2021 was the first time Kyoto Startup Summer School was conducted fully online due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Instead of the regular two-week program, the summer school was condensed into seven days with different sessions conducted throughout the day to accommodate for the timezones of the participants. The lectures and panel discussions were recorded and made available to the participants if they were not able to attend the session live.
【Monday August 23rd】
Opening session
The first session of KS³ 2021! We will introduce the organizing team and go through the details of the program while we get warmed up for the awesome adventure ahead.
Workshop - The Kickoff Workshop
This kick off session was designed to be interactive and fun. Our goal is for all of you to get to know each other, start new friendships and get comfortable collaborating remotely. We want everyone to be as comfortable with technology as possible, so we will learn a bunch of skills and useful tricks on Zoom and Mural. If you are asking yourself what the hack is Mural? Mural is a virtual whiteboard that comes with infinite sticky notes. It’s used for live collaborative work and has proven to be a wonderful tool in programs like this Summer School. Watch this tutorial to quickly get up to speed on the basics. But do not worry at all, we will make learning new tools engaging and fun.
Anja Svetina Nabergoj
Lecturer, Stanford d.school
Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Ljubljana
Anja Svetina Nabergoj, PhD Lecturer and Innovation coach at Stanford University, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) & Author of https://www.creativityinresearch.org/
Anja Svetina Nabergoj is a leading innovation researcher and educator working with senior leaders and innovation teams from high-growth organizations across Europe, Asia and USA including Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mitsubishi, Kellog’s, JetBlue, Uber, General Motors, Expedia, Genentech, Arla Foods, Leo Pharma, Novo Nordisk, CocaCola, Telenor, Microsoft, KBC Bank and Visa.
She has been teaching Executive Education programs at Stanford University since 2011. Her programs aim to inspire and drive organizational change that is focused on the consumer, help leaders understand the delicate balance between exploration and exploitation, and empower them to start the innovation transformation journey in their company.
Her teaching approach is based on the most recent findings from neuroscience, psychology and anthropology with the goal to inspire leaders to change their behaviors and mindsets and create work environments that are more conducive to innovation. Some of the behavior changes include embracing risk and learning from failure, engaging radically diverse project teams and helping employees embrace ambiguity; an essential part of creative problem solving.
Lecture - Creating a Startup Culture
What drives members of my organization? How can I as a founder help my team achieve even greater things? Vision is key for creating cohesion and purpose in an early stage startup. In this lecture, we’ll cover both theory and practice of creating vision and culture for core startup members.
Jouni Laitinen
Section manager, Learning Analytics and R&D, Rakuten
Jouni Laitinen has spent the last few years working in various projects in the Tokyo startup scene. He ran investor operations for Slush Tokyo for three years while doing research for a startup-related Ph.D. at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Jouni now works as a Section Manager at Rakuten Mobile.
Lecture - Design Entrepreneurship & Crowdfunding: An introduction to Kickstarter for designers
With more than 27,000 design and technology projects funded, Kickstarter has become a hub of creativity for designers, makers, and start-ups from around the world. This session will introduce participants to the ways in which Kickstarter has changed the field of product design, and how they can use it to bring creative projects to life alongside a community of backers.
The lecture will be followed by a discussion that will help students to distill and define their product's value proposition and build a compelling story around their ideas, on Kickstarter or elsewhere. Students are encouraged to bring any prototype or sketch idea to work from.
Heather Swift Hunt
Senior Director of Design & Technology, Kickstarter
Heather Swift Hunt is Kickstarter's Senior Director of Design and Technology communities. She works closely with designers, inventors, hardware startups and makers of all kinds using Kickstarter to bring new projects to life. Before that, she worked in the field of creative technology for over a decade, as a curator and cultural producer, most recently as Executive Director of Rhizome at the New Museum, New York
【Tuesday August 24th】
Workshop - Innovation meets profit - how to start thinking about your business
You have this innovative idea of a solution. Maybe you already built it - or a building it. How do you make money with it? How do you know you are making a thing that is not only desirable but viable and feasible in a market?
This session will build on techniques from “Lean Start-up” (http://theleanstartup.com/principles), Business Model Canvas , and Business Opportunity Canvas to outline how to turn an idea into a viable solution.
