2 more speakers you need to hear from at Tech in Asia Tokyo 2015

Tech in Asia is bringing some of the biggest names in tech from around the world to our Tokyo conference on September 8 & 9. We’re delighted to unveil two additional speakers who will join us at our conference and whom you should hear from:

Katsuaki Sato, founder and CEO, Metaps

Founded in 2007, Metaps is an app monetization platform using AI and big data to maximize app revenue and optimize campaign performance. It boasts a reach of 200 million users and 2 billion downloads. Metaps has become a powerful global player – 70 percent of its revenue comes from eight overseas offices across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Its steady growth, fueled in part by clients like Line, KakaoTalk, and Baidu, have propelled Metaps to become the most-funded startup in Japan with over US$50 million in disclosed investments.

Founder and CEO Katsuaki Sato joins the Tech in Asia conference at a fascinating moment in his company’s growth. While its app monetization service continues to grow, Katsuaki is also cultivating Spike, the startup’s foray into online payments and one of the most popular platforms in Japan.

Metaps is also diving into machine learning and even space technology as it continues to grow. Join us for a chat with Katsuaki, a can’t miss talk with one of Japan’s boldest entrepreneurs.

Koichiro Yoshida, founder of crowd-sourcing firm Crowdworks and one of the most charismatic entrepreneur in Japan, will be joining us in a fireside chat to share how his company is transforming the country.

The below session has been replaced by a fireside chat with Holly Liu, Co-Founder, Kabam

Jed McCaleb, Co-Founder, Stellar Development Foundation

Jed is the programming genius who created Mt. Gox, the defunct Japanese bitcoin exchange, and co-founder of digital currency-focused payment network, Ripple Labs.

In July last year, he unveiled his latest project, Stellar, a decentralized gateway for digital currency to flat currency transfers. Backed by luminaries such as Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, Naval Ravikant, founder of AngelList, and Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, the launch received great fanfare, turning heads in both Silicon Valley and across Asia.

Barely one year in, the non-profit organization has reached an exciting point, recently releasing details about the new consensus protocol it hopes to deploy on the Stellar network as early as this summer. With the intention to expand financial access to the unbanked and underbanked, this new protocol pushes new frontiers, making Stellar a blank canvas for people to design financial services that fit their lives.

Join us as we chat with Jed to find out the reasons behind his departure from Mt. Gox, his expectations for Stellar, and the secrets of building a cryptocurrency startup.

You won’t want to miss hearing Katsuaki and Jed speak at Tech in Asia Tokyo 2015 in September. Grab your tickets before July 12, and save 20% off with the code tiatokyo20.