Tokyo

Date
September 30, 2026
Time
08:30–17:45 JST
Location
The Prince Park Tower Tokyo

Join fellow business leaders and builders at Stripe Tour Tokyo to explore the latest in payments and financial technology. Connect with the local business community while learning from industry experts and growing companies. You’ll leave with strategies for growing your business, responding to market shifts, and building lasting customer relationships.

Agenda

Register
30 September
8:30–10:00

Registration and breakfast

    10:00–11:00

    Opening remarks and product keynote

      11:30–12:00

      Fifty percent faster growth: Why platforms are embedding payments

        Location

        Breakout room

        Details

        Platforms that embed payments see higher user retention and 50% faster revenue growth. Learn about Stripe’s latest platform products, and hear how businesses are turning payments into a new source of revenue.

        Speakers

        Chrys Ikemoto

        Account Executive, Stripe

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        Ryosuke Murai

        CTO, MOSH, Inc.

        11:30–12:00

        Improving payment performance: Balancing authorization, cost, and fraud

          Location

          Main stage

          Details

          Learn how Stripe can help you improve auth rates, reduce costs, and strengthen fraud prevention. Hear from businesses on Stripe that are getting results with Stripe Authorization Boost, Stripe Radar, and Stripe Orchestration.

          Speakers

          Yu Kitazume

          Solutions Architect, Stripe

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          12:00–13:30

          Networking lunch

            13:30–14:15

            Closing fireside

              14:30–15:00

              Enterprise panel: Payments as a source of growth

                Location

                Main stage

                Details

                More enterprises in Japan are moving payments out of the back-office and into their growth plans. Hear from enterprises on how they’re modernizing their payments infrastructure, what outcomes they’ve achieved, and what they’ve learned along the way.

                Speakers

                Makoto Tahara

                Head of Enterprise Sales, Stripe

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                Yoshiro Hiramatu

                Director, TOHO Digital Lab / Head of Digital Business Promotion Division, TOHO CO., LTD.

                Shigekazu Kato

                Senior Manager, Accenture Japan Ltd.

                14:30–15:00

                Startup panel: Digitising Japan's industries, scaling worldwide

                  Location

                  Breakout room

                  Details

                  Japan’s startups are tackling two major challenges: digitising industries that are traditionally analog domestically, and selling globally from day one. Hear from founders on how they build products for Japan’s digitisation, how they choose their financial infrastructure, and how they expand globally from Japan.

                  Speakers

                  Yoko Yamada

                  Head of Velocity, Japan, Stripe

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                  Makoto Nishino

                  Founder & CEO, Oh my teeth, Co.

                  15:30–16:00

                  Designing adaptive revenue models for the AI era

                    Location

                    Main stage

                    Details

                    Account-based pricing is giving way to usage-based and hybrid models as AI changes how businesses monetize. Making the new models work means treating pricing as a product, not a one-time decision. Learn how businesses are iterating on their pricing, and how Stripe’s billing infrastructure supports the shift.

                    Speakers

                    Mao Morimitsu

                    Japan Lead, Stripe Billing, Stripe

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                    15:30–16:00

                    Expanding globally: Cross-border payments and stablecoin solutions

                      Location

                      Breakout room

                      Details

                      Expanding globally means localising checkout, settling in multiple currencies, and meeting different regulations in every market you enter. Learn how businesses are using Adaptive Pricing, stablecoin payments, and Stripe as a merchant of record to turn global demand into revenue faster and at lower cost.

                      Speakers

                      Takafumi Ikeda

                      Partner Solutions Architect, Stripe

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                      16:15–16:45

                      Agentic commerce under the hood

                        Location

                        Main stage

                        Details

                        Agentic commerce is an entirely new type of sales channel—one where algorithms evaluate your products, initiate transactions, and become repeat buyers. Learn about the production challenges in making catalogs legible to agents, embedding customer context into agent-mediated flows, and re-architecting fraud and pricing models for autonomous buyers. Drawing from Stripe’s work with early partners, we’ll share concrete patterns from teams already shipping—and the trade-offs they’ve experienced.

