Photo by Suzi Pratt

Japan Seattle A.I. Innovation Meetup 11.0
with Washington State Department of Commerce,
Consulate General of Japan, and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
Jan 22-25 2019

innovation finders capitalOverview

AIを中心とする革新的技術提携のビジネス開発イベント
Amazon Microsoftが本拠を置く“AIの首都”で事業開発

４日間、ワシントン州のサポートでアメリカの最先端イノベーションのイベントと個別面談に参加し事業開発の商談を行うイベントです。１００以上の最高レベルのスタートアップ、Amazon,Microsoftに訪問し技術セミナーを受ける。ワシントン大学でIntelligent Data
Symposiumに参加する。日本総領事公邸での最高のスタートアップのピッチイベントに参加する。

22nd JanIntelligent Data Symposium 2.0 at
University of Washington

全米でトップレベルの研究開発重視のワシントン大学でデータサイエンティストを集めたIntelligent Data
Symposiumに参加。ワシントン大学の教授陣や研究者からの発表とAI開発企業からのプレゼンセッション。

Dr. Fumio Ohuchi,
Dept Material Science & Engineering,
University of Washington

Dr. Sarah Stone,
Executive Director, eScience Institute,
University of Washington

このイベントはIFCとワシントン大学との共同主催イベントでが医学構内で行われます。
今回のテーマFrom Academics 5 Sessions: 15 min.
+ Social Data
+ Medical Data
+ Material Science Data
+ Data and Machine Learning
From Companies 7 sessions 15 min+ Use of Data in BlockChain+ Machine Learning and Data
+ Data Preparation+ Data Processing at the Edge

写真は２０１８年７月に行った第一回シンポジウム

22nd Jan

Slalom Corporate Visit and AI Technology Sessions
シアトル最大のAI開発会社を訪問
Invaluable seminar on
AI industry
Slalom社はアマゾン、マイクロソフトのAI受託開発を行っている大手開発会社です。全米５０００人の開発者を抱え、売上高＄１Bを超える。
同社を訪問し最新のAI開発事例等のセミナーと経営陣とのミーティングを行います。
写真は２０１８年７月のイベントで

23rd Jan

Washington State Dept. of Commerce
ワシントン州セミナー
Action Pack Briefing to
Encourage Japanese to
Establish in WA State
ワシントン州政府・商務部を訪問しワシントン州でのITCとAIへの取り組み、州政府の海外企業ワシントン州拠点設置のサポートプログラムについてのセミナー。
州IT業界団体のWTIAからのセミナー。
全米大手弁護士事務所のOrrickからの投資セミナー等
写真は２０１８年７月

Chris Green, Assistant Director,
WA State Dept. of Commerce

Nick Ellingson
Startup Ambassador,
WTIA

Evan Wendlandt, BusinessDevelopment Manager,
WA State Dept. of Commerce

Blake Ilstrup
Partner
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe

２３rdJan

Visit to AWS – Amazon Web Services
Technology Presentation to Japan Delagation
Amazon DAY 1 Buildingin Seattle
Amazon AWS本社でのAI技術セミナーを受講する。
内容は、現在進行中の最新のテクノロジーについてその度に設定。講師陣は現役開発担当者です。

Photo of Amazon Sphere and Amazon HQ２３rdJan

Innovators Pitch Event at Japan Consul
General’s Official Residence in Seattle
Welcome Speeches
日本国総領事公邸でのイノベーター
ピッチイベントでは政府・大学・業界関係者と１０社のスタートアップのプレゼンテーションが行われます。

Julie Monahan, WA Dept of Commerce,
ICT Business Development Manager gave
overview of State support for startups

Japan Delegation Speech by Eiko Ooka,Director, Corporate Advisory Division,
Sumitomo Mitsui Bank Corporation,Dr. Fumio Ohuchi, Dept Material Science &Engineering, University of Washington, talked
about UW : Tohoku University collaboration.
Blake Ilstrup, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe

James Reed, CEO, SWAN Venture Fundwelcomed the Japan delegation and talked
about his Seattle based Angel funding

Photo by Suzi PrattReception at Japan Consul General
Residence
Reception at the Consul
General’s Residence

Mr. Kentaro Sonoura, the Special
Advisor to the Prime Minister anda member of the House ofRepresentatives (and formerSenior Vice Minister for ForeignAffairs) gave an impressive speech
regarding Japan and Washington
State and AI technologicalcooperation. July 2018

