On September 5, NEDO held a seminar on open innovation for Presidents, CEOs and innovators in Japanese companies operating in the United States. Chairman of GCA Corporation Japan, Mr. Paul Yonamine, former IBM Japan's president, talked about the importance of technology and investment for Japanese companies, and challenges of innovation.  In addition, Alex Vitale,…

NEDO, together with Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), held its two-day "Innovation JAPAN 2017" event on August 31 and September 1 at Tokyo Big Sight. On September 1st, there was a NEDO Seminar with the theme of “Challenges for Global Venture - Passport to Overseas Development”.  In this seminar, Mr. Shinnosuke Kameyama, Chief Representative…

On August 10th at Google Launchpad in San Francisco, NEDO and Silicon Valley Forum held the 4th Japanese Pitch Night – Summer 2017, where technology startups pitched their businesses to investors and corporations. The participating startups were two biotech companies (MediGear International and Metcela ), two RFID technology companies (RFLocus and Phoenix Solution), one AI…

On August 3rd, Shinnosuke Kameyama, Chief Representative of NEDO Silicon Valley moderated a panel session at this event. Panelists (Kenichi Saito, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.;Masanori Onchi, Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc.; Norihiro Kondo, Panasonic R&D Company of America; and Taro Kaihara, Sompo Digital Lab) discussed how Japanese companies can learn from Silicon Valley Innovation,…

On April 27th, NEDO participated in “The Vault Mashup: Japan and Nordic Countries” at The Vault, which is a collaborative work space in San Francisco. Other participating organizations were JETRO San Francisco, Silicon Vikings and Enterprise Estonia. During the panel discussion titled “Exporting Silicon Valley – Energizing the Global Startup Ecosystem”, the panelists from Japan…