Masaki is a New York-based interdisciplinary designer, strategist, and futurist who has 15+ years of experience in strategic foresight and visionary concept creation through design artifacts. He has expertise in Speculative Design and envisions future scenarios, socio-technical visions, and beautiful dreams through various media: photography, writing, video, and interactive prototypes. Currently, as a Lead Design Strategist/Futurist at JPMorgan Chase, he leads strategic projects with product team leaders. At the intersection between design, business, and technology, he leads projects with product teams to create desirable visions and roadmaps considering desirability, viability, and feasibility and execute the minimum viable product strategically. Since 2021, Masaki has been a visiting associate professor at Tohoku University, Japan, teaching engineering students speculative design and vision design. Most recently, he has proactively applied his artistic sensibilities in both the realms of academics and business. He holds many lectures and workshops to shape positive future scenarios collaboratively with students, citizens, and business professionals. Masaki believes we need alternative visions and worldviews to overcome numerous wicked problems in this century, such as climate change, forced migration, political and social polarization, etc. Therefore, he is interested in challenging our societal structures, vested interests, and Cartesian belief systems through his works. In doing so, he provokes his audience to shake off old habits, patterns, and mindsets and cultivates new ways of seeing the world differently. He received his BE and MA degrees from the University of Tokyo and an MFA in Design and Technology from the Parsons School of Design. Prior jury experiences include the w3 Awards, the Davey Awards, the Good Living 2050 international vision design contest, and many more.