Tokyo

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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

30 September

8:30–10:00

Registration and breakfast

10:00–11:00

Opening remarks and product keynote

Location

Main stage

Details

Details coming soon.

Speakers

David Ha

Cofounder and CEO, Sakana AI K.K.

John Collison

Cofounder and President, Stripe

Mitsuru Hiraga

CEO, Stripe

Daniel Heffernan

CEO, Stripe

Tanya Khakbaz

Head of Product Marketing, Stripe

Kevin Miller

Head of Payments, Risk, Support and Global, Stripe

Nicole Paglia

Head of Global Product Marketing, Payments and Risk, Stripe

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

Ryosuke Murai

CTO, MOSH, Inc.

Chrys Ikemoto

Account Executive (Platform), Stripe

Ayano Sasaki

Account Executive (Platform), Stripe

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

Kenta Sugahara

Group Executive, DeNA Co., Ltd.

Toru Imaizumi

Technical Account Manager, Stripe

Yu Kitazume

Solutions Architect, Stripe

12:00–13:30

Networking lunch

13:30–14:15

Fireside chat with Tomoko Namba

Location

Main stage

Details

DeNA founder and CEO Tomoko Namba joins Stripe cofounder and President John Collison for a conversation about leading an organization through an AI transformation, what it means to go "all-in on AI," and what it takes for Japanese companies to compete globally in the age of agents.

Speakers

Tomoko Namba

CEO, DeNA Co., Ltd.

John Collison

Cofounder and President, Stripe

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

Yoshiro Hiramatu

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

Shigekazu Kato

Senior Manager, Accenture Japan Ltd.

Makoto Tahara

Head of Enterprise Sales, Stripe

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

Kojima Noriyuki

CEO and Cofounder, Kotoba Technologies, Inc.

Makoto Nishino

Founder & CEO, Oh my teeth, Co.

Yoko Yamada

Head of Velocity, Japan, Stripe

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

Naoyuki Shibata

Lead Product Manager, LegalOn Technologies, Inc.

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

Naomitsu Kodaka

President & CEO, Tokyo Otaku Mode Co. Ltd.

Takafumi Ikeda

Partner Solutions Architect, Stripe

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

Weng Suwen

VP of Product Marketplace New Business, Mercari

Daniel Heffernan

CEO, Stripe

Emily Sands

Head of Data and AI, Stripe

16:45–17:45

Networking reception

Speakers

Stripe
Cofounder and President
John Collison
DeNA Co., Ltd.
CEO
Tomoko Namba
DeNA Co., Ltd.
Group Executive
Kenta Sugahara
Oh my teeth, Co.
Founder & CEO
Makoto Nishino
Kotoba Technologies, Inc.
CEO and Cofounder
Kojima Noriyuki
Tokyo Otaku Mode Co. Ltd.
President & CEO
Naomitsu Kodaka
Accenture Japan Ltd.
Senior Manager
Shigekazu Kato
MOSH, Inc.
CTO
Ryosuke Murai
LegalOn Technologies, Inc.
Lead Product Manager
Naoyuki Shibata
Stripe
Head of Global Product Marketing, Payments and Risk
Nicole Paglia
Stripe
Head of Payments, Risk, Support and Global
Kevin Miller
Stripe
Head of Product Marketing
Tanya Khakbaz
Stripe
Head of Global Solutions Architecture
Nancy Seid
Stripe
Head of Data and AI
Emily Sands
Stripe
CEO
Daniel Heffernan
Stripe
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
Cofounder and President
John Collison
DeNA Co., Ltd.
CEO
Tomoko Namba
DeNA Co., Ltd.
Group Executive
Kenta Sugahara
Oh my teeth, Co.
Founder & CEO
Makoto Nishino
Kotoba Technologies, Inc.
CEO and Cofounder
Kojima Noriyuki
Tokyo Otaku Mode Co. Ltd.
President & CEO
Naomitsu Kodaka
Accenture Japan Ltd.
Senior Manager
Shigekazu Kato
MOSH, Inc.
CTO
Ryosuke Murai
LegalOn Technologies, Inc.
Lead Product Manager
Naoyuki Shibata
Stripe
Head of Global Product Marketing, Payments and Risk
Nicole Paglia
Stripe
Head of Payments, Risk, Support and Global
Kevin Miller
Stripe
Head of Product Marketing
Tanya Khakbaz
Stripe
Head of Global Solutions Architecture
Nancy Seid
Stripe
Head of Data and AI
Emily Sands
Stripe
CEO
Daniel Heffernan
Stripe
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
Cofounder and President
John Collison
DeNA Co., Ltd.
CEO
Tomoko Namba
DeNA Co., Ltd.
Group Executive
Kenta Sugahara
Oh my teeth, Co.
Founder & CEO
Makoto Nishino
Kotoba Technologies, Inc.
CEO and Cofounder
Kojima Noriyuki
Tokyo Otaku Mode Co. Ltd.
President & CEO
Naomitsu Kodaka
Accenture Japan Ltd.
Senior Manager
Shigekazu Kato
MOSH, Inc.
CTO
Ryosuke Murai
LegalOn Technologies, Inc.
Lead Product Manager
Naoyuki Shibata
Stripe
Head of Global Product Marketing, Payments and Risk
Nicole Paglia
Stripe
Head of Payments, Risk, Support and Global
Kevin Miller
Stripe
Head of Product Marketing
Tanya Khakbaz
Stripe
Head of Global Solutions Architecture
Nancy Seid
Stripe
Head of Data and AI
Emily Sands
Stripe
CEO
Daniel Heffernan
Stripe
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

More speakers

Makoto Tahara
Head of Enterprise SalesStripe
Yoko Yamada
Head of Velocity, JapanStripe
Takafumi Ikeda
Partner Solutions ArchitectStripe
Yu Kitazume
Solutions ArchitectStripe
Toru Imaizumi
Technical Account ManagerStripe
Ayano Sasaki
Account Executive (Platform)Stripe
Chrys Ikemoto
Account Executive (Platform)Stripe

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements.

Getting there

Address

The Prince Park Tower Tokyo

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

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Agenda

Registration and breakfast

Opening remarks and product keynote

Location

Details

Speakers

David Ha

John Collison

Mitsuru Hiraga

Daniel Heffernan

Tanya Khakbaz

Kevin Miller

Nicole Paglia

Fifty percent faster growth: Why platforms are embedding payments

Location

Details

Speakers

Ryosuke Murai

Chrys Ikemoto

Ayano Sasaki

Improving payment performance: Balancing authorization, cost, and fraud

Location

Details

Speakers

Kenta Sugahara

Toru Imaizumi

Yu Kitazume

Networking lunch

Fireside chat with Tomoko Namba

Location

Details

Speakers

Tomoko Namba

John Collison

Enterprise panel: Payments as a source of growth

Location

Details

Speakers

Yoshiro Hiramatu

Shigekazu Kato

Makoto Tahara

Startup panel: Digitising Japan's industries, scaling worldwide

Location

Details

Speakers

Kojima Noriyuki

Makoto Nishino

Yoko Yamada

Designing adaptive revenue models for the AI era

Location

Details

Speakers

Naoyuki Shibata

Expanding globally: Cross-border payments and stablecoin solutions

Location

Details

Speakers

Naomitsu Kodaka

Takafumi Ikeda

Agentic commerce under the hood

Location

Details

Speakers

Weng Suwen

Daniel Heffernan

Emily Sands

Networking reception

Speakers

More speakers

Getting there

The Prince Park Tower Tokyo

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