Sunday, Oct 6 - Tuesday, Oct 8, 2024, Kyoto International Conference Center《STS forum 2024 Confirmed Speakers》
As of September 10, 2024

BusinessPolicymakers

100100104A

SupamasIsarabhakdi

Bettina StarkWatzinger

Geraldine L.
Richmond

Minister, Ministry ofHigher Education,
Science, Researchand Innovation,
ThailandFederal Minister ofEducation andResearch, Germany

Commissioner, Education,
Under Secretary,
Science and Innovation, Science, Technology andDepartment of Energy Innovation, African Union
Commission (AUC)(DOE), U.S.A.

103

101

203B

Ahmad O.

MohamedBelhocine

Executive Vice
President, Technology &Innovation, Saudi
Arabian Oil Company,
Saudi Arabia

104B

104B

Geetanjali Vikram Chu Thi Thanh
Kirloskar
HaHelleKristoffersen

Chairperson &Managing Director,
Kirloskar Systems
Private Limited (JVpartner of Toyota Motor
Corporation), India

Member of the
Executive Committee,
President Asia,
TotalEnergies, France

Chairwoman, FPT
Software, Vietnam

The speakers in 2023 included:• Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan• Yasutoshi Nishimura, Minister of Economy, Tradeand Industry, Japan• Masahito Moriyama, Minister of Education,Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

Many more science and technology ministers
from various countries globally are expectedto participate in the forum this year.

104B

200

104B

Edward Screven

Taro Shimada

Hiroaki Kitano

Chief Corporate
Architect, Oracle
Corporation, U.S.A.

Representative
Director; Corporate
Officer, President andChief Executive Officer,
Toshiba Corporation,Japan

Executive Deputy
President and CTO,
Sony Group
Corporation

301

201
Wenchi Chen

Mark Liu

Chairman and CEO,VIA Technologies,
Inc., Taiwan

Former Executive
Chairman, Taiwan
Semiconductor
Manufacturing
Company, Ltd. (TSMC),
TaiwanNobel Laureates

103
Andrew Zachary
Fire103
Ada E. Yonath

Professor ofProfessor, Departments of Structural Biology,
Pathology and Genetics, Faculty of Chemistry,Weizmann Institute ofStanford University
School of Medicine, U.S.A. Science, Israel [NobelLaureate 2009[Nobel Laureate 2006
(Physiology or Medicine)] (Chemistry)]

103

201

201

Tim Hunt

Brian Kobilka

Honorary Fellow,
Asahi Kasei
Corporation, Japan[Nobel Laureate 2019
(Chemistry)]

Emeritus Group
Leader, The Francis
Crick Institute, U.K.
[Nobel Laureate 2001
(Physiology orMedicine)]

Professor, Molecular
and Cellular Physiologyand Medicine, Stanford
University School ofMedicine, U.S.A. [NobelLaureate 2012
(Chemistry)]

104A

Thomas C.
SüdhofChief Scientific Officer,Research, New EnglandBiolabs, U.S.A. [NobelLaureate 1993
(Physiology orMedicine)]

Director Emeritus, Low
Dimensional Electron
Systems, Max Planck
Institute for Solid State
Research, Germany[Nobel Laureate 1985(Physics)]

Professor, Stanford
University, U.S.A.
[Nobel Laureate 2013
(Physiology orMedicine)]

International
Organizations

104A

102

104A

Teruo Fujii

Antoine Petit

Katja Becker

Cynthia Friend

President, Keio
University, Japan

President, The
University of Tokyo,
Japan

Chairman and CEO,National Center for
Scientific Research(CNRS), France

President, German
Research Foundation(DFG), Germany

President, The Kavli
Foundation, U.S.A.

201

Rector, United Nations
University; UnderSecretary-General,
United Nations

202

101

104A

Quarraisha
Abdool Karim

Pavel Kabat

President, The World
Academy of Sciences(TWAS), South Africa

202

104B

202

Karin Markides

Mitch Davies

Eric D. Isaacs

Hasan Mandal

President and CEO,Okinawa Institute ofScience andTechnology (OIST),Japan

President, National
Research Council
Canada (NRC),
CanadaPresident, Carnegie
Institution for Science,
U.S.A.

President, Scientific andTechnological ResearchCouncil of Türkiye(TÜBİTAK), Turkey

103Mark Walport
Foreign Secretary,
The Royal Society,
U.K.

203B
Michael V.
Drake
President, Universityof California, U.S.A.

203B
Nagahiro Minato
President, Kyoto
University, Japan203B

300

Sukit
Limpijumnong

Zakri Abdul
Hamid

Chairman, Malaysian
President, National
Science and Technology Industry Government
Group for HighDevelopment Agency
Technology (MIGHT)(NSTDA), Thailand

Secretary-General,
International Human
Frontier Science
Program Organization(HFSPO)Media/
Other Organizations

Sudip S. Parikh

203A

203A

Klaus vonKlitzing

Kohei Itoh

Tshilidzi
Marwala201

Richard J.
Roberts

Research Institutes/Funding Agencies

Universities/Academies

102

104A

Akira Yoshino

Chief ExecutiveOfficer, American
Association for the
Advancement ofScience (AAAS),
U.S.A.

300
Magdalena
Skipper
Editor-in-Chief,Nature, U.K.