Financial City New York: Tokyo Meets New York: Capital, Innovation, and the Next Era of Global Finance

October 14-15, 2026 New York City Invitation Only

A New York forum for Tokyo's next phase as a global financial city

Tokyo is entering a new phase of financial market development. Asset ownership reform, corporate governance progress, emerging manager support, cross-border capital formation, and rapid advances in AI are reshaping the way global investors assess Japan. FGF New York 2026 brings these themes to the centre of global finance.

The forum is designed to connect Tokyo's public-private financial ecosystem with senior decision-makers in New York, creating a platform for direct dialogue, investment consideration, and long-term relationship-building.

01

Global Financial City

Tokyo's positioning as a resilient, trusted, and globally connected financial centre — its reforms, its ambitions, and the strategic bridge to New York's capital markets.

02

Artificial Intelligence

The investment, infrastructure, and governance questions behind frontier AI — compute, semiconductors, energy, data infrastructure, and whether trusted non-US/non-China ecosystems can shape a balanced AI future.

03

Family Offices

How family offices and long-horizon private capital are reshaping global allocation patterns — legacy, culture, sustainable investment, direct investing, and why Japan may matter more to the next generation.

Two days.
Every detail curated.

18:00

20:00
Invitation Only

Pre-Forum Networking Reception

An invitation-only evening reception bringing together FinCity.Tokyo representatives, New York-based financial leaders, public-sector guests, partners, speakers, and selected investors ahead of the main forum.

The reception provides an informal setting for senior participants to begin the conversation before the roundtable and main forum — strengthening relationships and introducing Tokyo's message in a focused environment.

FormatStanding reception with drinks and light food
AudienceApproximately 100 invited guests
VenueNew York City (TBC)
10:00

11:30
Closed · Chatham House Rule

Investors Roundtable: Japan's Asset Management Transformation

A curated group of senior asset allocators, family offices, public pensions, endowments, and asset managers for a closed-door exchange on Japan's changing investment landscape. The format is designed for candid peer-level exchange.

ThemesAsset Owner Principles · Corporate governance reform · Private debt · Emerging manager allocation strategy
Audience25–30 senior participants: pensions, endowments, family offices, selected asset managers
RulesChatham House Rule — invitation only
10:00

11:30
Closed · Institutional Allocators

Institutional Asset Allocator Roundtable

A parallel closed-door roundtable for institutional asset allocators to examine Japan's changing opportunity set, Tokyo's financial-city agenda, and the governance, manager-selection, and portfolio-construction questions shaping long-term allocation decisions.

ThemesInstitutional allocation · Portfolio governance · Public and private markets · Japan exposure
AudiencePensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign investors, insurers, OCIOs, and selected consultants
TimingRuns in parallel with the Investors Roundtable
1:30 PM

1:40 PM
Opening & Keynote

Introduction of FinCity.Tokyo

Opening introduction to FinCity.Tokyo and the strategic purpose of FGF New York 2026.

SpeakerFCT: Hiroshi Nakaso, Chairman of FinCity.Tokyo
FormatOpening remarks
Speaker Profile 1 profile
Opening Remarks
Hiroshi Nakaso
Chairman, FinCity.Tokyo

Opening the forum with FinCity.Tokyo's financial-city agenda and the strategic bridge between Tokyo and New York.

1:40 PM

1:50 PM
Governor Message

Governor’s Message

Message from Tokyo leadership to frame the forum and Tokyo's global financial-city ambitions.

SpeakerYuriko Koike, Governor of Tokyo
Duration10 minutes
Speaker Profile 1 profile
Governor Message
Yuriko Koike
Governor of Tokyo

Presenting Tokyo's message to global capital and framing the city's international financial ambitions.

1:50 PM

2:00 PM
Keynote

New Era of US/Japan Relationship

A keynote perspective on the evolving US/Japan relationship and the role of financial cooperation between Tokyo and New York.

SpeakerSatoshi Katahira, Ambassador Consul General of Japan in New York
Duration10 minutes
Speaker Profile 1 profile
Keynote
Satoshi Katahira
Ambassador Consul General of Japan in New York

Offering a diplomatic perspective on the evolving US/Japan relationship and financial cooperation between Tokyo and New York.

2:00 PM

2:15 PM
Investment Strategy

GPIF’s Investment Strategy

A focused presentation on GPIF's investment strategy and its implications for institutional asset owners.

SpeakerYusuke Yoshizawa, CIO, GPIF (tentative)
Duration15 minutes
Speaker Profile 1 profile
Investment Strategy
Yusuke Yoshizawa
CIO, GPIF (tentative)

A senior institutional asset-owner perspective on portfolio strategy, governance, and long-horizon allocation.

