Koji Ono

Submarine Cable & Satelite Eng. Dept, Submarine Cable Networks,
Company Executive Director, KDDI Corporation

After Achieving M.E. at Nagoya University, he joined KDDI R&D Laboratories and engaged in developing submarine cable systems and managing international submarine cable consortiums. He has led several submarine cable projects as chairman of Engineering, Procurement, O&M and Capacity Administrations committees for more than 20 years.

After assignment to Hong Kong and Vietnam for global network operations and data centers, he was designated as CEO of KDDI Cableship & Subsea Engineering Ltd., where he contributed to re-establish the maintenance zone arrangement in west Pacific region, which he devoted 30 years ago as the 1st multinational cable protection arrangements.

Now he has returned to KDDI, and focuses on submarine cable resilience and regulatory compliance, and serves as the only 1 Japanese member of the International Advisory Body on Submarine Cable Resilience of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN specialized agency. He was awarded the Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Award (Telecommunications Month) in 2025, and received the ITU Association of Japan Distinguished Service Award in 2026.