Katzman wins journalism award

Photo credit: http://hondajet.honda.com/gallery-and-downloads/

Caption:  Formation flight, Honda Jets

Money! Business class air tickets Japan-USA!  Publication!  Panel discussant!

I won the competition.

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Here are some details:

Innovation Awards Day Symposium: 26 July (Katzman’s birthday)
Place:  McCaw Hall of the Arrillaga Alumni Center on the Stanford 　University campus

Time: in the afternoon
Competition title: “Untold Stories in Innovation.”

Panel discussion: the award-winning journalists and the innovators/ key executives behind the stories.

Moderator:  Richard Dasher, Director,  US-Asia Technology Management Center
My story:  a 1000-word feature about the HondaJet.
Katzman’s prize: $1000 in cash, a round-trip business-class Japan-US ticket, and publication.
Note:  There are two winners.  I am the second place winner. The first place winner gets 3 times the money.

I’ll be whisked from SFO to a hotel near Stanford (probably to make sure I will be on hand to talk on Friday the 26th).

More details:
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The Japan - U.S. Innovation Award Program, produced by the Japan Society of Northern California in cooperation with Stanford's US-Asia Technology Management Center, opened a new award category this year:  the "Untold Story in Innovation" Award.  This is for a story of intrapreneurial innovation inside a company that has relevance to Japan - U.S. business.

Katzman wins for her story about HondaJet, the innovation that may coalesce small aircraft travel.  Honda had been ready to throw in the towel after 20 years of research, but the chief engineer successfully argued for commercial manufacture.

Publication in July:  on the Japan - U.S. Innovation Awards and also the Stanford University US-Asia Technology Management Center  , and in publications relevant to Japanese business, such as Japan Inc. magazine or possibly one of the daily or weekly English language publications in Japan.

Rights revert to Katzman.

Other speakers in the program include well-known venture capitalist Mr. Tim Draper and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos, as well　as executives of companies named as winners of the other award in our program,　namely the "Emerging Leader" Award (Bloom Energy, Cellular Dynamics, and Euglena).  

The audience—expected 200-250 people-- will consist mostly of executives and professionals (VCs, lawyers, consultants) from the Silicon Valley community.
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