2:15 PM

2:35 PM
Fireside Chat

Fireside Chat

A senior fireside conversation connecting global macro conditions, policy perspective, and long-term market confidence.

SpeakersNakaso Hiroshi and Janet Yellen (tentative)
Duration20 minutes
Speaker Profiles 2 profiles
Fireside Chat
Hiroshi Nakaso
Chairman, FinCity.Tokyo

Bringing a Tokyo financial-policy perspective to the forum's global macro and market-confidence conversation.

Fireside Chat
Janet Yellen
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary (tentative)

A senior macro and public-policy voice connecting global financial conditions, institutions, and long-term market stability.

2:35 PM

2:50 PM
Break

Coffee Break

A short break between keynote sessions and the afternoon panel programme.

FormatCoffee break
2:50 PM

3:00 PM
Policy Update

Progress of Asset Management Nation Initiative

Japan's “Asset Management Oriented Nation” strategy and the policy progress shaping the market environment for global investors.

SpeakerJFSA
Duration10 minutes
Speaker Profile 1 profile
Policy Update
JFSA
Japan Financial Services Agency

Sharing progress on Japan's asset-management policy direction and the reforms shaping the market environment for global investors.

TBC
Panel Discussion

Sustainable Investment

How to Make Sustainable Investment Sustainable.

SpeakersAsset owners and asset managers
ContentA practical discussion on making sustainable investment durable, measurable, and institutionally credible.
Family Offices & Private Capital Profiles 17 profiles
Portrait of Wendi Murdoch
Family Office
Wendi Murdoch
Murdoch Family Office

Investor and entrepreneur with deep ties to the Murdoch family's media and investment network.

Portrait of Madison Huang
Family Office
Madison Huang
Huang Family Office

Former NVIDIA product marketing manager for Omniverse and robotics, connected to the Huang family's philanthropic platform.

Portrait of Banjo Yamauchi
Family Office
Banjo Yamauchi
CEO & Family Representative, Yamauchi No. 10 Family Office

Represents the founding family behind Nintendo and helps lead long-term family investment activity.

Portrait of Paul Yun
Private Equity
Paul Yun
Co-Head of Private Equity & Venture Direct Investing, Chanel Family Office

Co-leads private equity for Mousse Partners, the investment platform associated with the Wertheimer family.

Portrait of Hall Rockefeller
Family Office
Hall Rockefeller
Rockefeller Family Office

Arts writer, speaker, and advocate for women artists, with a Rockefeller family office perspective.

Portrait of James Rothschild
Private Capital
James Rothschild
Rothschild Family Office

Member of the Rothschild family and co-founder of Tru Arrow Partners, a growth-focused private equity firm.

Portrait of Glenn Fuhrman
Philanthropy
Glenn Fuhrman
Fuhrman Family Foundation

Investor and philanthropist, best known as a co-founder of MSD Capital.

Portrait of Noelle Laing
Asset Owner
Noelle Laing
Chief Investment Officer, Walton Family Office

Former Builders Vision leader who managed a USD 1.7 billion endowment and advanced mission-aligned investing.

Portrait of Dylan Wondra
Family Office
Dylan Wondra
President & CEO, Antetokounmpo Family Office

Builds and manages the global business and investment platform for Giannis Antetokounmpo and his family.

Portrait of Richard Li
Family Office
Richard Li
Richard Li Family Office

Hong Kong entrepreneur, founder of PCCW and Pacific Century Group, and son of Li Ka-shing.

Portrait of Billy Daly
Family Office
Billy Daly
Group Chief Investment Officer, MBS Family Office

CIO and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of asset-management and investment experience.

Portrait of Michael Dell
Technology Capital
Michael Dell
Founder & CEO, Dell Technologies

Founder of Dell Technologies and a pioneer of the direct-to-customer PC sales model.

Portrait of Eric Schmidt
Technology Investor
Eric Schmidt
Chief Executive Officer, Relativity Space

Technology executive and investor focused on AI, defence, and advanced technologies.

Portrait of Eduardo Saverin
Venture Capital
Eduardo Saverin
Co-founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer, B Capital

Facebook co-founder and Singapore-based investor through B Capital, a venture and growth investment platform.

Portrait of Howard Marks
Alternative Investment
Howard Marks
Co-founder & Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management

Known for investment memos and long-cycle thinking on markets, risk, and contrarian investing.

Portrait of Oliver Wiesberg
Family Office
Oliver Wiesberg
CEO, Blue Pool Capital

Former Goldman Sachs executive leading Blue Pool Capital, a private investment platform associated with Jack Ma.

Portrait of Stephen Miran
Macro Policy
Stephen Miran
Member, U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors

Economist and policy voice bringing a central-bank perspective to capital markets and allocation discussions.

