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2019 JAPAN-US INNOVATION AWARDS SYMPOSIUM

Friday, Jul 26, 2019

01:30 pm - 06:30 pm

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Stanford ID holders, please email briana.burrows@stanford.edu for a FREE TICKET.  Limited seating – first come, first served.  Program is open to the public, registration required at <http://www.usjinnovate.org/>.

The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium is a signature event of the Innovation Awards Program, organized by the Japan Society of Northern California in cooperation with the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center.

As part of the Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium we will be honoring the following companies with the 2019 Sunbridge Emerging Leader Award: Zoom Video Communications of the U.S. and WHILL of Japan. These Awards, one to a U.S. firm and one to a Japanese firm, recognize later-stage dynamically growing companies that have begun to transform an industry or value chain. They will be presented at the ninth annual Japan-US Innovation Awards Symposium.

WHILL – Since its founding in 2012, WHILL’s mission is to transform today’s antiquated power wheelchair and scooter experiences into a new kind of empowering devices, intelligent personal electric vehicles (EVs). WHILL is reinventing the personal mobility industry with personal EVs that focus on an approachable and aesthetically pleasing powered vehicles that boosts confidence and pushes the boundaries of personal transportation. Headquartered in Yokohama with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Taiwan and EU, WHILL is focused on enabling everyone to explore the world in comfort and style. (http://whill.us)

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (“Zoom”) – Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Their easy, reliable cloud platform for video, voice, content sharing, and chat runs across mobile devices, desktops, telephones, and room systems. Founded in 2011, Zoom is publicly traded on Nasdaq (ticker: ZM) and is based in San Jose, California. (http://zoom.com/)

The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium will also feature five Japanese Start-up Companies in the Innovation Showcase. The Innovation Showcase recognizes young, rapidly growing companies with founders in Japan developing exciting technologies and highly innovative business ideas that have the potential for major worldwide impact. These companies were selected from a highly competitive field of candidates demonstrating outstanding promise and success in gaining international traction. This year’s five companies will be: Atonarp, Cinnamon, Kyulux, Inc., Triple W, and VALUENEX.

Atonarp – Prakash Murthy, Founder and CEO

Atonarp has developed the industry’s smartest and most discerning molecular cameras to conveniently probe chemical and biochemical processes in real time revealing powerful insights with actionable data. Engineered in Tokyo and Silicon Valley, Atonarp’s disruptive solutions are revolutionizing the way the world senses, collects, processes and interprets molecular data.  <https://www.atonarp.com/solutions/research/>

Cinnamon – Miku Hirano, Founder and CEO

Cinnamon AI is working to make a world where human creativity and potential can flourish by using its AI technology to replace all the repetitive, mind-numbing tasks that take place today. Cinnamon AI’s main product is an AI Document Reader to automate the data extraction from unstructured documents.  <http://cinnamon.is/en/>

Kyulux, Inc – Junji Adachi, CEO

Kyulux develops next generation materials for OLED displays and lighting. Based on exclusively-licensed technology from Kyushu University, Kyulux develops Hyperfluorescence™ TADF emitters that will enable cost-effective, durable and efficient OLEDs that do not rely on rare metals.  <https://www.kyulux.com>

Triple W – Atsushi Nakanishi, CEO

Triple W, an innovator of connected health devices, empowers people with incontinence to live without worries. Triple W is the developer of DFree®, the world’s first connected health wearable device for people who suffer from incontinence. DFree tracks the progression of bladder size using a non-invasive and non-harmful ultrasound sensor. DFree will help seniors, children and disabled people who need to manage incontinence by predicting when their bladder is full and notifying them when it’s the right time to go to the bathroom. < https://www.dfreeus.biz/>

 VALUENEX – Tatsuo Nakamura, Founder and CEO

As a pioneer in AI and predictive analytics, VALUENEX is an innovator and industry leader in the unstructured data analytics realm, providing the most dynamically visualized and precise Big Data analytics software solutions, along with the highest-quality consulting expertise and in-house analyst training.  <https://www.valuenex.com>

 

 Program is open to the public, for registration and details, please visit  <http://www.usjinnovate.org/>.