Approximately once a month, we will hold public forum series that will explore issues of interest relating to innovation, entrepreneurship, and the Silicon Valley – New Japan relationship. Stanford thought leaders, and prominent participants in the ecosystem from Silicon Valley and Japan will be the featured speakers. We will try to mix practitioners with deep experience with those who can provide big picture insights. We aim to build ample time for informal networking before and after the session.
In the interest of facilitating valuable interpersonal networks and horizontal connections across organizations, we will create and maintain a database of participants and attendees who volunteer to have their names, affiliations, interests/expertise, and preferred contact platform (eg., email, LinkedIn or other social network).
UPCOMING:
GROW: Using Artificial Intelligence to Screen Human Intelligence
October 13, 2017
Masahiro Fukuhara, Founder and CEO, Institute for a Global Society (IGS)
Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Why Japan (Still) Matters for Global Competition
November 14, 2017
Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Stanford APARC and Project Leader, Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project
Previous events:
Safecast and Fukushima Fallout: Disaster Catalyzing Entrepreneurship, Empowering Citizen Science
September 7, 2017
Pieter Franken, Senior Advisor, Monex Group & Co-founder, Safecast
[Video]
The "Acquihire" Phenomenon: The Use of Startup Acquisitions as a Human Resource Strategy for Market Competition and Innovation
July 20, 2017
Jaclyn Selby, Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
[Video]
The Coming Revolution: Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Materials and Product Development
June 5, 2017
Greg Mulholland, Co-founder and CEO, Citrine Informatics
[Video]
~Spotlight Japanese Startup~
GRID Inc: Deep learning framework for industrial and engineering optimization application
May 15, 2017
Tomah Sogabe, Co-founder, GRID Inc.
An Education Strategy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Japan: Introducing the Stanford e-Japan Program
April 13, 2017
Gary Mukai, Director, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)
Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Shorenstein APARC Japan Program, Stanford University
[Video]
Silicon Valley Does It Repeatedly: From Fairchild to Uber and Beyond
March 16, 2017
Martin Kenney, Professor of Human and Community Development, UC Davis; senior project director at BRIE, UC Berkeley
[Video]
[Slides]
The Algorithmic Disruption: The Underlying Drivers Behind Fintech, IoT, AI, and the Platform Economy in an Era of Computing Abundance
February 7, 2017
Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Stanford APARC and Project Leader, Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project
[Video]
ANA IDEATHON 2017
February 3, 2017
Manufacturing in California: What Lies Ahead
January 24, 2017
Sean Randolph, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
[Video]
Is Financial Inclusion only an emerging markets, bottom-of-the-pyramid problem or is it also a challenge for the middle class and in developed countries too?
December 5, 2016
Anju Patwardhan, Fulbright Fellow at Stanford University and Partner with CreditEase
[Video]
DO STARTUPS LEARN WHEN THEY FAIL? USING CROWDFUNDING DATA TO COMPARE WHEN AND IF ENTREPRENEURS LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE AND OBSERVATION
November 2, 2016
Jaclyn Selby, Research Associate, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program
[Video]
Patterns of harnessing silicon valley: implications of when (only) the ceo and vp of a tokyo company live in silicon valley
October 14, 2016
Noriyuki Matsuda, Founder & CEO, SOURCENEXT Corporation
[Video]
CORPORATE VENTURE CAPITAL IN JAPAN: CHALLENGES AND FUTURE
September 28, 2016
Nobuhiko Hibara, Associate Professor, Waseda University
[Video]
Zero to One and One to Ten: The art of starting a startup and scaling
June 15, 2016
Akiko Naka, Founder and CEO, Wantedly, Inc.
[Video]
Managing Open Innovation: Lessons from Harnessing Silicon Valley
May 23, 2016
Joanna Drake Earl, General Partner, Core Ventures Group
Gen Isayama, Co-Founder and CEO, World Innovation Lab
Kenji Kushida, Research Associate, Stanford University
David Swanson, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, SAP SuccessFactors
[Video]
big data: lessons from the field
May 18, 2016
Gaurav Kataria, head of Product Adoption Google for Work
[Video]
A Sharing Economy for Childcare in Japan
May 3, 2016
Keiko Koda, Founder and CEO of AsMama Inc.
Brought to you by the US-Asia Technology Management Center's Spring Seminar Series and jointly sponsored with the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project.
Korea Entrepreneurship Update: Current Trends & Dynamics
April 26, 2016
David Chang, President and CEO, Conifer Networks, and former Chairman, Korea IT Network
Yong Suk Lee, SK Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Catharina Min, Vice Chair of Firmwide Business & Finance and Partner, ReedSmith LLP
Brought to you by the US-Asia Technology Management Center's Spring Seminar Series and jointly sponsored with the Silicon Valley-New Japan Project.
Back to the Source: Yamaha Motor’s Challenges on Business Development
March 8, 2016
Hiro Saijou, CEO and Managing Director, Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley Inc.
