- Nov. 28 - 29, 2017
- Stanford University
Event Report
Concept
Silicon Valley × Japan
Real Matching
The Silicon Valley - New Japan Summit is an invitation only two-day summit to connect Silicon Valley startups and Japanese companies. We collaborated with The SV Startups 100, a Japanese tech media project featuring 100 Silicon Valley startups, the Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project from the Stanford University Asia-Pacific Research Center and Japan Management Association to hold this summit at Stanford University, the core of the Silicon Valley ecosystem. The summit features a Biz-Dev booth where Silicon Valley startups and Japanese companies can directly talk business, as well as lectures and panel discussions on examples of cooperation with Japanese companies that will both stimulate and inform. This summit will generate collaboration between Silicon Valley startups and Japanese companies.
Events
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Keynotes & Panel Sessions
Lectures and panel discussions will be held on the topic of Silicon Valley-style innovation with Japanese companies.
Day1 (11/28) Language : Japanese
Day2 (11/29) Language：English -
Startup Pitch &
Biz-Dev Booths (11/29 Only)30 startups will be on stage to pitch. (AM)
More than 60 startups will have their own booth to hold one-on-one discussions regarding investment and Biz-Dev with Japanese attendees. (PM)
Language：English
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Networking Party
We’ve provided an area for networking, with snacks and drinks to be served.
Speakers
Day1 - Nov.28Japanese（×Simultaneous Interpretation）
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Kenji Kushida
Research Scholar
Stanford University APARC
Kenji Kushida
Research Scholar
Stanford University APARC
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Hiroshi Saijo
CEO
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc.
Hiroshi Saijo
CEO
Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc.
Hiroshi “Hiro” Saijou is CEO and Managing Director at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley.
Prior to founding YMVSV, Hiro was a Division Manager at Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA where he led exploratory efforts in Silicon Valley. Hiro started his career at Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. (Iwata, Japan) where he worked for almost two decades on a broad array of surface mount technology and robotics efforts in addition to new business development efforts.
Also, Hiro is leading MOTOBOT project which is to develop autonomous riding robot for motorcycle to challenge professional rider by lap time.
Hiro enjoys exploring the California Bay Area, sometimes with his golf clubs. He speaks at conferences frequently on bold, ambitious, sometimes crazy corporate innovation.
Hiro earned a software engineering degree from Kyushu University, one of Japan’s National Seven Universities. -
Hiro Rio Maeda
Managing Director
Draper Nexus
Hiro Rio Maeda
Managing Director
Draper Nexus
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Masaru Kusutani
Resarch & Development Dept. Head of Digital Innovation
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.
Masaru Kusutani
Resarch & Development Dept. Head of Digital Innovation
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc.
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Tomohiro Uchida
Director of Business Development and Alliance
Hitachi Solutions America
Tomohiro Uchida
Director of Business Development and Alliance
Hitachi Solutions America
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Kohei Taya
Vice President
IHI Inc.
Kohei Taya
Vice President
IHI Inc.
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Sachio Semmoto
Executive Chairman
RENOVA, Inc.
Sachio Semmoto
Executive Chairman
RENOVA, Inc.
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Akinori Koto
Partner
WiL
Akinori Koto
Partner
WiL
Aki enjoys working with visionary entrepreneurs in frontier tech such as VR/AR, Bitcoin, IoT, and Autonomous Driving as the investment partner. He is also passionate about WiL’s corporate innovation efforts to bring WiL’s corporate partners’ organizational and corporate cultures more in line with Silicon Valley’s ethos. Through his facilitation of the Design Thinking Workshops and seminars, he has deepened his relationships with corporate executives which are influential in opening up business development opportunities between corporations and startup companies.Prior to WiL, he worked at Digital Garage and Twitter where he was instrumental in Twitter’s expansion to Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Architecture in Kansai University.
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Masa Kinoshita
President
Panasonic Ventures
Masa Kinoshita
President
Panasonic Ventures
Masa Kinoshita is a president of Panasonic Ventures and a head of Venture Strategy Office of Panasonic Corporation.
He led M&A team over 10 years in Panasonic Corporation and Sanyo Electric and involved in lots of cross border transactions.
Masa is Certified Public Accountant in Japan and received a BA degree in Economics from Kobe University. -
Eriko Sekiya
Japan Translation Services
Eriko Sekiya
Japan Translation Services
Eriko Sekiya is a Japanese-English simultaneous translator. Her client list extends to international corporations with a focus on technology, finance, marketing and management.
She is known as a published author in international business communication including a number of best-sellers. She was the radio show host on national broadcast, NHK. She has a Master's in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business and Bachelor's in Economics from Keio University. -
Naoki Sugimoto
CEO
Honda R&D Innovations, Inc.
