Carnegie Webinar: Accelerating U.S.-Japan Tech Innovation
Kenji Kushida
On March 30, I was delighted to moderate a webinar featuring an overview by myself and wonderful panelists:
Ambassador John Roos, founding partner at Geodesic Capital, ambassador to Japan from 2009-2013, and former CEO of Wilson Sonsini, Silicon Valley's premier law firm.
Kaori Fukunaga from NTT Data, senior director in Next Generation Partners and Incubation based in Silicon Valley, who will walk us through how the previously domestic-oriented firm is now surprisingly global and innovative.
It was clear to me in my latest trip to DC that conceptions about Japan's economic drivers need to be updated -- there is plenty of traditional, but also a great deal of new and exciting. Put differently, looking at areas that haven't changed much and bemoaning the lack of change is an approach that is bound to miss the areas of dynamic change. We need to understand both, but there is way too little focused on the latter, so Carnegie's Global Japan, Innovative Japan research and programming focuses on the latter for a global audience.
Youtube link to the webinar is here
