Inami Noriaki
Inami Noriaki is Representative Director of INAMI Space Laboratory. During his tenure at IBM in Japan, he signed up for Virgin Galactic‘s space travel in 2005 and paid $200,000, becoming one of the world’s first 100 space travelers and the first Japanese to become a space tourist from an office worker. He is going to be the first person with a disability to go to space in the upcoming space travel. In 2022, he established INAMI Space Laboratory and became its representative director, supporting people and companies aiming to explore into space. Before founding INAMI Space Laboratory, he worked as a project manager and systems engineer at IBM Japan, where he was responsible for the full phase of major customer and system development in the manufacturing and financial industries. At Funai Research Institute, he not only engaged in consulting for various companies, but also launched the space industry as a space business consultant.