Naoki Sugimoto
CEO
Honda R&D Innovations, Inc.
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Ryoichi Togashi
General Manager
Komatsu
Ryoichi Togashi
General Manager
Komatsu
Mr. Togashi has been involved in the development of heavy equipment of Komatsu for over 20 years, including as a career of a design engineer of mobile crushers, hybrid excavators and etc. Through open innovation promotion activities, he became a member of the office of the CTO in 2014 and he spends almost half a year in Bay area. As an outside committee activities, he is served as a chairperson of the research and development management committee.
Day2 - Nov.29English（○Simultaneous Interpretation）
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Masatoshi Matsuzaki
Chairman of the Board
Konica Minolta, Inc.
Masatoshi Matsuzaki
Chairman of the Board
Konica Minolta, Inc.
Masatoshi Matsuzaki has been Chairman of the Board of KONICA MINOLTA, INC. since April 2014. He joined Konishiroku Photo Industry Co., Ltd. in 1976 and engaged mainly in product development and planning of printers and MFP’s. After the merger of Konica and Minolta in 2003, he held several leadership executive positions responsible for R&D and technology strategy. He served as President and CEO of KONICA MINOLTA INC. from April 2009 to March 2014. Mr. Matsuzaki is also Outside Director of Ichigo Inc., Nomura Research Institute, Ltd., and Nippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd., and is also Vice Chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors, and Chairman of the International Relations Committee, KEIZAI DOYUKAI.
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Takashi Nishikawa
Director
Panasonic Ventures LLC
Takashi Nishikawa
Director
Panasonic Ventures LLC
He is working for scouting cutting edge technologies and new business models. He had worked for researching on Semiconductor materials before. It becomes 25 years in total in Panasonic. He worked at Silicon Valley from 2008 to 2012 and he started to station there from this summer again. He earned an MS in material science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1992.
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Greg Mulholland
CEO
Citrine Informatics
Greg Mulholland
CEO
Citrine Informatics
Greg Mulholland is a co-founder and CEO of Citrine Informatics. He works with partners along the materials value chain to use state of the art data science techniques to identify areas of improvement and optimization in advanced materials discovery and production. He holds an MBA Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a MPhil in Materials Science from Cambridge University, and Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NC State University. In 2015, Greg was featured as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for his work with energy materials at Citrine.
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Daichi Nozaki
Chief Operating Officer
SoftBank Telecom America Corp.
Daichi Nozaki
Chief Operating Officer
SoftBank Telecom America Corp.
Daichi Nozaki is a highly experienced Telecom Professional with over 20 years of proven track record of running global business operations. He often acts as a catalyst to provide operational expertise and is keen in identifying, cultivating, and expanding strategic partnerships to deliver high business value globally.
Daichi partook in forming a joint venture with Aeris, a pioneer and leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) market in 2016. Through this joint venture, Aeris Japan will develop and offer services to meet a variety of growing needs. Earlier this year, Daichi was also one of the key members in forming a joint venture with Boston based global Big Data and AI start-up, Findability Sciences. The platform designed by Findability allows customers including retail, human resources, insurance, banking and financial industry, etc. in Japan to find optimal solutions to support their increasingly complex needs.
Prior to joining SoftBank, Daichi held multiple positions at KDD Corp. Including managing the Service Planning Department. He joined KDDI Global, LLC through a merger where he led several departments including Strategic Alliance and M&A, Global Wholesale, and then moved on to serve as the President & Chief Operating Officer and serving as a member of the board.