Andrea Anderson
Global Head of User Experience, Guidewire
Ms. Anderson has led global teams for many years in developing user-friendly, profitable digital business solutions using a combination of practices from design thinking, business model innovation, and agile development.
Based in Silicon Valley, and a life-long learner, connector and instigator, she has worked in companies such as MEAD Corporation and SAP, in a variety of roles.
Her experience in Finance, Analytics, IT, application design and development, and corporate strategy has enabled her to develop a unique skillset as a design-oriented "intrapreneur", and leader.
Since mid-2019, Ms. Anderson is the Global Head, User Experience at Guidewire. The team designs user experiences for Property and Casualty Insurance Carriers so they can engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.
Workshop - Digital Prototyping
Topics to be covered:
→ How to use prototyping to improve design and shorten development time
→ Understand the prototyping phase as a part of the design process
→ How to set up the prototyping process in your team
→ Modes & methods of prototyping, from rough to high fidelity
Boris Jitsukata
Managing Director, Goodpatch GmbH
In my role as Managing Director of the German entity of Goodpatch I am responsible for the business of our studios in Berlin and Munich.
In a second role I have the pleasure to serve as executive board director at our HQ in Tokyo. Goodpatch went public in 2020 at Tokyo Stock Exchange, making it Japan's first IPO as a design firm.
Before joining Goodpatch, I helped run University of St.Gallen’s joint Design Innovation program (ME310/SUGAR) with Stanford University.
I hold a Master’s degree in Media Design from Keio University, Japan and a CEMS Master’s degree in International Management from University of St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Panel Discussion - Student Entrepreneurship: Challenges and Opportunities
Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Page, all these entrepreneurs started their journey while still in school. Is it a good idea? What are the advantages and disadvantages of creating a startup while in school? In this panel discussion we sit down with two young entrepreneurs who started their business as a student and continue to develop their startups. What can we all learn from their experiences?
Panelist
Pyry Taanila
Co-Founder / Industrial designer, Catchbox
Born in 1984, Bachelors in Industrial Design from the Lahti Institute of Design in Finland (2009), Fulfilling studies In the Joint Aalto University / Stanford University course ME310 (2010). This was also his first experience in startups and multidisciplinary design work. Master of Arts in IDBM (International Design Business Management) (2015). Founded his startup Catchbox during these masters studies in 2012 together with two other co-founders. Taanila has been working full time on Catchbox ever since. Taanila and Catchbox has been awarded several awards for his work as a designer, including the Finnish young designer of the year 2015.
Panelist
Sae Hyung Jung
CEO, oVice, Inc.
Born in 1991, after graduating from high school in Australia, he returned to South-Korea to start a trade intermediary business. Taking advantage of the Great East Japan Earthquake, he entered a Japanese university, worked as a planning intern for an IT company, started a business in Osaka while he was a university student, and carried out cross-border IT projects. He raised funds from several venture capitals and sold the company to an incorporation listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2017. Since 2019, he has been conducting consulting on cutting-edge IT technologies such as AI, blockchain, and RPA, and established NIMARU Technology to create new technologies in 2020. After being stranded in North Africa by Corona, oVice began to develop.
Moderator
Sushi Suzuki
Associate Professor, KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Lecture - Performance-based Marketing
A full funnel marketing strategy allows a business to send their customers the right message at the right time, regardless of where they are in their consumer journey. This allows a business to effectively guide their customers through the consumer journey and path to purchase.
Performance-based Marketing workshop will focus on designing and building marketing funnels that optimize for each segment of the customer journey, and drive efficiency across customer acquisition to developing customer loyalty. We'll look at the principles of full-funnel marketing and see how to apply them via Facebook Advertising.
Mark Lozano
Paid Social Media Manager, Smartly.io
Mark specialises in designing and executing digital marketing strategies. He’s currently a Paid Social Media Manager at Smartly.io, an ad tech startup working on automating every step of social advertising to unlock greater performance and creativity.
He previously worked on market expansion and customer acquisition at Yours, a beauty tech startup bringing personalisation to skincare, and as a Growth Account Manager at Facebook working with some of the top advertisers in South East Asia in developing and executing full funnel marketing strategies that allow their businesses to scale and expand efficiently across markets.
He is also the Founder of One Million Lights Philippines, a non-profit focused on providing clean, safe, and affordable lighting in rural communities across the Philippines.
