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Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai was in Tokyo to inaugurate the relocation of the company’s Japanese head office to an expansive new complex in the trendy district of Shibuya.
Taking up the majority of the gleaming new 35-floor Shibuya Stream skyscraper, Google has put its name on the building and dedicated two floors to a newly launched Google for Startups Campus, which is its seventh in the world and second in Asia after Seoul.
Agnieszka Hryniewicz-Bieniek, the director of Google for Startups, said that the company will run an accelerator programme early next year that will select 12 startups looking to scale up their work on artificial intelligence and machine learning, both critical aspects of Google’s current and future operations.
Agnieszka Hryniewicz-Bieniek, also stressed the importance of inclusiveness at an event where the
Wi-Fi password was BuildInclusiveTeams. “We would like Campus Tokyo to support women founders,†she said.