Courses & Events
Overview: Innovations in Supply Chains and Manufacturing in Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Realignment (Hybrid)
Tuesday, Sep 24, 2024
04:30 pm - 05:50 pm
Our flagship autumn Seminar Series on International Technology Management in 2024 will host distinguished speakers and panels from industry and the public sector to address topics such as post-Covid regional redistribution of international supply chains in Asia; new technology solutions for manufacturing resilience and industry-level geopolitical security; digital integration of manufacturing, supply chain, and business data; related new trends in key industries such as semiconductors, electronics, and automotive; and the broader impact of these developments on US-Asia business.
Our first session begins Tuesday, September 24th with US-ATMC Director Dr. Richard Dasher on an “Overview: Innovations in Supply Chains and Manufacturing in Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Realignment”.
Manufacturing and supply chains represent a cost to product companies, and so most innovation related to this aspect of business until recently focused on increasing efficiency, thereby reducing cost or ensuring more on-time delivery. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has served as a catalyst to raise awareness of the importance of other goals for manufacturing and supply chain improvement, namely increased resilience against disruption, national security and independence, environmental sustainability, and the ability to adapt quickly to sudden technology and business changes of the current digital industrial revolution. Following an introduction to the current state of manufacturing-and-supply-chain innovation in Asia, this overview presentation will examine trends and dynamics that are responding to the above four goals. It will also provide a preview of topics to be addressed later in this series of weekly seminars.
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Our 2024 autumn seminar series on “Topics in International Technology Management | Innovations in Supply Chains and Manufacturing in Asia: Opportunities and Challenges in Realignment” begins September 2024 and continues until December 2024. Seminars will be held Tuesdays, 4:30 PM – 5:50 PM.
Instructor: Richard Dasher <rdasher [at] stanford [dot] edu>
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.
Details
To attend by Zoom, please register at https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuc-qspz4tH9c4adu7YJ1v6Tfak9ei1Nzl. This will register you for the entire series and the same link will be used for all sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting series. You may cancel at anytime.
To attend in-person, please register over Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/overview-innovations-in-supply-chains-and-manufacturing-in-asia-tickets-1008748402627?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Venue:
- Stanford University, Bishop Auditorium, 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
Parking options:
- Memorial Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Lasuen St. and Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305 [Google Map]
- Please check parking signs carefully to ensure that permitted parking (A or C) and metered spaces are free after 4:00 pm. Paid parking is enforced around The Oval until 6:00 pm.
Session Recordings are typically posted within 3 business days after each session on our Youtube Channel and the course page here.
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.
