EE402: International Partnerships

Join the Silicon Vikings for an interesting discussion of how receptive the U.S., Nordics and Asia are to entrepreneurship areas of utmost concern including Clean Tech, Green Tech, AgTech, FoodTech and Sustainable Innovation. Learn about the similarities and differences of each regions approach from our panel of experts:

- Richard Dasher, Director, US-Asia Technology Management Center at Stanford University
- Frederick Johansson, CEO & Investment Director at Fairpoint Capital in Stockholm, Sweden
- Fredrik Josefsson, Head of Entrepreneurs and High Growth at SEB #Greenhouse in Stockholm, Sweden
- Sean Randolph, Senior Director, Bay Area Council Economic Institute, Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium
- Marit Sall, Business Development & Partnerships Manager in Energy & Sustainability, Plug and Play Tech Center; Co-Founder Cleantech ForEst (Tallinn, Estonia)

Science for Society (S4S) is a collaborative forum bringing together the right experts and professionals to discuss needs, challenges, and innovative solutions that can improve the quality of life of under-served communities. The vision is to create holistic "Ideal Villages" where the basic needs of the community in water, healthcare, education, energy, livelihood, sanitation, etc. are fulfilled by applying innovations in science and technology and enabling integrated sustainable rural development.

Please note: This event is sold out. A limited number of walk-in registrations will be allowed, although preference will be given to those who are pre-registered.

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.

Zoom Video Communications, Inc. - 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.

Join US-ASIA and AICUG for a discussion on recent advances in AI research.

Agenda:
6:00 - 6:35 PM: Sean Zhu, VP of PIX Moving Global and GM of PIX Moving Inc (USA) on "Autonomous Driving not just Saving a Drive: the Space Revolution"
6:35 - 7:10 PM: Christine McLeavey Payne, Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI on "Transformer-Based MIDI Music Generation"
7:10 - 7:45 PM: Peizhao Zhang, Research Scientist at Facebook
7:45 - 8:00 PM: Networking

Stanford ID holders, please email briana.burrows@stanford.edu for a FREE TICKET by 12:00 PM on Friday 5/31. Limited seating - first come, first served. Program is open to the public, registration required.

Augmented Reality (AR) has been one of the hottest and most-discussed technologies over the last decade. When executed well, AR adds contextual information and deepens people's understanding of "reality" by overlaying 3D/2D computer graphics onto videos and display screens. Many experts are predicting an AR boom in the next 5 years over a wide range of applications, including entertainment, education, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and travel, among others.

Of these many potential uses, outdoor AR is an emerging sector that opens up new possibilities for location-based services. Adding a new digital layer on top of the existing world, outdoor AR will forever change the way we interact with information and open up new ways to transform our surrounding environment. The only limits are our imagination.

While the potential for outdoor AR is huge, it requires new infrastructure. Both startups and big corporations are racing to develop new mapping techniques to position graphics in the real world. Some players are betting on generating content through crowdsourcing, while others still prefer a "walled garden" approach to retain full control over data.

Peng is an entrepreneur who invests in entrepreneurs. He does so primarily through his role as Managing Partner at Monk's Hill Ventures – a technology venture fund based in Southeast Asia that he co-founded. Peng was the cofounder of Electric Classifieds. Afterwards, he was the founder and CEO of Interwoven, which went public on NASDAQ and grew to a $10B market cap, before being acquired and is now part of HP. After Interwoven, Peng founded Encentuate (acquired by IBM), the leader in enterprise identity management.

The three businesses he started now generate annual revenues that total more than $1 billion. Most recently, Peng was a Partner at GSR Ventures, a leading VC in China. Peng has also served on many boards, including SingTel and YY.com. He is currently the Chairman of SolveEducation!. Peng earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois.

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Dr. Shawn Chen is the Founder and the Chairman of the Board of Sias International University. Educated in both the U.S. and China, Dr. Chen's career has embraced education, business, and entrepreneurism in both countries. In 1998, with the approval of the Minister of Education and the State Degree Office in China, he founded Sias International University, an innovative educational institution through which students, leaders, and scholars from East and West can meet and profit from an exchange of ideas expressed in both Chinese and English. Located in Henan Province near the City of Zhengzhou in Central China, Sias International University has graduated almost 65,000 students. Dr. Chen is solely responsible for financing, planning, implementation and assessment of the university's overall operations.

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"Entrepreneurship in Asian High-Tech Industries" Spring Seminars

Panelists: Bryan Jin, Business Operations Manager of Yosemite X, and Sangyong Jung, Co-Founder and CEO of Upple Inc.

Bryan Jin is the finance manager and the lead product designer at Yosemite X. Immediately after earning his BA in economics from UC Berkeley in 2013, Bryan was the first employee to join the company's founder YT Kim and two blockchain core engineers. He was deeply involved in product development and led product marketing functions for the company's release of its groundbreaking, first-ever public blockchain without a native cryptocurrency. Bryan is currently working on building enterprise adoption of Yosemite Public Blockchain.

Sangyong Jung is a serial entrepreneur, UX designer and a full-stack developer. After studying business administration in college and HCI in graduate school for his Master's degree, in 2015 he founded Sentbe, a fintech international money transfer service. He stepped down to become an advisor for Sentbe in 2018, and went on to found a new startup called Upple. Upple is a company that connects Korean graphic designers and global clients from rest of the world.

 “Recent Developments, Opportunities, and Challenges for Entrepreneurs in India: An Investor’s Perspective”

See asia.stanford.edu for more information.

Individuals of all genders invited to be a part of:
#StanfordToo: A Conversation about Sexual Harassment in Our Academic Spaces, where we will feature real stories of harassment at Stanford academic STEM in a conversation with Provost Drell, Dean Minor (SoM), and Dean Graham (SE3). We will have plenty of time for audience discussion on how we can take concrete action to dismantle this culture and actively work towards a more inclusive Stanford for everyone. While our emphasis is on STEM fields, we welcome and encourage participation from students, postdocs, staff, and faculty of all academic disciplines and backgrounds.