The Honorable Yoichiro Yamada,Consul General of Japan

２４th Jan

Visit to Microsoft Corporation
Technology Presentation to Japan Delegation
Microsoft Building 34
in Redmond
AI and Digital Transformation- Double Helix
By Norm Judah,
Worldwide Services CTO
Machine Learning Financial Forecasting（Microsoft Showcase）
By Matt Conners,
Principal Program Manager,
Machine Learning
Azure-Spark Showcase
By Maxim Lukiyanov,
Senior PM Manager,
R&D Data-HDI

Day 3

Japan Delegation Reverse Pitch andNetworking Sessions
Japan Washington
Bilateral Trade
This is the main event in which, thelargest Japanese corporations pitch tothe innovation community of Seattle.
1, what kind of innovation they arelooking for, 2. how they would like towork with innovators, and 3. what istheir market/distribution channel.
This is free event for innovators and isfor startup community. Over 100
people attended this reverse pitch fromJapan side, of which around 50 of themwere founders and CEOs.

Japanese companies consisted ofleading AI computing company like
Fujitsu, to electronics to financial
institutions to manufacturing. This
broad industrial sector base gave theinnovators, right partnership
opportunities for their targetedindustrial area.
Networking session at the end madesure that those startups got to meet andtalk to the Japanese delegation foropportunity to talk one-on-one on thethe next day.

24th Jan

Japan Delegation Pitch Session
各企業の英語でのプレゼン
内容は会社の概要
どのようなペインポイントがあるのか
どのようなイノベーションを探しているのか
どのように一緒にビジネスをしたいのかOne-on-one Meetings organized for a fullday of Business Development
個別面談
IFCのイベントは基本的に個別面談を行い事業開発をします。個別面談は各社５社から１２社、ご希望のスタートアップとの３０分セッションをオーガナイズします。

Jan 22-25th 2018NEXTWho should come◆Delegation◆◆◆◆

Public Listed Companies and private companies withrevenue of more than $100 million
CEO, CTO Office, Corporate Planning, Product development,R&D
Global Venture Capitalist from Japan and EU

Innovators◆◆

Startups, Entrepreneurs and innovative small to large
businesses
Large Platform providers and development services
companies

Secret of Successful One-on-one
Total revenue of our delegation is around $200 Billion. None of them do business byhalf measure. If they work with you, soon the numbers go hockey stick. It just does
not make sense for them to build up business that is less than $10 million. They reallywant to work with you to create a $100 million product line.
So, how to hack the one-on-one. Simple. Follow the 3 steps, here.
1. On the previous day, there is a meet up where the Japanese mega corps explain
exactly what kind of innovations they are looking for and how they would like todo business. Just listen.
2. If you think you got it, go and meet them at the networking session and ask for an
one-on-one session.
3. Prepare your pitch geared towards what the Japanese side wants.

IFC AI Meetup 11.0
DAY 1: Tuesday Jan 22nd 2019Intelligent Data Symposum
Slalom HQ Visit
DAY 2: Wednesday Jan 23rd 2019
WA DoC Welcome Seminar
Amazon HQ Visit
Innovators Pitch Session and Reception At Japan
Consul General Residence

DAY 3: Thursday, Jan 24th 2019
AM Delegation Track
AI/ML Technology Session at Microsoft HQ,Redmond

AM Venture Capital Track
Orrick Startup Global Investment Session
PMJapan Seattle AI Innovation Meetup X
Orrick sponsored Dinner with Delegation

DAY 4: Friday, Jan 25th 2019
Innovation Finders Capital Presentation
One-on-one sessions

Organizer

Innovation Finders Capital

We Find Innovation for Japanese Corporation
We help to develop Global Business for Startups
Tetsuro 'Tets' Eto
CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Partner
There are few people within corporate Japan thatunderstands Innovation better than Tets Eto.
From his early days at ASCII and Microsoft, hismission had always been bringing innovation toJapan. As Senior IT Director at Dentsu, thelargest Ad Agency in Japan, it was his
responsibility to create its IT infrastructure.
When Dentsu acquired Aegis Media, he wasresponsible for global IT integration as part ofPMI.

Innovation Finders
Capital GP, LLC4555 Lake Washington Blvd. NE Unit 2
Kirkland, WA 98033
Tetsuro Eto
CEO, Co-Founder & Managing Partner
tets@innovation-finders.com
Skype: tetsuro.tets.eto
Tom Sato
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
tom@innovation-finders.com
Skype: tomsatoskype
http://www.innovation-finders.com
info@innovation-finders.com

Tom Sato
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
In late 80ies, when Bill Gates needed the momentum tomake Windows, the Global de facto standard, it wasTom’s work to sign up over 20 Japanese PC OEM as
the Japanese Windows Product manager. Since then hewent to Silicon Valley to start his own E-Commercestartup. Serial entrepreneur and International BizDev
expert, he authored “Microsoft War Stories: How tocreate a De Facto Global Standard”