Daichi was born in Kyoto, Japan and spent most of his time in Osaka before moving to the US. He studied at Kobe University in Kobe,Japan and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law. -
Marc Jones
CEO
Aeris
Marc Jones
CEO
Aeris
Marc Jones is one of Silicon Valley’s most innovative technology entrepreneurs. As Chairman and CEO of Aeris, Marc and his team have spent over a decade helping the world’s largest companies fundamentally improve their businesses through the Internet of Things (IoT). Named by Goldman Sachs as one of the nation’s best entrepreneurs in 2012 and 2013, Marc has a unique and textured background spanning securities law, investment banking and executive leadership. Prior to Aeris, Marc served as the Chairman and CEO of Visionael, a leader in enterprise network management and automation, raising over $40M to fuel their rapid growth. In his early thirties, he served as President and COO of Madge Networks, where he helped to turn a young $40M revenue company into a $500M industry leader. Madge’s successfulIPO took place during Marc’s tenure. Early in his career, Marc also served as the Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance for the investment banking firm L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Twobin, and as a corporate attorney for Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro. In addition to his professional work, Marc is known for his deep commitment to the non-profit sector. He currently serves as the Chair of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) and sits on the board of the California Health Care Foundation. He previously sat on the Board of Visitors for Stanford Law School, the Stanford Athletic Board, and the Board of Working Partnerships USA. In addition, Marc served as Chair of the National Cyber Security Partnership’s Enterprise Task Force and in 2004, testified before Congress on Cyber Security. He has also testified before Congress on Sarbanes-Oxley. Marc holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
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Joseph Huang
CEO
StartX
Joseph Huang
CEO
StartX
Joseph is the CEO of StartX, which, in partnership with Stanford University and Stanford Health Care, provides the training grounds for Stanford-affiliated entrepreneurs. Joseph was formerly co-founder and CEO of WiFiSLAM, a StartX 2011 company acquired by Apple in March 2013. At Apple Joseph’s team led iBeacon, iOS Wi-Fi location, and sensor fusion divisions before joining StartX in 2016. Joseph has a graduate degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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David Gurle
CEO
Symphony
David Gurle
CEO
Symphony
Author, inventor and leader, David’s ideas have influenced the major trends in enterprise communications over the last 15 years. He defined Microsoft’s unified communications strategy (Skype for Business) and as head of collaboration services at Thomson Reuters introduced federated communications to the financial services industry. Before founding Perzo/Symphony, he was VP and GM of Skype’s Enterprise Business. In terms of Symphony's current status in the Japanese market and strategy for expansion, we have just hired our first Tokyo-based employee who will be focused on engaging and expanding the Japanese Symphony community. APAC as a region has been a primary focus for the company throughout 2017, underscored with David's move to Singapore earlier this year.
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Samrah Khan
Vice President of Business Development
Instart Logic
Samrah Khan
Vice President of Business Development
Instart Logic
Samrah is responsible for all Business Development and Partnership functions at Instart Logic. Prior to Instart, Samrah was with MuleSoft, where she was responsible for Strategic Global Partnerships that focused on driving channel revenue via sales and services. Earlier at MuleSoft, she also focused on alliances for go to market of joint MuleSoft cloud solutions with ISV’s. Before MuleSoft, she spent 7 years at TeleNav that went public in 2010. At TeleNav she held variety of client facing roles ranging from technical sales to business development that focused on large Telcos and OEMs in the mobile space. Samrah has a BS in Computer Science from Santa Clara University.
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Jordi Torras
CEO
Inbenta
Jordi Torras
CEO
Inbenta
Jordi Torras is the CEO and Founder of Inbenta, a company that specializes in natural language processing and semantic search to improve the customer experience. Jordi started his entrepreneurial career in 1997 with the foundation of SBD, a Barcelona-based professional services firm that was acquired in 2004 by Alten Technologies. He then founded Inbenta in 2005 to help companies improve online relationships with their customers. Today, Inbenta's patented technology helps to greatly reduce incoming customer service emails and call center calls for industry-leading companies around the globe, including Ticketmaster, NTT Communications and Skyscanner.
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Ramsey Pryor
Head of International Expansion
Branch
Ramsey Pryor
Head of International Expansion
Branch
Ramsey is Branch's Head of International Expansion. He spearheads our worldwide growth initiatives including Branch’s ambassador and evangelist programs. Through these programs, Branch is able to engage with mobile marketers and developers from around the world, and help them grow their apps through deep linking and best practices. Prior to Branch, Ramsey has held various leadership roles in Product Management at companies including IBM, Outblaze, and Register.com. He started his career as a consultant at Accenture and holds an MBA from IESE Business School and a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.
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Christian Sanz
CEO
Skycatch
Christian Sanz
CEO
Skycatch
Christian Sanz, Founder & CEO of Skycatch, is a serial entrepreneur and U.S. navy, Special Forces veteran with over 20 years of experience in software engineering and technical leadership. Prior to founding Skycatch, Christian launched several successful startups and established one of the largest and most popular drone competitions in the world, Drone Games.
Skycatch, Inc. captures High Precision Drone Data, with the inclusion of deep learning and artificial intelligence, to provide the most accurate, reliable and scalable solutions. Their mission is to create visual intelligence that powers some of the most complex projects for industrial strength clients in construction, agriculture, solar energy and more. Christian's vision for Skycatch to pioneer the aerial data space and help people operate faster, smarter and with accuracy, has led them to incorporate the most cutting edge technology into their products.
Christian Sanz speaks, writes and provides thought leadership on High Precision Drone Data in relation to the following topics: deep learning, software automation, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality. -
Tomer Poran
The lead of Business Development
Matterport
Tomer Poran
The lead of Business Development
Matterport
Tomer Poran leads the business development for the construction market at Matterport ($65M in funding, DCM, Qualcomm, Felicis, Lux and more) bringing a low-cost, high-speed, easy to use reality capture and VR to the construction sector. Prior to that he was an associate at DraperNexus Ventures (a US-Japan cross-border firm) while getting his MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. Tomer is originally from Israel, where before moving to the US he led a GIS services company, worked for Bain & Company in Tel-Aviv, founded his own venture funded e-commerce startup and served for 3.5 years as a naval officer on a missile ship.
