- Nov. 5 - 6, 2018
- 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.
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Startup Pitch &
Biz-Dev Booths (11/06 Only)100 startups will have their own booths to hold one-on-one discussions regarding investment and Biz-Dev with Japanese attendees.Around 20 startups will be on stage to pitch while Biz-Dev Booth session is occurred.
Language：English
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Networking Party
We’ve provided an area for networking, with snacks and drinks to be served.
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Speakers
Day1 - 11.5
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Kenji Kushida
Stanford University APARC
Research Scholar
Kenji Kushida
Stanford University APARC
Research Scholar
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Masa Kinoshita
Panasonic Ventures
President
Masa Kinoshita
Panasonic Ventures
President
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. -
Ryoichi Togashi
Komatsu
General Manager
Ryoichi Togashi
Komatsu
General Manager
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.
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Noriyuki Matsuda
Sourcenext
Founder, CEO & President
Noriyuki Matsuda
Sourcenext
Founder, CEO & President
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Kohei Taya
IHI
Vice President
Kohei Taya
IHI
Vice President
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Derik Pridmore
Osaro
CEO
Derik Pridmore
Osaro
CEO
Derik Pridmore is the co-founder and CEO of Osaro, a San Francisco based machine learning company that develops products based on deep reinforcement learning. Prior to starting Osaro, Pridmore was a Principal at Founders Fund, a Silicon Valley venture fund led by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. At Founders Fund, he drove investments in a variety of companies including DeepMind, where he worked closely with the founding team. He also founded and managed Arda Capital Management, a quantitative equity hedge fund. Altogether he has over a decade of investment and operational experience. He holds a B.S. degree in Physics and Computer Science (2001) and an M.Eng. degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (2004) from MIT. Since its inception in 2015, Osaro has created AI software that combines state-of-the-art perception with powerful adaptive decision-making abilities to help computer and robotic systems act efficiently and intelligently. The company’s patented and patent pending technology automatically processes large amounts of unstructured data and efficiently learns complex control tasks.
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Eiko Ooka
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Director of the Corporate Advisory Division
Eiko Ooka
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Director of the Corporate Advisory Division
Mr. Eiko Ooka is a Director of the Corporate Advisory Division - New York, where he mainly creates business opportunities by harnessing new technologies of U.S. startups to Japanese companies. Previously, he was engaged in originating cross-border transactions, including M&As and strategic alliances, in the Basic Materials Group of the Corporate Advisory Division in Tokyo. Prior to that, he served as a Vice President of the Financial Sponsors Group, where he supported LBOs of global private equity firms.
Mr. Ooka joined SMBC (former Sumitomo Bank) in 2000 and spent two years seconded in the Financial Markets Department at the Bank of Japan. He received a BA in Laws degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Ooka holds Series 79, 63, and 24 licensing from FINRA.
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Hiroto Sato
Obayashi Corporation
VP, Silicon Valley Ventures & Laboratory
Hiroto Sato
Obayashi Corporation
VP, Silicon Valley Ventures & Laboratory
Hiroto Sato is a leader of Obayashi’s Silicon Valley R&D office, “Silicon Valley Ventures & Laboratory (SVVL)”, which was established in October 2017 to incorporate innovative technologies into the construction industry. His mission is to promote collaboration for creating innovative software/products in the construction market among Startups, US group companies, and Technical Research Institute of Obayashi in Japan. He has worked for Obayashi since 1994. After earned MBA in the US, he had worked as a manager of North American Regional HQ (San Francisco) since 2011. He implemented the restructuring of the US business operation and executed M&A for a US construction company. He holds a B.A. degree in Environmental Information (Urban Design) from Keio University in Japan.
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Shinji Sandy Kimura
Rakuten
EVP of Growth Strategy, General Manager of Group CEO Office
Shinji Sandy Kimura
Rakuten
EVP of Growth Strategy, General Manager of Group CEO Office
Sandy Kimura is the EVP of Growth Strategy at Rakuten USA, mainly looking into strategic acquisitions that would expand the Rakuten businesses. He was previously the CEO of Rakuten Germany for the German marketplace operations before coming the Bay. Prior to Rakuten, he has worked in Sony Corporation and Japanese start up. He has lived in 4 different countries for more than 15 years in total.
