Sony

Creating and achieving mid- and long-term strategy through strategic partnerships with & investments into innovative start-ups.Focusing on disruptive ecosystems and highly-impacting fields for Sony, notably:• Artificial Intelligence (AI)• Automotive (Car Connectivity, Autonomous Driving, ADAS, V2V/V2I, Heads-up Displays...)• Smart Machines (Drones/UAVs, Robotics, Factory/Industrial Automation...)• Financial Technologies (FinTech)• Insurance Technologies (InsurTech)• Education Technologies (EdTech)• Agriculture Technologies (AgTech)• Security (DRM, Biometrics, Bitcoin & Blockchain...)• Imaging (Semiconductors, Materials, Software/Cloud processing...)• Entertainment (Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 3D Printing, Toys & Transmedia...)• Telecommunications (5G/beyond LTE, Mesh Networking, SDN, NFV...)Working closely with business units spanning the entire Sony Group portfolio to identify opportunities, source deals, drive evaluations and shape investment/partnership/collaboration use-cases.Identifying & analyzing emerging and new business trends, innovation as well as Intellectual Property (IP) opportunities.Optimizing Offensive and Defensive IP portfolio strategies (cross-licensing, patent-pooling, litigation...) together with IP teams in US, Japan, Europe and China. Show less