【Wednesday August 25th】
Lecture - Events as a Growth Strategy
In this session you will gain an insider insight on startup focused events and how you can maximize these to build your network and accelerate growth. A brief overview of the technology events industry, the dollar equivalent attached to it and how successful events are made will be covered. After this session you will have a better understanding of what community building is, the importance of your narrative as a founder, and how to build a strategy in events.
Vikki Daet
Consultant / Community Builder
Victoria Daet is a consultant and tech community builder supporting early-stage startups and cross-border collaboration across Asia and beyond.
She was previously the PR & crisis management consultant for OMG Network (previously OmiseGO), an ICO unicorn in the fintech industry and Chief Marketing Officer & Startup Ops for Slush, the world's leading startup conference, in the organization's Japan initiative.
She has worked with industry leaders such as Google for Startups, Techstars, Techsauce, and the like with a strong focus on startup growth through training, collaboration and mentorship.
Lecture - What is your Theory of Change: The heart of social entrepreneurship
In this session, participants will go through social entrepreneurship and why it is crucial in modern society.
Importantly, this course intends to impart functional frameworks to support young entrepreneurs and students to exercise their creativity and imagination towards solving complex social problems through business, rather than merely providing an explanatory overview and case studies.
To achieve this objective, the lecturer will include the following content:
An introduction to social entrepreneurship
Learning the critical strategic framework “Theory of Change”
Short exercise on developing your plan to make social change
Reflection and dialogue
Contents might be changed/arranged.
Motoi Kawabata
CEO, innovate with
Impact partner, NPO ETIC.
Passionate about creating a sustainable future through social impact strategy consulting and facilitating multi-sector partnerships. Experienced working with more than 20 purpose-oriented startups and non-profit organizations to develop innovative solutions to complex problems through consulting and hands-on management support.
Regarding impact investment, leading global partnership projects between social businesses/NPOs in Japan and foreign impact investors/foundations to reshape capitalism.
In the entrepreneurship context, supported 4,000+ young professionals and students who are willing to start their enterprise from ideation to vigorous action to launch their services through facilitating entrepreneurship cultivation projects such as the startup contest "TOKYO STARTUP GATEWAY".
A father of the cutest two-years-old boy, a husband of the best wife.
Workshop - Build your Landing Page in 2 hours
Code and design your landing page in only 2 hours! 2h workshop where students will code and design their own landing page using HTML/CSS & the Twitter Bootstrap CSS library. We will also cover lots of design pro-tips to find icons, fonts, colours.
What you will learn:
HTML / CSS core notions
Lots of graphical tips and tools (fontawesome, Google Fonts, coolors, etc.)
Introduction to Bootstrap and its responsive grid system
Yann Luc Klein
Lead Teacher, Le Wagon Tokyo
Yann is the Lead Teacher for Le Wagon, the world’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp. He has been living in Japan for 9 years, speaks fluent Japanese, and was developing AR applications using JavaScript before joining Le Wagon’s team.
Panel Discussion - Entrepreneurship vs Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship, the act of behaving like an entrepreneur inside a large organization is one of the many ways companies are trying to innovate and stay ahead (or with) the competition. What are the similarities between being an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur? What are the differences? What are the benefits and drawbacks of being each? We investigate these questions with Julien Mauroy who has extensive experience on both side and is now an innovation director at Colgate-Palmolive.
Panelist
Julien Mauroy
Innovation Director Asia-Pacific, Colgate-Palmolive
Julien is currently Innovation Director, Asia-Pacific for Colgate-Palmolive, based in Hong Kong. Dissatisfied with badly designed, environmentally damaging products, he became a product designer in order to design products right. Frustrated with the briefs that companies give product designers, he studied, then taught and consulted with Design Thinking, in order to get companies to design the right products. Realizing that new business models often have more impact than new products, he became an entrepreneur. Observing that changing the business model of large companies may have an even larger impact, he got into innovation management, which some describe as becoming an intrapreneur.
Moderator
Sushi Suzuki
Associate Professor, KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Lecture - Algorithms powering the modern Internet
The modern Internet makes heavy use of artificial intelligence technologies and algorithms for displaying personalized content to customers.
This session will talk about how things like product search in Amazon, accommodation recommendations at AirBnb or movie suggestions at NetFlix work.
