- Jiro Kokuryo - Vice President for International Collaboration and Information Infrastructure; Professor of Policy Management, Keio University- Ed Gerstner - Regional Scientific Director, Greater China, SpringerNature- Nobuko Miyairi - Regional Director, Asia Pacific, ORCiD- Mark Hahnel - Founder and CEO, figshare (part of the Digital Science portfolio)- Yasuhiro Murayama - Research Executive Director of the Strategic Program Office, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)