3:00 PM

3:40 PM
Panel Discussion

New Investment Opportunities Enabled by AI

FCT's version of “Attraction U”: a discussion on why Japan, why now, and what it takes for asset managers to enter and grow in Japan.

SpeakersAsset managers
ContentWhy Japan and what it takes to enter Japan.
Original TopicAttraction U
AI Company Investor Profiles 2 profiles
Portrait of Brad Gerstner
Technology Investor
Brad Gerstner
Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital

Founder of a technology investment firm with exposure to Meta, Snowflake, Uber, NVIDIA, and other global platforms.

Portrait of Philippe Laffont
Technology Investor
Philippe Laffont
Founder & Portfolio Manager, Coatue

Founder of Coatue, a technology-focused investment platform spanning public and private internet, software, and AI companies.

3:40 PM

4:20 PM
Panel Discussion

How Japanese Asset Owners Are Developing Investment Strategies

FCT's version of “Global A.I. Development”: a conversation with AI technology companies on ethical, unbiased, and geopolitically neutral AI.

SpeakersAI technology companies
ContentEthical, unbiased, and geopolitically neutral AI.
Original TopicGlobal A.I. Development
AI Company Founder Profiles 14 profiles
Portrait of Benjamin Mann
A.I. Founder
Benjamin Mann
Co-founder, Anthropic

Co-founded Anthropic after OpenAI, where he was a key architect of GPT-3; leads product engineering focused on safe, helpful AI.

Portrait of Fei-Fei Li
A.I. Founder
Fei-Fei Li
Co-founder & CEO, World Labs

Former Stanford professor and Google Cloud Chief Scientist of AI, now building spatial intelligence systems at World Labs.

Portrait of Yann LeCun
A.I. Founder
Yann LeCun
Co-founder, AMI Labs

Turing Award winner and one of AI's foundational researchers, now focused on scientific breakthroughs in machine learning.

Portrait of Ali Ghodsi
Data & A.I.
Ali Ghodsi
Co-founder & CEO, Databricks

Co-founded Databricks with the creators of Apache Spark and scaled it into a major enterprise data and AI platform.

Portrait of Deepak Pathak
Robotics A.I.
Deepak Pathak
Founder & CEO, Skild AI

Leading embodied-AI researcher building a general-purpose AI brain for robots at Skild AI.

Portrait of Brett Adcock
Humanoid Robotics
Brett Adcock
Founder & CEO, Figure AI

Entrepreneur behind Vettery and Archer Aviation, now building general-purpose humanoid robots for industrial environments.

Portrait of Michael Intrator
AI Infrastructure
Michael Intrator
Co-founder & CEO, CoreWeave

Co-founder who pivoted CoreWeave from crypto mining into high-performance cloud infrastructure for AI workloads.

Portrait of Stephen Balaban
GPU Cloud
Stephen Balaban
Co-founder & CEO, Lambda

Built Lambda from GPU hardware sales into a full-scale AI cloud provider for compute-intensive workloads.

Portrait of Rennen Hallak
Data Infrastructure
Renen Hallak
Founder & CEO, VAST Data

Rebuilt storage and data access assumptions for large-scale AI systems through VAST Data.

Portrait of Chase Lochmiller
Energy & Compute
Chase Lochmiller
Co-founder & CEO, Crusoe

Former quantitative trader helping scale AI data centres powered by stranded and alternative energy sources.

Portrait of Shayne Coplan
Prediction Markets
Shayne Coplan
Founder & CEO, Polymarket

Built a consumer prediction-market platform where users trade on outcomes of real-world events.

Portrait of Tarek Mansour
Regulated Markets
Tarek Mansour
Co-founder & CEO, Kalshi

Co-founded a U.S.-regulated exchange for trading real-world outcomes including inflation, elections, and rates.

Portrait of Melanie Perkins
Consumer Software
Melanie Perkins
Co-founder & CEO, Canva

Turned complex professional design workflows into a simple global consumer platform for graphics and presentations.

Portrait of Astro Teller
Moonshot Technology
Astro Teller
Moonshot Podcast / CEO of X, Alphabet's Moonshot Factory

Associated with breakthrough technologies including self-driving cars, delivery drones, advanced AI systems, and moonshot innovation.

4:20 PM

4:30 PM
Closing

Closing Followed by Reception

Closing remarks from FinCity Tokyo, followed by transition into the evening reception programme.

SpeakerFinCity Tokyo
Duration10 minutes
5:30 PM

7:30 PM
Reception

Cocktails Reception

An evening cocktails reception for speakers, senior participants, partners, and invited guests.

FormatCocktails reception
Timing5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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