Dr. Satoshi Kabasawa is Team Leader, Strategy Planning Group, Corporate R&D Strategy Office, for Panasonic strategic technology venture capital, and in charge of overseeing the Silicon Valley operation as well as the operation in Japan. He was Managing Director of Panasonic Digital Concepts Center (PDCC) through 2003, which organization was established in Silicon Valley in 1998 with his team’s efforts. He returned to Japan to expand the operation worldwide in 2004. So far his team has 25 portfolios in the US, Japan, and UK, and seven out of them have been successfully liquidated. Some of them have been successful in developing strategic technology partnerships with Panasonic through his team’s efforts.

Just after graduation from doctoral course in the telecommunication engineering arena, he joined Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic), and started another research career on speech processing technologies. Through such technology research, he extended his research interests and efforts to a combination of speech processing (SP) technologies and natural language processing (NLP) technologies. With various outcomes in technology research, he expanded his career to international R&D management, and established and drove a collaborative relation between a US University and Panasonic on a spoken multi-language translation project, which led to a world-wide Panasonic global research including Panasonic labs in Japan, US, Taiwan, and China.

Due to his international and inter-cultural project experience, he was involved much in Panasonic overseas R&D lab operations in his senior career.