Business Leaders’ Session | Tokyo Forum 2023

Business Leaders’ Session | Tokyo Forum 2023

New Horizons for the Global Economy through Collaboration between Japan and Korea
– Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Mind Together –

Right now, the world needs cooperation across national borders, and to take a bold step towards a sustainable future. In this session, business leaders, social entrepreneurs, investors, and university researchers from South Korea and Japan gather to start dialogue between businesses and academic institutions on how to shape tomorrow. While exchanging candid opinions on what path the future of the East Asia region should take, academic institutions and the economic world will work together to think of a message for the next generation.
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Special Remarks:
CHEY Tae-Won
Chairman, SK Group

KOBAYASHI Ken
Chairman, The Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry /
Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation

Panelists:
CHEY Tae-Won
Chairman, SK Group

KIM Yoon
Chairman, Korea-Japan Economic Association /
Chairman, Samyang Group

SATO Yasuhiro
Senior Advisor, Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

HORIE Ari
Founder & CEO, Women’ s Startup Lab

KIM Yoon
Managing Partner, Saehan Ventures

KAGAMI Shigeo
Professor, Department of Technology Management for Innovation (TMI), Graduate School of Engineering Deputy Director General, Division of University Corporate Relations (DUCR) The University of Tokyo

Moderator:
FUJII Teruo
President, The University of Tokyo

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Tokyo Forum 2023 Shaping the Future
Cultivating Humanity amid Social Divisions and Digital Transformation

The world has entered a period of division and discord. Human history has never been free of strife, but the lessons of many wars have led us to pursue stability by formulating rules and reducing conflict. However, the rule-based order that was established through human wisdom has gradually broken down, and insecurity and unpredictability have become serious problems for our world.

At the same time, new digital technologies, including data science and artificial intelligence, are impacting us both bodily and mentally, removing previous environmental and physical constraints and enabling a wider range of people to play active roles. But those technologies can also reinforce authoritarian surveillance and human bias. As the boundaries separating us from machines and technology become increasingly blurred, the question of what it means to be human needs to be revisited. In the midst of compound crises and opportunities on a global scale, contemporary society faces many challenges, including finding the wisdom to embrace an increasingly fragmented world; mechanisms for controlling and absorbing rapidly evolving new technologies; harmony between the natural environment and the market economy; and rule-making processes to restore stability to the international order.

With our society now confronting many challenges due to global fragmentation and the development of digital technologies, academic institutions must play a leading role in gathering wisdom for the future from both government and the private sector. This mission can be realized only through freer and more focused interactions among experts from many different fields. By bringing together the wisdom of science, technology, and the humanities and social sciences through dialogue among scholars of diverse specializations, this year’s Tokyo Forum will explore how humanity can respond to the global challenges of advancing technology and an uncertain international order.

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