Kaoru Yoshihira is Head of Partner Development at BytePlus, ByteDance's enterprise AI and cloud platform. Based in Tokyo, he has spent more than 20 years building global technology businesses, including leading partner operations for Google across Japan and APAC.
Today he works where models like Seedance and Seedream meet the realities of partners, creators, production workflows, token economics, and scale. That work brought him from Tokyo to Vancouver's BC + AI community and now to the Futureproof conversation.
Meet Kaoru Yoshihira and join us in Vancouver from October 28–30, 2026.