[Organizer].

Yukihiro Maru
Group CEO and Representative Director, LIVERNESS Co.

D. in Applied Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo. While in graduate school, he founded LIVERNESS, a company solely for science and engineering students. He has developed Japan's first "delivery laboratory class of cutting-edge science" into a business. He operates a "knowledge manufacturing business" that combines management resources and technologies that lie dormant in universities and local communities to create the seeds of new businesses, and has over 200 projects underway through his "knowledge platform," an infrastructure that gathers knowledge from around the world. He is also an innovator who has been involved in the launch of numerous venture companies such as Euglena.

Panelist]

Yuichi Tanoue
Leader, San-in Branch Izumo Branch, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance Inc.

He joined Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance in 1995. After working in the sales department, head office planning department, etc., he arrived at the Izumo branch office in 2017. He is engaged in providing insurance and other advanced services that support safety, security, and health to customers in Masuda, Hamada, Ota, Izumo, and other regions.

Shinya Kobayashi
President and Representative Director, Farm Note Holdings, Inc.

Born in Obihiro City, Hokkaido in 1979. Graduated from Asahikawa College of Technology, majoring in mechanical engineering. Joined a machinery parts trading company, where he was in charge of expanding sales of precision machinery in the field of factory automation (FA), and founded SKYARC System Inc. in Obihiro City in 2004 (currently SKYARC Inc.). In 2004, he founded SKYARC SYSTEMS (now SKYARC Inc.) in Obihiro City, Kanagawa Prefecture, and has contributed to the spread of CMS, blog systems and internal SNS to major companies. With the desire to "create the brains of the world's agriculture," he founded Farm Note Co. in 2013 and Farm Note Holdings in 2016. In the same year, he was selected as one of the Nikkei Business "100 people who will create the next generation." In 2019, he received the "17th Japan Innovator Award, Nikkei Business Raise Award" sponsored by Nikkei BP, as well as the "5th Japan Venture Award, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award (Agricultural Venture Grand Prix)" sponsored by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

Mr. Kazuhira Matsunaga
Chairman, Masuda Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Representative Director, Matsunaga Ranch Co.

Born in Masuda City, Shimane Prefecture on June 13, 1954. After graduating from Hamada Commercial High School, he worked at a bank in Osaka, but was unable to adapt to the city and returned to the countryside. In August of that year, he and his parents established Matsunaga Farm, an agricultural cooperative. However, due to differences in management philosophy, he asked his parents to quit the ranch and became its representative in 1984. In response to the liberalization of beef, he changed the breed of cattle from Holsteins to crossbreds and Japanese black cattle, and also promoted the commercialization of compost to strengthen the management structure. In 2001, BSE was discovered in Japan and beef prices plummeted. While many people were going out of business, he expanded the scale of his business and created a new integrated breeding and fattening system with 800 cows, which became the talk of the town during a nationwide broadcast on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). In 2005, four veterinarians became independent and set up their own medical practice, and established a food residue feed conversion plant and Maple Ranch Co. Ltd. is scheduled for completion this year. He is opposed to the sixth industrialization of agriculture, and would like to aim for a business that can be run solely by the primary industry.

[Organizer].
Yosuke Miyauchi
Leave a Nest Co., Ltd.
Research and Development Division / Director, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center

During his master's and doctoral studies, he traveled to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to establish high-yield soybean cultivation technology with local researchers under the research theme of "Development of high-yield soybean cultivation technology in drylands of China. At RIVANES, he is using his research experience to conduct research on the cultivation of space soybeans and domestic wheat Yumechikara with elementary, junior high, and high school students. Currently, at the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Center, he is promoting research and development in multiple fields, such as agriculture and forestry, and forestry and livestock, under the mission of "promoting research and technology development related to food production.

[Organizer].

Hiroyuki Takahashi
Director, Knowledge Foundation Research Center, Liverness, Inc.

D. in 2009 from Yokohama City University.
He is mainly engaged in creating new research projects between industry and young researchers, such as the launch of the "Liberace Research Fund" for young researchers under 40 years old. In addition, he continues to set up the "Super Interdisciplinary Society," a place to generate new knowledge and seeds for research and development by combining individual knowledge, technology, and passion for problem solving without being bound by the framework of academia.

Panelist]

Mr. Jun Sese
President and Representative Director, Humanome Research Institute, Inc.

D. in Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. D. in Science, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, and has served as Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo, Associate Professor at Ochanomizu University, Associate Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Research Team Leader at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He specializes in the development of machine learning and mathematical statistics methods and large-scale data analysis in the life sciences. He won the KDD Cup 2001, a data mining contest of the American Society for Computing Machinery, and the Oxford Journals-JSBi Prize.

Shinnosuke Murakami
COO, Metagen Corporation / Project Assistant Professor, Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University

He joined Metagen, Inc. in 2016 and has been Executive Officer and COO since 2018. he has been engaged in research on intestinal bacteria for almost 10 years, developing stool preservation technology, building a Japanese intestinal environment database, and conducting R&D for practical application of intestinal environment control technology. He also specializes in onsen therapy studies, and in 2015 conducted a study on drinking Nagayu Onsen (Taketa City, Oita Prefecture), showing that it increases intestinal bacteria that may contribute to anti-obesity and may prevent or improve diabetes In 2018, he received the Research Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society of Onsen Climate and Physical Medicine.

Mr. Takayuki Kojima
Director and CTO, RESVO Corporation

He completed his graduate studies at Kitasato University Graduate School of Medical Sciences in 2004. Since the same year, he has been engaged in regulatory and clinical development work for new drug development and new medical device development at domestic pharmaceutical manufacturers and overseas medical device manufacturers. Currently working on the development of patient stratification markers and new drugs for the cure of schizophrenia, as well as the practical application of mental stress check technology that leads to the prevention of the onset of mental illness.