The Keizai Society will be having their next networking event on March 8 to commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. See below for details:
Tohoku Transformation 1-Year Later: The US Role- March 8 Our distinguished speakers will discuss the new technologies used during the Tohoku disaster, and discuss what lies ahead in the drive to transform Tohoku, and Japan. Our mix of government and private-sector experts will review how Japan has overcome the immediate impact of the catastrophe, and the powerful role the Japan-US alliance played in the recovery. Agenda – Greetings: Hiroshi Inomata, Consul General of Japan in San Francisco – Film Preview: Stu Levy, founder of TOKYOPOP, creator of a new film- Pray for Japan – Keynote: Frank Clark, US Army Lt. Col, key leader in US rescue effort- Operation Tomodachi Panel: – John Raymont, nuclear energy industry veteran, President & CEO, Kurion Inc. – Gaku Ueda, Head of the International Team & the Mobile Growth group, Twitter Inc. – Ka-Ping Yee, Google Crisis Response team & architect of Google Person Finder, Google Inc. – Richard Dasher (moderator), Director of US-Asia Technology Mgmt Center, Stanford Univ Date: Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Registration/Networking: 5:00 P.M. – 9:30 P.M. Venue: PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) Registration: http://www.keizai.org