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<2022>

12.13.22 CIGS seminar@Tokyo: US political divisions

11.7.22 Conversation with former Digital Minister Karen Makishima: Digitally Transforming Japan

10.21.22 Delivered a talk in Glow Tech Nagoya

8.10.22 Carnegie New Article Series: Startup Japan

7.19.22 Commentary: How Abe Shinzo Transformed Japan’s Innovation Landscape

7.18.22 Delivered a talk in Shido Next Innovator

7.13.22 CIGS New Column: 　Supreme Court and the deep divisions within the US

7.12.22 Delivered a talk in CIGS Seminar

7.2.22 Participated in a panel: ASKA Conference

6.7.22 New Research Article: How to Take U.S.-Japan Innovation and Technology Cooperation to the Next was published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

5.13.22 Interview: Japan’s Energy Security in the Era of Climate Change

4.29.22 Delivered a talk for Copenhagen Business School

4.27-5.31.22 Online Seminar: Digitally Transforming Japan: Value Creation in an Era of Cloud Computing

3.30.22 Delivered a talk in Future Insight Seminar: New Value Creation, Silicon Valley

3.25.22 Delivered a talk in JMA Garage : Transforming Value Creation - Tesla and Hongguang Mini EV Disrupting the Automobile Industry

3.16.22 Carnegie webinar : Silicon Valley-Japan Collaborations as a Pillar of U.S.-Japan Relations

2.7.22 Moderated Panel: Biotechnology Entrepreneurship in Japan's New Startup Ecosystem

<2021>

12.27.21 New Column “the increasing information gap as Japan's pandemic response” published by the Canon Institute of Global Studies

12.17.21 New Column series “ US response to COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of the United States, Part 15” published by the Canon Institute of Global Studies

12.3.21 Delivered a talk in JMA GARAGE Conference 2021 (Online)

11.3.21 Moderated JETRO Online Seminar “The U.S. Innovation Ecosystem from the Perspective of the Next Generation” Part5
Speaker: Shinji Wada, Vice President, Global HR Platform, Sony Corporation of America

10.21.21 Delivered a talk in X-HUB TOKYO

9.9.21 Moderated JETRO Online Seminar “The U.S. Innovation Ecosystem from the Perspective of the Next Generation” Part1
Speaker: Aki-Chen Jiang, Investor, WiL

5.28.21 New Report “ How to create an organization that generates new businesses. Now is the time for being the ambidexterity” published by Techblitz

5.27.21 New Report” The Impact of Tesla - A Strategy that Overturned the Conventions of EVs” published by Techblitz

5.26.21 New Report” Silicon Valley-Style Value Creation: Utilizing Methods for New Business Development” published by Techblitz

2.25.21 New Chapter on Abenomics in new book “The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms” was published by Cambridge University Press

2.23.21 New Chapter on DX in new book “Liberal arts of Technology” was published

2.18.21 Delivered a talk in BLITZ LIVE (Online)

2.15.21 New Interview about Biden administration was published in TECHBLITZ

2.3.21 Delivered a talk in JMA GARAGE 2021 (Online)

1.20.21 Delivered a talk in Dentsu Institute SSX Webinar

1.12.21 New Column series “ US response to COVID-19 pandemic and the reality of the United States, Part 1-13” published by the Canon Institute of Global Studies

<2020>

09.04.20 Statement about Japanese translation of Black Lives Matter was featured in the Huffington Post Japan

08.25.20 New interview piece about open innovation with COVID published by Ishin

06.22.20 New Column “ Innovation in the post COVID-19 world” published by Nippon Institute for Research Advancement(NIRA)

05.19.20 Japan Colloquium series “Japan’s Maturing Startup Ecosystem” held as a webinar

04.28.20 Statement about  investment on startups featured in The Nikkei (paywall)

04.23.20 New Column " Tesla and the user pain point-driven paradigm of value creation" published by the Canon Institute of Global Studies

04.14.2020 Japan Colloquium series”Japan's Response to Covid-19/ Political Leadership and Crisis Response” held as a webinar

02.28.2020 Japan Colloquium “Age and High-Growth Entrepreneurship" by Javier Miranda held at Stanford

02.20.2020 Conference: Silicon Valley and Japan held at Stanford University

02.12.2020 Silicon Valley Innovation Forum (SVIF) Seminar held in Santa Clara

<2019>

12.21.2019 New report ”Japan in the Bay Area: Collaboration and Transformation” published by Bay Area Council Economic Institute

12.12.2019 Delivered a talk in CIGS Seminar in Tokyo

11.18-19.2019 Silicon Valley -New Japan Summit 2019 held at Stanford University

11.06.2019 Delivered a talk in Japan Colloquium luncheon series at Shorenstein APARC

10.29.2019 Participated in a session at Transatlantic Sync held in Silicon Valley

10.23.2019 Statement about Softbank broadcasted on NPR Marketplace

9.25.2019 New article( in Japanese) published by Diamond Harvard Business Review online

9.6.2019 Moderated and participated in several sessions at Fintech&Regtech Summit held in Tokyo, Japan

7.23.2019 CIGS Seminar The essence of the AI is beyond AI itself at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo

7.17.2019 Hosted Silicon Valley - New Japan Summit 2019 Tokyo

6.26.2019 Special session at New Economy Summit Tokyo 2019 (NEST TOKYO 2019)

6.19.2019 Delivered a presentation at Annual Meeting of the Trilateral Commission held in Paris France

5.21.2019 Moderated several panels and presented at Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligence Augmentation (IA), Human Machine Interfaces (HMI): Frontier Research and Policies for Navigating the Future Together held at Stanford University

5.6.2019 Moderated two panels at the 2019 Nikkei AI Summit held in Tokyo Japan

4.26.2019 Comments featured in new “Silicon Valley D-Lab Report” on MaaS (mobility-as-a-a-service)

4.19.2019 CIGS Seminar “US Democracy and Recent Trends in US Politics” full presentation report now available online

4/19/2019 Seminar “The Essence of the Silicon Valley AI Revolution and How to Avoid Worst Practice Strategies of Japanese Firms Trying to Harness Silicon Valley” at Egg Japan by Mitsubishi Real Estate, in Tokyo

4/16/2019 CIGS Seminar “AI, Silicon Valley-Style Value Creation, and Japanese Companies” at Hitotsubashi Hall in Tokyo

3/22/2019 New 4 part series on industry disruption and new value creation in the automobile industry (in Japanese) published by CIGS 

3/12/2019 New interview piece (in Japanese) discussing building relationships with US startups, published on Asahi Shimbun Digital 

2/2019 New video interview discussing ways for Japanese firms to utilize Silicon Valley (in Japanese) published by Asahi Shimbun Digital

<2018>

12/2018 New interview piece, "Harnessing Silicon Valley: 10 Worst Practices by Japanese CVC" (in Japanese) published by the SV Startups 100