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2020 US-Asia Technology Management Center Annual Meeting: For Affiliates and the Public
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
03:00 pm - 06:30 pm
Affiliate Meeting Video Recording
US-ATMC’s yearly update on our activities, strategic research overview, keynote presentation and other content.
Agenda:
0:00 Welcome by Dr. Richard Dasher, Director of the US-Asia Technology Management Center – State of the Center by Dr. Richard Dasher
15:10 Keynote Presentation by Dr. Chenyang Xu, Co-Founder of the Silicon Valley Future Academy on “Open Innovation: A Strategic Imperative for a Corporation to Succeed in Its Digital Transformation Journey”
1:09:13 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 1) – Takaaki Hoda (Kobe University) – Aki Takahashi (Brilliant Hope Inc.) – Shota Yamaguchi (Mitsubishi Research Institute)
1:48:40 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 2) – Ajay Joseph (Bridgestone Corp.) – Takashi “Zack” Okazaki (Nippon Life Insurance) – Christiana Xu (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) – Hiro Nishinaka (Ishin)
2:28:00 New Japan activities and report by Dr. Kenji Kushida, Stanford – Silicon Valley New Japan Project Leader and Research Scholar, Japan Program, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University – Fireside chat with Dr. Kenji Kushida and Dr. Richard Dasher – Emerging New Japan
2:48:06 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 3) – Kenji Niwa (Niwa Capital) – Yasuhito Ando (KKE Inc.) – Yoshito Terada (Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank) – Amit Kapoor (India Council on Competitiveness)
3:25:10 Closing remarks by Dr. Richard Dasher: US-ATMC plans for 2020 – 2021
For Dr. Dasher’s presentation slides, please scroll to the bottom of the page.
Details
Featuring:
Keynote Presentation by Dr. Chenyang Xu, Co-Founder of the Silicon Valley Future Academy on “Open Innovation: A Strategic Imperative for a Corporation to Succeed in Its Digital Transformation Journey”
Digital technologies have reshaped every industry in our modern economy. Companies that are non-digital natives such as those in traditional industries are finding it harder to keep up with the accelerating changes. They are facing increasing existential threats by new nimble, digital native competitors and existing competitors that have mastered digital transformation and are innovating at a faster speed and a bigger scale. Just by looking for change catalysts and practices within one’s own company or industry will no longer be enough to achieve successful digital transformation and gain competitive advantages. Instead more and more companies are adopting open innovation as a strategic approach to search digital innovations and practices wide and deep beyond the borders of their companies and industries to catalyze and speed up its digital transformation journey. This talk will examine why open innovation is imperative for the successful realization of digital transformation and illustrate its applications with real-world examples.
Meeting Agenda:
3:00 Welcome by Dr. Richard Dasher
3:05 – 3:15 State of the Center by Dr. Richard Dasher
3:15 – 4:00 Keynote Presentation by Dr. Chenyang Xu
4:00 – 4:30 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 1)
- Takaaki Hoda (Kobe University)
- Aki Takahashi (Brilliant Hope Inc.)
- Shota Yamaguchi (Mitsubishi Research Institute)
4:30 – 4:40 Break
4:40 – 5:20 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 2)
- Ajay Joseph (Bridgestone Corp.)
- Takashi “Zack” Okazaki (Nippon Life Insurance)
- Christiana Xu (Kawasaki Heavy Industries)
- Hiro Nishinaka (Ishin)
5:20 – 5:30 New Japan activities and report by Dr. Kenji Kushida
5:30 – 5:45 Fireside chat with Dr. Kenji Kushida and Dr. Richard Dasher – Emerging New Japan
5:45 – 6:25 Visiting Scholar Presentations (Part 3)
- Kenji Niwa (Niwa Capital)
- Yasuhito Ando (KKE Inc.)
- Yoshito Terada (Hamamatsu Iwata Shinkin Bank)
- Amit Kapoor (India Council on Competitiveness)
6:25 – 6:30 Closing remarks by Dr. Richard Dasher: US-ATMC plans for 2020 – 2021
Speakers
Dr. Richard Dasher
Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center
Dr. Richard Dasher has directed the US-Asia Technology Management Center since 1994 and is Adjunct Professor of East Asia Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. From 1998 – 2017, he served concurrently as Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Systems (now Stanford System X Alliance) and held Consulting Professor appointments in the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 2004, Dr. Dasher became the first non-Japanese person to join the governance of a Japanese national university, serving on the Board of Directors and then on the Management Council of Tohoku University until 2011. Other service (selected) includes the Program Committee of the World Premier International Research Center Initiative (WPI) of MEXT since its founding in 2007, and advisory roles with research institutes, accelerators, and nonprofits in Asia, Canada, and the U.S.
Dr. Kenji Kushida
Japan Program Research Scholar, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and Project Leader, Silicon Valley – New Japan Project (SV-NJ)
Kenji E. Kushida is a Japan Program Research Scholar at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center and an affiliated researcher at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.
Kushida’s research interests are in the fields of comparative politics, political economy, and information technology. He has four streams of academic research and publication: political economy issues surrounding information technology such as Cloud Computing; institutional and governance structures of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster; political strategies of foreign multinational corporations in Japan; and Japan’s political economic transformation since the 1990s.
Kushida has written two general audience books in Japanese, entitled Biculturalism and the Japanese: Beyond English Linguistic Capabilities (Chuko Shinsho, 2006) and International Schools, an Introduction (Fusosha, 2008).
Kushida holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his MA in East Asian studies and BAs in economics and East Asian studies, all from Stanford University.
For additional information such as C.V., publications, and working papers, please visit Kenji Kushida’s homepage.
Dr. Chenyang Xu
Co-Founder, Silicon Valley Future Academy, Founding Co-Chair, Innovation Executive Forum, Former General Manager, Siemens Technology to Business
Dr. Chenyang Xu, based out of Silicon Valley, is an internationally recognized leader and speaker on technology and innovation especially on open innovation, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation.
He is a Co-Founder of Silicon Valley Future Academy, a Managing Partner of Perception Vision Medical Technologies, Co. Ltd., an advisory board member of the Johns Hopkins University BME Department, an advisor of UC San Francisco Health Hub, a founding co-chair of Silicon Valley Innovation Executive Forum and Corporate Innovators Huddle, and board directors/venture advisors of AI technology startups in US and Asia. He is an elected IEEE Fellow for his significant contribution to AI and healthcare fields with seminal research and commercial impacts. He is an affiliated lecturer on “Open Innovation” at the EMBA program of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He regularly speaks and advises CEOs and senior executives of large and medium-sized companies on AI, Open Innovation, and Digital Transformation. Between 2009 and 2017, he was the General Manager and Chief Technology Officer of Siemens Technology to Business at Silicon Valley responsible for Siemens’ global early-stage startup partnership and investment across manufacturing, energy, transportation, and healthcare business sectors.
He published over 80 scientific publications with over 20,000 citations and holds 40 US and international patents. He served long term on the Advisory Board of UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (2009- 2017) and as a Board Director of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (2014-2017).
He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University in 1995 and 1999, respectively.
