Inaugural Japan-South Florida Business Forum Presents Leaders in Innovation and Collaboration in Miami, FL on July 31

Ken Okaniwa

MIAMI, FL – The Consulate-General of Japan in Miami in cooperation with PortMiami present the Japan-South Florida Business Forum on Tuesday, July 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at PortMiami Terminal E, located at 1265 N. Cruise Blvd.

Brad Larsen

Following a host welcome by PortMiami and opening remarks by Consul General of Japan for Florida Ken Okaniwa, the forum will feature presentations by top executives from five leading Japanese technology and engineering companies that are the result of direct foreign investment in the United States.

Presenters include:

·         Hitachi Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development Yushi Akiyama, who will talk about smart spaces and digital railway transit solutions;

·         Senior Director for North American Business Development Brad Larsen of Mitsubishi Electric, which is manufacturing and installing elevators, linear escalators and two spiral escalators at the Tampa Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino;

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Shin Gomi

 Vice President and General Manager Darin Friedmann of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which manufactured the SkyConnect Automated People Mover system at Miami International Airport;

·         Vice President of Marketing Shin Gomi of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, which operates from its global headquarters in Orlando;

·         and President & C.E.O Masahiro Ikeno from NEC Corporation of America, which has supplied U.S Homeland Security and theme parks with cutting-edge facial recognition technology.  

“With investments exceeding $411 billion, Japan is the second largest foreign direct investor in the U.S. economy and contributes to more than 840,000 jobs,” Okaniwa said.

Masahiro Ikeno

“This forum is an opportunity to establish contacts for future collaboration, which has the potential to spark industry growth and expansion, create new jobs, and benefit the local, regional and national economies.”

To attend, RSVP at https://goo.gl/SxKpo8.

For more information, please contact

Miwako Patton at culture@mi.mofa.go.jp or

Hector Franco at webmaster@mi.mofa.go.jp and

www.miami.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itprtop_en/index.html.   

OR

Lexi Robinson

(954) 776-1999, ext. 255

lrobinson@piersongrant.com