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Hiro Rio Maeda
Draper Nexus
Managing Director
Hiro Rio Maeda
Draper Nexus
Managing Director
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Teppei Tsuchikawa
ITOCHU International
Deputy General Manager, Silicon Valley Office,ICT & Financial Business Division
Teppei Tsuchikawa
ITOCHU International
Deputy General Manager, Silicon Valley Office,ICT & Financial Business Division
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Cyril Ebersweiler
Hax
Founder
Cyril Ebersweiler
Hax
Founder
An entrepreneur and investor, Cyril is a General Partner at SOSV and the founder of HAX, the first program-based venture fund for hardware startups. Cyril has over two decades of experience in American, European and Asian markets, and invested in hundreds of companies worldwide. A guest writer on Techcrunch, Cyril is a popular speaker in numerous conferences and featured in media such as The New York Times, The Economist, WIRED and more. He lives in the Bay area.
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Ryan MacArthur
StartX
Business Development Manager
Ryan MacArthur
StartX
Business Development Manager
Ryan MacArthur runs the Corporate Innovation team at StartX, where he is responsible for partnerships between market ready technology startups and global fortune 2000's. Before that he was a founder of 2 enterprise software companies, one of which was acquired by Palo Alto Networks. Ryan has a MSE from Johns Hopkins University in Security Informatics.
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Yasu Kawashima
FUJIFILM
Principal, Open Innovation Hub, U.S.A.
Yasu Kawashima
FUJIFILM
Principal, Open Innovation Hub, U.S.A.
1991年、富士フイルムに入社。以降、国内工場の管理部門、労働組合への出向、グループ会社のガバナンス強化施策等、主にコーポレート関連業務に従事。2014年より、買収先の米国FUJIFILM Dimatix(サンタクララ)に出向し経営管理を担当。2015年6月からは、シリコンバレーに新設したOpen Innovation Hubの館長も歴任し、新規ビジネス開拓の活動を推進。これまでに600社以上を招聘、複数のプロジェクトに繋げている。
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Chuzaburo Yagi
Nomura Holdings
Senior Managing Director
Chuzaburo Yagi
Nomura Holdings
Senior Managing Director
1994年野村證券入社、2010年ストラクチャード・プロダクト部長として金融商品の開発に従事。新設された金融イノベーション推進支援室の室長に2016年より就任。日本およびインドにおけるアクセラレーター・プログラムをはじめとするオープン・イノベーション、SFイノベーション・オフィスの設置、新規ビジネス開発の推進・支援に取り組む。2018年4月より現職。慶應義塾大学経済学部卒。
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Takeshi Nakanishi
Dreamers Fund
Managing Partner
Takeshi Nakanishi
Dreamers Fund
Managing Partner
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Akinori Koto
WiL
Partner
Akinori Koto
WiL
Partner
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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Yasuyuki Kohaya
Toyota Research Institute
Chief Liaison Officer
Yasuyuki Kohaya
Toyota Research Institute
Chief Liaison Officer
Day2 - 11.6
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Latham Turner
Rigetti Computing
VP of Hardware Engineering
Latham Turner
Rigetti Computing
VP of Hardware Engineering
Latham Turner is the Vice President, Hardware Engineering at Rigetti Computing. Latham joined Rigetti as a program manager and has held a variety of roles in the engineering and product organizations. Prior to Rigetti, Latham served as a Naval Aviator for 11 years, flying multiple aircraft in both peacetime and combat operations. He finished his service as a developmental test pilot and product manager for Naval Air Systems Command. He holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina and a Bachelors in Physics from the US Naval Academy.
