TechBiz Creation & Matchmaking Pitch & Workshop

We conduct a pitch session and workshop where 6 Japanese companies, which are aiming at overseas expansion regarding content technologies in particular, give their presentation and create business plans accordingly. Having world’s leading experts of tech related business with us as commentators, we hold a discussion toward expanding content business overseas.
＊Simultaneous interpretation is available.

Title

DE-142TechBiz Creation & Matchmaking Pitch & Workshop

Dates

Thu 14 Nov

Site

Open stage in Dcexpo, Exhibition Hall 5

Time

12:50 - 14:45

Pre-registration

Pre-registration is required for attending these conferences. Please register from the website of DCAJ which is an organizer of DCEXPO.

PRESENTER

• Koji Tanabe(Moderator)
  Specially Appointed Professor,Professor Emeritus at Tokyo Institute of Technology
  
  Professor Tanabe is Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Institute of Technology and still in charge of lecturing on Standardization Strategy. He also conducts non-executive directors of Japan Asia Group Corp. and Riken Corp., director of Business Model Society, representative of WAA(We Are Asian) Community. He had been a professor of Graduate School of Innovation Management at Tokyo Institute of Technology for 12 years since 2005.
  Prior to academic carrier, he had engaged with innovation & technology policy, computerization of administration, and statistics development in METI. He was seconded to Singapore for promoting cooperation between Asian countries and Japan in the IT field.
  Ph. D. of Tokyo Institute of Technology.
  
  
• Susan G. Keenom（Opening speech）
  Senior Vice President of State, International and Board Relations,National Association of Broadcasters
  Susan (Sue) Keenom joined NAB in 2009 as the senior vice president of State Associations. In 2011 her role was expanded to include board relations and in 2018 she added international relations to her responsibilities. Sue manages NAB's outreach to the state broadcasters associations and manages logistics for all board meetings and other board-related events. Her international duties include developing and expanding relationships with NAB partners around the world.
  Previously, Sue served as executive director of the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation, where, she was responsible for the management and production of the internationally renowned Fellows Program, university partnerships, development, governance, external relations and special projects.
  Preceding her time at the International Women’s Leadership Forum, Sue served for 12 years on the staff of former United States Sen. Gordon Smith of Oregon, most recently as his director of Administration. Prior to that, she was an assistant vice president for First Interstate Bank of Oregon. She began her professional career with Citicorp in Walnut Creek, Calif., and shortly thereafter moved to New York City where she worked for Citibank. She has a background in program management and administrative management, training, fundraising and event planning.
  Sue graduated from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., with a B.A. in Communications. She is a native of Portland, Ore., and resides in Washington, D.C.
  
  
• Diana Arellano　
  ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations Committee Chair
  Pipeline Team Leader,
  Mackevision, Part of Accenture Interactive.
  
  Diana Arellano obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Sciences from the University Simon Bolivar (Venezuela) and her Ph.D. from the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain). Her main field of research was Affective Computing, which she combined with Machine Learning. Currently Diana Arellano works as Pipeline Team Leader at Mackevision, Part of Accenture Interactive in Stuttgart, Germany. Starting her SIGGRAPH journey as a student volunteer 12 years ago, Diana serves as ACM SIGGRAPH External Relations Committee Chair and is a member of ACM SIGGRAPH Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
  
  
• Danielle Belko
  Emerging Technologies Chair, SIGGRAPH 2020
  Technical Program Manager,
  Facebook Reality Labs.
  Dani Belko is a Technical Program Manager at Facebook Reality Labs in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she works closely with researchers, engineers, and specialists to enable social interactions in virtual environments that are indistinguishable from real life. Creating opportunities for people to connect and interact in meaningful ways has been a main focus in Dani’s work since receiving her Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. After graduating, Dani worked at Schell Games, a Pittsburgh-based games company that specializes in developing transformational experiences. Additionally, she co-produced a large innovation and music festival that brings thousands of people together to discuss innovative topics, share ideas, and enjoy live performances. She has been involved with ACM’s SIGGRAPH conference for the past 7 years, and is always looking for new ways to bring the world closer together.
  