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Will Chan
VP of Engineering
Rancher Labs
Will Chan
VP of Engineering
Rancher Labs
Will is a co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Rancher Labs. Prior to Rancher, Will was Director of Engineering for the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix System after their acquisition of Cloud.com, where he held a similar position and was one of the original founding engineers. Will has over 15 years of experience of building massively scalable software for large enterprises and telcos and has held lead engineering positions at SEVEN Networks, Openwave Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners. Will has a B.S (EECS) from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jaron Waldman
CEO
Curbside
Jaron Waldman
CEO
Curbside
Jaron Waldman is a lifelong entrepreneur and builder of things. Jaron previously founded Placebase, a Los Angeles based location technology company that was acquired by Apple in 2009. After the acquisition Jaron spent 4 years at Apple leading a team that developed location-based services across the Apple ecosystem. He became fascinated with the potential of location technology in the nascent era of Mobile commerce, prompting him to leave Apple in 2013 and co-found Curbside. Jaron holds degrees from UCLA and the University of Toronto and lives in Palo Alto.
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Bryan Wargo
SVP Global Sales
Narvar
Bryan Wargo
SVP Global Sales
Narvar
Bryan Wargo is SVP Global Sales at Narvar, bringing 20+ years of leadership experience in high tech and fast growth environments. He has a proven track record building business development and sales strategies, and a solid reputation in the retail technology space. Prior to joining Narvar, Bryan was Head of Worldwide Sales at RetailNext and held executive positions at Aruba Networks and Nearbuy Systems. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.
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Stephen Miller
SVP of Engineering
Fyusion
Stephen Miller
SVP of Engineering
Fyusion
Stephen is the SVP of Engineering and Co-Founder at Fyusion, overseeing all engineering efforts. Before Fyusion, Stephen was a PhD student and Hertz Foundation Google Fellow in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University, working with Dr. Sebastian Thrun while co-maintaining the Point Cloud Library (PCL).
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Eric Rosenthal
Head of Business Development
Abra
Eric Rosenthal
Head of Business Development
Abra
Eric is a Fintech and Emerging Markets veteran who has spent the last ten years working across Latin America, Asia and Europe prior to returning to his home country, the US. Eric has worked for in corporate venture capital for First Data and Citigroup where he led partnerships with, and investments in Fintech start-ups and other emerging payments and technology companies, including helping define First Data’s role in launching Apple Pay and leading its investment in MineralTree, a B2B Payments company. As part of the core innovation and corporate development team, Eric advised business owners and executive leadership on topics of innovation management, competitive analysis and M&A.
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Nathan Valentine
Sr Solutions Engineer
Hashicorp
Nathan Valentine
Sr Solutions Engineer
Hashicorp
Nathan is a Sr Solutions Engineer for HashiCorp, Inc covering the US West Coast. Nathan has a long history of DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Infrastructure Automation consulting. Nathan comes to HashiCorp, Inc after recent work for a Configuration Management vendor and a Kubernetes vendor and has a particular affinity for HashiCorp’s Nomad cluster management technology.
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Justin Eckhouse
VP of Product Development
Haven
Justin Eckhouse
VP of Product Development
Haven
As VP of Product Development, Justin manages the product, product marketing and design/user experience teams for Haven. Justin’s former career as an engineer and long experience running product teams perfectly position him to drive innovation and ensure that his roadmaps get executed on efficiently and effectively.
Prior to joining Haven, Justin’s career spans both product and engineering management positions in startups and large enterprises alike. Most recently he was VP of Product at Alliance Data Systems whose Conversant unit acquired his video ad platform start up, SET. Before that he was in the consumer space at CBS Interactive where he served as Director of Product managing the video, mobile and emerging platforms portfolio of products.
Justin holds a Bachelor Degree from the University of Oregon where he studied Business Administration with concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Computer Science. -
Tobias Wessels
Senior Vice President
ADARA
Tobias Wessels
Senior Vice President
ADARA
Tobias Wessels is ADARA’s Senior Vice President of Business Development based in Palo Alto, CA. Tobi joined the company in early 2012 and established ADARA’s international headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, as its first employee in Europe. With his team he closed more than 80 partnerships with the world’s largest travel companies that contributed more than 650 million monthly traveler profiles to the company. Tobi now leads ADARA’s data acquisition group and corporate partnerships to further drive scale of ADARA’s core asset - its actionable data. Prior to joining ADARA, Tobi was CFO at GoogleX, Google’s incubator for moonshot projects including Google Glass, Google’s self-driving cars and project “Loon”. Tobi holds an MBA from the Darden School at the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts in Economics from the Universite de Fribourg, Switzerland.