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Sandeep Singh Kohli
Kong
Head of Marketing
Sandeep Singh Kohli
Kong
Head of Marketing
Sandeep Singh Kohli is part of the executive team at Kong and is responsible for all aspects of Global Marketing. Previously, Sandeep led global horizontal and platform marketing at MuleSoft through its successful IPO. Prior to that, Sandeep ran marketing at Piston Cloud Computing and saw the company through its acquisition and integration with Cisco.
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Tom Stepien
Primus Power
CEO
Tom Stepien
Primus Power
CEO
Tom Stepien is CEO of Primus Power, a leader in grid-scale electrical energy storage. He helped launch Primus Power in 2009 and has raised over $120 million from venture capital sources, strategic investors and government grants. He has over 30 years of engineering, operations and general management experience at small and large companies. Prior to joining Primus, Tom was a Vice President and General Manager at Applied Materials, a Fortune 500 provider of semiconductor, solar and flat panel display equipment, and services. He had P&L responsibility for a $500M business unit with a complex set of systems, global customers, manufacturing, and support.
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Kevin Duffy
Foghorn
VP of Business Development
Kevin Duffy
Foghorn
VP of Business Development
Kevin Duffy, Vice President of Business Development, has more than twenty-five years of experience in developing and monetizing advanced telecommunications and networking technologies for inventive early stage and growth companies. Most recently he was the co-founder and CEO of Fastback Networks, a pioneer in high performance 4G/5G mobile backhaul. Prior to that, he was the SVP of Sales and Marketing for Mojix, responsible for the go to market and monetization of leading-edge RFID solutions for retail, oil and gas, manufacturing and other industrial sectors. He has also held positions with Proxim (CEO) a public company where he led the company’s pioneering efforts in the convergence of new technologies, including wireless LAN, cellular backhaul, and multipoint access systems; Siemens (VP, GM) where he introduced a wide array of products to North America; Nortel (Systems Integration Manager) and Tracor Aerospace (Test Engineer). He also served four years of active duty in the US Air Force. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Texas with a BS Computer Science.
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Andy Bane
Element Analytics
CEO
Andy Bane
Element Analytics
CEO
As CEO, Andy oversees the vision and growth of Element Analytics. Previously, he held executive roles at enterprise software companies, from VC-backed startups to private equity-backed growth plays to business units of large-cap publicly traded companies. He served as EVP & Chief Strategy Officer for ABB Enterprise Software; was EVP of Product Mgmt. and CMO at Ventyx, a Vista Equity Partners company, acquired by ABB for over $1 billion; and was SVP of Product Mgmt. and Mktg. at P2 Energy Solutions. Andy earned his BA at University of Colorado, Boulder. He's passionate about helping industrial organizations reach new levels of asset performance by using big data to solve complex problems. He and his wife Lisa, a veterinarian, enjoy being outdoors biking, golfing, skiing, hiking, and camping with their children.
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Elli Kaplan
Neurotrack
CEO
Elli Kaplan
Neurotrack
CEO
Elli Kaplan is the co-founder and CEO of Neurotrack, a Silicon Valley-based digital health company backed by Founders Fund, Social Capital, Khosla Ventures and AME Cloud Ventures. Elli’s career spans two decades in the public and private sectors, including leadership positions at the White House, State and Treasury Departments, and the United Nations, where she was the Deputy Chief of Staff for UNDP, the largest UN agency. Elli has also held positions with AIG and Goldman Sachs where she focused on private equity investments in emerging markets. She co-founded Georgia Tech’s start-up incubator, Flashpoint. Elli has won the San Francisco Business Chronicle’s Most Influential Women in the Bay Area award, SXSW's best new startup and DEMO God awards, the J&J World Without Disease Challenge, and presented at Code, Fortune Health, TEDx, TechCrunch Disrupt, the Royal Society of Medicine, Wired and the New York Times. Elli has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Xinghua Lou
Vicarious AI
Head of Commercialization
Xinghua Lou
Vicarious AI
Head of Commercialization
Xinghua Lou, Ph.D., is Head of Commercialization at Vicarious AI responsible for product design and business/strategy development. Previously Xinghua is a veteran machine learning researcher and practitioner. He has published in many top-tier venues such as Science, NIPS, ICML, CVPR, MIT Press, and has won the best paper award in 2012 Machine Learning for Medical Imaging. Xinghua received his Ph.D. from Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg, Germany) and M.Sc./B.Sc. from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). Xinghua's current interest is applications of artificial intelligence in industrial robotics and other areas of industrial automation.
