Tomo Kamiya has served as President of Adobe Japan since April 2021. He is responsible for the overall operations in Japan across Adobe’s three cloud businesses: Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Experience Cloud. Since joining Adobe Japan in October 2014, Tomo headed the entire Digital Media operations that consists of Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and OEM sales, and was also instrumental in driving Adobe's own DX, transforming the legacy retail inventory business to a cloud-based subscription model. Prior to joining Adobe, Tomo served as Managing Director of the Asia Pacific and Middle East region at D&M Holdings Inc. (now Sound United) from 2012-2014, where he drove revenue and EBITDA growth through sales, marketing, and business transformation. Before D&M, Tomo worked in key marketing and sales executive positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Dell (now Dell Technologies, Inc.) and BOSCH, expanding their businesses across Japan, Asia Pacific as well as globally. Tomo received Bachelor of Arts in Private International Law from Aoyama Gakuin University, and completed the Executive Program at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mandip brings with him rich experience in the digital transformation of organizations’ engineering processes through automation, and leveraging rich data and AI to increase engineering yield. He works with engineering organizations to dynamically optimize engineering processes to help organizations engineer ambitiously. Most recently he is personally involved in efforts to accelerate the development of Japan’s model based engineering efforts in the automotive space.

Being a multi-cultural management and business development professional, Mandip is always appreciative of different perspectives from a diverse set of peers and personal mentors on his network. Outside of business, Mandip extends his passion in engineering to develop even younger talent, volunteering in robotic club activities at local elementary schools, hoping the experience would introduce a new perspective to them and pique the interest of children to expand their future possibilities in engineering.

Mandip is currently APAC Senior Director for NI, covering for the Japan, Korea, India, and the ASEAN & ANZ markets, and is also the Representative Director for NI-Japan.

His favorite phrases: “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken” ~Oscar Wilde~

Born in Kobe in 1962, Kishimoto joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1985. Heholds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Kishimoto currently serves as Director General for Small and Medium Enterprises at METI, where he spent most of his career in various capacity. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises and Regional Innovation, which is a government funded independent administrative agency that provides entrepreneurial and managementconsulting and governmental policy measures for three million SMEs.

His insight comes from two perspectives; digital technology and countryside lifestyle. Kishimoto has been conducting a research on the how agricultural and fishery towns and villages contributes to future society and revitalize themselves through nature and traditional culture utilizing digital marketing methodology from Zero to One.

He has been a managing director of the Monozukuri(craftwork) and Ecology Civilization Organization since 2006. The motto of the nonprofit Organization is "Our bright future lies in what we experienced in the past.” The ecology civilization is a lifestyle that places humanity first.

In 2020 Kishimoto published a co-authored book on blockchain technology, titled “Blockchain and Cryptocurrency- Building a High Quality Marketplace for Crypt Data”.

He is also a contributor to a monthly column, "Homo Deus and Japan," for the Financial Facsimile News, since 2019.

Rika Nakazawa is a senior leader, investor, best-selling author, and frequent public speaker on technology-powered business transformation and next-generation computing. She will be working collaboratively across NTT teams as Vice President Industry X.0 where she is building the 5G and IoT co-innovation practice, focusing on NTT's most strategic and innovative clients. In her role she is activating strategic, high-impact, multi-horizon joint innovations with NTT’s customers and partners that accelerate business and sustainability impact for industrial sector enterprises globally.

Trilingual in Japanese, German and English, Rika grew up in Japan and moved to the US to attend Princeton. Rika has since worked internationally over two decades in senior executive roles in strategy, design thinking, business development, consulting, and marketing with Fortune 500 companies - Accenture, NVIDIA, Capgemini Sony, American Express - and Silicon Valley startups. She is a Digital Transformation and Diversity veteran and has served on multiple start-up boards in Next-Generation Computing, Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence ecosystems.

Throughout her career, Rika has been an avid advocate for ESG and especially advancing women's leadership in governance, technology, and business across industry verticals and global dimensions. She resides in Austin, TX with her partner and husky-wolves where she is strategizing when to start her second book on Diversity and High Performance, and exploring new and steep jagged edges to apply her passion for rock-climbing.

Andrijana Cvetkovikj is the Director of the Economist Corporate Network in North Asia.

Andrijana is on the Board of Del Sole Corporation (listed on the Jasdaq), has a PhD from Nihon University, an Executive MBA from the Fox School of Business TUJ, is a former Ambassador to Japan for Macedonia; former visiting Associate Professor at Kyoto University, and is involved in a number of scientific and artistic organizations in Japan and around the world, including being on the Advisory Board of the OIST Foundation.

She is a committed advocate on diversity, inclusion, and the UN’s SDGs, promoting these as a speaker at the World Economic Forum 2016, UN’s Conference for Climate Change in Tohoku and other international events. She's been living in and connected to Japan for over a decade, and speaks Japanese.