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Yukio Noguchi

Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University

Adam Back

CEO, Blockstream

Tadge Dryja

Co-author of the Lightning Network Whitepaper

Martti Malmi

Developer, Nostr / Iris

Olaoluwa Osuntokun

Co-Founder & CTO, Lightning Labs

Junichi Kanda

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Noriyuki Hirosue

CEO, Bitbank, Inc.

Yusuke Otsuka

Executive Director, Director of web3Cloud Business Division, Coincheck, Inc.

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

Research Professor, Georgetown University/Virginia Tech

Keita Nakamura

CEO, Mercoin, Inc.

Giacomo Zucco

Director, PlanB Network

Christian Moss

Co-Founder/Head of R&D, ZBD

Samson Mow

CEO, JAN3

Christian Decker

Core Tech Engineer/Greenlight lead, Blockstream

Keisuke Hayashi

Deputy Director, Japan Financial Services Agency

Tomoatsu Onishi

Deputy General Manager, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Kenji Tateiwa

Founder and CEO, Agile Energy X, Inc.

Timothy Aron

Lawyer, TEA Advisory / Tether / Bitfinex Securities

Shunichi Kimuro

Venture Partner, DG Daiwa Ventures

Koichi Kano

CEO, SBI Zodia Custody Co., Ltd.

Hideaki Kudo

Representative Director, Laser Digital Japan

Nicolas Dorier

Founder/Maintainer, BTCPay Server

Koji Higashi

Co-Founder/CEO, Diamond Hands

Oleg Mikhalsky

Partner, Fulgur Ventures

Batara Eto

Founding Partner, East Ventures

Hiroyuki Mihara

CEO, Cygnos Capital

Mario Flamenco

The Bitcoin Office El Salvador

niftynei

Founder, Base58/Core-lightning contributor

Teruko Neriki

Fulgur Ventures Japan/Co-Organizer of Bitcoin Tokyo

Shigeyuki Azuchi

CTO, Chaintope

Luke Dashjr

Maintainer, Bitcoin Knots CTO/Chairman, OCEAN

Win Ko Ko Aung

Oppressions Associate, Human Rights Foundation

Calvin Kim

Developer, --/Utreexo/Opensats grantee

Umi Miyahara

Business Development Lead, Breez

Casey Rodarmor

Creator, Ordinals

Yuya Ogawa

Co-Founder/CTO, Diamond Hands

Daniel Alexis

CEO, Wallet of Satoshi

Igor Korsakov

Co-Founder/Lead Developer, BlueWallet

Jack Lee

Founder/Managing Partner, HCM Capital

Kishin Kato

CEO, Trustless Services

Anant Tapadia

CEO, BitHyve

Amin Azmoudeh

Co-CEO, pafin Inc.

Yuya Hara

Attorney at Law, AZX Professionals Group / AZX Law Offices

Joe Miyamoto

Programmer, bitFlyer

Jonathan Underwood

Chief Bitcoin Officer, bitbank, inc./Maintainer, BitcoinJS Project

Michael

CTO, Boltz

Bradley Loewen

Interviewer, Beyond The Price

Yoichiro Sato

President, Wisteria House Tokyo

Federico Tenga

R&D Strategist, Bitfinex

Justin Dhingra

Chief Strategy Officer, Crypto Garage, Inc.

Thibaut Le Guilly

Senior Technical Researcher, Crypto Garage

Michael Levin

Head of Product Growth, Lightning Labs

Jesse Knutson

Head of Operations, Bitfinex Securities

Yusuke Shimizu

Engineer, PeerSwap/Elements PJs

Givers

Students

Eriko Suzuki

Founder CEO, Kind Capital

Kani Munidasa

CO-FOUNDER & CEО, Code Chrysalis
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Yukio Noguchi

Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University

1940年、東京に生まれる。 1963年、東京大学工学部卒業。 1964年、大蔵省入省。 1972年、エール大学Ph.D.（経済学博士号）を取得。 一橋大学教授、東京大学教授（先端経済工学研究センター長）、スタンフォード大学客員教授、早稲田大学大学院ファイナンス研究科教授などを経て、一橋大学名誉教授。専門は日本経済論。

Adam Back

CEO, Blockstream

Co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, Dr. Adam Back, invented Hashcash, the proof-of-work algorithm cited by Satoshi Nakamoto in the Bitcoin whitepaper, as the future basis for its mining function. Throughout his two-decade-long vocation as an applied cryptographer and security architect, he has held senior roles with a number of technology companies, including Microsoft, EMC, PI, VMware, and Zero-Knowledge Systems, as well as advised many more companies on cryptography and peer-to-peer finance. Dr. Adam Back holds a computer science Ph.D. in distributed systems from the University of Exeter.