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Tomer Poran
Matterport
The lead of Business Development
Tomer Poran
Matterport
The lead of Business Development
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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Roman Arutyunov
Xage Security
VP of Products at Xage
Roman Arutyunov
Xage Security
VP of Products at Xage
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Mark Chung
Verdigris
CEO
Mark Chung
Verdigris
CEO
Mark is one of 3 co-founders of Verdigris and its CEO. He was recognized as one the 40 under 40 in 2017 by Silicon Valley Business Journal. He leads business strategy at Verdigris and sits on the advisory board of a number of Startups. Mark held previous roles as a principal engineer at a number of famed Silicon Valley technology start-ups. These include NexGen (acq. AMD), Pasemi (acq. Apple), and RMI and NetLogic (acq. Broadcom). Together with his co-founders, he's developed some of the most successful silicon in the last 20 years, Opteron, XLP, and A7 to name a few. His last company was acquired by Broadcom in 2011 for $3.7B. Mark studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
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William Fernandez
Spire
AirSafe Business Development Executive
William Fernandez
Spire
AirSafe Business Development Executive
William is Spire’s AirSafe Business Development Executive, delivering Spire’s space-based ADS-B data and Stratos Weather to the aerospace industry. With over 27 years of experience in aviation, William has global experience with companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 1000 driving new vertical business development and multi-million dollar partnerships. Previously, he was a Director of Marketing and Business Development at both Aircraft Technical Publishers (ATP) and Concord Batteries, where he managed sales and new product development. Along with his business career he spent 15 years in multiple technical roles at Delta Airlines TechOps. He also been a private pilot for 25 years.
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Danny Gur
Karamba Security
VP of Business Development
Danny Gur
Karamba Security
VP of Business Development
Danny Gur brings more than 25 years of sales management to his role of VP Business Development of Karamba Security, the world leader in end-to-end Autonomous Cyber Security prevention solution. Previously, he was the VP of worldwide sales of Chelsio Communications for secured Ethernet 100G Compute and Storage Cloud Edge solutions to Microsoft, Netflix, NetApp, Dell, IBM etc. Before joining Chelsio, Danny was Senior Sales and Business Development Executive of Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX), for Infiniband and Ethernet solutions for HPC and Cloud computing and storage infrastructure to Apple, SuperMicro, Oracle, HP, eBay etc. Prior to Mellanox, Danny held a variety of executive sales and business development positions in Bay Microsystems, Tegra chip, Metalink (NASDAQ: MTLK), M-Systems/ Sandisk (NASDAQ: SNDK) and Opal/ Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT). On top of this, Danny holds a BSC in Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
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Raffi Mardirosian
Ouster
Vice President, Corporate Development
Raffi Mardirosian
Ouster
Vice President, Corporate Development
Raffi is Vice President of Corporate Development at Ouster, a leading autonomous vehicle technology company that has developed the world’s most performant, compact and affordable LIDAR. He joined Ouster from Flagship Ventures, where he was a Principal focused on starting, supporting, and investing in companies in sustainability. Previously, Raffi co-developed the first utility-scale solar photovoltaic power plant in East Africa which currently contributes >6% of Rwanda's power capacity & broke the record for fastest African energy project finance deal to achieve commercial operations. He also was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he specialized in competitiveness, advanced industries, healthcare, and sustainability and resource productivity. Raffi was the Curator of the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers Community in Boston and spoke at the Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos. Raffi holds bachelor's degrees from Stanford University in Economics and Public Policy with Honors.
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Todd Thomas
Zendrive
VP of Business Development
Todd Thomas
Zendrive
VP of Business Development
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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Mike Kim
Orbital Insight
General Manager, Japan
Mike Kim
Orbital Insight
General Manager, Japan
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.
