speaker
Dr. Steven Banerjee, CEO, Mekonos Inc.
Co-Founder & President, Ms. Madhavi Gavini, Droplette Inc.
Mr. Dan Esposito, CEO, Guardion Inc.
Dr. Brian Miller, Managing Director, uFraction8 Ltd.
FlowVIEW tek CEO, Dr. Kyle Lee
Mr. Andre Stolz, COO, EcoWorth Tech Pte. Ltd.
organizer
Ryuta Takeda, Director, Global Bridge Research Institute, Liverness, Inc.

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Mekonos Inc.
CEO, Mr. Dan Esposito

He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University where he worked at the NSF funded Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing. As an R&D Nanotechnologist at NanoLab, he focused on carbon nanotube synthesis, functionalization and device fabrication for both government and commercially available nanomaterials. As an R&D Nanotechnologist at NanoLab, he focused on carbon nanotube synthesis, functionalization and device fabrication for both government and commercially funded projects. Daniel is also the Business Lead for the related NSF I-Corps and PFI grants.
Daniel left NanoLab following the success of his business, Daniel Esposito Research and Development (formerly Herd Marketing Solutions), which focused on helping small and medium sized businesses and nonprofits examine, and build solutions for, business problems. He was brought on to start a Online Marketing Division for Digital Media Communications and has lead development projects with clients like The Kingdom of Tonga'a. Online Marketing Division for Digital Media Communications and has lead development projects with clients like The Kingdom of Tonga's Daniel has operated his business for 6 years, working with small businesses to ecommerce. Daniel has operated his business for 6 years, working with small businesses to ecommerce companies with $3-5 Million in revenue, and has managed marketing campaigns to over 100,000 people.

Droplette Inc.
Co-Founder & President, Ms. Madhavi Gavini

Biotechnology entrepreneur and mathematician who has developed a patented/patent-pending portfolio including novel therapeutics (NP-6A) designed using mathematical/computational algorithms, and drug delivery technology. Co-Founder of Novopyxis/Droplette.

Guardion Inc.
CEO, Mr. Dan Esposito

He holds a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University where he worked at the NSF funded Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing. As an R&D Nanotechnologist at NanoLab, he focused on carbon nanotube synthesis, functionalization and device fabrication for both government and commercially available nanomaterials. As an R&D Nanotechnologist at NanoLab, he focused on carbon nanotube synthesis, functionalization and device fabrication for both government and commercially funded projects. Daniel is also the Business Lead for the related NSF I-Corps and PFI grants.
Daniel left NanoLab following the success of his business, Daniel Esposito Research and Development (formerly Herd Marketing Solutions), which focused on helping small and medium sized businesses and nonprofits examine, and build solutions for, business problems. He was brought on to start a Online Marketing Division for Digital Media Communications and has lead development projects with clients like The Kingdom of Tonga'a. Online Marketing Division for Digital Media Communications and has lead development projects with clients like The Kingdom of Tonga's Daniel has operated his business for 6 years, working with small businesses to ecommerce. Daniel has operated his business for 6 years, working with small businesses to ecommerce companies with $3-5 Million in revenue, and has managed marketing campaigns to over 100,000 people.

uFraction8 Ltd.
Managing Director, Dr. Brian Miller

With previous experience working as an industrial automation and controls engineer, he brings experience to the team of specifying, creating and commissioning of industrial equipment to uFraction8. With previous experience working as an industrial automation and controls engineer, he brings experience to the team of specifying, creating and commissioning of industrial equipment to heavy industries. Working towards regulatory compliance and implementation of quality management systems will be simplified by utilisation of his experience. In addition, significant design and development can be done in house saving on time and cost.

Applying his experience and insight during the initial invention of uFraction8's technology has also allowed for manufacturing concerns to be Working closely with a key supplier, uniquely capable of producing the high precision parts required for the thousands of microfluidic components required, CoG's has been kept within tight economic constraints. Working closely with a key supplier, uniquely capable of producing the high precision parts required for the thousands of microfluidic components required, CoG's have been kept within tight economic constraints.