Goal of this lecture is to give a basic understanding of these technologies and their relevance in the modern Internet.
Aki Saarinen
Director, Mercari
Aki was introduced to programming at the early age of 8 years and taught himself to be a software engineer. He launched his first web businesses at the age of 15 in 2000, and graduated from Aalto university with a Machine Learning major in 2010. Aki has built digital businesses and worked in the intersection of software, design and business for most part of his life.
Lecture - Brand names: What, why, and how
What does a name do for a project? What makes names more or less successful?
This workshop will answer these questions and many others, like: Why are names more important for some businesses and products than others? How can you brainstorm smarter to find a better name for your products or business? What’s a reliable method to decide on a name in a team?
You’ll get real examples and hear stories from Ben’s real world experience of generating and deciding names for a wide range of products and companies that have gone on to enjoy success.
By the end of the workshop you’ll learn what qualities a great name has and you’ll have a simple, repeatable process you can use to brainstorm and make an informed name decision. In the end, you’ll become able to give good names to your own projects that will make it easier and faster to achieve your goals and ultimate success.
Ben Foden
Head of Marketing, Nota, Inc.
Ben Foden is Head of Growth at Nota. At 33 years old, Ben has worked with startup leaders for over 12 years to launch products and services that are used by millions of people around the world. As well as being a product marketing leader at Nota he also advises companies on growth, branding, and naming.
While at Nota, Ben led a corporate rebranding as well as the branding of several of its web services. This includes creating the name of Nota’s new and rapidly growing FAQ service, Helpfeel and its discontinued slideshow service PhotoPeach.
He worked for over 5 years as a Namer with his father’s company, Brighter Naming where he generated names that were chosen for companies and products across a range of industries, including clients in the Fortune 500.
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【Thursday August 26th】
Workshop - The Brainstorming Workshop
Brainstorming is the most widely used technique in companies, yet very few do it right. In this workshop you will learn how to come up with the right brainstorming question, how to leverage individual creativity and how to amplify it as a team. We will explore how we can expand our thinking, get fresh idea and where we can seek out inspiration.
We will explore the science and practice behind idea generation and idea evaluation and we can not do them at the same time effectively.
We will also run a series of exercises that will get you and your team in the right mindset for idea generation that will allow for best ideas to surface.
You will master virtual brainstorming and discover many benefits of generating ideas together while apart.
This is going to be fast paced session that will help you generate solutions for your projects and prioritize the ones you want to focus on as a team.
Anja Svetina Nabergoj
Lecturer, Stanford d.school
Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Ljubljana
Lecture - Starting Up - Are you truly prepared?
Everyone’s path to getting their company off the ground is going to be unique. However, despite the journey, the unifying factor across all startups is that the odds of success are stacked against you. This is especially true provided you don’t adequately prepare.
In order to better your odds, there are several things you can do to improve your chances of success. This lecture looks at some of those levers.
Paul Speed
Co-Founder and CEO, Kyoto Brewing Co.
Paul is one of three co-founders and CEO of Kyoto Brewing, a company based South of Kyoto station that makes and distributes craft beer. While working in finance at Nomura Securities in Tokyo, he earned his MBA from McGill University. During that time, he caught the entrepreneurial bug and decided to jump head-first into building a craft beer brewery with his two buddies. Together, they raised 100 million yen in startup capital and Paul moved down to Kyoto. For the past 6 years, Paul has been doing whatever it takes to keep the company growing and churning along at a healthy clip.
Lecture - The Reality of Starting Up Today
Based on my own experiences as a Serial Entrepreneur and running seed-early stage focused funds, this lecture will focus on real world case studies. What were the challenges to capture the first clients and market share? What are the common trends in investment portfolios? What are the implications moving forward into the future?
Ikuo Hiraishi
Founder/Representative Director, DreamVision Inc.
Serial Entrepreneur and running seed focused funds. Co-founded several startups, including WebCrew which went public in 2004, and Interscope which was successfully acquired by Yahoo! Japan in 2007. In 2012, co-founded SunBridge Global Ventures, a seed-early stage focused VC and expanded its portfolio into the US and Europe in addition to Japan. Since July 2017, has reactivated his own company DreamVision to build a global startup ecosystem in Tokyo. Established Infarm Japan in Feb. 2020, becoming the Managing Director. Accomplished the first launch in Asia at Kinokuniya International (Aoyama store) in Jan. 2021.