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Lawrence Kosick
Sight Machine
VP of Global Accounts
Lawrence Kosick
Sight Machine
VP of Global Accounts
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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Tuan Tranpham
Destop Metal
VP of Global Sales
Tuan Tranpham
Destop Metal
VP of Global Sales
Tuan Tranpham is Vice President of Global Sales for Desktop Metal. He brings to Desktop Metal 14 years of experience in business development for additive manufacturing companies, where he gained a unique perspective and insight on 3D printing KOLs, applications, challenges, opportunities, technologies and trends. Most recently, he served as Sales Director, North America for Arcam (GE Additive). Previously, he held various roles at Z Corporation, 3D Systems, Objet, and Stratasys. Tuan earned a dual B.Sc./B.A. in Business Engineering (“Export Engineering”) from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).
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Takeshi Mitsutani
Bestmile
Senior Advisor
Takeshi Mitsutani
Bestmile
Senior Advisor
Takeshi is a Managing Partner at HCapNet, advising global Fortune 1000 corporations and startups on corporate development, strategic investment, joint ventures, and partnerships. He is taking numerous advisor positions with companies such as Dentsu, Morado Ventures, BestMile, Citrine Informatics, CloudMinds, Citrine, etc. Takeshi has extensive relationships with leading Japanese corporations. His connections are at the executive and board level as well as strategic investment and business operating teams. Much of his experience has been representing and successfully advising early/mid-stage firms with their expansion strategies into the Japanese and Asian markets. He has been working as an advisor/consultant and investor globally in the last 25 years and has a vast experience on cross-culture/language deals.
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Keao Caindec
Mocana
VP of Marketing
Keao Caindec
Mocana
VP of Marketing
Keao is an entrepreneur with a passion for marketing and technology. He has helped to build companies at the forefront of networking, telecom, security and cloud computing. Prior joining Mocana as the Vice President of Marketing, Keao was the Chief Commercial Officer of 365 Data Centers. Prior, he was the CMO of the Cloud Business Unit at Dimension Data, a global systems integrator with more than $5.8 billion in annual revenues. Prior to Dimension Data, Keao was the CMO of OpSource (acquired by Dimension Data), Yipes (acquired by Reliance Communications) and CyberCash (acquired by Verisign). Keao has a BS in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has also served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Panorama Capital and advisor to numerous technology and communications companies.
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Justin Young
b8ta
Merchandise Manager
Justin Young
b8ta
Merchandise Manager
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Jon Fisher
CrowdOptic
CEO
Jon Fisher
CrowdOptic
CEO
Jon Fisher is co-inventor and co-founding CEO of CrowdOptic, known for its augmented-reality technology and triangulation algorithms. CrowdOptic gathers and analyzes data from smart devices based on where they are pointed to identify areas of interest. WIRED wrote about CrowdOptic: "I’ve never read a work of fiction or nonfiction that ever implied that such a technology might be possible." Named on over 68 patents globally, Jon served as co-inventor and founding CEO of Bharosa (Oracle - NYSE: ORCL), NetClerk (Roper Technologies - NYSE: ROP), and AutoReach (AutoNation - NYSE: AN). Bharosa required only $3 million in venture financing to become a decade-long, standalone Oracle product, the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager. An adjunct professor and author, Jon's book, Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths, is required reading at UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco and the Angel Capital Association. Jon was named E&Y entrepreneur of the year in 2007 and American City Business Journals 40 under 40 in 2006. Jon's wife owns and operates clothing boutiques and their daughter (age 8) is already hard at work spending every lunch hour in the school's Tinker Lab.