FlowVIEW tek
CEO, Dr. Kyle Lee

 

EcoWorth Tech Pte. Ltd.
COO, Mr. Andre Stolz

Mr. Andre Stolz has 16 years experience in Portfolio Innovation, Product Supply and Engineering. He's an expert in innovation leadership, supply chain, manufacturing processes and product program leadership, and brings an extensive understanding of FMCG businesses from Braun/Oral-B and Procter & Gamble. He also brings significant experience in managing multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural diverse teams, specifically in Asia. He has been embedded in the Singapore Innovation ecosystem since 2008, and worked in Asia since 2005.

＜Organizer Profile
Ryuta Takeda
Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Global Bridge Institute
chief

After graduating from International Christian University, he studied for his degree at Ohio State University in the United States. D. in 2011 after studying the structure of plant pathogen viroids. D. in 2011. After joining RIVANES, he served as the General Manager of the Human Resource Development Division before assuming the position of Director of the Global Bridge Research Institute. He has contributed to the development of overseas strategies for each of RIVANESS' businesses, especially the "TECH PLANTER" seed acceleration program that discovers and nurtures ventures in the deep technology field. He has a wide network of contacts with key players in the VB ecosystem in Asian countries and the United States. Since 2011, he has also served as President of the U.S. subsidiary, Leave a Nest America Inc.

speaker
Singularity University, Program Manager - SU Ventures Ms. Molly Pyle
Deep Science Ventures, Head of Talent　Ms. Santa Astratova
Mr. Kelvin Ong, CEO, Focustech Ventures
Mr. Ryusuke Komura, Program Manager, Venture Cafe Tokyo
organizer
Ryuta Takeda, Director, Global Bridge Research Institute, Liverness, Inc.

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Ms. Molly Pyle
Singularity University
Program Manager - SU Ventures

Molly serves as the Program Manager of SU Ventures at Singularity University, where she helps support and scale startups using exponential tech to tackle the world's most pressing problems. She is passionate about exploring the role technology plays in advancing social progress and human Prior to Singularity University, she worked for the Institute of International Education on the TechWomen program, a State Department initiative bringing women leaders in STEM from 20 countries to Silicon Valley for professional development and entrepreneurship training.

Ms. Santa Astratova
Deep Science Ventures
Ecosystem Development Manager

Previously business mentor at Australia's leading business incubator, Cicada Innovations. Managed a med-tech commercialisation training program helping 9 companies raise over 1TP4 T13M in private and public investment over two years.

Mr. Kelvin Ong
Focustech Ventures
CEO

CEO of FocusTech Ventures, which focuses on investing in seed-stage technology ventures, Mr. Huang has over 15 years of experience in precision engineering and is an Executive Director of Focus Tech Holdings, a global hard disk driver component manufacturer. a global hard disk driver component manufacturer. He will provide an update on the current state of technology startups in Singapore.

Mr. Ryusuke Komura/ 小村隆祐 氏
Venture Cafe Tokyo
program manager

Graduated from Doshisha University, Faculty of Economics, and Babson College F. W. Graduate School of Business (MBA). After graduating from university, he worked for a manufacturer IT company, mainly in account sales in the mass media industry and in a project to launch a cloud service related to video transmission. He has worked on next-generation management development for large companies and organizational development for startups, while developing content and educational materials in the field of entrepreneurship. He is also a founding member of Binnovative, a non-profit organization based in Boston.

＜Organizer Profile
Ryuta Takeda
Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Global Bridge Institute
chief

After graduating from International Christian University, he studied for his degree at Ohio State University in the United States. D. in 2011 after studying the structure of plant pathogen viroids. D. in 2011. After joining RIVANES, he served as the General Manager of the Human Resource Development Division before assuming the position of Director of the Global Bridge Research Institute. He has contributed to the development of overseas strategies for each of RIVANESS' businesses, especially the "TECH PLANTER" seed acceleration program that discovers and nurtures ventures in the deep technology field. He has a wide network of contacts with key players in the VB ecosystem in Asian countries and the United States. Since 2011, he has also served as President of the U.S. subsidiary, Leave a Nest America Inc.

speaker
Communications Director, New Harvest Ms. Erin Kim
Mr. Kazumichi Kawashima, Senior Advisor, Integriculture Inc.
Dr. Tatsuya Shimizu, Professor and Director, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University
Professor Yayoi Obata, Faculty of Applied Biological Sciences, Tokyo University of Agriculture

organizer
Mr. Yuki Hanyu, Representative Director, Integriculture Inc.