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Ajay Khanna
VP of Marketing
Reltio
Ajay Khanna
VP of Marketing
Reltio
Ajay Khanna is the vice president, marketing at Reltio, the creator of data-driven applications. Prior to joining Reltio he held senior positions at Veeva Systems, Oracle and other software companies including KANA, Progress and Amdocs. He holds an MBA in marketing and finance from Santa Clara University
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Gabriel Broner
VP and General Manager of High Performance Computing
Rescale
Gabriel Broner
VP and General Manager of High Performance Computing
Rescale
With 25 years of experience in the industry, Gabriel has held the roles of operating system architect at Cray, General Manager at Microsoft, Head of Innovation at Ericsson, and Vice President and General Manager of high performance computing at SGI. Gabriel joined Rescale as VP & GM of HPC in July 2017.
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Emre Tekisalp
The lead of International Partnerships
Coinbase
Emre Tekisalp
The lead of International Partnerships
Coinbase
Emre leads international partnerships for Coinbase. He is tasked with expanding the company's footprint across the globe to help create an open financial system for the world. He works with financial institutions and technology companies to establish partnerships that make Coinbase's products (Coinbase, GDAX and Toshi) accessible and easy to use.
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Gustavo Lemos
CEO
Medir
Gustavo Lemos
CEO
Medir
Gustavo Lemos is the co-founder and CEO of Mediar (formerly IDXP), a silicon valley venture backed company that is building the next generation real-time in-store shopper behavior analytics application platform to the brick-and-mortar retail. IDXP won the IBM Smartcamp competition and the IBM Global Entrepreneur of the Year popular vote award in 2012. He has been a passionate entrepreneur since he was 15 years old when he created a Top 100 World Website according to PC Magazine. Mediar is based on his experience as an entrepreneur when he founded and led to market share leadership Redeinova, a successful enterprise software cloud SaaS company for the telecom industry and in retail companies when he established and managed a retail store chain. He is originally trained as a telecom engineer; Post Graduated in Finance in one of the world's top business schools (FDC) and executive educated in Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Maxime Prades
VP of Product & Solutions Engineering
Algolia
Maxime Prades
VP of Product & Solutions Engineering
Algolia
Based in San Francisco, Maxime Prades is currently the VP of Product & Solutions Engineering at Algolia, a hosted search API company, where he leverages his experience refining & scaling products that customers will love.Prior to joining Algolia in January 2017, Maxime spent a little under 6 years at Zendesk managing & scaling Product teams. He also oversaw development of the Zendesk Platform - including the APIs, Marketplace, Framework & Mobile SDKs. Prior to Zendesk & Algolia, Maxime worked for PeopleDoc, an enterprise HR software company based out of Paris. Maxime earned his master's degree in Paris at ESCE Business School and is also an investor in Zenly and CloudApp
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Kevin Mullen
Director of Business Development, APAC
Drawbridge
Kevin Mullen
Director of Business Development, APAC
Drawbridge
As Drawbridge's Director of Business Development for APAC, Kevin is responsible for developing key partnerships for Drawbridge's growing data licensing business. Immediately before joining Drawbridge, he oversaw TRUSTe’s Ads business globally, with a specific focus on the company's mobile offerings. Prior to TRUSTe, Kevin was Director of Mobile at Keynote Systems (now Dynatrace), where he worked with clients across the online world to improve the performance of their sites, apps, and ads through the use of mobile performance analytics. He found his passion for big data & analytics at m:metrics (now comScore), where he was employee 11. Kevin graduated from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in Economics.
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Todd Thomas
VP of Business Development
Zendrive
Todd Thomas
VP of Business Development
Zendrive
Todd is leading business development, sales and marketing strategies for Zendrive. Todd is a thought leader in emerging trends in mobile products and platforms, and in innovative technologies within transportation, automotive, insurance and logistics. Prior to joining Zendrive, Todd was VP of Business Development at Veyo, a TNC start-up leveraging data analytics to improve patient transportation which he grew from 0 to $150M ARR in two years. He has also worked as VP of Business Development at Total Transit where he led the launch of the first legal ride-share platform in the US. Todd graduated with a BA from Claremont McKenna College and received an MBA and MS in Economics from the W.P. Carey School of Business.