Workshop - How to create and share your startup story
What’s your story? The workshop is about to answer that question in detail. The students will learn what elements a company story consists of, how it is constructed and how it can be transported to target audiences. In a world of numerous communication channels and platforms, millions of contents and distracted attention - a clear story that people will remember, is a very strong factor for every start-up company.
Bjoern Eichstaedt
Managing Partner, Storymaker
Bjoern Eichstaedt is Managing Partner at the Germany and China based communication agency Storymaker. The agency focusses on story-based communication consulting, strategy building and operations for technology-driven companies from all over the world. Over the last 8 years Bjoern has put one of his focuses on the work with Japanese clients, helping them to discover their story for foreign markets. He lives in Munich with his wife and his son Kenji.
Panel Discussion - Uncovering the Kyoto Startup Ecosystem
Let's deep dive into the Kyoto Startup Ecosystem! While the city may be known for its history and culture, there is a vibrant electronics and biotech industry and a budding startup scene. The city has been selected for the national startup visa scheme and entrepreneurs both local and international are forming the ecosystem. In this session we welcome active local entrepreneurs and investigate all the different elements that make up a startup ecosystem.
Panelist
Drew Kent Wallin
CEO, Garden Lab Co., Ltd.
After researching traditional Japanese architecture at Kyoto University, Drew helped launch a data migration company in Vancouver, Canada, and founded a Japanese subsidiary organization in a small Kyomachiya office, where he still works everyday. When the company was acquired by Google in 2017, Drew joined the Google Cloud team and led program management efforts for global data migration projects, followed by technical account management for strategic Japanese customers. After working in Google Cloud for several years, Drew launched Garden Lab in order to share a fantastic Kyomachiya work space and business management support with startup founders and remote workers in Kyoto.
Panelist
Farid E. Ben Amor
Founder and CEO, XORBI
Founder of XORBI, an AR/VR multiplayer mirrorworld, Farid is a media executive with 16 years of experience in television and video games on behalf of movie studios and broadcast networks, from creative production and IP acquisition to publishing and distribution of finished content worth more than $3B in aggregate. He also led strategy and business development for several new video streaming services both within large corporations and at an external disruptor which successfully exited for $340M. Before moving to Kyoto for XORBI, Farid consulted for several United Nations organizations in Geneva and worked at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he managed the media and entertainment industry community.
Panelist
Kyohi Kang
CEO, Atmoph
Co-founded Atmoph in 2014 in Kyoto, to make a smart window you can enjoy views of the world. Born in Tokyo, Kyohi worked at Nintendo on UI engineering for their game consoles' online services, after leading the UI department at NHN Japan. He earned a BS from Aoyama Gakuin Univeristy and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, studying robotics.
Moderator
Hila Yamada
Coordinator, Glocal Center
Co-founder, Kyoto International Entrepreneurs Community
Known as *wiredly British English speaking Kyoto girl born and bred with artistic background (studied Japanese painting and Olfactory Art Project). Currently working for NPO called Glocal Human Resources Development Center as a coordinator, Co-founder of KIEC(Kyoto International Entrepreneurs Kyoto) and working at L'escamoteur, one of the best cocktail bars in Japan. New type of millennials who are thought to be appearing everywhere in the town with countless/indescribable roles/jobs.
Game Night! (or Breakfast, or Lunch depending on where you are)
It's startup trivia time! Compete against your fellow classmates on this multiple choice trivia game on Kahoot and see who is the champion of startup knowledge. (Please join from a laptop or desktop)
【Friday August 27th】
Lecture - Things You Need to Know about Hardware Startups
The word "startup" is often linked with software and internet companies with the likes of Google, Facebook, and Amazon, but solving real-world problems often require physical, tangible products. Often these products consist of many components such as IC chips, motors, LCDs, plastic casing, and more. Prototyping hardware products have become significantly easier and cheaper over the years with the advent of 3D printing and rapid prototyping tools, but in order to make an impact, startups need to mass manufacture their solutions. This lecture will cover the challenges that hardware startups face and the tools available at their disposal to overcome these challenges.
