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As founder, chairman, and CEO of Forrester Research, George is one of the most influential thought leaders in the world of business and technology. He is a trusted advisor to executives around the globe, providing context and clarity around the digital disruptions that change the way we live and work. George founded Forrester in his basement 30 years ago. He, along with many talented and passionate colleagues, has built the company into one of the world’s most successful independent research and advisory firms with locations in more than 30 countries. George personifies the Forrester experience and the company’s values with direct, honest advice. “When I meet with a client, I have one mission,” George has said. “To tell them something they don’t know.” Throughout his career, George has made provocative, tenacious, and groundbreaking calls about business and technology. These include the birth of client/server computing, the dot-com implosion, the rise of social computing, the transition from IT to BT (business technology), and the extended Internet connecting the physical world of things to the digital world of information. Most recently, he has described the business opportunities presented by the App Internet, the new computing model combining the power of local devices with the scale of the cloud. “As the Web becomes the AM radio of digital, the mobile App Internet will rise,” George has written. “This market will be dominated by two or three ecosystems - semiclosed worlds built on a closely fitting set of apps, phones, tablets, computers, operating systems, and partners.” George has addressed international audiences in a number of prestigious settings including the World Economic Forum meetings in Davos, Switzerland and Dalian, China; the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference; the SBS Seoul Digital Forum; the United Nations’ “The Net World Order: Bridging the Global Digital Divide” conference; the ICT World Forum @CeBIT; Le Web; Cambridge University; The Commonwealth Club of California, and the Churchill Club. He has also lectured at the MIT Sloan School of Management. George’s analysis has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Financial Times, MIT Sloan Management Review, and numerous other media outlets. You can read George’s latest thinking on his blog, The Counterintuitive CEO, or on Twitter at @gcolony. George is a graduate of Harvard University.

Mr. Hamakawa joined Sanwa Bank in 1978. After obtaining an MBA from Harvard University in 1984, he assumed a number of planning positions in the human resources, corporate planning, and other departments in the bank’s domestic headquarters. In 2002, he became general manager of the Kojimachi Corporate Banking Office of UFJ Bank. In 2004, he was appointed general manager of both the Corporate Planning Division and Integration Planning Office of UFJ Holdings. Mr. Hamakawa then assumed the position of general manager of the Business and Systems Integration Division before and after the merger between UFJ Bank and The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. He became a managing executive officer and deputy chief executive of the Retail Banking Business Unit of BTMU in January 2009 and then group head of Corporate Banking Group No. 2 in May 2010, maintaining his position as managing executive officer. In June 2011, Mr. Hamakawa became a managing director of MUFG in charge of corporate planning divisions, including CSR. In June 2012, he assumed the position of senior managing director of MUFG while maintaining his jurisdiction over corporate planning. In addition, Mr. Hamakawa is a director of MUTB, and he helps monitor the management of MUTB with a perspective granted from his experience.

Rick Mazza is a President and Chief Executive Officer at TRAVELSAVERS and is based in United States.

Kavan Thanasith is a Managing Partner at CBD Broker Group, President & Co-Founder at Coastal Labs, and Chief Executive Officer at Coastal Pay and is based in Greater San Diego Area. He has worked as Executive Sales Manager at Payment Systems Corp., Independent Sales Rep at Vector Marketing, and Loan Consultant at AXIS Real Estate & Mortgage Solutions. Kavan attended San Diego Mesa College between 2006 and 2008.