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Sunil Thomas
CEO
CleverTap
Sunil Thomas
CEO
CleverTap
Sunil has worked at some of the most respected technology companies including Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Infospace and Network 18 on the path to developing his position as a seasoned leader in the technology field. He has 25+ years of industry experience and has been CTO at public companies both in the United States and India. He is deeply passionate about applying his knowledge to building great products. In co-founding CleverTap, Sunil’s aim was to satisfy the immense need for innovation in the ever-evolving mobile landscape. Employing CleverTap’s technology, marketers and product owners can gain access to in-depth analytics and the industry’s best customer segmentation tools to better understand and deeply engage with their users resulting in significantly higher retention and lifetime value
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Oliver Friedrichs
CEO
Phantom
Oliver Friedrichs
CEO
Phantom
With a remarkable record in building three successful enterprise security companies over the past two decades, Friedrichs serves as the CEO of Phantom. Prior to Phantom, Friedrichs founded Immunet, acquired by Sourcefire in 2010 and a key component to Cisco's $2.7b acquisition of Sourcefire in 2013; now thriving as Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) business. Friedrichs co-founded SecurityFocus (Bugtraq) and led DeepSight, the world's first Internet early warning system, acquired by Symantec in 2002, and a recognized leader in security intelligence to this day. He also co-founded Secure Networks and led Ballista (CyberCop), one of the industry’s first vulnerability management solutions, acquired by McAfee in 1998. Friedrichs architected and developed a prototype of the first commercial penetration-testing product, SNIPER, acquired by Core Security Technologies in 2001 and further developed into CORE IMPACT. He attended the University of Manitoba and is the co-author of three security books and recipient of 8 patents.
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Alain Revah
VP of Business Development
Poshmark
Alain Revah
VP of Business Development
Poshmark
Alain Revah is VP of Business & Corporate Development at Poshmark, the largest social marketplace for fashion, where anyone can buy, sell and share their style. Alain started his career building digital communities for Amazon, Major League Baseball and About.com at The Well/Delphi Internet. He invested, built and advised a number of startups including FreshPlanet, Stargazer, Parrot, Grey Juice Lab and Ynsect, as well as large companies such as LVMH, Microsoft and Vivendi Universal. He holds two Master’s degrees in Law and International Business Summa Cum Laude from the University of Paris-Sorbonne.
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Michael J. Covington, Ph.D.
VP of Product
Wandera
Michael J. Covington, Ph.D.
VP of Product
Wandera
Michael leads Wandera’s Product team and is responsible for both defining the product vision and overseeing its delivery to delighted customers. Dr. Covington has over twenty years experience in security research and product development—with roles in academia and industry—including stints at Intel Labs, Cisco Security and Juniper Networks.
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Bilal Musharraf
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Edmodo
Bilal Musharraf
Director of Strategic Partnerships
Edmodo
Bilal is the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Edmodo, a global education network that connects all learners with the people and resources they need to reach their full potential. He has experience in both education and financial sectors. Previously he was Dean of Translations at Khan Academy and VP Development for an international network of private schools. His financial background includes working in venture capital and hedge fund management for firms including One Market Capital, ePlanet Ventures and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Bilal began his career as an actuary.
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Gabe Deale
Worldwide VP of Sales Engineering
Cylance
Gabe Deale
Worldwide VP of Sales Engineering
Cylance
Gabe joined Cylance in 2014, where he’s rapidly expanded the worldwide sales engineering team. Prior to Cylance, Gabe spent over 14 years in the channel and developing startups. He’s held consulting, sales engineering, SE leadership and consulting leadership roles. Within many of these organizations, he established the role and was the first to serve in it. He was one of the first 20 employees at Accuvant (now Optiv Security), a multi-billion dollar security consulting firm. The channel provided a unique vantage point from which to watch the industry evolve. As early machine-learning technologies grew out of big-data challenges, he realized it was the advent of a paradigm shift. He believes it is the only hope for the security industry, as it is the only technology capable of processing huge amounts of data and learning from it to make better autonomous decisions. This technology, combined with the opportunity to work with trailblazers willing to embrace it, drew him to his current role.
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Lawrence Kosick
VP of Global Accounts
Sight Machine
Lawrence Kosick
VP of Global Accounts
Sight Machine
Lawrence Kosick is VP of Global Accounts (APAC) for Sight Machine. His background includes over 20 years of experience in mobile, big data, IoT & enterprise partnerships. Lawrence has been a founding member and had senior leadership roles at both start-up and large technology companies with extensive experience at launching and expanding businesses into Asian markets.
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David Barden
Regional Sales Manager
Plangrid
David Barden
Regional Sales Manager
Plangrid
David boasts a career of over 10 years successfully selling technology and business software applications to large global enterprises. Joining PlanGrid in 2015, he's helped bring awareness and adoption of technology to the construction industry. David holds a degree in Finance and Spanish from Notre Dame.
