Conference Speakers

Yoshiaki Wada

Yoshiaki Wada is currently Director and the head of financial data center section of the Bank of Japan's Financial Systems and Bank Examination Department. In this capacity, he is responsible for the operation of the bank's financial database system and leading the development of XBRL-based data collection system, which went live in February 2006, and have been evolving gradually.

Previous experience includes time with the Information System Services Department, the Secretariat of the Policy Board, and the Budget and Management Office. He has a BA in economics from Hitotsubashi University, and in his spare time enjoys listening to music on his audio system which he constructed himself. Mr. Wada is also very involved in the Boy Scouts movement.

Mike Willis

Mike Willis has more than 26 years of accounting and auditing experience and is a partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Mike serves as the Chairman of XBRL International, which is currently composed of more than 600 leading software, accounting and finance companies from 30 countries around the world.   Mike has served in a number of roles within the XBRL community and currently serves on the International Steering Committee as Chairman.  XBRL is an international information format standard designed to dramatically enhance business reporting supply chain processes benefiting preparers, distributors, aggregators and consumers of this information.   He speaks frequently, publishes papers and blogs on the topic of business reporting.  Mike has been interviewed for or published articles in a range of business periodicals on the topic of a more efficient business reporting supply chain including the Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, Business Week, Wall Street & Technology, CFO Magazine, and CIO Magazine.