Members of Conference Committee

AUTOMOTIVE WORLD is supported by the following 12 industry-leading experts.

Hirofumi Inoue
President,
Advanced R&D and
Engineering Company,
Toyota Motor Corp.

Toshiro Kiura
Fellow,
Chief Technology Strategy Officer,
Honda R&D Co., Ltd.

Tetsuo Sasaki
Fellow,
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

Katsuhiro Kato
Director and Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer,
Suzuki Motor Corp.

Naohito Saga
Managing Executive Officer,
Mazda Motor Corp.

Tohru Ishiguro
Corporate Officer
Division General Manager,
Electronics and Electrical Components Technology Development Division
Chief Executive Engineer,
Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

Christian Mecker
President and Representative
Director,
Bosch Corp.

Hirotsugu Takeuchi
Senior Executive Officer, CTO, CDO, CSO,
DENSO Corp.

Hiromitsu Iwabuchi
Representative Director,
MAGNA INTERNATIONAL JAPAN INC.

Yuichiro Namba 
President,
Chief Executive Officer,
AUMOVIO Corp.

Makoto Kudo
Corporate Officer, Deputy CTO,
Astemo, Ltd.

Lei Zhou
Partner,
Deloitte Tohmatsu LLC

(As of Sep. 1, 2026 [Honorifics omitted])