[Event] Japanese METI Minister Seko: Connected Industries and the Japan-Silicon Valley Nexus

Jul 19, 2018

Hear Japan’s top economic leader discuss the role of Silicon Valley in
Japan's technology transformation.

DATE & TIME
Tuesday
July 31, 2018
4:30 - 6:00 PM PDT

VENUE
Morrison Foerster
425 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

COST
$5   for student
$10 for JSNC member 
$20 for non-member
 Register

 

OVERVIEW

The Japan Society of Northern California (JSNC) will host a very special public program with Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hiroshige Seko. Minister Seko will explain how Japan plans to harness the power of connections – in business, technology, and trade and investment – to help transform itself, the region and the world.


Japan’s connections to Silicon Valley are key to that effort as the country moves to fully utilize technological innovation in areas such as IoT, AI and Big Data.


Join us for the rare opportunity to hear directly from Japan’s top economic leader and learn his vision for Japan’s future and how the Bay Area fits into that picture.






HIROSHIGE SEKO – MINISTER OF ECONOMY, TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Mr. Hiroshige Seko was appointed as Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry on August 3, 2016. He also assumed the ministerial roles of Minister in Charge of Industrial Competitiveness, Minister for Economic Cooperation with Russia, Minister in Charge of the Response to the Economic Impact Caused by the Nuclear Accident, and Minister of State for Special Missions (Nuclear Damage Compensation and Decommissioning Facilitation Corporation).



Hiroshige Seko - Minister of METI

Minister Hiroshige Seko, Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry


Prior to assuming his current roles, Mr. Seko served in a number of senior government posts, most notably as the longest-serving Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, a position he held for more than three and a half years. In government, Mr. Seko also served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications. Previously, Mr. Seko served in several senior positions in the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), including Chairman, LDP Policy Board in the House of Councillors, while concurrently serving as Acting Chairman for Policy Research Council and LDP Acting Secretary-General. He also held the posts of Acting Secretary-General of the LDP Headquarters and Acting Secretary-General for the LDP in the House of Councillors.


In 1998, Mr. Seko was first elected to Japan’s House of Councillors as a representative for the Wakayama constituency in a by-election. Since then, he has successfully won reelection three times to the Upper House of Japan’s National Diet. Before seeking elected office, Mr. Seko worked for more than a decade at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Japan’s largest telecommunications company, rising to the position of Section Manager in charge of Press Relations. Mr. Seko graduated from Waseda University’s Department of Political Science, School of Political Science and Economics in 1986. He earned a master’s degree from Boston University’s College of Communications in 1992.



PRESENTED BY

Japan Society of Nothern California


IN COLLABORATION WITH

Japan External Trade Organization