- List of confirmed speakers as of 04.07.08:
- Kazuyuki Adachi
Group Manager, Research Laboratory, Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc., Japan
- Sameer Al Ansari
Executive Chairman and Chief Executive of Dubai International Capital LLC, United Arab Emirates
- Wataru Aso
Governor of Fukuoka, Japan
- Yutaka Aso,
Chairman, Aso Group, Japan
- Ronnie C. Chan
Chairman, Hang Lung Properties Limited, Hong Kong
- Dong-sung Cho
Professor of Business Administration, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
- Yoram Cohen
Director, Water Technology Research Center, UCLA, United States
- Eliot Cutler
Chief Representative & Managing Partner of Beijing office, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, United States
- Ludo Deferm
Executive Vice President, IMEC, Belgium
- Scott Foster
Senior Analyst Research Department, HSBC Securities (Japan) Limited, Japan
- Toru Hashimoto
Managing Director, NPC Incorporated, Tokyo, Japan
- Glenn Hoetker
Resident Associate, Center for Advanced Study, Science and Technology in the Pacific Century (STIP) initiative Faculty Fellow, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States
- Yasheng Huang
Associate Professor of International Management, MIT, United States
- Nobuyuki Idei
Founder & CEO, Quantum Leaps, Japan
- Yasuyuki Ikegami
Associate Professor, Institute of Ocean Energy, Saga University, Japan
- Hitoshi Ikuma
Director, JRI (Japanese Research Institute), Executive Producer, CSE Director, Japan
- Masazumi Ishii
Managing Director with Noventi and founder and Managing Director of AZCA, Inc., California, United States
- Shigeya Kato
Vice Chairman/Representative Director, SHOWA SHELL SEKIYU K. K., Japan
- Kevin Koh
CEO/President, Bonacare Corporation, Korea
- Daisuke Kotegawa
Executive Director, IMF
- Amit Kumar
Director, Energy Environment Technology Division, Tata Energy Research Institute, India
- Haruhiko Kuroda
President of Asia Development Bank, Philippines
- Kiyoshi Kurokawa
Science advisor to the Cabinet of Japan
- Robin Li
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Baidu.com, People’s Republic of China
- Jim Mahoney
Country Director, Cleantech China
- Osamu Masuko
President and CEO, Mitsubishi Motors, Japan
- Norio Matsumoto
Chief Executive, Housing & Urban Planning Bureau, Fukuoka City, Japan
- Oki Matsumoto
CEO of Monex Beans Holdings, Inc, Japan
- Jay Mitra
Director of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship, OECD & Founding Professor of Business Enterprise & Innovation, Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research, Head of the School of Entrepreneurship and Business, University of Essex, United Kingdom
- Isao Mochida
Adjunct Professor, Art, Science and Technology Center for Cooperative Research, Kyushu University, Director, JST Innovation Plaza Fukuoka, Japan
- Tetsuro Nagata
President, Eurus Energy Holdings Corporation, Japan
- Sadako Ogata
President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Japan
- Gary Patton
Vice President, IBM System and Technology Group, United States
- William Pesek Jr.
Asia Pacific columnist, Bloomberg News, Tokyo, Japan
- Douglas L. Peterson
Chairman, Representative Director, President and CEO, Nikko Citi Holdings Inc, Japan
- Bill Powell
Senior writer, TIME & Fortune Magazine, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
- Atsushi Saito
President & CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Japan
- William H. Saito
Partner / Technology Fund-CEO, Innovation Platform Corporation, Japan
- Prof. Kazunari Sasaki
Director, Hydrogen Technology Research Center, Kyushu University, Japan
- Fumiaki Sato
Managing Director/Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co., Ltd, Japan
- Zhengrong Shi
Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Suntech Power, People’s Republic of China
- Stan Shih
Acer Group Founder & Chairman of iD SoftCapital Group, Taiwan
- Junzo Shimizu
President and CEO, Silicon Library Inc., Japan
- Nin Shinkawa
CEO, Shintec Company Limited, Japan
- Masajuro Shiokawa
Former Minister of Finance, Japan
- Kirpal Singh
Associate Professor, Director, Wee Kim Wee Centre, Singapore Management University, Singapore
- Claude Smadja
President, Smadja & Associates Strategic Advisory, Switzerland
- Takeo Sumino
Managing Director, Nomura Securities, Japan
- Yuzo Tada
Senior Advisor of Mori Building Co., Ltd, President & CEO of Roppongi Energy Service, Japan
- Toru Tanigawa
Professor, Kyushu University, Japan
- Kazuhiko Toyama
Representative Director and CEO, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. (IGPI)
- Yoshihisa Toyosaki
President & CEO, J-Star, Japan
- Tatsuya Tsunoda
CMA General Manager / Senior Analyst Equity Research Dept., Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd. , Japan
- Takashi Tsutsui
President & Chief Executive Officer, JASDAQ Securities Exchange, Inc., Japan
- Dr. Tanthapanichakoon Wiwut
Director, National Nanotechnology Center, Thailand
- Wu Jianmin
Executive Vice President of China National Association for International Studies (CNAIS), President, China Foreign Affairs University, People’s Republic of China
- Wu Rong-I
Chairman, Taiwan Stock Exchange, Taiwan
- Dr. Xiang Bing
founding Dean of Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, People’s Republic of China
- Kimio Yamaka
Chief Researcher, Director General, Economic & Industrial Research Department, Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroichi Yoshida
President and CEO, ELIIY Power Co., Ltd., Japan
- Hiroshi Yoshida
Mayor of Fukuoka, Japan
