Katsumi Sugiura
Deputy General Manager, Corporate Finance Department, Division 3, Development Bank of Japan
Connecting Japanese investors with natural capital opportunities
The Agri Investor Tokyo Forum on 14 September will connect Japan’s leading institutional investors with opportunities in global agriculture, timberland, food, and natural capital.
Build relationships with GPIF, Japan Post Bank, Nippon Life Insurance, Norinchukin Bank, Zenkyoren, and many more who frequently attend our Tokyo events to discover the best outbound investment opportunities.
Join the Forum to discover what Japanese investors are looking for in a global ag investment partner.
Connect with Japanese investors
Join Japan’s leading investors searching for global sustainable agriculture, food, and timberland investments.
Demonstrate your unique value
Showcase your firm’s distinctive advantages to Japan’s leading investors. Grow your business by creating relationships with the key players across the region.
Understand capital allocation tendencies
Identify how new and experienced Japanese investors are creating sustainable portfolios with natural capital investments across global markets.
Meet our Keynote
Yasuyuki Matsumoto
CEO & CIO, The Agribusiness Investment & Consultation
Counsellor on Global Food & Agri Business to the President at the Norinchukin Bank
Hear Mr. Matsumoto’s latest analysis of the Japanese investor mindset and his unique perspective on natural capital investments in Japan and across the globe.
2022 Confirmed Speakers include:
2022 Confirmed investor attendees include:
View crucial topics shaping the conference
Key agenda items include:
- Japanese investor appetite for natural capital investments
- Understanding how timberland and agriculture can create net-zero portfolios
- Market deep dives: Australia, Europe and North America
- Opportunities to invest in Agtech
- And more.
Attendees at Agri Investor events say
Stephen Meerwald
Harmony Agriculture and Food
Great opportunity to understand what is needed in Ag investment and how different sectors view the opportunity and risks of Ag investments.
Angus Ingram
Kilter Rural
A Pragmatic discussion about deploying capital into agri investments
Tim Findlay
Westpac Banking Corporation
Fantastic networking event and a chance to hear from experts how to make agri investments work.
Discover the industry shifting programme
Understand what Japanese investors are looking for in a natural capital investment opportunity. Contact our producer Koki Kuramoto to discuss speaking opportunities.
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Agenda
Agri Investor Tokyo Forum - Wednesday 14th
All times in UTC+9
08:30 - 09:05
Registration and Networking
09:05 - 09:15
Welcome Address
09:15 - 09:45
Keynote Presentation: Investing in Food Value Chain and Japanese Agriculture
Yasuyuki Matsumoto
Yasuyuki Matsumoto
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, The Agribusiness Investment & Consultation
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09:45 - 10:35
Keynote Panel: Getting the lay of the land: why should Japanese LPs be investing in natural capital?
Joji Takeuchi,
Rob Hurlbut,
Chisa Ogura,
Daichi Suzuki
- Where does agri fit within a standard institutional investment portfolio?
- Which sectors and strategies present the best suitable for Japanese LPs? Understanding the basics of agri portfolio construction.
- How Agri complements the impact/ESG investing portfolio
10:35 - 11:10
Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00
Investor Panel: Japanese investors perspectives on investing in the asset class
Akiyoshi Tanida,
Katsumi Sugiura,
Yoshi Kiguchi,
Yoshito Sakakibara
- Understanding Japanese LP’s appetite for the asset class
- What are the major challenges for investing in agri for LPs? On site due diligence, lack of gatekeeper?
- What is the manager the selection process? How do they select GPs?
12:00 - 13:30
Networking Lunch
13:30 - 14:00
Interview: Spotlight on Australia: Investing in Australia Agri
Daniel Kemp,
Timothy McGavin
- The case for Oz – why can Australian agriculture be a great investment?
- Risk return profiles: how does Australia compare to the US & Europe?
- From farmland to water assets – where do the best opportunities lie?
14:00 - 14:45
Panel: Investing in Forestry & Timberland
Derren Tan,
Takuro Kimura
- Understanding the risk return profile of timberland compared to agri
- How does forestry help diversity the portfolio?
- Timberland in the natural capital portfolio
14:45 - 15:15
Coffee break
15:15 - 16:00
Panel: The agtech investing opportunity
Shohei Naito,
Shinichi Sasaki,
Akito Arima,
Mari Kogiso
- Understanding the impact of robotics and automation in the agsector
- Agricultural innovation in vertical farming and aquaculture
- Agtech investing success cases studies
16:00 - 16:10
Closing remarks
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Pre-Event Resources
View latest trends shaping Japan’s ag investor appetite.
Interested in speaking at the conference? Please contact Koki Kuramoto for more information.
