Courses & Events
Taking the Cloud to Japan: Laggards and Lions of Japan’s Digital Transformation
Thursday, Nov 5, 2020
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
Join us for a seminar discussing the trends, challenges, and outlook for Digital Transformation (DX) in Asia from the standpoint of providing storage solution services that enable digital transformation.
Details
All seminars will be held online via Zoom, 4:30 PM -5:50 PM, with informal networking following until about 6:30 PM (PST). REGISTER below for the entire series*.
Register in advance:
https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIldu6srDsjG9yX-9Mhl6v2VCtCcBUhSLYo
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
*You may cancel your registration at any time and attend only the sessions you wish.
The series is available to Stanford students for credit; register for EASTASN 402A “Topics in International Technology Management,” also cross-listed as EE-402A and EALC-402A, 1 unit S/NC.
Speakers
Mr. Brian Burns
Vice President, Asia Pacific, Cloudian
With extensive experience and relationships in Japan, China and other Asian countries, Brian Burns has led market entry, sales and marketing, and strategic fundraising for North American software companies seeking to accelerate their growth in the region. He crafted and led go-to-market strategies, built sales organizations and opened business operations for Cloudian, HashiCorp, Hortonworks, ViXS, Cybersource (VISA), Microsoft and Apple Computer. His industry domains include enterprise software with a focus on Big Data, analytics, AI/ML, and IoT. Mr. Burns graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with majors in Engineering and Asian Languages. He earned his MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he was an InterPacific Scholar and attended Keio University in Tokyo. He speaks Japanese and Mandarin Chinese.
