We are honored that our Representative, Yumi Sato, was invited to speak as a panelist at the JAPAN-LAC BUSINESS FORUM 2026, celebrating 50 years of partnership between Japan’s Ministry of Finance and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),8/24/2026

#SilverEconomy #AgeTech #lomgevity #Innovation #Healthspan #PPP

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UNFPA（国連人口問題研究所）フォーラムで代表理事の佐藤が講演させていただきました

2026.10.1

UNFPAフォーラムにて、代表の佐藤が「Japan’s Innovation for Active Aging」をテーマに講演（オンライン）させていただきました。今年の開催地はベラルーシ。東欧も人口減少・高齢化しており、日本の次に中国、韓国と講演が続きました。人口減少・高齢化が地球規模課題となるなか、日本の構造的要因が及ぼす少子高齢化とその課題、対応策としての政策、及び、これまでのWell-being & Age-tech Awardの大臣賞等を受賞したエイジテックをご紹介いたしました。ベラルーシの皆様のお心遣いに、心よりお礼申し上げます。

この度の講演にあたっての現地に関する課題のリサーチや対話において日本同様、ジェンダーエイジズムが及ぼす雇用と社会規範からなる高齢期の女性の貧困問題が健康問題につながることは旧共産圏のベラルーシも同じ点が印象的かつ大きな発見でした。

#UNFPA ＃longevity ＃Aging＃AgeTech

健康博覧会にて代表理事の佐藤が講演・パネルディスカッションさせていただきました

2026.9.30

昨年に続き、今年も健康博覧会にて「The Longevity Shift」を大きなテーマに、講演・パネルディスカッションさせていただきました。今年はこれまで当フォーラム主催のWell-being & Age-tech Awardの大臣賞受賞スタートアップのプレゼンテーション、パネルを交え、彼らの志、サービス内容を交え、今後のロンジェビティ、ウェルビーイング市場に日本がどう食い込むかをお話いたしました。

JAPAN-LAC BUSINESS FORUM2026

SESSION 6 | The Silver Economy Advantage: Unlocking Longevity-Driven Growth through Japan–LAC Cooperation

This session will explore how Japan–LAC collaboration can unlock business and investment opportunities in the Silver Economy, as aging populations reshape demand for products, services, long-term care systems, and infrastructure across LAC. The discussion will draw on Japan’s leadership in longevity-related solutions – including age-tech, healthcare innovation, long-term care models, assistive technologies, robotics, and universal design – alongside LAC’s rapidly evolving demographic profile and growing markets.
Building on IDB Lab’s work to pilot and scale market-based solutions for healthy aging, participants will examine scalable business models, partnership opportunities, and financing approaches that strengthen long-term care ecosystems, expand the care workforce, and position longevity as a driver of productivity, innovation, and sustainable growth across Japan–LAC value chains

日本ー中南米・カリブ（LAC）地域ビジネスフォーラム2026の開催について : 財務省

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　Publication, Lecture

2024.12.17

Well-aging Economic Forum Well-being & Age-tech 2024 Award was broadcast on TV Tokyo's ‘World Business Satellite’ ‘Age-tech to solve problems’.　
https://txbiz.tv-tokyo.co.jp/ wbs/news/post_309288

Photo: Deputy Minister of the Cabinet Office Ryuichi Seto with LIFESCAPES, a start-up that won the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award.

2024.12.15

President Sato spoke at TED x Kioicyo about the importance of a mindset that transcends gender, age and chronological frameworks, and the future of living and working in a Japanese historical and cultural context. The presentation included historical, cultural and religious backgrounds and proposed ways of living and working beyond the framework of gender, age and age group.

2024.8.26

Established the Sustainability Management Council. This is a new community (consortium) where the public and private sectors can update rules and share and exchange information on sustainability management in line with the FSA's mandatory disclosure of sustainability information in securities reporting.

2024.8.1

Kyodo News interviewed our Representative Director, Yumi Sato about AgeTech and introduced the high-profile AgeTech in newspapers across the country.

2024.5.22

Wellulu, a media outlet for wellbeing, interviewed our Chairman, Sato, and Board member, Imaoka.

https://wellulu.com/with-friends/22342/

2024.3.19

Start of the WG on Sustainability Management

　　Dear interested companies

The first forum proposed the idea of a sustainable future society for the next generation in 2050, and we will hold a subcommittee (council) to discuss the future of sustainability management in the public and private sectors, and to share and update information and aspirations from around the world. *We look forward to hearing from interested corporate representatives and other interested parties.

Photo: Toshihide Endo, Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency, and moderator Yumi Sato.　

2024.3.19

The Sankei Newspaper published an article about AgeTech and some of the Forum's Wellbeing & AgeTech Award activities.

Photo: the Forum's AgeTech market map and the smart eye camera that attaches to the smartphone of start-up OUI, which won the Digital Minister's Award at the Forum.

スマホで眼科受診・転んでも骨折しない床…ＩＴ技術で高齢者サポート　「エイジテック」が急速拡大　100歳時代の歩き方 - 産経ニュース (sankei.com)

2023.11.27

Yumi Sato, Chairman served as a judge at the Youth Care Summit (Youth Care Summit) policy contest organised by students. After the summit of local authorities, young carers from primary schools to university students selected from all over the country gathered to make a policy presentation under the theme Care x 00.　　

YouthCare Summit

2023.10.19

Yumi Sato, Chairman of the Well Ageing Economy Forum, appeared as a guest on J-WAVE's STEP ONE programme 'ON THE EDGE' as a professional news commentator on the popular Japanese news app 'News picks'. She commented on the news about the Nobel Prize in Economics 2023, gender ageism in Japan and well agein

2023.9.1

President Yumi Sato took over as News picks commentater and commented on news about Mr. Elon Musk and the super-aged society. "Elon Musk could be our god of super-aging country!?"

#Elon Musk #Super-aged society

#Neuralink Corporation　#Brain

2023.5.29

Yumi Sato, President of the Forum, gave a lecture on Japan's age-tech market and the challenges of a super-aged society to an age-tech delegation sent by the Singapore Government, and coordinated the companies they visited

(Photo below: OUI, a start-up that won the Minister of Digital Award at the Well-being & Age-tech Award, making a presentation at JETRO).