Roundtable Japan

The Eighteenth Edition of Roundtable Japan

Japan as a Global Financial Platform

13:30
Registration
14:00 – 14:10
Welcoming Remarks
14:10 – 14:50
Why Japan now? Tokyo as Asia's financial hub: Seizing the moment
15:00 – 16:00
Japan as an Investment Hub: who is looking at what kind of opportunities?
16:00 – 16:30
Networking break
16:30 – 17:30
Breakout session: The tax reform required
16:30 – 17:30
Breakout session: Translating the government policy on skills development into tangible actions
17:40 – 18:40
Breakout session: Expanding the liberalization of financial markets
17:40 – 18:40
Breakout session: Accelerating the digitalization process
18:50 – 19:30
Tokyo as Asia's financial hub: A road map
19:30 – 20:00
Cocktail reception
20:00 – 21:30
Dinner

08:15 – 09:00
Japan’s growth outlook in a global environment beset by enduring shocks
09:05 – 10:15
The mass of capital in Japan waiting to be managed optimally– new priorities, new investment strategies
10:30 – 11:45
What an efficient pro-startup policy could bring to Japan’s economic and social revitalization
12:00 – 13:15
Working lunch
13:30 – 14:30
From the bad inflation to the “good” inflation that would close the deflation chapter
14:45 – 17:15
A new National Security Strategy to face the changed geopolitical risks and challenges
14:45 – 16:00
Part I: What responses to the new security and foreign policy realities Japan is facing?
16:00 – 16:15
Networking break
16:15 – 17:15
Part II: Managing the risks and rewards of a higher profile for Japan as a global strategic player
17:15 – 18:30
How can PM Kishida leverage elements of Shinzo Abe legacy and use his three years window of opportunity?
18:30 – 19:00
Farewell drinks