9th G1 GlobalConference Report2019.9.16
G1 InstituteMessage from the Chair
Thank you for your support and participation in the 9th G1 Global Conference!
I hope you had a wonderful time.
280 participants from more than 30 countries came to discuss the theme“Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption.” With panelists including
Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono, we had discussions on geopolitical
disruptions and Japan’s leadership role. Throughout the day, we learned aboutsustainable and innovative actions to respond to various disruptions in thefields of technology, society, politics, and business.
At the Closing Plenary, Prof. Sheena Iyengar showed us that writing down ourdreams and confronting reality can help lead to innovation. The other panelists
then shared their dreams and ideas on what sustainable innovation meansand how we can put our dreams into actions. We wrapped up with Yo-Yo
Japan Night, Dassai sake, and great Japanese food.
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 thelunch workshops and other opportunities to make new friends. Thank you forengaging with each other and 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 10th G1 Global
Conference on Sunday, October 11th, 2020.
Yours,
Yoshito Hori
Chairperson, G1 Institute
President, GLOBIS University
Managing Partner, GLOBIS Capital Partners

Advisory Board Members

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

Chairperson, G1 Institute; President,
GLOBIS University; Managing Partner,
GLOBIS Capital PartnersMinister of Defense,
Member of the House ofRepresentatives

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9th G1 Global Conference Overview

Time & Date
9AM – 8PM
Monday, September 16, 2019Venue
GLOBIS University, Tokyo, Japan

Number of Participants:
280

Theme
“Sustainable Innovation inTimes of Disruption”

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#1 Plenary Session: Sustainable Innovation inTimes of Disruption: Japan’s Geopolitical Leadership

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

John Chipman CMG (Director-General and Chief Executive, IISS)
Taro Kono (Minister of Defense; Member, House of Representatives)
Mieko Nakabayashi (Prof., School of Social Sciences, Waseda Univ.)
Heizo Takenaka (Prof. Emeritus, Keio University; Prof., Toyo Univ.)

#2 Breakout Sessions[#2 Breakout Session T]
Technology and Design:
Innovation in Business• Tom Kelley (Partner, IDEO)• Takuya Kudo (Managing Director, Chief Innovation
Officer, Global Lead Data Science Innovation
Practice, Accenture)• Kinya Tagawa (CEO, Takram)• Chiaki Hayashi (Co-founder, Loftwork Inc.)[#2 Breakout Session S]
Innovation through Art: Leveraging Disruption fora Sustainable Ecosystem• Randy Channell Soei (Professor, Chado• Urasenke, Ambassador of Hospitality, Kyoto City)• Mai Miyake (Artist)• Taihei Shii (CEO, Startbahn, Inc.)• Takashi Mitachi (Senior Advisor, The Boston
Consulting Group)[#2 Breakout Session P]
Immigration Law Has Passed in Japan. What’s
Next?
• Misa Matsuzaki (CEO, WORK JAPAN Co., Ltd)• Toshihiro Menju (Managing Director, Japan Center
for International Exchange)• Jonathan Soble (Visiting Fellow, Asia PacificInitiative)• Taku Tamura (Chief Director, EDAS)• Ross Rowbury (President, Edelman Japan KK)[#2 Breakout Session B]
Reiwanomics: An Economic Policy Agenda for theNew Era• Peter Fitzgerald (President, Google Japan G.K.)• Ryuta Ibaragi (Governor, Okayama Prefecture)• Tomoe Ishizumi (CEO, PALO ALTO INSIGHT)• Joanna Pitman (Fmr Tokyo Bureau Chief, TheTimes)• Jesper Koll (Senior Advisor, WisdomTree AssetManagement, Inc.)666