                        Speakers

                        Emily Sands

                        Head of Data and AI, Stripe

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                        16:45–17:45

                        Networking reception

                          Speakers

                          • Stripe

                            John Collison

                            Cofounder and President

                            John Collison

                          • DeNA Co., Ltd.

                            CEO

                            Tomoko Namba

                          • Oh my teeth, Co.

                            Founder & CEO

                            Makoto Nishino

                          • Kotoba Technologies, Inc.

                            CEO & Cofounder

                            Kojima Noriyuki

                          • Accenture Japan Ltd.

                            Senior Manager

                            Shigekazu Kato

                          • MOSH, Inc.

                            CTO

                            Ryosuke Murai

                          • Stripe

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                            Head of Product Marketing

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                          • Stripe

                            Head of Global Solutions Architecture

                            Nancy Seid

                          • Stripe

                            Emily Sands

                            Head of Data and AI

                            Emily Sands

                          • Stripe

                            Joined Stripe Japan in 2022, where she leads the sales team covering startups, SMBs, and mid-market clients. Also focuses on building partnerships with startup investors, including VCs and CVCs. At her previous employer, Preqin — a research and data provider specializing in alternative investments — she led a VC fund benchmarking project in collaboration with the Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA). With a long track record of contributions to the growth and vitality of Japan's VC and startup ecosystem.

                            Head of Velocity, Japan

                            Yoko Yamada

                          • Stripe

                            Began his career as an IT consultant before transitioning to software development. After gaining experience in packaged software and web service development, he played a key role in establishing GitHub's Japan subsidiary. Currently serves as a Partner Solutions Engineer at Stripe, providing technical support to partner organizations. He is also a published author, with titles including Introduction to Team Development Practices (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2014) and The Complete Guide to GitHub Enterprise Configuration and Administration (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2025).

                            Partner Solutions Architect

                            Takafumi Ikeda

                          • Stripe

                            CEO

                            Daniel Heffernan

                          • Stripe

                            Responsible for growth and sales strategy for Stripe Japan's operations in the Japanese market. Following joining the company, drove growth as Digital Native Segment Lead. Prior to this, served as Enterprise Commercial lead at Microsoft Japan, spearheading the digital transformation of strategic accounts leveraging public cloud and SaaS solutions. At Ericsson, led the company's media business in Japan as Country Head, driving transformation across the entertainment industry, and also served as Japan General Manager of an Ericsson portfolio company.

                            CEO

                            Mitsuru Hiraga

                          • TOHO CO., LTD.

                            Director, TOHO Digital Lab / Head of Digital Business Promotion Division

                            Yoshiro Hiramatu

                          • Mercari

                            VP of Product Marketplace New Business

                            Weng Suwen

                          • Sakana AI K.K.

                            Cofounder and CEO

                            David Ha

                          • Stripe

                            John Collison

                            Cofounder and President

                            John Collison

                          • DeNA Co., Ltd.

                            CEO

                            Tomoko Namba

                          • Oh my teeth, Co.

                            Founder & CEO

                            Makoto Nishino

                          • Kotoba Technologies, Inc.

                            CEO & Cofounder

                            Kojima Noriyuki

                          • Accenture Japan Ltd.

                            Senior Manager

                            Shigekazu Kato

                          • MOSH, Inc.

                            CTO

                            Ryosuke Murai

                          • Stripe

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                            Head of Product Marketing

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                          • Stripe

                            Head of Global Solutions Architecture

                            Nancy Seid

                          • Stripe

                            Emily Sands

                            Head of Data and AI

                            Emily Sands

                          • Stripe

                            Joined Stripe Japan in 2022, where she leads the sales team covering startups, SMBs, and mid-market clients. Also focuses on building partnerships with startup investors, including VCs and CVCs. At her previous employer, Preqin — a research and data provider specializing in alternative investments — she led a VC fund benchmarking project in collaboration with the Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA). With a long track record of contributions to the growth and vitality of Japan's VC and startup ecosystem.

                            Head of Velocity, Japan

                            Yoko Yamada

                          • Stripe

                            Began his career as an IT consultant before transitioning to software development. After gaining experience in packaged software and web service development, he played a key role in establishing GitHub's Japan subsidiary. Currently serves as a Partner Solutions Engineer at Stripe, providing technical support to partner organizations. He is also a published author, with titles including Introduction to Team Development Practices (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2014) and The Complete Guide to GitHub Enterprise Configuration and Administration (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2025).

