| Akihiro Kameda | | National Institute of Information | | Domestic |
| Akihiro Matsuya | | Hitachi Government & Public Corporation System Engineering, Ltd. | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Alex Kalderimis | InterMine | University of Cambridge | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Andrea Splendiani | Yammy Data | DERI / intelliLeaf ltd | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Antonio Fabregat Mundo | Reactome | European Bioinformatics Institute | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Asuka Bando | Integbio Database Catalog | NBDC | | Domestic |
| Atsuko Yamaguchi | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Chisato Yamasaki | TargetMine | National Institute of Biomedical Innovation | | Domestic |
| Daniel Jamieson | Text mining | University of Manchester | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Emi Hattori | | Amelieff | | Domestic |
| Erick Antezana | Semantic Systems Biology / BioGateway / Ontology | NTNU / Bayer CropScience | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Francesco Strozzi | OpenBio | Parco Tecnologico Padano | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Fumihiro Kato | | National Institute of Informatics | | Domestic |
| Georg Tremmel | | Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Gos Micklem | InterMine | University of Cambridge | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Hidemasa Bono | | DBCLS | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Hidetoshi Itaya | | Keio University | | Domestic |
| Hideya Kawaji | FANTOM | Preventive Medicine and Diagnosis Innovation Program, RIKEN | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Hirokazu Chiba | MBGD | National Institute for Basic Biology | | Domestic |
| Hiromasa Ono | RefEx | DBCLS | | Domestic |
| Hiroshi Mori | MicrobeDB.jp | Tokyo Institute of Technology | | Domestic |
| Hiroyo Nishide | MBGD | National Institute for Basic Biology | | Domestic |
| Hongyan Wu | | DBCLS, ROIS | | Organizer |
| Ikuo Uchiyama | MGDB | National Institute for Basic Biology | | Domestic |
| Jerven Bolleman | UniProt | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Jin-Dong Kim | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Joachim Baran | BioInterchange | Ontario Institute for Cancer Research | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Junichi Takehara | MicrobeDB.jp | Tokyo Institute of Technology | | Domestic |
| Karin Verspoor | Text mining | NICTA | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Katsuhiko Murakami | | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology | | Domestic |
| Kazuharu Arakawa | G-language | Keio University | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Kazuyoshi Ikeda | | National Institute of Biomedical Innovation | | Domestic |
| Kentaro Ozawa | | SGI Japan, Ltd. | | Domestic |
| Kevin Cohen | Text mining | University of Colorado School of Medicine | U.C.Denver | Invited |
| Maori Ito | | National Institute of Biomedical Innovation | | Domestic |
| Mari Minowa | | DBCLS, ROIS | | Organizer |
| Mark Thompson | Nanopublication | Leiden University Medical Center | | Invited |
| Mark Wilkinson | SADI | Polytechnic University of Madrid | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Masaaki Kotera | | ICR, Kyoto University | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Masaki Banno | | University of Tokyo | | Domestic |
| Masayuki Yarimizu | | University of Tokyo | | Domestic |
| Michel Dumontier | Bio2RDF, SIO | Carleton University | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Mitsuteru Nakao | | Eisai Co., Ltd. | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Naohisa Goto | OpenBio | Osaka University | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Nick Juty | identifiers.org | European Bioinformatics Institute | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Noriko Matsumoto | | | | Domestic |
| Nozomi Yamamoto | MicrobeDB.jp | Tokyo Institute of Technology | | Domestic |
| Pascale Gaudet | BioDBCore | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Peter Cock | OpenBio | The James Hutton Institute | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Raoul Bonnal | OpenBio | Fondazione Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Robert Buels | JBrowse | UC Berkeley | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Robert Hoehndorf | Ontology | University of Cambridge | LinkedIn | Invited |
| Satoshi Mizuno | | Tohoku University School of Medicine | | Domestic |
| Shin Kawano | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Shinobu Okamoto | | DBCLS, ROIS | | Organizer |
| Shoko Kawamoto | | DBCLS, ROIS | | Organizer |
| Shuichi Kawashima | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Simon Kocbek | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Soichi Ogishima | | Tohoku University | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Takahiro Ikushima | | Mathematical Science Advanced Technology Laboratory Co., LTD. | | Domestic |
| Takatomo Fujisawa | | DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Takeru Nakazato | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Takeshi Kawashima | Paleogenomics | OIST | Google Sites | Domestic |
| Tatsuro Ohta | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Tatsuya Kushida | | NBDC | | Domestic |
| Tatsuya Nishizawa | | IMSBIO | | Domestic |
| Tore Eriksson | | Taisho Pharmaceuticals | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Toshiaki Katayama | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Toshihisa Takagi | | NBDC/University of Tokyo/DDBJ | | Domestic |
| Toyofumi Fujiwara | Allie | INTEC inc. | | Domestic |
| Trish Whetzel | BioPortal | NCBO | | Invited |
| Yasukazu Nakamura | | DDBJ, National Institute of Genetics | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Yasunori Yamamoto | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Yian Chen | | National Institute of Biomedical Innovation | | Domestic |
| Yoko Okabeppu | | Mitsubishi Space Software Co., Ltd. | | Domestic |
| Yong Guen Song | | RIKEN BSI, Hiroshima Univ. | | Domestic |
| Yosuke Nishimura | | ICR, Kyoto University | | Domestic |
| Yue Wang | | DBCLS, ROIS | LinkedIn | Organizer |
| Yuki Naito | GGRNA | DBCLS, ROIS | | Domestic |
| Yusuke Komiyama | | University of Tokyo | LinkedIn | Domestic |
| Zhiyong Lu | | National Library of Medicine | LinkedIn | Invited |