Tadge Dryja

Co-Founder & CTO, Lightning Labs

Co-author of Lightning Network, author of Discreet Log Contracts and Utreexo. Currently working on Utreexo, scaling, bitcoin education.

Martti Malmi

Developer, Nostr / Iris

Bitcoin developer in 2009-2011. Currently working on Nostr, the decentralized social protocol.

Olaoluwa Osuntokun

Co-Founder & CTO, Lightning Labs

Olaoluwa received his B.S and M.S in CS from UCSB. During his graduate studies he focused on the field of applied cryptography, specifically encrypted search. Now serving at the CTO of Lightning Labs, his primary focus lies in designing and building private, scalable off-chain blockchain protocols, such as Lightning. He also wears many hats in the Bitcoin developer community, serving as: the maintainer of btcd, a member of the BIP editor team, BOLT specification collaborator, and the author of several BIPs.

神田 潤一

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Cabinet Office

Noriyuki Hirosue

CEO, Bitbank, Inc.

Confident in the future of crypto asset revolutionizing finance, Noriyuki Hirosue founded Bitbank, Inc. in 2014. While firmly establishing itself as one of the top crypto asset exchanges in Japan, Bitbank has also founded crypto-related media and education courses and businesses for professionals. Hirosue has constantly pushed for the development of the crypto asset industry. He currently serves as the vice president of the Board of Directors of Japan Virtual and Crypto asset Exchange Association (JVCEA) and the director of the Japan Crypto Asset Business Association (JCBA). As a serial entrepreneur and leader in the IT industry, Hirosue was formerly at Nomura Securities and was also the managing director of GMO Internet, Inc. as well as the CEO of Gala Inc. and Comuca, Inc.

Yusuke Otsuka

Executive Director, Director of web3Cloud Business Division, Coincheck, Inc.

M.S. in Physics from Waseda University. Responsible for sales, business strategy, and development design of IT solutions for B2B at Nexway Inc. Joined RejuPress, Inc. (renamed Coincheck, Inc. in April 2017); appointed as Director in February 2014; appointed as Executive Officer in April 2018 when Coincheck Corporation became a subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. and oversees marketing and business development. After serving as Executive Officer in April 2021, he has been Executive Officer and General Manager of the web3Cloud Business Division since September 2023. He is in charge of web3Cloud business including Coincheck OnRamp, an embedded crypto asset purchase service.

Shin'ichiro Matsuo

Research Professor, Georgetown University/Virginia Tech

Dr. Shin’ichiro Matsuo is a leading expert in cryptography and information security, currently serving as a Research Professor at both Virginia Tech and Georgetown University. They also hold the position of Director at the Cyber SMART Center, a collaborative research center funded by the National Science Foundation.
Since 1997, Dr. Matsuo has been deeply involved in the design and implementation of electronic cash protocols through a collaboration between the Bank of Japan and NTT. Their expertise extends to various aspects of cryptographic protocol design, including timestamping and electronic voting.
In 2018, Dr. Matsuo served as the Program Chair for Scaling Bitcoin Tokyo and was a member of the organizing committee for Scaling Bitcoin. They have also been the Program Chair for IEEE ICBC (2022) and have contributed to numerous academic conferences on blockchain and cryptographic assets as a program committee member.
Dr. Matsuo is a co-chair of the Blockchain Governance Initiative Network (BGIN) and a co-founder of the international blockchain research network BSafe.network. Dr. Matsuo served as the Head of Delegation for Japan in ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC27/WG2 and the Project Leader for ISO TC307. Additionally, Dr. Matsuo is involved in various advisory boards and working groups, including the Cabinet Office’s “Trusted Web Promotion Council,” the Financial Services Agency’s research group on “Digital and Decentralized Finance,” the Digital Agency’s “Web3.0 Study Group” and “DIW Advisory Board,” and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s advisory board for projects related to “Web3.0 and Blockchain for Digital Public Goods.”

Keita Nakamura

CEO, Mercoin, Inc.

