Activities

Art and Finance - Vol.5 , Oct 15th, 2024 Arts at Worldwide Financial Centres

2024.09.24 (Tue)

At the last event, Vol.4, we learned a lot of good example to explain how/why Arts are connected to financial centres. Thanks to the actual visit of The World Alliance of International Financial Centers (WAIFC) members to Tokyo, we hereby organise another event together with the financial centres from all over the world!
Art and Finance Vol.5 is to learn more example of their activities related to Arts followed by the onsite networking session.

Art and Finance Survey

 

Organizer: JIAM

Supported by: FinCity.Tokyo and WAIFC
Title:Art x Finance – Vol.5 , Arts at Worldwide Financial Centres
Date:18:00 -19:00 (JST) on 15th Oct, 2024
Venue:Hybrid (online and offline)
KABLE, KABUTO ONE 3F, 7-1 Nihonbashi Kabutocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

 

18:00 – 18:10

(10 mins)

Welcome & Opening remarks  Keiichi Aritomo, JIAM Director and Chairman of WAIFC
Dr. Jochen Biedermann, Managing Director, WAIFC
18:10 – 19:00

(25 mins)

Panel discussion 1. What Arts/Artists can bring to the Global Financial Hubs?

2.What interventions from IFCs do artists/art industry like to see in order to better integrate themselves within IFCs

3. Challenges that artists and the art industry face by bringing in voice(s) of artists

4.The role of IFCs in facilitating the art industry to navigate these challenges to better integrate themselves in our societies and within financial centers. 

  A representative, Enterprise NGRA  
  Jae Choi, Busan Finance Center  Maestro Masato Suzuki
  Dai Sugiyama, SMBC Trust Bank

 

Speakers

Masato Suzuki

©Marco Borggreve

Masato Suzuki received a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Tokyo National University for Fine Arts and Music (now Tokyo University of the Arts), and completed courses at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He was awarded 20th Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, the 18th Hideo Saito Memorial Fund Award, and the 18th Hotel Okura Music Award. Suzuki is Principal Conductor of Bach Collegium Japan (BCJ), Conductor and Creative Partner of Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, and Music Director of Ensemble Genesis. He is also the designated principal guest conductor of the Kansai Philharmonic Orchestra. He regularly appears on the radio program “The Pleasure of Early Music” on NHK FM. Executive Producer of the Chofu International Music Festival, stage direction, planning and production, and composition, Suzuki’s boundary-less activities are expected much from various quarters. Suzuki is a visiting professor at Kyushu University.

 

Dai Sugiyama, Executive Officer, Consumer Business Unit, SMBC trust bank


He has worked in the wealth management business for more than 20 years at Citibank Japan Ltd. and SMBC Trust & Banking Co.
Currently, as Executive Officer of SMBC Trust & Banking, he is responsible for private banking and wealth management business.

 

Jae Choi, Busan Finance Center

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