This project was completed in 2019. Please see the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program website for Japan-related events.
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).
Our public forum talks are focused on four general topics:
Spotlight Japanese Startup
Innovation and Silicon Valley
Harnessing Silicon Valley
Towards a New Japan
Upcoming Public Forums:
TBD
PAST public forums:
The Logistics Operations Underlying Retail: US, China, and Japanese Models Compared
Thursday, October 3, | 4:30am - 6:00pm
Philippines Conference Room, 3rd Floor Encina Hall
Ryoichi Kakui, Founder, e-LogiT
Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Shorenstein APARC Japan
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligence Augmentation (IA), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI): Frontier Research and Policies for Navigating the Future Together
Tuesday, May, 21, | 9:00am - 3:00pm
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, Stanford University
How Obayashi Collaborates in the Silicon Valley Community
Monday, April 29, 2019
Hiroto Sato, Obayashi Corporation, COO/CFO of Obayashi SVVL, Inc. (Silicon Valley Ventures & Laboratory)
Japan in the Bay Area: From Competition to Collaboration
Monday, March 18, 2019 | 1:00pm-4:00pm
Bechtel Conference Center, Encina Hall, 616 Serra Mall, Stanford CA 94305
HOW DOES VENTURE CAPITAL WORK AND HOW DO JAPANESE CORPORATIONS LEVERAGE VENTURE CAPITAL?
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Hiro Rio Maeda, Managing Director, DNX Ventures (formerly Draper Nexus)
Innovative Japanese Companies Harnessing Silicon Valley - Part 2
Monday, January 28, 2019
Kenji Kushida, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center Japan Program, Research Scholar
<Harnessing Silicon Valley>
An Insider’s Vantage on 20 years of Japan’s Startup Ecosystem, its Current Challenges, And Attempts to Harness Silicon Valley
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Hiroaki Yasutake, Co-founder and CSO, Junify, and former CTO, Rakuten
<Harnessing Silicon Valley>
A New Perspective on News: The SmartNews Approach and Political Balancing
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Main Speaker: Yuhei Nishioka, Director of Product Management, SmartNews
Introduction by: Rich Jaroslovsky, Vice President for Content and Chief Journalist, SmartNews and Former Wall Street Journal White House correspondent
<Spotlight Japanese Startup>
Harnessing Silicon Valley: The Strategies, Structures, and Activities of Innovative Large Japanese Firms in Silicon Valley
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Kenji Kushida, Research Scholar, Shorenstein APARC Japan Program and Stanford Silicon Valley-New Japan Project Leader
<Harnessing Silicon Valley>
TOWARDS A NEW JAPAN: CONNECTING JAPAN’S BIGGEST CHALLENGES WITH GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS
Monday, May 21, 2018
Allison Baum, Co-founder and Managing Partner, Fresco Capital
<Towards a New Japan>
THE RISE AND FALL OF GIANTS: ICT DISRUPTIONS FROM SILICON VALLEY, NOKIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
John Zysman, UC Berkeley;
Yves Doz, Insead;
Amy Shuen, Hong Kong University;
Kenji Kushida, Stanford University
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>
LEVERAGING SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE OF SENIOR PROFESSIONALS FOR SOCIAL GOOD: NONPROFIT INNOVATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN
Monday, March 12, 2018
Ulea Lago, Director of Consulting, Empower Success Corp
<Towards a New Japan>
MANAGING "SLEEP DEBT" FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH: INTRODUCING THE STANFORD METHOD FOR ULTIMATE SOUND SLEEP
February 15, 2018
Dr. Seiji Nishino, Professor, Stanford Department of Psychiatry and head of Stanford Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology Lab
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>
VOICE4U AND SOCIAL INNOVATION: HOW INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY ENABLES A NEW WORLD FOR PEOPLE WITH AUTISM & SPECIAL NEEDS
January 30, 2018
Yumi Kubo, co-founder and CEO, Spectrum Visions Global, Inc.
Sei Higuchi, Ph.D., co-founder and CTO, Spectrum Visions Global, Inc.
<Spotlight Japanese Startup>
HARNESSING SILICON VALLEY: CORPORATE AND GOVERNMENT FUNDED ACCELERATOR PROGRAMS IN SILICON VALLEY — IMPLICATIONS FOR JAPAN
December 13, 2017
Atsuko Jenks, Managing Director, Japan, GSVlabs
<Harnessing Silicon Valley>
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
<Towards a New Japan>
GROW: USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SCREEN HUMAN INTELLIGENCE
October 13, 2017
Masahiro Fukuhara, Founder and CEO, Institute for a Global Society (IGS)
<Spotlight Japanese Startup>
SAFECAST AND FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT: DISASTER CATALYZING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, EMPOWERING CITIZEN SCIENCE
September 7, 2017
Pieter Franken, Senior Advisor, Monex Group & Co-founder, Safecast
<Spotlight Japanese Startup>
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
<Harnessing Silicon Valley>
THE COMING REVOLUTION: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
June 5, 2017
Greg Mulholland, Co-founder and CEO, Citrine Informatics
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>
GRID INC: DEEP LEARNING FRAMEWORK FOR INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING OPTIMIZATION APPLICATION
May 15, 2017
Tomah Sogabe, Co-founder, GRID Inc.
<Spotlight Japanese Startup>
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
<Towards a New Japan>
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
[Slides]
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>
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
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>
MANUFACTURING IN CALIFORNIA: WHAT LIES AHEAD
January 24, 2017
Sean Randolph, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute
<Innovation and Silicon Valley>