Kenji Yanagawa
Technical Consulting, Kyoto Makers Garage
Kenji is a technical consultant at the maker space Kyoto Makers Garage (KMG) which is run by the hardware-focused venture capital, Monozukuri Ventures. He helps people realize their creativity by hosting workshops and events on 3D printing, laser cutting, arduino programming, and other innovative technologies. Kenji also is part of the digital marketing team at KMG.
Kenji holds a degree in mechanical engineering and product design from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and is also an alumnus of Kyoto Startup Summer School.
Lecture - Introduction to Venture Capital and Startup Fundraising
The lecture is an introduction to the venture capital industry and examines the process of startup fundraising, including the different fundraising stages and the VC due diligence process. It also covers what VCs are looking for when assessing a company and how entrepreneurs typically engage with them. It will cover a real case study of a company raising a seed round.
Sophie Meralli
Venture Investor, Eight Roads Ventures
Sophie Meralli is a venture investor at Eight Roads, a global venture capital fund backed by Fidelity Investment. As part of the Japan Ventures team, she backs and partners with ambitious founders in Japan focusing on enterprise tech and fintech. Sophie is also a special advisor to the Shibuya City Government in Tokyo for the development of their startup ecosystem. Previously, she worked at Innospark Ventures, an early-stage VC in Boston. As their first employee, she sourced and invested in several AI and robotics startups in various industries. She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, an MSc in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and a BA from Paris Dauphine University.
Lecture - How to be the next generation entrepreneurs in the new era of AI and Robotics
Dr.Jiang will give us a lecture on the overall picture of the progress in Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact the world. There are many misunderstandings of AI in the general public. As a young entrepreneur, we should fully understand the main advantages of the current AI technologies and the limitations of the current AI. We need to follow the current trend to build up our company that can best take advantages of those technologies.
Li Jiang
Head of Stanford AIRE
Dr. Li Jiang is the Director of Stanford AIRE (AI, Robotics and Education) and has been doing research in the field of Robotics and AI for many years. He has won “Best of Innovations” award winner for the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Innovation Awards and the “Best of the Program Award” of National Lincoln Design Competition. Dr. Jiang has also served as a judge in the judging committee for the CES Innovation award. His current research focuses on how AI and Robotic technologies will impact our education system and how we need to adjust our education system to accommodate the coming era of Robotics and AI. His class “AI, Robotics and Design of Future Education” is the first class at Stanford University to address this multidisciplinary field of AI, Robotics, Education and Design Innovation. Dr. Jiang holds more than 60 U.S and international patents, a Master Degree on Design Innovation, a Ph.D on Robotics, and a Ph.D minor on Management Science from Stanford University.
Lecture - How to deliver an awesome startup pitch
No startup can survive without being able to communicate its vision and product to investors, supporters, and fans. A startup pitch is no ordinary presentation, it has to be concise but exciting, encaptivating, and enthralling. In this lecture, learn how great pitches are put together and how to avoid the common pitfalls that lead to bad pitches.
Sushi Suzuki
Associate Professor, KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology
Artist by nature, Engineer by training, and Designer by desire, Sushi Suzuki is an expert in design thinking, the Stanford-IDEO innovation methodology, having applied and taught it around the globe. Previously he was part of Yocondo, a semantic product search engine in Germany, and was one of the founding members of i-kimono.com, a Japanese start-up company that handles antique kimono and accessories online. In addition to coordinating innovation projects and running entrepreneurship programs, Sushi is pitch coach and have helped over 100 startups around the world improve their on-stage presence and delivery.
Sushi has lived over twenty years abroad in the US, France, Germany, and China and have worked in many roles including executive director of the ME310 program at Stanford University and concept developer for Panasonic.
Startup Weekend Virtual Kyoto
Japan 20:00- | Vietnam 18:00- | Paris 13:00- | New York 07:00- | San Francisco 04:00- (Going for about 54 hours)
Startup Weekends are weekend-long, hands-on experiences where entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs create a startup in 54 hours. During Startup Weekend, you and your team will take your ideas from concept to creation within a matter of days. This is your opportunity to take everything you learned and test your skills!
Startup Weekend in Kyoto Startup Summer School is design to be a capstone session where participants can apply their learnings to a real startup. The session is co-organized with the Startup Weekend Kyoto community and is also open to people from outside of KS³.