Keita participated in several internships as a university student, helping launch a programming education service at CyberAgent and introducing a sentiment analysis platform for video services at DeNA. He later joined Mercari’s research and development organization—known as R4D—as an intern. Upon graduating from university in 2018, he joined Mercari full time as a blockchain engineer and was involved in the MercariX project at R4D. Keita then moved to Merpay, where he served as a PM on teams working on distributed ledger development, AML systems, and credit design. In April 2021, he moved to Mercoin as the director of the Product Division. After working as Chief Product Officer, he assumed his current role as Representative Director, Chief Executive Officer of Mercoin in April 2023. Starting in January 2024, he assumed a concurrent role as Vice President, Chief Product Officer (Japan Region).

Giacomo Zucco

Director, PlanB Network

Christian Moss

Co-Founder/Head of R&D, ZBD

BTC game developer and tinkerer, co-founder of ZBD.gg and head of R&D
Interested in Bitcoin, NOSTR, Lightning network, Game development.

Samson Mow

CEO, JAN3

Samson Mow is the CEO of JAN3, a Bitcoin technology company focused on accelerating hyperbitcoinization. Samson is best known for his work with El Salvador’s Bitcoin initiatives, and his efforts in nation-state Bitcoin adoption around the world. As one of the top executives in the Bitcoin ecosystem, his expertise spans from running one of the largest exchanges and mining pools when he was the COO of BTCC, to guiding the development and deployment of Bitcoin infrastructure as the CSO of Blockstream.

Christian Decker

Core Tech Engineer/Greenlight lead, Blockstream

I work on Core Lightning, the LN specification and more recently the hosted non-custodial LNaaS offering Greenlight

Keisuke Hayashi

Deputy Director, Japan Financial Services Agency

I am invoved in monitoring VASPs in Japan and interpreting and applying laws and regulations related to legal issues of VASPs and non-VASPs.

Tomoatsu Onishi

Deputy General Manager, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Mitsui is an investor of Crusoe Energy in US and we recognize that the bitcoin mining could be the decarbonization solution.

Kenji Tateiwa

Founder and CEO, Agile Energy X, Inc.

Kenji received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nuclear engineering from Kyoto University and has an MBA from Stanford University.
Since joining Tokyo Electric Power Company in 1996, he has worked in the nuclear division, designing next-generation nuclear reactor and spearheading an international nuclear new build project in Texas.
After coping with the Fukushima Nuclear Accident in 2011, Kenji proposed an “Antifragile” strategy aimed at revitalizing TEPCO.
The Antifragile strategy, including a concept to utilize Bitcoin mining as a flexible power demand that could harness “wasted” renewable energy and could optimize the power grid system, culminated in his founding of Agile Energy X in 2022.

Timothy Aron

Lawyer, TEA Advisory/Tether/Bitfinex Securities

Lawyer specialising in regulation of financial markets and crypto assets.

Shunichi Kimuro

Venture Partner, DG Daiwa Ventures

Shun is a Venture Partner at DG Daiwa Ventures, leading investments in Bitcoin, blockchain, and security startups.

Koichi Kano

CEO, SBI Zodia Custody Co., Ltd.

Koichi Kano /CEO of SBI Zodia Custody　
A seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in trading and organizational management at foreign financial institutions, Kano joined SBI Digital Asset Holdings in 2020. In his role as Head of Crypto, he played a key part in the negotiations to establish the joint venture with Zodia Custody. Upon its launch in April 2023, he became the CEO of the newly formed SBI Zodia Custody entity.

Hideaki Kudo

Representative Director, Laser Digital Japan

He holds a Ph.D. in physics and had worked at research institutes in Japan and abroad. In 2007, he joined Nomura Asset Management, where he had been involved in research analysis, quant/analytics, and equity investments in Japanese and foreign equities.
From 2019, he started a project at Nomura Holdings to commercialize digital assets, mainly security tokens. He is in his current position at Laser Digital Japan, which was established in 2023.

Nicolas Dorier

Founder/Maintainer, BTCPay Server

Nicolas is a prominent bitcoin developer, best known as the founder of BTCPay Server. He also developed NBitcoin, a comprehensive bitcoin library for .NET, and NBXplorer, an efficient lightweight blockchain explorer. Nicolas is a staunch advocate for decentralization and financial sovereignty, principles that drive his contributions to the bitcoin ecosystem.

Koji Higashi

Co-Founder/CEO, Diamond Hands

Oleg Mikhalsky

Partner, Fulgur Ventures

Batara Eto

Founding Partner, East Ventures

Batara is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist. As a co-founder of Mixi, Japan’s pioneering social networking service, he has demonstrated a strong ability to innovate and shape the digital communication landscape. His leadership at East Ventures, a leading venture capital firm supporting startups in Indonesia and Japan, highlights his strategic vision and expertise in driving technological advancement.

