開催まであと48時間：Tech for Impact Summit 2026 最終チェックリスト

This is it.

On Sunday, April 26, senior executives, policymakers, technologists, and investors will gather at Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioi Conference for the Tech for Impact Summit 2026 — an invitation-only leadership summit designed to catalyze action at the intersection of technology and humanity’s most pressing challenges. The theme: “Beyond Boundaries: Building 2050 Together.”

If you are reading this, you are either confirmed and preparing, or you are wondering whether you should have said yes sooner. Either way, here is everything you need to know with 48 hours to go.

The Speaker Lineup: Who Will Be in the Room

The Tech for Impact Summit is not a conference with 200 speakers and parallel tracks. It is an intimate, curated gathering where every voice in the room has been selected to hold a specific piece of the puzzle. Here is who is confirmed.

Taro Kono (河野太郎) — Former Digital Minister of Japan, one of the country’s most prominent political leaders, and a driving force behind Japan’s digital governance transformation. Kono brings the policy architecture: how governments can create frameworks that enable innovation rather than constrain it. His track record on vaccine rollout digitization and regulatory modernization provides the macro backdrop for the summit’s conversation.

Charles Hoskinson — Founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, and one of blockchain’s most influential architects. Hoskinson has spent years building decentralized infrastructure designed for global-scale adoption. His perspective on governance, identity systems, and sustainable blockchain architecture is essential to any serious conversation about technology’s role in social impact.

Yoshito Hori (堀義人) — Founder and president of GLOBIS, Japan’s leading business school, and one of the country’s most influential voices on entrepreneurship, leadership, and human capital. Hori delivers the keynote address, setting the intellectual frame for the day’s discussions.

Kathy Matsui (キャシー松井) — General partner at MPower Partners and architect of the original “Womenomics” thesis that influenced Japanese economic policy. Matsui brings the impact investing lens: how capital can be deployed to generate both financial returns and measurable social outcomes. Her perspective on gender equity, governance, and venture capital is indispensable.

Ken Suzuki (鈴木健) — Co-founder and CEO of SmartNews, one of Japan’s most successful technology companies, with over 50 million downloads globally. Suzuki’s work at the intersection of algorithms, media, and democratic discourse addresses one of the most urgent questions of our time: how technology shapes public understanding.

Jesper Koll — Director at Monex Group and one of the most respected analysts of the Japanese economy. With four decades of experience in Japan’s financial markets, Koll provides the macroeconomic context: why global capital is flowing into Japan and what that means for impact-driven investment.

Sota Watanabe (渡辺創太) — Founder of Astar Network and CEO of Startale, representing the next generation of Web3 infrastructure builders connecting Japan to the global decentralized economy. Watanabe’s work exemplifies how young founders from Tokyo are building technology with global reach.

Ken Shibusawa (渋澤健) — Founder of Commons Asset Management, great-great-grandson of Eiichi Shibusawa (the “father of Japanese capitalism”), and a leading voice in ESG investing and multi-generational stewardship. Shibusawa brings the long view: how patient capital creates enduring value.

Hiroshi Aoi (青井浩) — CEO of Marui Group, who has transformed a traditional Japanese retailer into a model of stakeholder capitalism, demonstrating that corporate purpose and profitability can reinforce each other.

Kiyoshi Seko (瀬古紀生) — COO of Kyoto Fusioneering, a company turning fusion energy from science fiction into commercial reality. Seko brings the deep tech perspective: what happens when breakthrough science meets entrepreneurial execution.

Past speakers include Audrey Tang, Takuya Hirai, and Charles Hoskinson — a lineage that signals the caliber of conversation this summit convenes.

What to Expect: The Format

The Tech for Impact Summit is deliberately not a conference in the conventional sense. There are no expo halls, no badge-scanning, no panels with six people talking past each other. It is structured as what organizers describe as a “Japanese Davos” — an intimate gathering of senior executives where every session is designed for substance, not spectacle.

Keynote addresses. Anchoring the day are keynotes from leaders who have spent careers at the intersection of technology, capital, and social impact. These are not 10-minute TED-style presentations. They are substantive, data-rich addresses followed by open dialogue.

