AGENDA
Online / Video
Day 1: December 16(Mon)
10:30 - 10:35
Opening Remarks
Katsuhiro Akimoto
Mayor
City of Sapporo
Day 1-1
10:35 - 10:55
Keynote Speech
Yojiro Hatakeyama
Director-General for GX Policy Coordination
Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, METI
Day 1-2
10:55 - 11:15
Keynote Speech
Naomichi Suzuki
Governor
Hokkaido
Day 1-3
11:15 - 11:55
Panel DiscussionHokkaido, Renewable Energy Frontier of Wind Power
Noriyoshi Fukuoka
Director, Wind Energy Project Promotion Office
METI
Tetsuya Suwabe
President
Eurus Energy Holdings
Clément Helbig de Balzac
CEO
Copenhagen Offshore Partners Japan
Moderator
Kentaro Ogura
Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI GX
Nikkei Inc.
Lunch Break
Day 1-4
13:30 - 13:50
Speech
Naoki Shigetake
COO
GX Acceleration Agency
Day 1-5
13:50 - 14:30
Panel DiscussionLocal Production and Local Consumption of New Energy - from Hydrogen to Biomethane
Ryosuke Matsubayashi
President
Air Water
Motoo Ide
Managing Director
Yotsuba Milk Products
Tomomi Kii
Mayor
Town of Shikaoi
Yuji Oshima
Director, Sustainable Society Design Group, Research & Consulting Division
Japan Research Institute
Moderator
Sonoko Watanabe
Senior Consulting Executive Officer
Nikkei Inc.
Break
Day 1-6
14:50 - 15:30
Panel Discussion Hokkaido as an Incubator of Pioneering Industries and a Renewable Energy
Akihiro Maeda
Director
Sakura Internet
Takahito Matsuzawa
Senior Chief Engineer
Tokyo Electron
Hidenori Kawamura
Professor
Hokkaido University
Moderator
Shingo Kayama
Strategy, Risk and Transactions Leader
Deloitte Tohmatsu Group
Day 1-7
15:30 - 16:10
Panel DiscussionFuture Vision of GX and Regional Collaboration with Enterprises
Chisato Kawamura
President
Hokkaido Gas
Hirotoshi Uehara
Executive Officer
Panasonic Operational Excellence
Kaori Nemoto
Innovation Planning Director
Research Design Headquarters, Hakuhodo
Moderator
Fumihiro Kajikawa
Director
GX Acceleration Agency
Day 1-8
16:10 - 16:40
Panel DiscussionOpportunities for Denmark-Japan Collaboration in Offshore Wind Power
Jarl Frijs-Madsen
Ambassador-Designate of Denmark to Japan
William Lim
Japan Programme Leader
Danish Energy Agency
Tom Vile Jensen
Deputy Director
F&P (Insurance & Pension Denmark)
Lars Ulrich Jensen
Associate Director of Wind Origination Team
EIFO
Moderator
Sonoko Watanabe
Senior Consulting Executive Officer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 1-9
16:40 - 17:20
Panel Discussion Regional Finance for Sapporo-Hokkaido GX
Hironobu Tsuyama
President
North Pacific Bank
Yuji Kanema
President
Hokkaido Bank
Yasuko Watabe
General Manager and Head of Sustainable Investment, Sustainable Investment Division
Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking
Moderator
Ryushiro Kodaira
Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 1-10
17:20 - 17:35
Special Speech
Katsuhiro Akimoto
Mayor
City of Sapporo
Day 2: December 17(Tue)
Day 2-1
9:00 - 9:20
Keynote Speech
Hideki Ito
Commissioner
Financial Services Agency
Day 2-2
9:20 - 9:30
Keynote Speech
Rahm Emanuel
U.S. Ambassador to Japan
John Podesta
Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy, USA
Day 2-3
9:30 - 10:20
Panel Discussion GX through International Cooperation - Present Place and Future of Climate Policy
Jahi Wise
Former Special Assistant to the President for Climate Policy and Finance, USA
Rebecca Mikula-Wright
CEO
Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC)
Evan Felsing
Economic Minister Counselor
Embassy of the United States of America, Japan
Moderator
Yoichi Takita
Visiting Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 2-4
10:20 - 10:40
Speech
Hiroyuki Arita
President and CEO
BlackRock Japan
Break
Day 2-5
10:50 - 11:30
Panel Discussion Finance Leading Hokkaido GX
Fumiyo Harada
Managing Executive Officer
Development Bank of Japan
Nobuo Sakuragi
Managing Executive Officer
Mizuho Bank
Masayuki Takanashi
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSuO)
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Koichiro Oshima
Managing Executive Officer
MUFG Bank
Moderator
Ryushiro Kodaira
Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 2-6
11:30 - 12:00
Dialogue
Shuhei Abe
President
Sparx Group
Moderator
Ryushiro Kodaira
Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Lunch Break
Day 2-7
13:00 - 13:20
Speech
Yutaka Matsuzawa
Vice-Minister for Global Environmental Affairs
Ministry of the Environment
Day 2-8
13:20 - 14:10
Panel Discussion The Future of CCUS – Challenges of Electric Power and Oil Companies towards Decarbonization
Masahiko Sawa
Executive Vice President
Idemitsu Kosan
Yuichiro Fujiyama
Senior Vice President, CTO
ENEOS Holdings
Hiroyuki Mori
Executive Vice President
Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security
Susumu Saito
President and Director
Hokkaido Electric Power
Moderator
Toru Takahashi
Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 2-9
14:10 - 15:00
Panel Discussion New Hokkaido Frontier: The Role of Trading Companies in Decarbonizing Industry and Society
Hiroaki Murase
General Manager
ITOCHU
Yoshihiko Ichikawa
Head of Cross-Industry Collaboration & Development Unit, Energy Transformation Business Group
Sumitomo Corp.
Keiji Okagaki
General Manager, Off-Shore Wind and Domestic Renewable Energy Dept.
Marubeni
Yasuhiro Uchida
Managing Officer
Mitsui & Co.
Tomonori Hirata
Senior Vice President
Mitsubishi Corp.
Moderator
Kentaro Ogura
Editor-in-chief of NIKKEI GX
Nikkei Inc.
Break
Day 2-10
15:20 - 15:50
Panel Discussion New Infrastructure Created by Technologies Born in Hokkaido
Yoshihiro Aizawa
CEO
Aizawa Concrete
Yoshiharu Ishii
Visiting Professor
Hokkaido University Public Policy School
Moderator
Toru Takahashi
Senior Staff Writer
Nikkei Inc.
Day 2-11
15:50 - 16:30
Panel Discussion Sustainable Finance: Sapporo’s Potential towards the GX International Financial City
Satoshi Ikeda
Director of the Strategy Development Division
Financial Services Agency
Sean Kidney
CEO
Climate Bonds Initiative
Bert Hunter
Chief Investment Officer
Connecticut Green Bank
Moderator
Hideki Takada
Director
GX Acceleration Agency
* Honorifics and titles omitted.
* English and Japanese simultaneous interpretation will be available during the forum.
* Please be advised that speakers may be subject to change.
* Please be aware that video and audio may be disturbed due to technical problems with internet connections or server.