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Transpacific Collaboration Forum: Industry Resilience & Future Capacity – Lessons Learned from Japan’s Semiconductor Reinvestment
Speaker Event
2:00 pm – 6:00 pm PT
Feb 27, 2026
Krutch Auditorium, Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley
The Berkeley Risk & Security Lab, in partnership with the Japan Society of Northern California, is pleased to announce the inaugural Transpacific Collaboration Forum. This event, supported by the National Association of Japan-America Societies and a coalition of esteemed academic and industry partners, will explore the critical intersections of industry resilience, capacity expansion, and transpacific collaboration in the semiconductor sector. The program will examine Japan’s semiconductor reinvestment efforts and its broader implications for global supply chains and technological innovation. Additional campus partners include the UC-Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies, and the Institute for Business Innovation at the Haas School of Business.
Speakers and moderators: Nishikawa Kazumi, Dr. Sakyasingha Dasgupta, Henri Richard, Masato Miyake, Kazuhiro Gomi, Jay Goldberg, Jon Metzler.