Red Herring, Inc. is pleased to announce the speakers participating in the Red Herring Japan Conference, July 22-24 in Kyoto, Japan. This year’s conference theme is “Insights,” and speakers will delve into Japan’s technology ecosystem and celebrate its numerous, often underrepresented, innovators — companies disrupting the business of technology in sectors such as Web 2.0, Digital Living, Wireless, and Entertainment.
Scheduled speakers at Red Herring Japan include CEOs such as Sachio Semmoto, CEO, eMobile and eAccess; Hiroshi Yoshino, CEO, FeliCa Networks; Shinichiro Ishikawa, CEO, GDH; Sat Bisla, CEO, Pangaea Entertainment Group; Presidents, Chairmen and Executive Leaders such as Jim Steele, President, Salesforce.com; Akio Tanaka, Director of Corporate Development, Adobe; SeHyun Oh, CTO, SK Telecom; and Nobuyuki Idei, Chairman, Advisory Board, Sony. Red Herring Japan will also feature leading Global VCs David Chao, Co-founder & General Partner, Doll Capital Management; Andy Goldfarb, Executive Managing Director and Co-Founder, Globespan Capital Partners; and Koji Osawa, Managing Principal and Co-founder, Global Catalyst Partners. For a more comprehensive list of Red Herring Japan speakers, visit http://www.herringevents.com/Japan07/speakers.html.
Company speakers invited to participate at Red Herring Japan have been selected based on industry expertise, unique insights, commitment to innovation, and willingness to express something provocative and disruptive. “We are very pleased with our line-up,” says Jason Sausto, Managing Director of Red Herring’s Asia Pacific operations. “There’s a strong mix of private and listed companies bridging the most crucial sectors driving innovation in Japan.”
Red Herring Japan is an invitation-only event spotlighting Japan’s top technology companies and their overseas counterparts. It features two days of keynote discussions, roundtable panels and networking sessions designed for participants to thoroughly explore Japan’s re-emerging innovation ecosystem. Topics to be covered include Web 2.0, Entertainment, Wireless, Investment, Japanese Global Entrepreneurs, and more. In addition to established and recognized companies, thirty-six private companies will present their innovative, often disruptive, models onsite. CEOs and investors from around the world will have the opportunity to make connections and explore the unique technology and business challenges in Japan. For more information and to register, visit http://herringevents.com/Japan07.
About Red Herring
Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.