Yukihiko Matsumura graduated from the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Tokyo, in 1988. He obtained a PhD in the field of Chemical Energy Engineering in 1994 from the same university. He worked at the University of Hawaii as a visiting researcher for two years, while he worked at the University of Tokyo to be an associate professor in the Environmental Science Center. Since 2001, he has been working at Hiroshima University, where he was appointed professor in 2007. His research interests are thermal engineering, supercritical fluid engineering, and research on biomass and bioenergy. In 2026, he received the Johannes Linneborn Prize from the European Commission.

Genta Ando is Director of the Electricity Infrastructure Division at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), where he leads policy planning for transmission networks and power generation. Prior to his appointment to current position, he served as Executive Director of JETRO San Francisco, supporting Japanese startups in Silicon Valley. He also worked as Director of the Corporate System Division at METI, where he led the development of the Guidelines for Corporate Takeovers and broader corporate governance reforms. He also contributed to Japan’s electricity market liberalization reforms from 2012 to 2016. Genta holds an MPA from Columbia University and engineering degrees from the University of Tokyo.

Yoshimitsu Umahashi is a Senior Research Scientist at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Japan. He has more than 30 years of experience in power system planning, including generation and transmission planning and UHV transmission systems. Before joining CRIEPI, he worked for Tokyo Electric Power Company and served as Executive Vice President of TNcross Corporation. His current research focuses on future energy networks addressing the rapid growth of large-scale data centers and the integration of renewable energy. He is particularly engaged in developing the concept of “Watt-Bit Coordination,” which integrates power system operation with digital infrastructure and computational workloads. He also serves as Co-Convenor of IEC/MSB SWG 26 “Clean Green Datacentre,” together with a representative from the British Standards Institution (BSI), contributing to international efforts toward sustainable data centers and related standardization.