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Japan-U.S. Clean Tech Collaboration: Post-Fukushima Opportunities
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Opportunities for U.S. companies in Japan, and Japanese firms in the U.S., have never been greater. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japan needs to restructure its energy strategy, with increased reliance on renewables, energy storage, and efficiency efforts, along with traditional non-nuclear energy sources. In 2013, for example, Japan was the world’s hottest solar market, with approximately 7 GW of solar PV capacity installed. The nation is spending hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars on bringing large-scale and distributed storage onto their grid to support more renewables. And 2013 saw a number of U.S. clean-tech players begin to solidly enter the Japanese market.
Please join us on Feb. 4th for a lively and interactive conversation with leading experts to look at recent clean-energy developments in Japan, emerging opportunities for both U.S. and Japanese firms as the nation shifts its energy strategy, and other clean-tech trends coming out of the land of the rising sun. You won't want to miss this exclusive Clean Edge webinar co-hosted with JETRO.
Speaker Bios:
Nadeem Sheikh
Vice President and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific & Japan
Opower
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Nadeem is Vice President and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific & Japan, responsible for Opower’s business across Asia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and Opower’s offices in Singapore and Tokyo. In this role, Nadeem oversees all aspects of Opower’s growth strategy as well as key client relationships in the region.
Prior to joining Opower in 2010, Nadeem spent four years at McKinsey & Company, where he was a founding member of the firm’s Sustainability & Resource Productivity Practice. Working across Europe, Asia, and the US, Nadeem developed the firm’s foundational thinking on the marketing of “green” products to consumers, and managed McKinsey’s market research on consumer behavior and sustainability. Nadeem also led high-profile client projects in the electronics, automotive, and retail industries, designing and developing new, more sustainable consumer products and services.
Nadeem has also held roles at Accenture Technology Ventures, Lufthansa Airlines, and the German Federal government. He earned his MBA from the University of California, Berkeley and a BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mitsuhiro (Mitsu) Yamazaki
Business Development Officer – International Business Development Portland Development Commission
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Mitsu leads the export development for the regional industries as well as manages corporate recruitment efforts for the City of Portland. He has over 12 years of experience in the economic development-related field.
Prior to working for PDC, Mitsu worked as an economic development consultant, an executive at a regional economic development agency and a business development manager for an international construction/engineering firm.
Born and raised in the Tokyo metro, he has been enjoying the life in the U.S. for the past 18 years. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife, a daughter and a son.
Shigeki (Sean) Miwa
Session CEO, Bloom Energy Japan, Ltd; General Manager, Corporate Strategy Office, SoftBank Corp.
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Mr. Shigeki (Sean) Miwa holds 2 offices concurrently, General Manager - Corporate Strategy Office of SoftBank Corp. and Representative Director & CEO of Bloom Energy Japan Ltd. in Tokyo. Before joining Softbank in 2011, he worked for Mitsui & Co. Ltd, mainly in the natural resources & energy sector based in Tokyo, Sydney and Brisbane.
Mr Miwa graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo with a bachelor’s degree in history, received a Master of Financial Management and an MBA from Graduate School of Management, Macquarie University in Sydney, and completed the General Management Program at Harvard Business School in Boston..
Ron Pernick
Session Moderator
Managing Director, Clean Edge8
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Ron Pernick is founder and managing director of clean-tech research and advisory firm Clean Edge and the coauthor of two books on clean-tech business and innovation, Clean Tech Nation (HarperCollins, 2012) and The Clean Tech Revolution (HarperCollins, 2007). At Clean Edge he has coauthored more than two dozen reports on clean technologies, markets, and policies and oversees the firm’s research, event production, index publishing, and advisory services. He has taught MBA-level courses at Portland State University and New College, is widely quoted in the media, and is a regular speaker at industry events in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his wife and two children.
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