SDGs+Beyond Future Society for Life Week
Shaping the future: insights and innovations from 7 themes
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'Can we achieve the SDGs? What do we do beyond the goals?'
Discussion
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| Transmission of simultaneous interpretation | Provided |
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| Language of interpretation | Japanese and English |
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking typically opens with the '2-month advance lottery.' Click below for details.
* Arrive early; latecomers may not be admitted.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
Please watch the Virtual Studio if you are outside the venue.
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- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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2025.10.12[Sun]
16:30 ～ 18:00
(Venue Open 16:00)
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- Venue
- Theme Weeks Studio
Programme details
In this session, we will summarize the discussions from the seven Theme Weeks and present recommendations for "Designing Future Society for Our Lives." Beginning with a keynote speech by a senior UN official, we will share the outcomes demonstrated in the Theme Weeks and highlight key messages for the future society. Furthermore, under the banner of “SDGs+Beyond,” we will organize what new values and perspectives can be presented for the world beyond the SDGs. Finally, diverse speakers—including international organizations, researchers, companies, and next-generation leaders—will come together to discuss how the knowledge gathered can be translated into concrete social impact.
*Simultaneous interpretation is available in both English and Japanese. Please bring a smartphone, tablet or other internet-enabled device with earphones to listen.
Cast
Moderator
Norichika Kanie
Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University; Vice Director of Keio STAR (Sustainable and Transformative Actions for Regeneration); Director of xSDG Laboratory, SFC Research Institute
He served as a lecturer and assistant professor at the University of Kitakyushu and as an associate professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology before assuming his current position in 2015. Appointed by the UN Secretary-General as one of fifteen independent scientists tasked with preparing the 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report, which was published in September 2023.
He is a member of the Roundtable on the SDGs Promotion Headquarters of the Government of Japan, a member of the Cabinet Secretariat’s Expert Group on Municipal SDGs Promotion. He serves as an ambassador of the Earth Commission. He is actively engaged in various international and domestic research and policy-related activities focusing on the SDGs and global environmental issues.
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Speakers
LI Junhua
Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Mr. Li Junhua of China as the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs effective 25 July 2022.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Li was Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Italy and San Marino. He brings to the position perspectives and visions on fostering multilateral economic and social cooperation, with a commitment to engage with all parties to further implement the 2030 Agenda including dedication to serve Member States. He has contributed to numerous meetings of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the United Nations General Assembly and Security Council, as well as other multilateral meetings including the G20, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Asia–Europe Meeting (ASEM), BRICS etc.
As Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Li guides UN Secretariat support for the follow-up processes of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, including the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development. He also oversees the substantive services to many intergovernmental processes, including the annual meetings of the Second and Third Committees of the General Assembly, the meetings of the Economic and Social Council, including its Development Cooperation Forum, and the work of the subsidiary bodies of ECOSOC. In addition to intergovernmental processes, Mr. Li oversees DESA’s policy analysis and capacity development work. He also serves as the Convenor of the Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs, and advises the United Nations Secretary-General on all development-related issues, including climate change, internet governance, and financing for development.
Mr. Li began his career at the Foreign Affairs Ministry in 1985. Since then, he has served in various capacities, including as Director General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China (2013-2019), Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of China to Myanmar (2010-2012), Deputy Director General of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences (2008-2010), Minister Counselor (Political), Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations (2003-2008), Division Director and Counselor in charge of UN General Assembly and Security Council Affairs (2001-2003), Second and First Secretary, Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations (1997-2001). Third and Second Secretary, the Department of International Organizations and Conferences (1992-1997) and Assistant to the Permanent Representative, Permanent Mission of China to the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok (1986-1992).
Mr. Li holds a Master’s in International Public Policy, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Li is married.
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Sam Karita
Boston Consulting Group Managing Director & Senior Partner
He is BCG Henderson Institute (BHI) Japan Lead, and named Global BHI Fellow for his pioneering thought leadership. He provides consulting to top management of leading corporations in various industries such as Healthcare, Consumer goods, Media, Entertainment on multiple agenda including Strategy, Innovation, DX, Productivity Enhancement and M&A.