                            Partner Solutions Architect

                            Takafumi Ikeda

                          • Stripe

                            CEO

                            Daniel Heffernan

                          • Stripe

                            Responsible for growth and sales strategy for Stripe Japan's operations in the Japanese market. Following joining the company, drove growth as Digital Native Segment Lead. Prior to this, served as Enterprise Commercial lead at Microsoft Japan, spearheading the digital transformation of strategic accounts leveraging public cloud and SaaS solutions. At Ericsson, led the company's media business in Japan as Country Head, driving transformation across the entertainment industry, and also served as Japan General Manager of an Ericsson portfolio company.

                            CEO

                            Mitsuru Hiraga

                          • TOHO CO., LTD.

                            Director, TOHO Digital Lab / Head of Digital Business Promotion Division

                            Yoshiro Hiramatu

                          • Mercari

                            VP of Product Marketplace New Business

                            Weng Suwen

                          • Sakana AI K.K.

                            Cofounder and CEO

                            David Ha

                          • Stripe

                            John Collison

                            Cofounder and President

                            John Collison

                          • DeNA Co., Ltd.

                            CEO

                            Tomoko Namba

                          • Oh my teeth, Co.

                            Founder & CEO

                            Makoto Nishino

                          • Kotoba Technologies, Inc.

                            CEO & Cofounder

                            Kojima Noriyuki

                          • Accenture Japan Ltd.

                            Senior Manager

                            Shigekazu Kato

                          • MOSH, Inc.

                            CTO

                            Ryosuke Murai

                          • Stripe

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                            Head of Product Marketing

                            Tanya Khakbaz

                          • Stripe

                            Head of Global Solutions Architecture

                            Nancy Seid

                          • Stripe

                            Emily Sands

                            Head of Data and AI

                            Emily Sands

                          • Stripe

                            Joined Stripe Japan in 2022, where she leads the sales team covering startups, SMBs, and mid-market clients. Also focuses on building partnerships with startup investors, including VCs and CVCs. At her previous employer, Preqin — a research and data provider specializing in alternative investments — she led a VC fund benchmarking project in collaboration with the Japan Venture Capital Association (JVCA). With a long track record of contributions to the growth and vitality of Japan's VC and startup ecosystem.

                            Head of Velocity, Japan

                            Yoko Yamada

                          • Stripe

                            Began his career as an IT consultant before transitioning to software development. After gaining experience in packaged software and web service development, he played a key role in establishing GitHub's Japan subsidiary. Currently serves as a Partner Solutions Engineer at Stripe, providing technical support to partner organizations. He is also a published author, with titles including Introduction to Team Development Practices (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2014) and The Complete Guide to GitHub Enterprise Configuration and Administration (Gijutsu-Hyoronsha, 2025).

                            Partner Solutions Architect

                            Takafumi Ikeda

                          • Stripe

                            CEO

                            Daniel Heffernan

                          • Stripe

                            Responsible for growth and sales strategy for Stripe Japan's operations in the Japanese market. Following joining the company, drove growth as Digital Native Segment Lead. Prior to this, served as Enterprise Commercial lead at Microsoft Japan, spearheading the digital transformation of strategic accounts leveraging public cloud and SaaS solutions. At Ericsson, led the company's media business in Japan as Country Head, driving transformation across the entertainment industry, and also served as Japan General Manager of an Ericsson portfolio company.

                            CEO

                            Mitsuru Hiraga

                          • TOHO CO., LTD.

                            Director, TOHO Digital Lab / Head of Digital Business Promotion Division

                            Yoshiro Hiramatu

                          • Mercari

                            VP of Product Marketplace New Business

                            Weng Suwen

                          • Sakana AI K.K.

                            Cofounder and CEO

                            David Ha

                          Getting there

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                          The Prince Park Tower Tokyo

                          4-8-1 Shibakoen Minato, Tokyo 105-8563 Japan
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                          4-8-1 Shibakoen Minato, Tokyo 105-8563 Japan
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