  
• Chan Wei Siang　
  Executive Director, Toyonaka Investment and Consultancy Pte Ltd
  Mr Chan is currently the Executive Director of a direct investment holding and consultancy company, Toyonaka Investment and Consultancy Pte Ltd based in Singapore that provides fund raising, corporate financing, M&A and investment consultation, cross-border partnerships and inter-industry integration for companies in Asia. In addition, he also consults, trains and coaches government officials around the world, in policies relating to investment and trade promotions, engagements in developing domestic SMEs and private sector, formulating of public private partnerships and venture capital industry development. Mr Chan has been also a management partner-cum-investor and adviser to several IT and mobile companies in Asia, and venture partner and an adviser to private equity funds in Asia and Silicon Valley Venture Partners in USA. He had been actively in coaching start-ups and was invited annually as the judge for SITF, the technology platform founded to identify new technology development from start-up to large corporations in Singapore. Besides technology, he was a principal consultant to Stamford Land of Singapore, one of the largest property developers in Australia and Singapore.
  He was formerly running an operational company as the Senior Deputy General Manager/COO of Overland Transport Logistics, a Pan-Asia cross border logistics company that was acquired by Yamato Group of Japan, based in Shenzhen. He was seconded to be responsible for the Post-Merger Integration for this M&A and represented the interest of Yamato Group to oversee the daily operations of the company. Before this appointment, he was acting as an advisor to Yamato Asia.
  On his earlier professional life, Mr Chan was the Chief Representative for Greater China based in Beijing for SATS, a listed company in the gateway services and food solution businesses where he was instrumental in the restructuring of its joint-ventures in China as well as developing new joint venture partnerships with major Chinese conglomerates and state-owned enterprises. Before taking up this appointment, he spent several years in the real estate industry, spanning across China, Japan and Singapore. As the Head of Business Development and Investments cum Marketing for Ascendas China based in Shanghai, he oversaw and negotiated for all the acquisition of commercial buildings and land parcels in China. He also worked at Guocoland, a listed real estate developer owned by one of the largest Asia conglomerate, for all its investment deals in Japan.
  Prior to joining the private sector, he spent nine years of executive and managerial experiences in government and government-linked corporations. He had engaged strategically with high net worth individuals from China and Japan by providing consultancy to manage their businesses and assets through Singapore in Asia Pacific, and assisted several Chinese companies to formulate plans to be listed in the Singapore stock exchange when he was heading the Asia Pacific Division at the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Mr Chan was also based in Tokyo, Japan, representing EDB and Singapore Embassy for Industry Development. He was also one of the
  pioneers in the development of the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park at CSSD, the joint venture company based in Suzhou, China when he was seconded to from the Singapore Government. His first appointment was then an information officer with the Ministry of Information and Arts, Government of Singapore.
  Having graduated from Japan with a degree in Information Science and Engineering from Osaka University, Japan. Mr Chan also completed a SMBA course at Shanghai Jiatong University, China. He received a Monbushou scholarship from the Public Service Commission of the Singapore Government and the Japanese Education Ministry. He is fluent in 4 languages, English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese. He currently resides in Singapore.
  
• Tadaaki Hashizume
  Incubation Manager, RIKEN
• Phil Keys　
  Manager, Marketing Communications, Intertrust Technologies
  A Silicon Valley native, Phil Keys has been involved with the technology industry in a number of roles in both the U.S. and Japan. Prior to joining Intertrust, a company with deep experience in digital entertainment related technologies, Phil was a Silicon Valley based reporter for Nikkei Electronics covering digital media and other markets for over a decade. He still writes a column for the Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun and from 2017 to 2019 has served in the Innovation Advisory Council for the Japan - U.S. Innovation Awards program sponsored by the Japan Society of Northern California and Stanford University. Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts from the University of California at Berkeley.
  
• Hiroyuki Ohnishi
  Technology Seed Incubation Co., Ltd
  Manager of Sendai branch and team leader of private equity investment at Japan Asia Investment Co., Ltd. (JAIC). Participated in the establishing TSI as core member and assumed CEO. Major IPO that he participated are; Nihon Eslead Corporation, Takasho Corporation, JSS, Shoei and etc., Made decision to take over Ion Engineering Research Institute Corporation, established by NEDO, Japan government organization, and succeeded in its corporate restructuring and commercialization of the business. Currently, Chairman and director of Ion Technology Center Co., Ltd., corporate auditor at AXIOHELIX Co. Ltd.
  
• Nobuyuki Tsuji
  Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC