Yusuke Kurishima

Yusuke is the CEO of Viling Venture Partners. Viling Venture Partners is a venture capital company which invests on education companies of seed stage or early stage in Asia and manages EdTech Accelerator Program in Japan. He had previously worked at Mitsubishi UFJ Asset Management Co., Ltd. in Japan. He was involved in trading the equity and invested some listed stock as a fund manager. He was also involved in establishing some startups and creator’s community, most notably Combinator and Hackathon House. In his spare time, he enjoys creating eco-systems for the entrepreneurs and creators in Tokyo and Fukuoka. He holds a bachelor's degree of Commerce from Waseda University
Yuichiro Masui

Yuichiro is an entrepreneur at heart. He started a web-design company in the college years while building PukiWiki open-source website with some friends. In 2008, Yuichiro came to the US and co-founded PhotoShare, an iPhone app company. Upon returning to Japan in 2010, he became an active evangelist of Titanium Mobile, an application SDK. In 2012, Yuchiro founded FrogApps, Inc (currently Miil, Inc.) and released an iOS/Android based app Miil. While currently being the CTO at Toreta Inc, he is also developing Wri.pe, a smartweb notepad app, using the open-sourced MobiRuby.
Noriyuki Kamibayashi

Professor Noriyuki is the Dean of Bio-Information and Media Studies in Tokyo University of Technology Graduate School, and a professor of Media Faculty.  He received his doctoral degree in Engineering from Keio University in 1980. Previously, he was an Engineering assistant at the Engineering Faculty of Hiroshima University, a Senior Researcher and director at Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., and currently, he is an Engineering professor at Yamagata University Faculty of Engineering. Outside of academia, he is also a part of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing as Director, and serves as the Chief Examiner of the board of Information and Media studies and Network Ecology Research Group.  His main areas of research include computer architecture, object-oriented programming, promoting media architecture, and development of knowledge services.
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