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Mike Kim
General Manager, Japan
Orbital Insight
Mike Kim
General Manager, Japan
Orbital Insight
As General Manager of Japan at Orbital Insight, Mike’s primary role is to lead the Japan business. He oversees all sales, business development, partner management, and customer delivery for the Japan market. Previously, Mike was a founding enterprise sales team member at Dialpad (Google Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz), a cloud-based unified communications technology company where he helped grow the US and international business. Prior to Dialpad, Mike joined Keith Ferrazzi (CMO of Deloitte and Starwood Hotels and author of “Never Eat Alone”) as a Managing Director at Ferrazzi Greenlight, a management consulting firm providing professional services to Fortune 500 companies. Mike has roots at Deloitte Consulting where he was one of the leads for the Palantir relationship and oversaw Big Data projects using the analytics tool. At the firm, he founded a group applying technology and analytics to social issues such as anti-human trafficking and human rights. He’s passionate about applying technology to solve some of today’s global challenges and issues. Prior to his business career, he volunteered for 4-years at the China-North Korea border helping North Korean refugees and human trafficking victims.
Agenda
| Day 1 | 2017.11.28 (Tue) Japanese（×Simultaneous Interpretation） |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Registration and Breakfast |
| 10:00 - 10:05 | From Organizer
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| 10:05 - 10:15 | Opening Remarks
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| 10:15 - 11:00 | Keynote
The Algorithmic Disruption and Silicon Valley - Towards Harnessing the Ecosystem
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| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Fireside Chat
At the frontier of harnessing Silicon Valley: How Panasonic's lessons from the past inform its new thrust into the SV ecosystem
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| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Panel Discussion
Harnessing Silicon Valley: Honda and Komatsu's successful partnerships with SV startups, and lessons for Japanese companies
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| 13:45 - 14:30 | Keynote
An insider's view of Silicon Valley's "global excellent companies" - lessons for Japan
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| 14:30 - 14:50 | Break |
| 14:50 - 15:35 | Panel Discussion
Is there a "Scientifically-Proven Way" for Japanese corporations to succeed in Silicon Valley?
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| 15:35 - 16:20 | Panel Discussion
Communication in Silicon Valley: Beyond English Language Ability
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| 16:20 - 16:40 | Break |
| 16:40 - 17:25 | Fireside Chat
Racing into Silicon Valley: How Yamaha Motor rapidly began to harness SV
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| 17:25 - 17:30 | Closing |
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| 8:45 - 9:05 | Keynote
StartX and the Stanford entrepreneur ecosystem
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| 9:05 - 9:45 | Panel Discussion
Silicon Valley - New Japan Partnerships
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| 9:45 - 9:55 | Break |
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| 9:55 - 10:35 | Panel Discussion
Silicon Valley - New Japan Partnerships
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| 10:35 - 10:45 | Break |
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| 10:45 - 11:35 | Startup Talk
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| 11:45 - 12:30 | Startup Talk
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch & Networking |
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| 14:00 - 16:50 | Biz-Dev Booths |
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| 16:50 - 16:55 | Closing |
Silicon Valley Startups
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Increases revenue for enterprises by delivering faster, safer & more compelling digital experiences
Funding $140M -
NLP semantic search engine for customer support, e-commerce and conversational chatbots
Funding $16M -
Secure messaging for teams, workgroups and organizations of all sizes.
Funding $229M -
Combining computer vision & machine learning to make images as intelligent as they are beautiful.
Funding $16M -
Branch powers deep links for over 24,000 apps, including Airbnb, Pinterest, Starbucks, and Yelp.
Funding $113M -
Cloud Infra Automation software. Products = Vagrant, Packer, Consul, Terraform, Vault, and Nomad.
Funding $74.2M -
Abra makes cash mobile. Send money instantly & securely to anyone with a smartphone.
Funding $30M -
Curbside platform consists of a set of applications that enable mobile ordering and pickup programs.
Funding $34M -
Haven builds transportation management systems that enable shippers to manage logistics operations.
Funding $14M -
The leading anonymized digital identity company.
Funding $53.7M -
Skycatch builds technology to capture, process, and analyze 3D drone data for industrial enterprise.
Funding $46M -
World's travel data co-op providing a holistic understanding of travel patterns, trends & behavior
Funding $67M -
Deliver data-driven apps with reliable master data, relevant big data insights & recommendations.
Funding $72M -
HD mapping for self driving cars
Funding $32M -
The First Community-Powered Security Automation & Orchestration Platform
Funding $22.7M -
Provide Web/Mobile Analytics and Engagement Platform to increase retention and timely engagement.
Funding $9.6M -
Narvar is an enterprise post-purchase SaaS platform, helping retailers build customer loyalty.