Strategy Dialogues. The summit’s signature format brings small groups of leaders together for focused, facilitated conversations on specific themes — capital allocation for impact, AI governance, the future of energy, Japan’s role in the global innovation economy. These are not panels. They are working sessions designed to produce actionable insights and real commitments.

Fireside chats. Intimate, moderated conversations that go deeper on a single topic or leader’s perspective. The format allows for the kind of candid exchange that large stages inhibit.

Structured networking. The invitation-only format means that every person in the room has been selected for what they bring to the conversation. The summit’s structure includes designed interaction points — curated introductions, small-group discussions, and shared meals — that create connections unlikely to happen at a 10,000-person conference.

The Venue: Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioi Conference

The summit takes place at Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioi Conference (紀尾井カンファレンス), located in the Kioicho district of Tokyo’s Chiyoda ward.

Address: 1-3 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094

Access:

• Nagatacho Station (Yurakucho, Hanzomon, Namboku lines) — 1-minute walk from Exit 9a
• Kojimachi Station (Yurakucho Line) — 5-minute walk
• Akasaka-mitsuke Station (Ginza, Marunouchi lines) — 8-minute walk
• Yotsuya Station (JR Chuo, Marunouchi Line) — 8-minute walk

The venue sits within a modern complex that combines conference facilities with gardens, dining, and the kind of understated elegance that defines Tokyo’s best meeting spaces. It is the right setting for a summit that values depth over scale.

The SusHi Tech Tokyo Connection

Tech for Impact Summit 2026 takes place as a partner event of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 — Asia’s largest innovation conference, running April 27-29 at Tokyo Big Sight. Attendees of the summit arrive in Tokyo ahead of SusHi Tech week, positioning themselves at the center of the city’s most concentrated week of innovation activity.

SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 drew over 28,000 attendees, 1,700 VCs and investors, 820 startup pitch applicants from 60 countries, and representatives from over 60 city governments. The 2026 edition is expected to be larger. For summit participants, the timing creates a natural bridge from Sunday’s intimate leadership gathering to a full week of startup engagement, investor meetings, and cross-sector conversations.

The positioning is deliberate: the summit convenes the strategic conversation; SusHi Tech provides the ecosystem in which those strategies can be executed.

Practical Details

Date: Sunday, April 26, 2026

Dress code: Business professional. This is an executive gathering — attire should reflect the caliber of the room.

Language: Sessions are conducted in English and Japanese, with professional interpretation available.

Connectivity: High-speed Wi-Fi is available throughout the venue. The summit encourages presence over screen time, but understands that executives have obligations that do not pause for a day.

Photography and media: Professional photography and select media coverage will be present. Specific sessions may operate under Chatham House Rules, which will be announced at the start of each session.

Why This Summit Matters Now

The world does not lack for conferences about technology. It does not lack for panels about sustainability. What it lacks — and what the Tech for Impact Summit is designed to provide — is a space where the people with the power to act are in the same room as the people building the tools, informed by the people shaping the policy.

The challenges on the agenda — deploying AI responsibly, channeling capital toward genuine impact, accelerating the energy transition, navigating demographic transformation, building governance frameworks for technologies that did not exist five years ago — are not problems that any single sector can solve. They require the convergence of business, technology, policy, and purpose. They require leaders who think in decades, not quarters.

The confirmed speaker roster — spanning former cabinet ministers, blockchain architects, venture capitalists, corporate CEOs, and deep tech entrepreneurs — represents exactly that convergence. And the invitation-only format ensures that every person in the room is there to contribute, not spectate.

In 48 hours, the conversation begins.

Still Considering?

If you have not yet confirmed your participation, the window is closing. Partnership opportunities remain available for organizations that want to be at the table, not just in the audience. The summit’s membership tiers are designed to provide meaningful engagement and recognition commensurate with the level of commitment.

Visit tech4impactsummit.com to learn more, or reach out directly to the organizing team.

The leaders who shape the next quarter-century will be the ones who were in the room when the direction was set.

The room opens in 48 hours.

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Watch the highlight video from previous editions: youtu.be/ujy7ZXflrt4