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Özge Aydoğan
Beyond Lab Director & curator in chief
Driven by her commitment for positive societal change, Özge makes sure the Lab continues designing and contributing to creative, systemic solutions for the shift we need towards finding a balance between current and future generations, as well as the human and the natural world. An experienced navigator of the multilateral system, she uses her experience and creative imagination to build bridges between the United Nations, other multilateral organizations, academia, the private sector, and civil society to come together as a movement for defining what’s next for sustainable development, with a focus on promoting a values-based, regenerative approach to redefining systems.
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Dr. Tarek Oliveira Shayya
Founder & Managing Director, Gratiya Advisory, Former Executive Vice Chairman of Expo 2020 Dubai
Dr. Tarek Oliveira Shayya is a Global South strategist and bridge-builder to states and boards, focused on government and corporate transformation, corporate diplomacy, and geo-economics. His career spans the United Nations, national government, and the boardroom. After 14 years with UN agencies, he joined the UAE Government as Director of International Affairs (2008–2017) in the Political Affairs Office of the Vice President, where he led cross-government strategy, scenario planning, and international engagement. In 2016 he was appointed to the Expo 2020 Dubai Board and subsequently became Chief International Participants Officer, responsible for securing and managing participation by 192 countries and numerous international organisations. From 2020 he served as Executive Vice-Chairman with duties over political affairs, domestic government engagement, and transition and legacy planning for Expo City Dubai.
In 2022 he founded Gratiya Advisory, a boutique born in the Global South to support governments, sovereign investors, and companies on national transformation, reputation and nation branding, sports and cultural diplomacy, and growth via international expansion and corporate diplomacy. Dr. Shayya holds a PhD in International Relations (Northwestern University), a Master’s Degree in Global Business (University of Oxford, Saïd Business School), and INSEAD’s International Directors Programme Certification. A Brazilian national of Lebanese origin who has lived and worked across Brazil, Syria, Russia, the United States, and the Middle East—including two decades in Dubai—he speaks 4 foreign languages.
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Hiroaki Miyata
Professor, Keio University
Specialises in data science, scientific methodology, and value co-creation;
His research revolves around promoting social reform through utilising data science and other scientific methods to change society for the better. Is involved in a range of projects in and outside the field of medicine, such as the National Clinical Database involving 5,000 hospitals around Japan in collaboration with the medical specialist system and the nationwide COVID-related LINE surveys led by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare. Also works with the Keidanren and World Economic Forum to develop a new vision of society. One of the visions of society that Miyata has co-created is a “resonant society” characterised by vibrancy and diversity where each individual shines through experiencing that world with others.
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Hiroshi Sakuma
Specially Appointed Researcher at the Social Solutions Initiative, Osaka University, Head of the Shape New World Initiative
Born in 1996. Mr. Sakuma has been engaged in the research on the new form of communication using avatars and agents at Osaka University. At Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, he is in charge of the exhibition "Future Virtual Being" as a director of Osaka Pavilion. He is also a principal investigator of the research on the design of future societies, a joint research project between Osaka University and the Japan Science and Technology Agency. In addition to his current position as a chairperson of Shape New World Committee, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry and he is also a member of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan. In 2021, he was appointed as a team leader for a research study on the Moonshot Research and Development Program. He was selected as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Japan 2023 and is a recipient of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award of the Japan Open Innovation Prize.
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SDGs+Beyond Future Society for Life Week
Shaping the future: insights and innovations from 7 themes
The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'Can we achieve the SDGs? What do we do beyond the goals?'
-
2025.10.12[Sun]
16:30～18:00
(Venue Open 16:00)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
- * The schedule is subject to change depending on the organiser's circumstances.
Reservations are required for this programme.
Booking typically opens with the '2-month advance lottery.' Click below for details.
* Arrive early; latecomers may not be admitted.
For more information about making a reservation to watch a programme.
Please watch the Virtual Studio if you are outside the venue.
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