#3 Breakout Sessions[#3 Breakout Session T]
Digital Media and theTransformation of Societies• Faisal J. Abbas (Editor in Chief, Arab News)• John Lagerling (CEO, Mercari U.S)
• Norihiko Sasaki (CCO, NewsPicks, Inc.)• Pallavi Aiyar (Freelance Journalist)[#3 Breakout Session S]
Disruption and Innovation in Food: Balancing
Sustainability and Gastronomy• Thomas Frebel (Head Chef, INUA)• Hiroko Sasaki (Representative Director, Chefs for
the Blue, Food Journalist)• Fumio Yonezawa (Executive Chef, THE BURN)• Takefumi Hamada (Foodie)[#3 Breakout Session P]
Global Politics in the Middle East:
Cybersecurity as a Game Changer?
• Isaac Ben-Israel (Professor, Dir Blavatnik Inter-disciplinary
Cyber Studies Centre, Tel Aviv University)• Keiko Kono (Senior Fellow, NIDS)• Nobuo Tanaka (Chair, Sasakawa Peace Foundation)• Ihsan Tolga (Researcher, NATO CCD COE)
• Motohiro Tsuchiya (Professor, Graduate School of Mediaand Governance, Keio University)• Satoshi Ikeuchi (Prof., RCAST, University of Tokyo)[#3 Breakout Session B]
Data-Driven Economies: “Data Free Flow withTrust”• Jennifer Corbett (Rio Tinto Fellow, Foundation forAustralia-Japan Studies)• Alex Moazed (Founder and CEO, APPLICO)• Amane Oshima (CEO, Mizuho–DL Financial TechnologyCo., Ltd.)• Tatsuya Terazawa (Special Adviser to the Minister,METI)• Yumiko Murakami (Head, OECD Tokyo Centre)

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Lunch Workshops on“Sustainable Innovation in Times of Disruption”

Facilitated discussions on theconference theme over bento lunches!

#4 Breakout Sessions[#4 Breakout Session T]
What’s Next for the Technovate Era? Technologyand Innovation• Isaac Ben-Israel (Professor, Dir Blavatnik Inter-disciplinary
Cyber Studies Centre, Tel Aviv Univ.)• Yuan Ding (Vice President and Dean, Cathay Capital
Chair Professor in Accounting, CEIBS)• Miku Hirano (CEO, Cinnamon Inc.)• Arun Sundararajan (Professor of Entrepreneurship andTechnology, NYU Stem School of Business)• Emre Yuasa (Director, GLOBIS Capital Partners)[#4 Breakout Session S]
How to Change Japan Utilizing theRugby World Cup and the Tokyo Olympics• Kenneth Berger (Business Dev’t & Sales, IMG Japan)• Gen Fukushima (Head Executive Office, JRFU Interface,Rugby World Cup 2019 Organising Committee)• David Hackett (Partner, Mindspring Capital)• Hiromi Kawamura (Public Relations Secretary, Tokyo
Organizing Committee, Olympic and Paralympic Games)• Martin Newman (Owner, The Newman Partnership)[#4 Breakout Session P]
Geopolitics: US-China Hegemony in Asia
• Daojiong Zha (Professor, School of International Studies
and Institute of South-South Cooperation andDevelopment, Peking University)• Abraham Denmark (Director, Asia Program, Woodrow
Wilson Int’l Center for Scholars)• Sanjay Pulipaka (Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial MuseumLibrary)• Lynn Kuok (Associate Fellow, IISS)• Satoru Mori (Prof., Faculty of Law, Hosei University)

9[#4 Breakout Session B]
Breaking the Compromise:
How the Best Managers Achieve Their SDGs &Deliver the Bottom Line• Denes Ban (General Partner, MD Asia, OurCrowd Ltd.)• Seiji Inagaki (President, Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc.)• Thierry Porté (Managing Director, J.C. Flowers & Co.
LLC)• Miki Tsusaka (Managing Director & Senior Partner, The
Boston Consulting Group)9

