SVBTA – Blockchain and the future of travel

I attended the Silicon Valley Business Travel Association’s event “Blockchain and the Future of Travel.”  This was a topic I am particularly interested in because crypto-currency and blockchain really are the future.  Yes, for the moment currencies like BitCoin are facing a bit of scrutiny and regulation but it is impossible to stop the tide… Continue reading SVBTA – Blockchain and the future of travel

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SVBTA

Made it onto the Silicon Valley Business Travel Association Facebook page.  Seems like SVBTA is growing by leaps and bounds: I don’t remember the events always selling out like they seem to be doing now. This event was entitled “Getting to Yes!  The building blocks of a successful partnership,” held on May 11th at the… Continue reading SVBTA

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Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival

World Oyama Karate put on a demonstration at the 2017 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival.  I’ve always enjoyed the festival but have never actually participated myself except for the preparation of the Japan Airlines float many years ago.  My demonstration was called ‘kihon sono 4’ and we made BaySpo, (2017年4月14日) the Japanese language newspaper in… Continue reading Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival

Salesforce

I visited Salesforce today; there was a DJ in the lobby and were passing out cookies. I originally thought it might have been for our event but no, it was because they were putting the final beam on Salesforce Tower – San Francisco’s tallest building.

Some nice kudos!

Got some nice kudos from our Senior VP the other day.  It went out to the entire organization; this is the first time I’ve gotten something like this so thought it was post-worthy.