Yoshitaro Honjo decided to create network games when he was 19 years old after he came into contact with and was heavily impacted by Ultima Online, the world’s first genuine massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) as a gamer. After serving as a server engineer as well as being involved in consumer game development at a major gaming company, he launched monoAI technology. Honjo started research and development of network games at a time when there was no culture to create network games in Japan and released the virtual space platform “monoAI XR CLOUD” in 2020. Honjo is engaged in game creation, AR/VR and other XR development and quality control using AI.

Takuji Kitagawa is Chief Executive Officer of b8ta Japan. He brought b8ta from Silicon Valley to Tokyo in November 2019. Kitagawa started his career in 2005 at Cosmo Public Relations and then worked at a foreign IR consultant company. After joining Lomography Japan in 2008, an affiliate of a Vienna-based Austrian camera company, he was appointed CEO in 2009. He joined Dyson Japan in 2015 and opened Dyson Demo Omotesando, its world’s first flagship store, and was appointed as Head of Tokyo in November 2018. Kitagawa is an MBA graduate of the EMLYON Business School, France.

Sanji provides a wide range of comprehensive consulting services, such as policy-making support, research institute technical capability evaluation, and new business development for companies. He engages in consulting including concept formulation, consortium launch support, technology strategy formulation, technology roadmap formulation support, toward social implementation of cutting-edge technologies in the field of robotics, AI, drones, and metaverses, and so on.​ Before joining PwC, Sanji worked with a Japanese think tank and a consulting firm. He has strong expertise in consulting that makes the best use of the characteristics of industry, government, and academia.