#5 Breakout Sessions[#5 Breakout Session T]
Technology and Happiness:
Can Hi-Tech Improve Society’s Well-Being?
• Kazuto Ataka (Professor, SFC, Keio University, Chief
Strategy Officer, Yahoo! JAPAN)• Sheena Iyengar (S.T. Lee Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School)• Yuka Shimada (HR & GA Director, Unilever Japan
Holdings K.K.)• Kazuo Yano (Fellow, Corporate Officer, Hitachi, Ltd.)[#5 Breakout Session S]
Japan’s Inbound Tourism: How to Evolve into aUnique and Sustainable Tourism Superpower?
• David Mark Atkinson (CEO, Konishi Decorative Arts &Crafts)• Shiori Ryu Harada (Founder, LandReam Inc.)• Yoshiharu Hoshino (CEO, Hoshino Resorts Co., Ltd.)• Tak Umezawa (Japan Chairman & Partner, A.T.
Kearney)[#5 Breakout Session P]
Divided Societies in the US and Europe: Prognosisfor Japan• Abdul El-Sayed (Public Health Expert & ProgressiveActivist)• Nick Herbert (MP for Arundel & South Downs,
House of Commons, UK)• Mieko Nakabayashi (Professor, School of Social
Sciences, Waseda University)• Abigail Friedman (Founder and CEO, The WisteriaGroup)[#5 Breakout Session B]
Womenomics and Gender
Equality in Entrepreneurship• Sung-Nam Cho (Prof. Sociology, Ewha Womans Univ)• Lin Kobayashi (Founder and Chair of the Board, UWCISAK Japan)• Kathy Matsui (Vice Chair, Goldman Sachs Japan)• Enora Rogers (President, Enora Rogers, Inc)
• Maiko Todoroki (President, Poppins Corporation)• Robert Alan Feldman (Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley
MUFG Securities; Prof., Tokyo University of Science)10

#6 Plenary Session: Sustainable Innovation inTimes of Disruption: Choices for a Better Society

Special Presentation: “How to Dream”
Sheena Iyengar
S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

Sheena Iyengar (S.T. Lee Professor of Business, Columbia Business School)
Tom Kelley (Partner, IDEO)
Ken Mogi (Brain Scientist)
Jesper Koll (Senior Advisor, WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc.)
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Closing Session with G1 Global Advisory Board Members

12Reception Party with BLACK Yoyo Performer & DASSAI Sake

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Sponsors: Gold Sponsors

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Sponsors: Silver, Bronze, and Individual

Silver Sponsor

Bronze Sponsor

Individual Sponsors
Mr. Tatsuo Murao
Mr. Ross Rowbury
Mr. Mamoru Taniya

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Feedback from Participants

How was theconference today?

Please evaluate
our operations.

4.6

4.7

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

Very topical, with an extraordinary variety of relevant panelswith excellent presentations and comments. An unusuallyinteresting day.
Program curation was excellent. Overall choice of speakers
was very good. Inspiring!
It was great to hear about the ideas for Japan's future fromholistic and diverse points of view, especially with the politicalplayers involved.
The sessions were very insightful. I appreciate the efforts by
the facilitators to keep the conversations raw and real.
It was not just inspiring, but there were many very concrete
ideas and actions to take. It kept me focused on the actions.
The topics were all critical and discussions were deep. Also,
the time for networking was efficient. Thank you so much forproviding inspiration and stimulation.
It’s my first time attending a global conference in Japan. I love
how every segment fits together. Everyone is welcoming, warm& intellectual towards making the world a better place.
Very well-organized, effectively managed in terms of structure,
flow, and every single detail. Thank you very much.
I was very impressed by all the staff and their hospitality.
Thank you very much managing this important event for Japan.
The lunch roundtable was a great discussion. Great mix ofperspectives!
Excellent speakers and operations. Cannot wait for next year’s
16G1 Global!

A big thank you toall of our sponsors
for your support.
We appreciate your generosity in contributing
to a stronger G1 Global Community!