Hiroto Yasuura is a Professor Emeritus of Kyushu University. He is also a Vice Director General (Chief Cyber Science Infrastructure Director) of National Institute of Informatics (NII).  He also serves for Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as chairs of several committees. Additionally, he has worked for several local governments as advisors and private companies as independent directors.

Prof. Yasuura received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1976, 1978, and 1983 respectively. He was an associate professor in Kyoto University and moved to Kyushu University in 1991 as a professor. In Kyushu University, he conducted research projects on the system LSI design methodology, which includes data-path width optimization, low-energy system design, SoC architecture and a core base LSI test method.  He also promoted education of VLSI design in computer science area in Japan with VDEC (VLSI Design and Education Center) in University of Tokyo.

He served as the research director of Silicon-Sea-Belt Fukuoka from 2001, to build up a research-industry cluster on LSI design. More than 250 LSI design related companies moved to or were established in the Fukuoka area in the last 25 years. He is also one of the founders of ISIT (Institute of Systems, Information Technologies and Nanotechnologies, established in 1995), which is founded by Fukuoka city for promoting ICT industry.

He served as Technical Program Chair and General Chair of ICCAD in 1997 and 1998, respectively, Vice President of IEEE CAS Society, an ACM SIGDA advisory board member, General Chair of ASP-DAC 2003, and Steering Committee Chair of ASP-DAC. He is a fellow of IEEE, IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers) and IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan).

Shinya Akata is a seasoned semiconductor professional with a strong background in test engineering and design for testability (DFT). Akata-san joined Sony Corporation in 1995 and has  held various leadership roles, including Test Engineer, DFT Engineer and Test Leader.  In 2019, he was dispatched to Sony Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation to serve as the Senior General Manager of the CIS Test Engineering Division.  Currently, he is the Deputy Senior General Manager of the Design & System Technological Platform Division at Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation.

Tetsu Ozawa is the General Manager of the Production & Quality Management Group, Product Engineering Division, at Socionext Inc. Headquarters in Yokohama city, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan. His team is responsible for testing technologies and yield management for all products of Socionext.He has more than 30 years of experience in test development and test engineering and is currently responsible for test management (technologies, quality, costs, equipment, components, capabilities, delivery dates, resources). Since then, he has been involved in the outsourcing business for IDM company and fabless company for over 15 years, and now as fabless, he has win-win relationship with global eco-partners to run the outsourcing business. Socionext will continue to provide stable supply of leading-edge, high-quality SoC products to global customers through superior testing technology.