Hiroyuki Mihara

CEO, Cygnos Capital

Hiroyuki graduated from Waseda University and joined Rakuten, Inc. in the same
year. He was involved in the development of Rakuten Ichiba, the biggest Japanese
e-commerce platform. July 2014, He then joined bitbank, Inc., one of the biggest
crypto exchange in Japan as COO.

Hiroyuki founded Cygnos Capital, which provides Bitcoin mining service, Bitcoin-denominated / regulated hedge fund and consulting service in Singapore to aim to provide comprehensive Bitcoin services to Japanese HNWs and corporations.

Mario Flamenco

The Bitcoin Office El Salvador

Developing Projects (education, investment)

niftynei

Founder, Base58/Core-lightning contributor

nifty is a long time core lightning contributor turned brain hacker; she runs btc++ the premier open source dev conference for bitcoin and Base58 the first engineering school built on a bitcoin standard.

Teruko Neriki

Fulgur Ventures Japan/Co-Organizer of Bitcoin Tokyo

Leading Fulgur’s Japan initiatives since 2021. Creator and maintainer of lostinbitcoin.jp. Translator of “The Bitcoin Standard”, “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin”, “The Little Bitcoin Book”, and “Check Your Financial Privilege”.

Shigeyuki Azuchi

CTO, Chaintope

Develop Ruby libraries related to Bitcoin (bitcoinrb, bech32, bip-shnorr, etc..) and distribute technical post (Blog: https://techmedia-think.hatenablog.com/, GBEC: https://goblockchain.network/category/movie/).
Co-author of “Introduction to Blockchain Technology” and supervising translator of “Mastering Lightning Network.”

Luke Dashjr

Maintainer, Bitcoin Knots CTO/Chairman, OCEAN

Most tenured Bitcoin Core developer, recently founded OCEAN to solve problems with mining centralisation

Win Ko Ko Aung

Oppressions Associate, Human Rights Foundation

Win is the Oppressions Associate at the Human Rights Foundation’s Financial Freedom and a Human Rights Fellow at the Bitcoin Policy Institute. He was born and raised in Myanmar (Burma). Win is a strong advocate for disruptive innovation, focusing on leveraging technology to drive social change and financial inclusion. He was an entrepreneur and a best-selling author in Myanmar (Burma) in 2020, and he had first-hand experience using Bitcoin during the 2021 Myanmar military coup. He is currently studying topics centered around Bitcoin, refugees and immigrants, and human rights defenders.

Calvin Kim

Developer, --/Utreexo/Opensats grantee

Open source Bitcoin developer based in Seoul, Korea. Working on the Utreexo project, which aims to lower the barrier to running nodes and help with block validation optimizations which will help with scaling Bitcoin.

Umi Miyahara

Business Development Lead, Breez

Umi leads Business Development for Breez, a leading Lightning-as-a-Service company turning bitcoin into currency of the internet – opening apps and services around the world to non-custodial, peer-to-peer payments over the Lightning Network with Breez’s end-to-end SDK.

Born and raised in the US, Umi began her career in traditional finance in Toyko, working at UBS and JPMorgan. It was from there she went on to embark on a career driving business development at a variety of high-growth startups around the world such as Wise, before ultimately paving her way to a role in bitcoin at Breez.

An advocate for financial independence as a fundamental human right, Umi passionately believes in bitcoin’s pivotal role in reshaping the global economic landscape. At the heart of her mission is fostering diversity within the bitcoin space, ensuring it becomes an inclusive hub for all to contribute, learn, build, and collectively drive bitcoin adoption. If you are looking to build Lightning into your app, platform, or service – Umi is the go-to source for insights.

Casey Rodarmor

Creator, Ordinals

Creator of ordinals, inscriptions, and runes.

Yuya Ogawa

Co-Founder/CTO, Diamond Hands

We are developing mainly applications utilizing the Lightning Network to promote bitcoin in Japan.

Daniel Alexis

CEO, Wallet of Satoshi

Daniel is the visionary CEO of Wallet of Satoshi, a leading player in the Bitcoin Lightning ecosystem renowned for its user-friendly interface and commitment to making Bitcoin accessible to everyone.

