{"id":9621,"date":"2023-01-15T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/?p=9621"},"modified":"2023-09-01T12:21:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:21:58","slug":"ceo-interview-ken-sobajima-waka-minagawa-silicon-valley-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/news\/9621","title":{"rendered":"BIPROGY TERASU Interview Article"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-hidden-front is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><h1 class=\"title is-post mb-10 wp-block-post-title\">BIPROGY TERASU Interview Article<\/h1>\n\n<div class=\"mb-10 wp-block-post-date has-text-color has-grey-dark-color\"><time datetime=\"2023-01-15T11:50:00+09:00\">2023.01.15<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-white-bis-color has-css-opacity has-white-bis-background-color has-background is-style-wide mb-15\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-post_tag has-link-color mb-40 list-tag wp-elements-1 wp-block-post-terms\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/news\/tag\/article\" rel=\"tag\">#Article<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/news\/tag\/interview\" rel=\"tag\">#Interview<\/a><span class=\"wp-block-post-terms__separator\"> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/en\/news\/tag\/news-3\" rel=\"tag\">news<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"post-content\" class=\"wp-block-group content is-post is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1ba4e1e2 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An interview article featuring our CEO, <strong>Ken Sobajima<\/strong>, and BIPROGY USA&#8217;s President and CEO, <strong>Waka Minagawa<\/strong>, has been published. <br><br>BIPROGY underwent a name change in 2022 from its original name, Nihon Unisys. 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Quite creative, isn&#8217;t it? <br><br>In this interview, the two CEOs discussed how to effectively incorporate information from Silicon Valley to generate innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/terasu.biprogy.com\/article\/biprogy-us-report1-tomorrowaccess\/\">BIPROGY TERASU<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/terasu.biprogy.com\/article\/biprogy-us-report1-tomorrowaccess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BIPROGY-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BIPROGY-1-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BIPROGY-1-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/tomorrowaccess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/BIPROGY-1-300x200.jpeg 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