2022 Confirmed speakers
Akito Arima
Manager, Venture Capitalist (Agri/Food), Beyond Next Ventures
Akito Arima joined Marubeni Corporation in April 2017. In the Grain Division, he was involved in all aspects of agribusiness from production to sales through the trading business. In addition, he is also involved in start-up investments by setting up… Read full bio
Rob Hurlbut
Managing Director, Agriculture Capital
Rob believes that food is inherently a triple bottom line business, and success in the industry must be measured across all three: Financial, Environmental, and Social. By growing crops that improve the land we create healthy foods that nourish the b… Read full bio
Daniel Kemp
APAC Editor, Agri Investor
Daniel Kemp is Superfunds Correspondent for PEI Media’s Infrastructure Investor and Agri Investor. He joined PEI in February 2018 and is based in Sydney. Daniel is an experienced B2B journalist, working for five years prior to joining PEI as Innovati… Read full bio
Yoshi Kiguchi
Chief Investment Officer, Pension Fund of Japanese Corporations
Yoshi focuses innovative strategies and products with the investment horizon structures. He has more than 30 years of experience in investment and risk management. Before that, Mr. Kiguchi was a managing director of Russell Investments in Japan, wher… Read full bio
Takuro Kimura
Chief Executive Officer, G-Cubed Partners
Takuro Kimura spent over 30 years investing with impact from International Finance Corporation (IFC), an investment arm of the World Bank Group, and financial institutions in the private sector. He has been involved in multi-billion investments in pr… Read full bio
Mari Kogiso
Co CEO, SDG Impact Japan
Mari is an impact investing expert with extensive background in inclusive business, sustainable finance, and social entrepreneurship. Most recently, Mari founded the SDG Impact Japan to promote sustainable finance in Japan and Asia and serve as CoCEO… Read full bio
Yasuyuki Matsumoto
Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, The Agribusiness Investment & Consultation
Yasuyuki Matsumoto is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of the Agribusiness Investment & Consultation Co. Ltd. (ABIC) and Counsellor on Global Food & Agri Business to the President of the Norinchukin Bank. He has 30 years e… Read full bio
Timothy McGavin
Founder and Managing Director, Laguna Bay
Tim McGavin is Founder, Managing Director, Member of Investment Committee of Laguna Bay. He is active in the food and agriculture sector for 35 years and a food and agricultural investor for over twenty years, founding Laguna Bay 11 years ago, with e… Read full bio
Shohei Naito
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Nihon Agri
Naito founded Nihon Agri in 2016 to promote and export Japanese agricultural products to other parts of Asia, including Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and to protect and promote branded products like Fuji apples and Shine Muscat grapes. The firm has… Read full bio
Chisa Ogura
Managing Director, Meros Consulting
Chisa has 20 years of experience in research and problem solving related to global agriculture trade, policy, investment and market development. She is the Managing Director of Meros Consulting, which she founded in 2016 together with three partners… Read full bio
Yoshito Sakakibara
Managing Director, Soleil Global Advisors Japan
Soleil Global Advisors provides such cross-border financial services as fund placement and IR on behalf of investment management firms. Soleil’s high-quality, unique and independent intermediary activities come with fully licensed operations and deep… Read full bio
Shinichi Sasaki
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Routrek Networks
Routrek Networks was founded 2005 by Shinichi Sasaki to provide turn key solution of IoT/M2M in the area of not connected market such as energy, healthcare, vehicle and agriculture. Our agriculture product named ZeRo.agri is cloud based autonomous dr… Read full bio
Katsumi Sugiura
Deputy General Manager, Corporate Finance Department, Division 3, Development Bank of Japan
Katsumi Sugiura is Deputy General Manager of Corporate Finance, Division 3 in Development Bank of Japan. He has been working for DBJ longer than 25 years since he joined DBJ in 1999 and was mainly in charge of overseas infrastructure related projects… Read full bio
Joji Takeuchi
Executive Manager, Private Asset Investments, Strategic Fund Investment Group, Asset Management One
Takeuchi has been involved in broad range of private asset investments at Asset Management One (AMO). AMO was formed by merging the 4 investment business units under Mizuho Financial Group and Dai-ichi Life Insurance in 2016. As a fiduciary of its cl… Read full bio
Derren Tan
Director, Business Development & Investor Relations, Asia Pacific, Manulife Investment Management Timber and Agriculture
Derren is responsible for the firm’s institutional business development, capital strategy and relationship management functions across the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining the firm in 2021, Derren oversaw the portfolio management of Hostplus’ gl… Read full bio
Akiyoshi Tanida
Foreign Equity and Alternative Investment Department, Nissay Asset Management Corporation
Akiyoshi Tanida is a Deputy General Manager of Foreign Equity & Alternative Investment Department at Nissay Asset Management Corporation, leading real asset investments for Nippon Life’s general account with over 15 years of experience in alterna… Read full bio
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