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Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
What is the Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace?
The forum brings together concerned parties to share anew the importance of achieving global peace, a prerequisite for conducting business activities, through multifaceted discussions on ways to connect business and peace building. The forum is also designed to provide the business community with the opportunity to reconsider its role in attaining a nuclear-free peaceful world and explore ways to make concrete contributions to achieving this goal.
The conference was first launched in 2013 as the “World Business Conference for World Peace” and from 2020 up to now as “Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace.”
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2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
The "2025 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace" will be held over two days, May 30 and May 31, 2025, in a hybrid format (In-person and Online).
Since 2013, Hiroshima Prefecture has hosted eight conferences, inviting leaders from Japan and abroad, including business executives, to discuss peacebuilding through business and share these discussions globally.
In its ninth iteration, this forum will focus on:
- The forum will address the instability of the current global landscape through multifaceted discussions on the future of capitalism, engagement with emerging technologies such as generative AI, and the formation of a new world order in the context of geopolitical shifts.
- For the first time, an Executive Committee (EC) has been formed, chaired by Mr. Takeshi Niinami, the Chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives), and joined by influential leaders from Japan and around the world.
- Sessions will be held in collaboration with world-renowned business schools and leading global strategy consulting firms.
Executive Committee Members
Date:
Friday, May 30th to Saturday, May 31st, 2025
Venue:
Grand Prince Hotel Hiroshima (2nd Floor, "Setouchi")
Address: 23-1 Motoujina-machi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8543 Japan
(Simultaneous online streaming available)
Information on Free Shuttle Bus Service (PDFファイル)(569KB)
Topic:
"The Role of Business Leaders in a Divided World: The Future of Peace, Sustainability, and Technology"
Participation Fee:
Free
How to Register:
Please register via the dedicated website.
■For In-person (Capacity: 300 participants): Deadline: Friday, May 23, 2025 (Extended)
■For Online (No capacity limit): Deadline: Thursday, May 29, 2025
Organizers:
Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace, Nikkei Inc.
Media Partner:
Financial Times
Previous Forums
2023 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace
◆Date： April 20, 2023 (Thursday)
◆Organizer： Hiroshima Organization for Global Peace（HOPe）
◆Venue： Hilton Hiroshima（It was also held online.）
◆Theme： International society/economy in the wake of Ukraine invasion and contribution of business to peace
◆Program：
Opening
Mr. Takeshi (Tak) NIINAMI, Chief Executive Officer, SUNTORY HOLDINGS LIMITED, and
Mr. Hidehiko YUZAKI, Governor, Hiroshima Prefecture
Keynote Speech
◆Theme: 21st-century challenges posed by the war in Ukraine
◆Speaker: Mr. Serhii PLOKHY, Professor of History, Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Session 1
The importance of information for peace and the role of information companies
Session 2
How to tackle the weaponization of economics (energy, food, etc.)
Closing
Back Issue
- 2022 Report (PDFファイル)(421KB)
- 2021 Report (PDFファイル)(1.59MB)
- 2020 Report (PDFファイル)(630KB)
- 2019 Report (PDFファイル)(4.1MB)
Introduction Video of the 2016 World Business Conference for World Peace
Tokyo Session
The Tokyo Session of the Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace has been organized in Tokyo by the Hiroshima for Global Peace + Tokyo Community.
For more information, please see here. (only in Japanese)
2022 Hiroshima Business Forum for Global Peace Tokyo Session
