The 23rd Infinity Ventures Summit 2019 | INFINITY VENTURES SUMMIT | 10 July 2019 | TBA, Kobe, Japan

The Infinity Ventures Summit began in 2007 as a gathering place for executives of domestic and foreign technology companies to discuss avant-garde market trends and management techniques.

The goal of IVS is to develop the technology ecosystem by providing opportunities to learn the latest trends, generating business leads, and finding the next unicorns.

2019 Speaker

2013 SPRING SAPPORO
Masatoshi Mark Kumagal
Group CEO, GMO Internet

Hiroshi Mikitani
Chairman and CEO, Rakutan

Dave McClure
Founding Partner, 500 Startups

2014 SPRING SAPPORO
Akira Morikawa
CEO, Line

Shintaro Yamada
CEO, Mercari

Chris Lin
CEO, KKBOX

2014 FALL KYOTO
Ken Suzuki
Co-founder & Co-CEO, SmartNews

Yoichiro Hirai
Partner & Managing Director, BCG

Bartrand Schmitt
CEO, App Annie

2015 SPRING MIYAZAKI
Koichiro Yoshida
CEO, Crowdworks

Daisuke Sasaki
Co-founder & CEO, freee

Yoshikazu Tanaka
Director & Executive Manager, CyberAgent

2016 SPRING MIYAZAKI
Yoshikazu Tanaka
Founder & CEO, Gree

Kentaro Kawabe
Executive Vice President, COO, Yahoo Japan

Tetsuya Sanada
CEO, Klab

2017 FALL KANAZAWA
David Corbin
CEO, Tech in Asia Japan

Masumi Minegishi
CEO, Recruit

Max Kinoshita
Managing Partner, Skyland Ventures

2018 SPRING TAIPEI
Vincent Xu
Co-president, IIQiyi

Alan Hellawell
Group Chief Strategy Officer, Sea Group

Terry Tsang
Founder & CEO, Madhead

2018 WINTER KANAZAWA

Oranuch (Mimee) Lerdsuwankij
CEO, Techsauce

Polapat (Paul) Akkrapridi
Managing Director, SCB/Digital Ventures

PAST HIGHLIGHTS

Alan Hellawell
CSO, SEA Group

Manny Fernandez
Co-FoundeR, DreamFunded

Casey Lau
Head of Asia, RISE

Eric Ye
Former CTO and CSO, Ctrip

Vincent Xu
Co-President, iQiyi

Terry Tsang​
CEO&Founder, Madhead

Kuan Hsu
Co-Founder&General Partner, KK Fund

Jackey wang
Venture Partner, 500 Startups

Antti Sonninen
CEO, Slush Tokyo

Kevin Lin
Co-Founder, Twitch

Ray Chan
Co-Founder&CEO, 9GAG

Sean Moss
Co-Founder&CEO, BitMark

Wei Ning Huang
Co-Founder&CTO, Cobinhood

Hironao Kunimitsu
CEO, gumi

Tetsuya Sanada
CEO, KLab

Akiko Naka
CEO, Wantedly

Daisuke Takahashi
General Manager International Business Section, Baidu Japan

Fumiaki Koizumi
Director, Mercari

Hiroki Urabe
Executive Vice President, AbemaTV

Ken Tamagawa
Co-Founder&CEO, SORACOM

Pranay Gupta
Co-Founder&Director, 91SpringBoard

Yoichiro Hirai
Partner&Managing Director, BCG

Hiroshi Kataoka
VP, Yahoo Japan

John Lai
Founder&CEO, MixerBox

Hisayuki Idekoba
CEO&President, Indeed

Bertrand Schmitt
CEO, App Annie

Jun Masuda
SVP&CSMO,LINE

Shintaro Yamada
CEO, Mercari

Masatoshi Mark Kumagai
Group CEO, GMO Internet

Kenji Sudo
Co-Founder&CEO, KAIZEN Platform

Peter Yen
CEO, Pinkoi

Chris Lin
CEO, KKBOX

Takao Ozawa
SPV of Shopping Business, Yahoo Japan

Jose Neves
Founder&CEO, Farfetch

Kinya Tagawa
CEO, Takram Design Engineering

Akira Morikawa
CEO, Line

Kenji Kobayashi
COO, DeNA

Haruhiro Tsujimoto
President&COO, Capcom

Kentaro Kawabe
CEO, Yahoo Japan

John Lagerling
Director of Global Partnerships, Android, Google

Daisuke Sasaki
Co-Founder&CEO, freee

Koichiro Yoshida
CEO, CrowdWorks

Sumito Takeda
Executive Director, UBS

Peng Lu
VP, Tencent Games

Kentaro Tokusei
Product Management Director, Google

Henry Chan
Co-Founder & CEO, ShopBack

Joy Tang
CEO, MARKABLE.ai

Mikkel Svane
CEO, Zendesk