese and Global Economy• Tom Kelley, Partner, IDEO/D4V• John Maeda, SVP Chief Experience Officer,Everbridge• Kathy Matsui, General Partner, MPower Partners• Makoto Takano, CEO (Forbes JAPAN Founder),linkties Co., Ltd.

[Politics] Digital Leadership: How Can National
Governments Support Business?
• Jun Murai, Distinguished Professor, Keio University• Meri Rosich, Chief Data Officer in FinancialServices, Data Strategy Professor• Siim Sikkut, Government CIO, Deputy SecretaryGeneral of Digital Development, Ministry ofEconomic Affairs and Communications, Republic ofEstonia• Heizo Takenaka, Professor Emeritus, Keio
University• Tatsuya Terazawa, Chairman CEO, Institute ofEnergy Economics Japan[Technology] Innovative Resilience in Health:Data, Technology, and Clinical Value• James Riney, Founding Partner & CEO, Coral
Capital• Masayo Takahashi, President, Vision Care Inc.
• Yusuke Tsugawa, Associate Professor, UCLA
• Sho Okiyama, CEO, Aillis, Inc.

9[Society] Innovative Resilience?
The Legacy of the Tokyo Olympics• David Hackett, Partner, Mindspring Capital• Takayuki Hioki, Founder and CEO, Sports Branding
Japan, Co. Ltd.
• Hiromi Kawamura, Director for International
Strategic Planning, Ministry of Education, Culture,Sport, Science and Technology• Soichiro Minami, Chief Executive Officer, Visional9

#5 Breakout Sessions[Business] From Purpose to Performance:
Business Priorities for a Better World• Sandeep Kohli, Vice President Beauty & PersonalCare, Unilever Middle East and North Africa,
Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Turkey• Jin Montesano, Director, Executive Officer,
Executive Vice President, Chief People Officer,
LIXIL Corporation• Gullapalli N Rao, Distinguished Chair of Eye Health,
L V Prasad Eye Institute• Miki Tsusaka, Managing Director & Senior Partner,
Boston Consulting Group• Toru Takahashi, Managing Director, Corporate
Education, GLOBIS Corporation[Politics] Innovative Resilience in Europe:
COVID, Brexit & Elections• Alexander Gabuev, Senior Fellow and Chair, Russia
in the Asia-Pacific Program, Carnegie MoscowCenter• Valerie Niquet, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Japan
Institute for International Affairs (JIIA); SeniorResearch Fellow and Director of Japan Program,
Foundation for Strategic Research• Joanna Pitman, Director, Baillie Gifford Japan Trust;
Former Tokyo Bureau Chief, The Times• Michito Tsuruoka, Associate Professor, KeioUniversity• Noah Sneider, Tokyo Bureau Chief, The Economist
Newspaper Limited[Technology] Global Tech Scene:
Emerging Trends and Ecosystems• Denes Ban, Managing Partner, OurCrowd• Michiko Kato, Principal, Woven Capital• Soichiro Minami, Chief Executive Officer, Visional• Emre Yuasa, Director, GLOBIS Capital Partners[Society] Innovative Resilience in Ocean
Conservation: How to Achieve a Sustainable BlueEconomy• Maria Damanaki, Former European
Commissioner, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries• Charles Goddard, Editorial Director, TheEconomist Group• Atsushi Sunami, President, The Sasakawa Peace
Foundation/ Ocean Policy Research Institute• Aiko Yamauchi, Senior Officer, Seafood Legacy
Co., Ltd.
• Minako Iue, Chair and CEO, Sailors for the SeaJapan10

#6 Plenary Session: Innovative Resiliencein Politics, Business, Technology, and Society

Bill Emmott, Former Editor, The Economist; Chairman, IISS; Co-Director,
Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy
Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Karen Makishima, Digital Minister, Minister in Charge of Administrative andRegulatory Reform, Member of Japan's House of Representatives
Jesper Koll, Expert Director, Monex Group

Closing Session with G1 Global Advisory Board Members

11Networking Time in the Foyer

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Sponsors
Silver Sponsor

S&P Global Market Intelligence

Bronze Sponsors

GCA Corporation

GEEK PICTURES
INC.

SAKURUG Co., Ltd.

Individual Sponsors
Mr. Iwao Aso
Mr. Satoshi Hirose
Dr. Akinori Kanayama, PhD
Mr. Shunichi Shibanuma

Mr. Toru Takahashi
Mr. Makoto Takano
Mr. Mamoru Taniya

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Feedback from Participants

How was theconference today?

Please evaluate
our operations.

4.7

4.8

(5-point scale)(5-point scale)

The theme “Innovative Resilience" was timely. It meets ourcurrent needs to consider the world with & after COVID-19.
The overseas panelists shared their future expectations forJapan’s political and global leadership.
Diverse, insightful and very oriented towards the future.
So inspirational to hear Audrey Tang give examples where
citizens can be so directly involved in government solutions.
The hybrid format is not easy. G1 did it well. Very seamless andexcellent time-keeping by all. Excellent operation as always!
I could learn from great leaders and got lots of energy. Thankyou very much for organizing this conference.
Combination of remote and in-person speakers allowed fordiversity of perspectives and high-level speakers - nice work!!
It's very encouraging for Japan to have this kind of occasion to
be shaped by globally-minded leaders. I was happy to be able
to join.
Thank you very much for the arrangement in a difficult
situation! I learned a lot and your effort is highly appreciated.
I was very impressed by all the staff and their hospitality.
Thank you very much managing this important event for Japan.
Hori-san’s vision has kept G1 going from strength to strength.
Keep it up!
I’m looking forward to taking part in the next G1 Conference.
Thank you!
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A big thank you toall of our sponsorsfor your support.
We appreciate your generosity in contributing
to a stronger G1 Global Community!