明星和楽2021

福岡市とつながりがあり、かつ日本国内でのビジネスを展開している外国人起業家によるビジネス
プレゼンテーションと、スタートアップメディア「BRIDGE」の池田氏をファシリテーターに迎えトークセッションを行います。

なかなか接点を持つことのできない海外スタートアップとの繋がりを明星和楽2021で作れる機会となっております。

＊本セッションは英語での実施を予定しております

GUEST

池田　将

BRIDGE 共同創業者兼シニアエディタ

1973年大阪生まれ。インターネット黎明期から、シリコンバレーやアジアでIT企業の調査を開始。システム構築、技術アドバイザー、VCのデューデリジェンスなどに従事。

2011年、スタートアップを伝えるメディアを立ち上げる。世界のスタートアップシーンを追いかけるべく、海外カンファレンスへの登壇や参加多数。

Cyrielle Thomas

Founder & CEO

Cyrielle Thomas is the Representative Director of DOKOJAPAN K.K., a company she established in Fukuoka in December 2020 with the aim to help local businesses in their digitization process in Japan. Cyrielle is a French entrepreneur who dedicated her entire career to this digital purpose when she was working at Yelp, UberEats and Airbnb in Bordeaux and Aquitaine Regions.

After visiting Japan for the first time in 2017, she discovered Japanese Tea (Shizuoka Cha) in the mountain of Hakone and quickly realized the potential of Tea Tourism, which shares similarities with Wine Tourism in France. Cyrielle then launched DOKOCHA in Tokyo in 2019 to promote Japanese Tea Experiences to international travelers, and moved to Fukuoka in March 2020 with her Startup Visa and a real crush for this human-sized city, near the sea and the tea (YAMECHA). When the pandemic hit, she decided to give access to QR Code Menu to all local businesses and created DIGITOMENU the same year to bring more Safety, Accessibility and Sustainability.

Stephen Leung

Founder and CEO

I was born and raised in Hong Kong and came to Fukuoka in 2020. I wanted to start a business in Japan but lacked Japanese language skills, so I decided to study in a 1-year Japanese language program before applying for a business visa.

From my Japanese studying experiences also came the idea of my new business, which will be focusing on helping Japanese and English language learners around the world on building ””conversational skills””. I plan to accomplish that by creating resources such as online courses and applications for language learning.

In 2021 I applied for a ””startup visa”” in Fukuoka City. With the great help and support from the ””Global Startup Center”” as well as Fukuoka City, I was able to successfully convert from a student visa to a business manager visa smoothly.

FREDERIC SUDRAUD

CEO & FOUNDER

Began his career in his home town, Limoges, in the porcelain industry as an export development manager.
Then spent ten years within the Geodis Logistics Group, working in international business development & marketing functions.
In 2003, I had the opportunity to buy out ITI Communication, a communications agency that was in bankruptcy. His first challenge was to straighten out this agency, and restructured it around three main values:
- The environment
- The human
- Innovation.
It is the combination of these three values that enabled the creation of FACIL’iti, a digital inclusion project that became a full-fledged positive impact Start Up in 2018.
FACIL’iti is a digital accessibility assistance tool. Concretely, this solution allows a tailor-made adaptation of the display of digital tools (website, intranet, application) to more than 20 handicaps or navigation problems.

Kasinsky Dar

MiKa/Studios CEO

Born in Belgium, Based in Fukuoka.
Founder of Antwerp Co Ltd and Co-Founder of MiKa/Studios - Thé design studio in the heart of Daimyo, Fukuoka.

Kristian Francis

Search Simple LLC Consultant / Owner

I run Search Simple LLC, an Executive Search firm established in 2016 in Fukuoka City.

My hometown in London, England and I have worked throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. My career journey is 20 plus years and have worked in Hong Kong, Singapore and Japan for the last 15 years.

Search Simple was created to provide talent solutions for clients and career opportunities for candidates, leveraging reputation, recommendations and relationships in the fields we operate.

海外スタートアップが語る今後のビジネス展開