Japan Blockchain Week Summit 2025 AI Edition is a global forum for examining the profound transformations that rapidly advancing AI technologies are bringing to society, the economy, and industry. This year’s edition gathers leading AI researchers, business executives, tech innovators, and blockchain pioneers from Japan and around the world. With the emergence of Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) on the horizon, the summit aims to deepen essential discussions on the role of AI in shaping our collective future.
Web3 has long stood as a counterpoint to centralized systems, driven by a community of thinkers and technologists advocating for decentralization, individual freedom, and empowerment. Today, that same spirit of inquiry is focused on the new frontiers unlocked by generative AI (GenAI), and the paradigm shifts it heralds.
While GenAI offers unprecedented opportunities, it also raises pressing challenges—ranging from centralization of power and opaque algorithms to bias in training data and unresolved questions of content ownership. In response, the Web3 ecosystem brings valuable perspectives and tools: decentralized governance models, self-sovereign identity frameworks, and privacy-preserving technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs. These elements provide a blueprint for building equitable, transparent systems of value creation and distribution in the AI era.
This summit will explore how the principles and technologies of Web3 can serve as critical infrastructure for an AI-driven society—ensuring fair allocation of AI-generated value, safeguarding digital privacy, and protecting individual dignity in an increasingly algorithmic world.
Launched originally as Japan’s first NFT-focused conference—Tokyo Blockchain Game Conference—in 2018, this summit now celebrates its eighth edition. Over the years, it has evolved into a global hub where thought leaders across AI and Web3 converge to design the future of society itself.
Speakers include:
- Shaw Walters, Founder, Eliza Labs
- Michael Heinrich, CEO, Zero Gravity (0G)
- MIRAI, Virtual Human, Aww Inc
- Takeshi Izaki, Senior Director, NVIDIA
- Ann Chien, Partner, IVC
- Aric Kim, Co-Founder, Rewardy Wallet / Kana Labs
- Chase CHANG, Head of Korea, STORY (PIP LABS)
- Chisato Kunimoto, CEO, Cynthialy
- Dr. Pudding, Co-founder, Kudasai
- Eason Hu, Partnership Lead, Taipei Blockchain Week
- Elyn Leevana, CEO, Audalimo
- Hiroyuki Momoi, Customer Engineer, Google Cloud Japan
- Joe Takayama, BD/Partnership Lead, Backpack
- Karthik Makayee, Co-founder, Honeycomb Protocol
- Ken Kashiwagi, Japan Partnership/Strategy Lead, Mysten Labs/Sui
- Mark Rydon, Co-Founder & CSO, Aethir
- Yu Ayato, Co-Founder, Japan Blockchain Week
This event is part of the Japan Blockchain Week 2025
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