Agenda
| Day 1 | 2018.11.5(Mon) Japanese/English（○Simultaneous Interpretation） |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 | Reigistration and Breakfast |
| 9:00 - 9:05 | From Organizer
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| 9:05 - 9:15 | Opening Remarks
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| 9:15 - 9:55 | Keynote
The AI Revolution from Silicon Valley: Japanese Firms' Worst Practices and Ways to Avoid Them
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| 9:55 - 10:35 |
Fireside Chat
Learning from failure on a path to success: What Panasonic learned from its history of attempting to harness Silicon Valley
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| 10:35 - 10:50 | Break |
| 10:50 - 11:35 |
Panel Discussion
Harnessing Silicon Valley (Panel): inroducing 3 contrasting strategies
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| 11:35 - 12:10 |
Fireside Chat
Harnessing Silicon Valley (deep dive chat): A first look at Obayashi Corporation's activities
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| 12:10 - 13:10 | Lunch & Networking |
| 13:10 - 13:30 |
Panel Discussion
New Challenge : Nomura innovation in Silicon Valley
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| 13:30 - 14:10 |
Fireside Chat
The "Global Sensibility" Cultivated in Silicon Valley: The perspective a listed Japanese company whose CEO lives in SV
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| 14:10 - 14:50 |
Fireside Chat
Komatsu's Silicon Valley Strategy to a New Stage: Transforming agriculture and seeking remotely controlled construction equipment
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| 14:50 - 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Panel Discussion
【Silicon Valley x Shenzhen】What do global accelerators seek from large Japanese enterprises?
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| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Collaboration Fireside Chat
Silicon Valley - New Japan Partnerships : IHI and Osaro
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| 16:20 - 16:30 | Break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 |
Fireside Chat
Harnessing Silicon Valley: The strategies of SMBC and TRI
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| 17:10 | Closing |
| Day 2 | 2018.11.6(Tue) English |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 | Registration & Breakfast |
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| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Opening |
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| 10:20 - 11:20 |
Startup Talk①
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| 11:20 - 11:30 | Break |
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| 11:30 - 12:30 |
Startup Talk②
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| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch & Networking |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Startup Talk③
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| 14:30 - 14:40 | Break |
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| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Startup Talk④
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| 15:00-15:30 | Closing |
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Silicon Valley Startups
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Aquifi provides automation solutions for repetitive and time sensitive tasks in manufacturing and logistics, using 3D computer vision and AI.
Funding $20.7 M -
Voicera create voice-activated AI tools that increase productivity stemming from meetings.
Funding $20.0 M -
Primus Power offers long-duration, fade-free energy storage solutions for the smart grid.
Funding $92.1 M -
Element Analytics provides rapidly transforms data for industrial organizations for greater efficiency and sustainability.
Funding $22.0 M -
Ridecell empowers mobility operators, including OEMs, car rental, fleets,etc for maximize the ride/carsharing and autonomous fleet services.
Funding $45.8 M -
Parsable is the connected worker platform to digitize, execute and collaborate around standard work.
Funding $27.9 M -
QC Ware is developing quantum-powered applications in collaboration with a wide range of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies.
Funding $27.9 M -
Owl is a car security camera designed to help with the major events that concern car owners: break-ins, dents and traffic stops.
Funding $18.0 M -
Sift Science is a machine learning company that fuels business growth by protecting businesses and their customers from all vectors of fraud and abuse.
Funding $106.6 M -
Rigetti Computing is building the world’s most powerful computers to help solve humanity’s most pressing and important problems.
Funding $119.5 M -
Demisto provides Security Platform that combines orchestration, incident management and interactive investigation into a seamless experience.
Funding $69.0 M -
EverCharge provides EVSE to multi-family housing such as apartments and condos.
Funding $3.2 M -
NEXT Trucking is a digital marketplace that brings together shippers who have loads and owner/operators and small fleets who can move them.
Funding $27.3 M -
Passage AI's platform provides the AI, NLU/P and deep learning technology to create a conversational interface or chatbot for your business.
Funding $10.3 M -
Bestmile empowers mobility providers to deploy, manage and optimize autonomous and conventional driven vehicle fleets.
Funding $14.5 M -
Instrumental is a manufacturing technology company that helps our customers build smarter and better.
