Haruku Kawamoto
Expert Web3 Business Development Department, Business Exploration & Development Division
KDDI Corporation
After graduating from Keio University SFC, he worked at Hakuhodo Inc., Digital Hollywood Inc. and Keio University faculty before joining KDDI Corporation in 2018.
Since joining the company, he has been involved in 5G-related service development work and examining investment collaborations with venture companies in Japan and abroad.
He planned and launched Virtual Shibuya, Japan's first municipality-approved virtual space, in the pandemic of covid-19. Since then, he has been involved in the development of a "city-linked” metaverse.
In 2021, he launched the "Virtual City Consortium. In conjunction with the development, he will work on legal design, focusing on "virtual city guidelines" for the metaverse and city-linked metaverse.