Daniel’s goal is to empower users worldwide to use Bitcoin in everyday life and accelerate the adoption of Bitcoin globally by enabling its usage in retail environments.

Igor Korsakov

Co-Founder/Lead Developer, BlueWallet

https://github.com/overtorment/

Jack Lee

Founder/Managing Partner, HCM Capital

Early investor to Unchained Capital, SwanBitcoin, Satoshi Energy with Bitcoin focus, and in early days, investor to DCG, Galaxy Digital, Abra, Figure Markets,…etc. website: https://hcm.capital

Kishin Kato

CEO, Trustless Services K.K.

Founder of Trustless Services K.K. where he develops experimental products and provides consulting services, with a strong focus on the Lightning Network.

Anant Tapadia

CEO, BitHyve

@anant_tap

Amin Azmoudeh

Co-CEO, pafin Inc.

pafin operates cryptact, the leading cryptocurrency profit and loss calculation service and defitact, visualize, analyze and manage your DeFi assets, NFTs and transactions through a highly intuitive and interactive interface. provides tech-driven services in the areas of crypto, finance and investment. Amin joined Goldman Sachs Tokyo as the sole technologist of Tokyo’s GSPS team, a principal strategies unit managing the firm’s capital. In 2005 he changed careers to become a financial analyst with GSPS. He promoted to Managing Director in 2014. He found pafin (ex Cryptact) in 2017 with colleagues. from the University of Maryland with a BS in Computer Science and a BA in Japanese.

Yuya Hara

Attorney at Law, AZX Professionals Group / AZX Law Offices

Be part of a law firm that specializes in startups.
Supporting startups in building their business models, fundraising, M&A, and IPOs.
Currently supporting bitcoin startups in Japan.
https://www.azx.co.jp/en

Joe Miyamoto

Programmer, bitFlyer

Bitcoin OSS developer
working for Japanese cryptocurrency exchange as a developer

Jonathan Underwood

Chief Bitcoin Officer, bitbank, inc./Maintainer, BitcoinJS Project

I am the Chief Bitcoin Officer at bitbank. I’ve been working with them since 2015 on wallet security. I am also the lead maintainer of BitcoinJS.

Michael

CTO, Boltz

I am Michael, co-founder of Boltz. We offer atomic swaps between Lightning, Liquid and the Bitcoin mainchain. The plan is become a fast, reliable and trustless bridge for the up-and-coming Bitcoin layer 2 ecosystem.

Bradley Loewen

Interviewer, Beyond The Price

Based in Tokyo, Bradley covers Bitcoin adoption in East Asia through his podcast Beyond The Price. Having grown up in Japan with some time spent in Europe and North America, his focus is how Bitcoin impacts (and is shaped by) wildly different cultures.

He previously interviewed project founders for the Japanese crypto media company CoinPost. Outside of Bitcoin, Bradley has worked as a corporate translator and adventure tourism facilitator.

Yoichiro Sato

President, Wisteria House Tokyo

Public Affairs consultant, former Japanese diplomat. Advising Japanese corporates, start-up companies, and international organizations.

Federico Tenga

R&D Strategist, Bitfinex

R&D at Bitfinex and head of the Bitfinex’s RGB team.

Justin Dhingra

Chief Strategy Officer, Crypto Garage, Inc.

Responsible for Crypto Garage’s institutional crypto financial service business providing comprehensive solutions for brokerage, custody, OTC trading and settlement.

Thibaut Le Guilly

Senior Technical Researcher, Crypto Garage

I’m a technical researcher, with a background in distributed systems. In the last few years, I’ve worked on implementations and specifications of Discreet Log Contracts (DLC) at Crypto Garage. I actively maintain the rust-dlc library which is currently the main library in used to implement DLC in practice.

Michael Levin

Head of Product Growth, Lightning Labs

I’m a product manager focused on growth at Lightning Labs. I work on a variety of products at Lightning Labs primarily focused on Lightning Loop and Lightning Terminal. I’m passionate about growing the Lightning Network and bringing bitcoin to billions.

Jesse Knutson

Head of Operations, Bitfinex Securities

Jesse Knutson is Head of Operations at Bitfinex Securities, a regulated security token platform offering issuers and traders access to capital and tokenized securities. Bitfinex Securities was the first global digital asset issuance and trading platform licensed in the AIFC and also the first to be licensed under El Salvador’s new digital asset regime. Jesse started his career in traditional finance, having worked at global investment banks, including Barclays and Macquarie. In addition to his role as Taiwan Head of Equity Capital Solutions, Jesse was also a founding member of Macquarie’s digital asset working group and deal lead on the firm’s first equity investment into the Bitcoin mining space. Prior to joining Bitfinex Securities, Jesse was VP of Financial Products at Blockstream, where he worked on developing and distributing financial products built on Bitcoin and backed by Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining. Jesse is also the host of the Bitcoin Capital and Blockstream Talk podcasts.