Funding $10.3 M -
Fyusion enables more immersive & engaging imaging for Automotive and E-commerce businesses,
Funding $38.4 M -
Inbenta is an AI-powered intelligent search platform that makes it easy for the consumers to find the information without contact customer support.
Funding $28.8 M -
Karamba’s Autonomous Security, award winning software, protects vehicles’ Electronic Control Unit （ECU） from cyberattacks.
Funding $27 M -
Lucidworks builds AI-powered search and discovery applications for some of the world’s largest brands.
Funding $109 M -
The ThoughtSpot Relational Search platform allows everyone to get direct access to data, even entirely non-technical people.
Funding $295.7 M -
Dremio makes data engineering teams more productive, and data consumers more self-sufficient.
Funding $27.0 M -
Anomali Threat Platform to detect threats, understand the adversary, and respond effectively.
Funding $96.3 M -
Avaamo provides an enterprise AI platform that dramatically simplifies the time needed to design and deploy AI bots in text and voice.
Funding $23.5 M -
Smart buildings are more reliable, more efficient, and more automated. By combining patented sensors and AI, Verdigris learns how buildings operate.
Funding $21.6 M -
Leading Fog Computing for Industrial customers to enable real-time advanced data operation and ML
Funding $47.5 M -
Spire is a space to cloud data analytics company that provides the most advanced maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
Funding $140.5 M -
BeBop Sensors makes fabric sensors that are flexible, connecting squishy humans with rigid computers.
Funding $14.4 M -
Contrast Security is the world’s leading provider of security technology that enables software applications to protect themselves against cyberattacks.
Funding $54.0 M -
Wonolo is the leading on-demand staffing platform enabling businesses to fill their immediate labor needs.
Funding $20.9 M -
Smartcar is the connected car API for developers that make it possible for developers to build apps for cars easily, safely and quickly.
Funding $12 M -
Ouster provides LIDAR sensors that can be used all sizes in autonomous vehicles, drones, security, mapping, smart cities, mining, robotics, or etc
Funding $27.0 M -
Listia is a peer-to-peer marketplace where Users buy and sell using the XNK cryptocurrency
Funding $26.2 M -
Imply is a high-performance analytics solution to store, query, and visualize operational data focus on creating static reports
Funding $15.3 M -
Building long-range radar with imaging capabilities for autonomous vehicles, radios for Fixed Wireless communication, and 5G relays for telcos.
Funding $17.0 M -
CLEARink is a leader in reflective display technology for eSchoolbooks, wearables, IoT and Electronic Shelf Labels （ESLs）, outdoor signage and automotive.
Funding $12 M -
ELIX Wireless Charging Systems
ELIX Wireless develops low-frequency, low-EMI wireless power transfer modules for charging EV, AGV, and autonomous eMobility fleets safely and efficiently.
Funding $5.0 M -
Indie Semiconductor specializes in integrating to create mixed-signal sub-systems, reducing cost and size and increasing reliability and security.
Funding $32.5 M -
Cogniac offer an Enterprise class visual AI SW system where we automate visual inspection tasks to human level accuracy and beyond.
Undisclosed -
Symbio Robotics is a SaaS company dedicated to strengthening manufacturing systems through the development of AI and Robotics software.
Undisclosed -
Zendrive is a mobile drive analytics platform for insurers, fleets, cities and everyday drivers.
Funding $20 M -
3D/VR Hardware + SaaS technology for capturing existing spaces and converting to virtual tours
Funding $66 M -
PRENAV sells precision-guided drones and hi-resolution 3D data about industrial structures.
Funding $6.5 M -
Neurotrack Technologies is a digital therapeutics company dedicated to empowering people to prevent memory loss.
Funding $26.1 M -
Drawbridge Identity Graph can be licensed by brands and enterprises for applications in adtech and beyond many applications
Funding $68.7 M -
The Xage Security Suite is the first and only blockchain-protected security platform for the Industrial Internet of Things （IIOT）.
