Digital Garden Summit is the most important gathering of senior leaders in the digital infrastructure space in Japan
March 25th - 26th, 2026
Toranomon Hills Forum, Tokyo, Japan
2026 Summit Speakers
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Yasutoshi Nishimura
Member of the House of Representatives
Chairperson, Election Strategy Committee; Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)
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Katsuhiko Kawazoe
Chairman, IOWN Global Forum and Chief Executive Fellow, NTT, Inc.
NTT Corporation
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Takashi Murata
Managing Director, Co-Head of Asia Real Estate and Head of Japan
Warburg Pincus
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Jesper Koll
Global Ambassador
Monex Group
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Llion Jones
CTO and Co-founder
Sakana AI
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Ken Haig
Senior Director, Government Affairs Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA)
Microsoft Japan
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Tabitha Saw
Managing Partner of the Singapore office
Morrison Foerster
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Daisuke Okanohara
CEO and Co-founder
Preferred Networks
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Sei Hamada
Executive Officer, Data Center Business Division / Innovation Development Division
The Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (Kansai Electric)
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Cyrus Adaggra
President - Asia Pacific
Equinix
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Laura Coad
Chief Data Centre Officer
AirTrunk
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Krupal Raval
Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer
CyrusOne
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Yasuo Suzuki
Executive Vice President & Managing Director, Japan & APAC
NTT Global Data Centers (NTT)
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Emmeline Tang
Chief Product Officer
Digital Edge DC
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Cyrus Adaggra
President - Asia Pacific
Equinix
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Kelvin Fong
Managing Director, APAC
EdgeConneX
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Varoon Raghavan
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer
Princeton Digital Group
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Pithambar Gona
CEO Asia Pacific
STACK INFRASTRUCTURE
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Kiyoshi Maeda
CEO, Japan
ST Telemedia Global Data Centres
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Takehisa Manabe
Managing Director & Head of Structured Finance, Tokyo
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Nori Matsushita
Head of Japan
AirTrunk
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Ilya Kulyatin
Co-Founder & CEO
Tokyo AI (TAI) & Foundry Labs
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Marcin Nowakowski
Head of Telecom & Technology (TMT), Asia Pacific
Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking
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Akinori Tawada
Sales Management Department; Industrial Property Business Division; Executive Manager
Tokyu Land Corporation
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Takayuki Uenaka
Director, Senior Managing Executive Officer & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)
Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions Corporation
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Kojin Wakui
General Manager, Logistics Properties Development Department / Logistics Properties Business Division
Mitsui Fudosan
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Hiroyuki Nadachi
Head of Group 3, (Infrastructure, Digital) Global Structured Finance
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Jabez Tan
Head of Research
Structure Research
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Kenichi Kitamura
Senior VP - Corporate Finance
Development Bank of Japan Inc.
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Mozan Totani
Head of APAC
Ada Infrastructure
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Dan Cox
Co-Founder & Executive Chairman
Digital Garden Tokyo
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Chelsea Pullen
Shareholder
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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David Liggitt
Founder/CEO
datacenterHawk
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David Bennett
ex-CCO Tenstorrent, ex-CEO NEC PC, ex-President Lenovo Japan
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Mandali Khalesi
VP of AI Platform
Renesas
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Ben Boudreau
Global Chief Technology Officer (formerly head of APAC design and engineering for Amazon Web Services (AWS))
ZERRA DC
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Yoshinaga Takahashi
Managing Director of Japan
Princeton Digital Group
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Dan Kesler
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Digital Garden Tokyo
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Christophe DESMARAIS
Datacenter Technical Lead for APAC
Schneider Electric
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Keita Gunji
Country Head of Japan
NEXTDC
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Michael Owen
Co-Founder and Vice Chairman
Digital Garden Tokyo
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Andrew Green
APAC Head of Data Centres
Cushman & Wakefield
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Urakawa Shinya
Executive Officer / Building Construction Division
Obayashi
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David Skelton
Head, APDCA Secretariat and Partner
Flint Global
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Maui Magele
Head of Development in Japan
Zerra DC
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Takehiko Yuge
Country Lead for Japan
Linesight
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Sponsorship Opportunities for 2025/26
Position your brand at the forefront of Japan and APAC’s digital infrastructure ecosystem.
As a sponsor, you'll gain year-round visibility—featured on our website and social media, included in exclusive private events and networking opportunities, and prominently showcased at the Digital Garden Tokyo Summit. Custom benefits such as private meeting rooms, hosted sessions, and other tailored activations are also available.
To explore sponsorship, contact us at sponsorships@digitalgarden.co.jp.