Artist
Artist
SAKUMA Hiroshi
Japan
Profile
Curator of "Speculative Music / New Storytelling". Specially Appointed Researcher, Social Solutions Initiative, Osaka University.
Director of the Osaka Pavilion Promotion Committee for the 2025 World Expo, Japan Representative of the Shape New World Initiative, World Economic Forum.
Born in 1996. At Osaka University, he is engaged in research on virtual beings and future society design, and is scheduled to exhibit “Virtual Beings of the Future” as director of the Osaka Pavilion at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo. He is also the principal investigator for a joint research project between Osaka University and the Japan Science and Technology Agency on future society design, and served as team leader for a moonshot research and development project in 2021. He is currently the chairperson of the Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Committee for the Creation of Future Society, the chairperson of the Task Force for the Future Generation Society of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the Science Fiction Writers Club of Japan, among others. Winner of the Japan Open Innovation Award, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Prize in 2022, and selected for Forbes Japan 30 UNDER 30 in 2023. Project Researcher, Osaka University Social Solutions Initiative; Director, Osaka Pavilion Promotion Committee, Japan International Exposition, 2025.