Funding $12 M -
Increases revenue for enterprises by delivering faster, safer & more compelling digital experiences
Funding $140 M -
Modbot aims to provide a complete robot development platform to empower all creators from large manufacturers to individual makers and hobbyists.
Funding $4 M -
Open Garden is building a protocol that enables anyone to share their Internet connection and charge for access using our cryptocurrency.
Funding $22.8 M -
Vicarious is developing artificial general intelligence for robots.
Funding $122 M -
Branch is a universal linking platform that allows companies to track digital marketing campaigns, clicks, and users across all channels and devices.
Funding $242.1 M -
Mocana provides mission-critical IoT security solutions for embedded systems and the Internet of Things.
Funding $80.7 M -
Dialpad’s product suite covers the full range of modern business communications needs all powered by VoiceAI.
Funding $120 M -
Cumulus Networks powers data centers ranging from small businesses and universities to enterprises and some of the world’s largest cloud providers.
Funding $129 M -
Sentient Energy develops manufacture and sell intelligent sensors and analytics for the electric grid to help deliver power more safely and reliably
Funding $22.5 M -
Swift Navigation is on a mission to enable a future of autonomous vehicles to navigate and understand the world. Swift provides an end-to-end GNSS solution with a line of Piksi® Multi and Duro® receivers and Skylark™ Cloud Corrections Service.
Funding $48.8 M -
Skycatch is the leading industrial data collection and analytics company, focused on indexing and extracting critical information from the physical world.
Funding $46.7 M -
Omniscience transforms insurance and banking by augmenting decision making and increasing straight through processing rates, increasing the fidelity of portfolio risk,and targeting capabilities.
Undisclosed -
CrowdOptic is an enterprise software company that uses a scalable enterprise platform to live-stream video while analyzing sensor data from mobile and IoT broadcasting devices (smartphones, wearables devices)
Funding $17.2M -
Sturfee creates the world's first cloud-based Visual Positioning System (VPS) that uses geospatial assets like satellite imagery to accurately localize camera devices and detect 3D structures in the real world
Funding $2.7 M -
Motive Mechatronics is creating a robot platform capable of performing tasks in a human environment through innovative hardware and control.
Undisclosed -
Datatron provides a single model governance (management) platform for all of your ML, AI, and Data Science models in Production.
Funding $2.7 M -
Arundo provides software to enable enterprise-scale machine learning and advanced analytics applications for industrial companies.
Funding $32.7 M -
Testim is a SaaS platform that uses machine learning for the authoring, execution and maintenance of automated tests.
Funding $7.9 M -
Cinnamon provides an AI document reader to automate the data extraction from unstructured documents to the financial industry, expanding to the US from this summer.
Funding $10.0 M -
ZymoChem is developing efficient microbes and bio-based processes for making chemicals that go into everyday products such as plastics, cosmetics, and agricultural products from renewable feedstocks.
Funding $0.35 M -
We leverage honest, online interviews on a massive scale through our Publisher Network to draw out actionable insights for our clients, so every business decision is backed by sound data.
Funding $21.7 M -
Orbital Insight develops geospatial data analytics to help its clients unlock societal and economic trends at a global scale.
Funding $78.7 M -
Advanced analytic platform using AI and Machine Learning to optimize manufacturing operations.
Funding $30.5 M -
b8ta helps people discover, try, and learn about new tech and innovative products while empowering makers with a simple retail-as-a-service model that puts them in control.
Funding $38.5 M -
Kong delivers a next-generation API platform designed for modern architectures, including microservices, containers, cloud and serverless.
Funding $26.1 M -
Ambiq Micro was on the simple yet powerful notion that extremely low power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics
Funding $103.8 M -
Desktop Metal is a technology company that designs and markets metal 3D printing systems.
Funding $276.8 M -
Quantstamp has secured hundreds of millions of dollars of transaction value in smart contracts issued by leading blockchain projects around the world with our white glove security auditing services.
Funding $120K -
UJET
UJET is the real-time communications platform that makes it easy for customers and businesses to instantly connect so they can resolve problems faster.
Funding $45.6 M
