A global innovations race is underway. With humanity facing increasingly challenging crises—global warming, infectious and non-communicable diseases, lack of access to financial services and the formal economy, inability to participate in the real economy—companies and governments around the world are racing to incubate and scale the ideas that could solve these issues, and to take the lead in building back better. What are the biggest challenges today that will require the most creative solutions? What innovations are needed to ensure more people enjoy good health and well-being in the years ahead? 

Welcome Remarks

Yuka Shimokawa

Associate Director, Business and Program Development, Milken Institute

Moderator

Michelle Ye Hee Lee

Tokyo Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

Speakers

Hiroaki Kitano

Chief Technology Officer, Sony Group Corp; CEO, Sony AI; President, Sony Computer Science Lab; Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science

Kathy Matsui

General Partner, MPower Partners

Ken Suzuki

Co-Founder and CEO, SmartNews; Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo