2022 Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Symposium

The Japan – U.S. Innovation Awards Program, which is the longest running program in the Bay Area that highlights innovation and entrepreneurship links between Silicon Valley and Japan, has recognized over 43 outstanding U.S. and Japanese companies with unique technologies and business ideas that are disrupting their respective sectors. For more information on the Symposium, including speakers and participants, and to register, please visit: https://www.usjinnovate.org/.

SunBridge Emerging Leaders:
Databricks (US) & TIER IV (Japan)

Showcase Companies:
CureApp
GITAI
Kyoto Fusioneering
Telexistence
Warpspace

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Date:

July 14, 2022 @ 12:00 – 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)

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Keynote Speaker:

Cal Henderson | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Slack

Cal Henderson is the co-founder and CTO of Slack. He oversees Slack’s world-class engineering team and sets the technical vision for the company. In 2019, he was named a Fortune 40 Under 40 honoree and recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Previously, Cal built and led the engineering teams at Flickr, through its acquisition by Yahoo. An experienced technology leader and a popular speaker on engineering scalability, he authored the best-selling O’Reilly Media book Building Scalable Websites. Cal was also a pioneer in the use of web APIs, and created the basis for OAuth and oEmbed. Read more here.

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