[Video]
UNDERSTANDING INVESTORS AND PREFERRED STOCK FINANCINGS IN SILICON VALLEY
February 23, 2016
Joseph Z. Perkins, Partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Chronicles of the Silicon Valley - Japan Relationship and Lessons Learned: An insider's view of large firms, startup firms, and entrepreneurs since the 1970s
February 3, 2016
Masa Ishii, Managing Director of AZCA, Inc and Visiting Professor, WASEDA Business School; Graduate School of Engineering, Shizuoka University
[Video]
Understanding Silicon Valley and Startup Ecosystems: New research and academic classics you should know
December 2, 2015
Kenji Kushida, Research Associate, Shorenstein APARC Japan Program and Stanford Silicon Valley - New Japan Project leader
Kanetaka Maki, Research Associate, Shorenstein APARC Japan Program
[Video]
biomedical innovation in japan - creating environment for innovative research
November 12, 2015
Kan Suzuki, Professor, University of Tokyo and Keio University
[Video]
ANA Idea-thon
October 13, 2015
The IT-Enabled Services Transformation, Cloud Computing, and New Production Paradigms: Implications for Dynamics of Competition in the US and Asia
September 29, 2015
Kenji Kushida, Japan Program Research Associate, APARC, Project Leader, Stanford Silicon Valley New Japan Project
[Video]
JAPAN'S NEW LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND OPEN PLATFORMS FOR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE AND MEDICAL DEVICES: TOWARDS A NEW ERA OF SILICON VALLEY-JAPAN SYNERGY
June 19, 2015
Yoshiaki Tojo
Chief Executive Director, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) San Francisco
Program Advisor, New Energy and Industrial Development Organization (NEDO)
Hidetaka Nishimura
Director, Bio-Industry Division, Manufacturing Industries Bureau
Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) (MUFG)
Fuyuhiko Mori
Secretary General
Regenerative Medicine Industrialization Task Force (RMIT)
Forum for Innovative Regenerative Medicine (FIRM)
Hiromitsu Nakauchi
Professor of Genetics, Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Stanford University
Michael Needels
CEO, Fogerty Institute for Innovation
Joint seminar by JETRO, NEDO, and Stanford SV-NJ
Technology Innovation Partnership (TIP) series and Stanford-NJ Public Forum Series
[Video]
Changing corporate governance in Japan
June 4, 2015
Takeo Hoshi, Shorenstein APARC
Masaaki (Masa) Tanaka, Representative Director and Deputy President of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG)
Kazuhiko Toyama, CEO of Industrial Growth Platform, Inc.
Shorenstein APARC Panel Discussion
Building bridges for startup companies to multiple markets in Asia
May 26, 2015
Anis Uzzaman, Founder and CEO, Fenox Ventures
Joint seminar with US-Asia Technology Management Center EE-402T Speaker Series
[Video]
RECRUITING TOP TALENT FOR JAPANESE AND AMERICAN STARTUPS - DIFFERENCES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES"
May 14, 2015
Casey Wahl, Founder and CEO, Wahl & Case K.K.
[Slides] [Summary (Japanese only)]
Current Trends Among Startup Companies in Japan: How They Keep Momentum
April 7, 2015
Yusuke Asakura, Visiting Fellow, Stanford University's US-Asia Technology Management Center and former CEO of Mixi
[Video]
Joint seminar with US-Asia Technology Management Center EE-402T Speaker Series
CROSS-PACIFIC TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PARTNERSHIP (TIP) SEMINAR
March 11, 2015
Co-Sponsored by NEDO Silicon Valley and JETRO San Francisco, in collaboration with the Stanford SV-NJ Project
Business expansion from Japan into Silicon Valley, opportunities and challenges ~the case of dena~
February 17, 2015
Dai Watanabe, VP corporate Development & Strategy, Dena West
The Japanese Software industry: What went wrong (and why is it important?)
January 27, 2015
Robert Cole, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley
"Making Things People Want"
Dec 4, 2014
Garry Tan, Partner, Y Combinator
[Video]
Co-sponsored US-ATMC Seminar Series
Globalization of Startup Companies from China: Perspectives of a VC
November 20, 2014
Hans Tung, Managing Partner, GGV Capital
Co-sponsored US-ATMC Seminar Series
The International Challenge
November 6, 2014
Ari Horie, Founder and CEO, Women's Startup Lab
Co-sponsored US-ATMC Seminar Series
"recreating Japan into a Startup Nation: New Forms of Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
October 2, 2014
Gen Isayama, Co-founder and CEO, World Innovation Lab
Co-sponsored US-ATMC Seminar Series
Related Special Public events
Innovation: Silicon valley and Japan
Jan 22, 2015 [Program, PDF]
Stanford - Sasakawa Peace Foundation New Channels Dialogue
Silicon Valley and Japan: A Conversation with Ambassador John Roos
Nov 11, 2014
John Roos, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Shorenstein APARC Special Seminar