Funding $34M -
Wandera offers a solution for Enterprise Mobile Security and Data Management.
Funding $53.5M -
Global education network that connects all learners with the people and resources they need.
Funding $77.5M -
Coinbase is the world’s most popular way to buy, sell, and use digital currency.
Funding $217.2M -
3D/VR Hardware + SaaS technology for capturing existing spaces and converting to virtual tours
Funding $66M -
Rancher Labs develops open source software for managing Docker and Kubernetes in production.
Funding $30M -
Poshmark is the largest social marketplace for fashion.
Funding $66M -
Algolia is the most reliable platform for building search into your business (web & mobile apps).
Funding $74M -
Rescale offers an enterprise big compute platform for running software simulation on cloud HPC.
Funding $20M -
AI company for Cyber Security
Funding $177M -
In-store behavior analytics to improve effectiveness of pricing and promotion programs for brands.
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Orbital Insight builds a macroscope and finding truth and transparency in the ever-expanding supply of satellite images.
Funding $78.7M -
Advanced analytic platform using AI and Machine Learning to optimize manufacturing operations.
Funding $30.5M -
Zendrive is a mobile drive analytics platform for insurers, fleets, cities and everyday drivers.
Funding $20M -
Atheer provides AR solutions for industrial enterprises, enabling hands-free productivity.
Funding $35.3 M -
Swift Navigation designs, manufactures and distributes GNSS modules for precise positioning systems
Funding $47.6M -
DeepScale develops real-time perception software based on raw sensor fusion for ADAS/AV.
Funding $3.5M -
Leader in Force Touch solutions for the Automotive, Mobile, IOT, Industrial and Medical markets.
Funding $16.2M -
Modernizing construction field operations to help builders improve how they manage productivity.
Funding $20.7M -
Braze is the global leader in technologies strengthening customer relationships
Funding $95.1M -
Fortscale is a pioneering user and entity behavioral analytics firm with an embeddable platform.
Funding $23M -
IntSight offers Threat intelligence platform
Funding $24.3M -
SeaLights is a SaaS based Continuous Testing platform that uncovers your test & code quality
Funding $11M -
Leading Fog Computing for Industrial customers to enable real-time advanced data operation and ML
Funding $47.5M -
Parse.ly is a SaaS digital analytics and consumer attention company.
Funding $12.85M -
Matternet is the leading developer of advanced technology platform for on-demand aerial delivery.
Funding $12.98M -
Zeek is the biggest branded currency exchange in Europe, providing C2C, B2C & B2B services.
Funding $12.5M -
Leap Motion’s mission is to remove the barriers between people and technology.
Funding $94.05M -
Arcadia Data provides the native visual analytics software that runs within modern data platforms.
Funding $11.5M -
Minerva is University and Innovative Model of Higher Education
Funding $70M -
Versa Networks is an innovative vendor in the SD-WAN and SD-Security market.
Funding $43.35 M -
DriveScale Transforms Data Centers to be More Productive, Responsive and Easier to Manage.
Funding $15M -
Vicarious is developing artificial general intelligence for robots.
Funding $133M -
Grabit is an industrial automation and material handling solutions company.
Funding $21M -
We build robots! Using industrial automation applied to the RIM industry, automated record complian
Funding $49.5M -
Cloudflare is the leading performance and security company helping to build a better Internet.
Funding $182M -
Spire is a space to cloud data analytics company that provides maritime, aviation, and weather data.
Funding $69.5M -
Superflex is Defining the Future of MovementTM through Powered ClothingTM
Funding $10.2M -
PlanGrid is construction productivity software that allows teams to collaborate effectively.
Funding $59.1M
StartX Startups
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PRENAV sells precision-guided drones and hi-resolution 3D data about industrial structures.
Funding $6.5M -
Licensing of bio-based technology for eco-friendly chemical & fuels production
Funding $0.35M -
Healthcare platform for orthopedics with a wearable for at-home motion/gait analysis
Undisclosed -
Appfluence is a software company that helps teams visualize and communicate priorities.
Undisclosed -
VR/AR technology solutions with a highly scalable internet platform and cloud SaaS.
Undisclosed -
HaveItBack automates and outsources Lost&Found for companies. Less work, more customer satisfaction!
Undisclosed -
Mapping App for Field Sales Reps that helps them drive 20% less and increase productivity by 25%.
Funding $0.49M -
User-generated GIF platform
Funding $10M -
Sensel built a new force-sensing touch technology that will revolutionize human/computer interaction
Undisclosed -
The leading platform for innovative companies and 3D print services to optimize 3D print workflows.
Funding $13M -
We sell a direct to consumer computer kit for kids. Kids learn programming and engineering.
Funding $0.165M