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Ms. Erin Kim
New Harvest
Communications Director

Erin has been working in cellular agriculture since 2014, when she started out at as one of New Harvest's first volunteers while completing a J.D. at the Erin's long held interests in futurism, sustainability, global catastrophic risk mitigation - and love of food led her to the discovery of animal products made without animals. - As Communications Director, she brings a down-to-earth approach to translating developments in New Harvest's As Communications Director, she brings a down-to-earth approach to translating developments in New Harvest's research into accessible content in print and on the web, fundraising communications, media relations, social media, and community outreach. social media, and community outreach.

Mr. Kazuhiro Kawashima
Senior Advisor, Integriculture, Inc.

D (Agriculture) from Hiroshima University in 2012. He has been a Baylor College of Medicine Fellow, a JSPS (DC1, PD) Fellow, and a Co-Lab member of the Citizen Science organization Co-Lab, He co-founded the Citizen Science Organization Co-Lab, Shojinmeat Project, and Integrative Culture Co.

Mr. Tatsuya Shimizu
Professor and Director, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University

Born in 1968, he graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine in 1992 and worked as a cardiologist at Saiseikai Central Hospital and JR Tokyo General Hospital. In 1999, he started regenerative medicine research using cell sheet technology at the Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Women's Medical University, and succeeded in creating three-dimensional myocardial tissue that beats at the level of the naked eye. In addition to the application of 3D tissue construction technology to regenerative medicine and drug discovery models, he aims to expand the technology to cell agriculture.

Mr. Yayoi Obata
Professor, Department of Bioscience, Faculty of Life Science, Tokyo University of Agriculture
D. degree in Animal Science from Tokyo University of Agriculture in March 1999. From his student days to the present, he has been engaged in research on oogenesis in mammals; in 2016, he developed a culture system to produce mature oocytes from germ cells of mouse fetuses, creating a new platform for reproductive engineering technology. The goal is to elucidate the mechanism of oocyte formation, which is the root of life, and to develop technologies that enable the use of oocytes.

＜Organizer Profile
Mr. Yuki Hanyu
Representative Director, Integriculture Inc.

In 2010, he graduated from Oxford University with a PhD in Chemistry, and after working at Tohoku University and Toshiba, he founded the "Shojinmeat Project" in 2014 with the aim of realizing cellular agriculture. In 2015, he founded and became the representative director of Integral Culture Co.

speaker

• Shoei Iriyama, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Waseda University
• Shuichiro Takahashi, President and COO, Liverness, Inc.

organizer

• Mariko Kanno, Human Resources Development Division, Liverness, Inc.

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Mr. Shoei Iriyama
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Waseda University

D. from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Management in 2008. D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business in 2008. D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Business in 2008, and has been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Business since 2013. He has published articles in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and other major international management journals.

Shuichiro Takahashi
Representative Director, President and COO, Liverness, Inc.

He has participated in RIVANESS since its establishment. After completing graduate school, while continuing his research activities as a faculty member at the University of Tokyo, he established a research institute at RIVANESS and built the foundation of its R&D business. In 2010, he was appointed as Representative Director.

＜Organizer Profile
Mariko Kanno
Human Resource Development Division, LIVERNESS Co.

Graduated from the Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba. After studying marine ecology, he joined RIVANES Corporation, where he was an intern. He is the editor-in-chief of "incu-be", a research career support magazine for university and graduate students, and is involved in the development of many training programs for researchers and working professionals, as well as the development and operation of human resource development and recruitment programs within RIVANES.

speaker
Kimio Konishi, Associate Professor, Multicultural Education Course, Tokyo Gakugei University
Kenichi Masaki, Associate Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University, Arts and Sports Sciences
Michito Miyamoto, Ph.D. Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Shogo Sato, Representative Director, QREATOR AGENT Co.
organizer
Daigo Fujita

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Kodai Konishi, Associate Professor, Multicultural Education Course, Tokyo Gakugei University
Born in 1975. D. in Social Anthropology. After working as a researcher at the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, currently Associate Professor at Tokyo Gakugei University. Director of the Institute for Research on Human Variants. Based on social anthropological findings, his research focuses on human coexistence and communication through performance, sound, and vision. He is also involved in community development practices using performing arts and photography in India and Japan. He has co-edited "Field Photography" (Kokinshoin) and "55 Chapters to Travel in India" (Akashi Shoten, forthcoming).