Yusuke Shimizu

Engineer, PeerSwap/Elements PJs

エンジニアとして、Lightning Networkのチャネル流動性管理プロトコルであるpeerswapの開発を中心に、elements projectのコミッターとして貢献しています

Givers

Students

Givers is a students association for international volunteering. It is based in Sophia University, Tokyo and currently has more than 100 members. At Givers, our focus spans three core pillars: nature preservation, animal welfare, and supporting underprivileged children. In Japan, we engage in monthly beach cleanups, facilitate adoptions for shelter animals facing imminent euthanasia, and offer companionship to children navigating poverty and bullying. We also participate in multiple events to raise funds and use them for bigger projects.

Givers’ works and achievements have reached multiple medias such as the Asahi News Paper, and websites such as Mirasus SDGs, Japan Times, and Find Sophia (Links below at the bottom).

Our flagship initiative, the El Salvador project, is our cornerstone endeavor. Annually in March, we collaborate with two elementary schools and one high school in the Apaneca municipality, and neighboring communities around El Zonte beach.The core of this project’s mission revolves around empowering children in impoverished areas of El Salvador, offering them the necessary tools and opportunities to envision and achieve their goals. We aspire to provide insights into how their lives could significantly improve through education and skill development.

Founded in November 2022, Givers successfully executed the inaugural El Salvador project in March 2023. During this time, we conducted an intensive course of 2 weeks, ranging from dance, karate, Japanese culture, and English classes. Notably, for high school students, we delved into entrepreneurship by creating a feasible ramen recipe using locally available ingredients, fostering an entrepreneurial spirit by nurturing business ideas.

For 2024 March, we conducted the El Salvador Project with a comprehensive curriculum including Japanese philosophy, Bitcoin education in partnership with Cubo + —a reputable El Salvadoran organization—, English language training, video editing skills, and Excel proficiency. Additionally, we provided crucial resources including internet rooters, projectors, and screens.
Our goal right now is to create part-time jobs by engaging students in video editing tasks, compensating them via Bitcoin for secure transactions. These vlogs will serve as sociological research material for us, and as a means for a system in our SNS, where contributors can support the families directly through donations.

We hope you can enjoy our presentation of our new project, which aims to spread the idea of Bitcoin to the Generation Z!

links:
Asahi News paper: https://digital.asahi.com/articles/ASS632684S63OXIE03HM.html
Mirasus SDG: https://mirasus.jp/student_projects/givers
https://mirasus.jp/student_projects
https://mirasus.jp/students/14692
Japan Times: https://mirasus.jp/news/15139
https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000139.000005458.html

Video of the El Salvador Project 2023: https://youtu.be/smEiQ51Dzug?si=HhugNuv9Z1ZVDt6c

Eriko Suzuki

Founder CEO, Kind Capital

Eriko is a tech and social impact angel investor focused on Wellbeing and Sustainability, and currently an advisor to VCs, Board Member of private and public companies, Director of Tokyo Women in VC, and Leadership Coach. Eriko is former founding member and Managing Director of Japan’s first ESG focused VC MPower Partners, and GP of Fresco Capital and Investment Director of Mistletoe, etc. and started her career in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley and UBS and later became Japan country manager of Silicon Valley based drone startup. Author of “How we live, will be how we work” (Daiwashobo, 2018) and translator of New York Times best seller “Mission Economy: A moonshot guide to changing capitalism” (Mariana Mazzucato, 2021). Mother of two children.

Kani Munidasa

CO-FOUNDER & CEО, Code Chrysalis

Kani Munidasa is an entrepreneur with a rich cultural background and extensive experience in the tech sector. Born in Japan and raised in Japan and Sri Lanka, he pursued Mechanical Systems Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. With an 18-year career in leading tech companies in Japan and the U.S., Kani learned coding at 43, recognizing its importance. In 2017, he co-founded Code Chrysalis in Tokyo, a top software engineering school and consultancy. His leadership has made Code Chrysalis a transformative force in tech education, emphasizing continuous improvement and collaboration.