Akira Sakakibara

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer
Panasonic Connect Co., Ltd.

In 1986, he joined IBM Japan. 2005, IBM Distinguished Engineer at Tokyo Research Laboratory. 2010, CTO of Global Business Services, 2012 CTO of Smarter City.

2016, he joined Microsoft Japan as a VP CTO of Microsoft Japan. 2018, President of Microsoft Development.

2021, Joined Panasonic. VP CTO for Connected Solutions.