Kenichi Masaki, Associate Professor, Tokyo Gakugei University, Arts and Sports Sciences
Born in Tokyo in 1970. Deputy Director of the Research Institute for Weirdoanthropology. After graduating from Tokyo Gakugei University, he worked at a design office before assuming his current position. He is involved in practical research on "media expression education" with a focus on design and art education, and is a vice director of the NPO Tokyo Gakugei University Children's Future Research Institute, a director of the NPO Artful Action, and a member of the Picture Book Society of Japan. He is involved in corporate VI planning, advertising, character and web design, and is the author of the picture book "carnimal. ［Laboratory Website]http://www.u-gakugei.ac.jp/~kenichi/index.html

Michito Miyamoto, Ph.D. Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
Born in Tokyo in 1989. While studying neurophysiology in the Department of Physics, he writes mainly criticism. He is co-author of "Literature after the Great East Japan Earthquake" and "Visual Communication" (both published by Nan'un-do). He is also a contributor to "Eureka" and other publications. He has written mainly on open science, visual expression, and science fiction under the theme of "creating a new scientific culture. In addition, he also focuses on cooperation in other fields, such as manga and stage productions, etc. Since 2017, he has been a senior researcher at the Institute for Heteroanthropology. ［Personal HP.]http://dohjin.tumblr.com/

Shogo Sato, Representative Director, QREATOR AGENT Co.
Representative Director, FIREBUG Corporation / Representative Director, QREATOR AGENT Corporation Graduated from the Department of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University, and joined Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. in 2005. He has worked as a manager for Ninety-Nine, London Boots No. 1 and No. 2, COWCOW, Robert, and others, and produced various new businesses such as Papa Park, a project for dad comedians, and Laugh School, a workshop school for elementary school students. In February 2015, he became independent and launched QREATOR AGENT, a PR agency for executives and cultural figures, and has done PR work for over 200 people, including high school girl entrepreneur Rika Shiiki and Yoichi Ochiai, an assistant professor at Tsukuba University In February 2016, he launched FIREBUG, a content production company, He also produces content for marketing for Mercari and MERY, as well as TV shows, AbemaTV, and LINELIVE.

＜Organizer Profile
Daigo Fujita, LIVERNESS Co.
Science Education Producer
Born in Onomichi, Hiroshima, raised in Nagareyama, Chiba, and currently lives in Yokohama.
A lover of science and nature since childhood, he earned his Fuji Chapter in the Boy Scouts of America and tried his hand at amateur radio, electronics, and theater lighting while at Higashi Katsushika High School.
Upon entering Tokyo Institute of Technology, he was involved in the establishment of Miraikan volunteers under Director Mamoru Mohri, and founded and served as the first representative of Tokyo Tech ScienceTechno, a science event circle. He also served as the executive director of Volunteer Messe, which brought together museum volunteers from all over Japan. He joined RIVANES shortly after its founding and has been involved in educational development in a variety of fields. In line with RIVANES' motto of "turning familiar mysteries into interest," he has been involved in a space education project using the International Space Station, robotics classes for elementary school students, "Omoro Fushigi Labo" in collaboration with Yoshimoto comedians, supervised the planning of the Real Robot Battle for Nippon Television Network Corporation, and developed educational programs for nearly 100 other companies. In addition to programs that allow a wide range of people to experience the appeal of science and technology, he is also involved in the development of educational programs for nearly 100 other companies, transforming them into education that encourages exploration and the creation of new knowledge. Currently, he is also supporting the development of educational curricula for high schools and universities in order to nurture the next generation that will lead the 21st century. Director of the Center for Liberness Education Research Center, Inc. / Part-time lecturer at Tokyo Institute of Technology / Founder of ScienceTecno, Tokyo Tech