Bioeconomy Hub Japan 2025

How bio-based innovation
can achieve planetary health

2025.4.17 THU - 18 FRI HERBIS HALL OSAKA-UMEDA

Organizer

Bioeconomy Hub Japan

Organizing Committee

Registration

Registration
Category
Deadline (in JST) Registration
Fee
Registration with
Luncheon and
Networking Event
Noon,
Monday, March 17
JPY 50,000
Registration Only
(No Luncheon and
Networking Event)
Friday, April 18

*Meeting Style:On-site Only (Live/On-demand streaming will not be available.)

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Excursions for Bioeconomy Hub Japan 2025 Registrants

Bioeconomy Hub Japan 2025 (BHJ2025) Registrants will be invited to explore the bioeconomy-related facilities. BHJ2025 will offer three tours in Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe; each tour will take place for a half day on April 16. Details will be sent out to BHJ2025 registrants from foreign countries in February.

Notes:

  • Only registrants from foreign countries may attend one excursion for free.
  • Each tour has up to 20 people filled up on a first-come-first-serve basis.
  • English interpreters will attend each tour.
  • The tour is subject to change without prior notice.
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Time table

Speaker

as of January 31

Environment

Anthony Guy Capon

Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Professor of Planetary Health, Monash University

Shahbaz Khan

Director of the UNESCO Regional Office for East Asia

Juichi Yamagiwa

Director-General, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

Noriyuki Mita

Chief Sustainability Officer, The Mitsubishi Chemical Group

Sustainable Food System

Máximo Torero Cullen

Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

David Tilman

Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Chair in Ecology at the University of Minnesota, and Distinguished Professor in the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California Santa Barbara

Hiroshi Ezura

Professor, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Taro Fujie

President & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Ajinomoto Co.

Global Health

Sir Peter Karel Piot

Professor of Global Health and former Director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Montira Pongsiri

Lead Advisor, Climate Change and Health, Save the Children

Satoshi Kodera

Lecturer, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, The University of Tokyo Hospital

Norikazu Eiki

President, Eiki Consulting, LLC

Panelists

Environment

Environment

Haruko Takeyama

Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University

Sustainable Food System

Sustainable Food System

Megumi Avigail Yoshitomi

President, Japan Association for Cellular Agriculture

Global Health

Global Health

Michiko Muraki

Associate Professor,
Office of Management and Planning,
Osaka University

Director

Akihiko Kondo

Vice President, Graduate School of Science, Technology and Innovation, Kobe University

Tsuneaki Sakata

Vice-Chairperson / Executive Supervisor, Biocommunity Kansai Specially appointed professor, Co-creation Bureau, Osaka University

Jun Ogawa

Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture,
Kyoto University

Partners

Sponsor

kaneka suntory shionogi sysmex mt-pharma hanshin

Supported by

cabinet office digital agency Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ministry of Education Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare maff Ministry of Economy Ministry of the Environment Government
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