HANAHAUS BLOG
Hans-Martin Will started his career at the SAP Innovation Center in Newport Beach a little over a year ago. In this time, he has taken on additional responsibilities and climbed the ranks to become the Global Head of the SAP Innovation Center Network, managing a variety of teams across the globe.
On April 14, the first-ever virtual SAP Speaker Series event hosted by HanaHaus welcomed Cheriana Griggs a Sr. UX Designer at Google, Kasia Kesicka, a design team leader at SAP, and Pamela Bailey, who leads design thinking and innovation at Facebook. These incredible women shared their unique experiences and discussed the future of the design industry while speaking openly about the challenges female leaders face today.
On February 19th, the SAP Speaker Series welcomed UC Berkeley Graduate Professor, David Patterson, to the stage at HanaHaus. Over 40 years ago, David helped pioneer the RISC processor design that is still used in 99% of all new computer chips today. He is also one of 70 people in the world to receive the Turing Award (also referred to as the "Nobel Peace Prize of Computing"), for his amazing accomplishments in the realm of technological innovation.
Kash Kapadia is the founder and CEO of Anchor Health, a comprehensive platform that helps you navigate health care by connecting the dots for you. He also serves as an Advisor to Nex3, a top 10 global accelerator in digital health, and various startups.
On January 22nd, we had the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Frederik G. Pferdt, Google's Chief Innovation Evangelist and Adjunct Professor at Stanford’s d-school, to kick off the SAP Speaker Series in 2020! The room was packed to capacity as Frederik spoke about how organizations can create an inclusive environment that values empathy and encourages risk-taking to meet the grand challenges of tomorrow.
Aye Moah is the Chief of Product at Boomerang, the most popular productivity app for Gmail and Outlook, enabling millions of people to email more effectively with artificial intelligence.
On October 30, 11-year old Youth Entrepreneur of the Year, Samaira Mehta, took the stage at HanaHaus to talk about her fascinating entrepreneurial journey as well as explore her global initiative “Yes, One Billion Kids Can Code.” She touched on a variety of topics including what inspired her to create a coding board game and how she plans to get 1 billion kids to code by 2030!
Shelley Iocona is the founder of ON ITS AXIS, an innovation services firm delivering product and people solutions customized for growing companies. She serves as an advisor to startups in healthcare technology, hospitality, fintech, disruptive HR and social good.
Have you ever wondered which topics the team upstairs is working on? - Our location in Newport Beach is not only home to HanaHaus but also to the SAP Innovation Center Network. The SAP teams are working on topics such as ambient voice technology, AI-driven development, explainable AI, data labeling, and data anonymization. On Friday, September 6, SAP celebrated the official launch of its Newport Beach office and held a Grand Opening celebration.
Andrea Anderson is an educator at heart specializing in social and emotional learnings. Her fascination for all things cultural has led her to launch a children’s picture book titled “A Journey to Silicon Valley and Beyond”.
Can our immune system be taught new tricks? Dr. Ron Levy, M.D. is a professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He specializes in lymphoma and his work has led to the concept that antibodies can be used as personalized anticancer drugs and to the development of an antibody-based drug, Rituxan, that is widely used to treat lymphoma.
As part of our Venture Talk series, organized jointly with SAP Bay Area, we had the pleasure of welcoming investigative journalist and the deputy director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Marina Walker Guevara.
Are we alone in the Universe? For our latest Café Sci session, Dr. Jon M. Jenkins from NASA Ames Research Center updates us on the progress made towards answering one of humanity’s greatest questions.
Coffee and co-working are two terms that are closely connected and have become almost synonymous over the years. For centuries, coffeeshops have been a popular meeting place and significant in encouraging collaboration amongst the community. Find out more about our partnership with Blue Bottle, the trendy café best-suited to continue this legacy with HanaHaus.
Joshua Jordison is a founder, creative producer, and regular at HanaHaus. He works from HanaHaus because of the inspiring atmosphere, the minimal design which gives him clarity, and the background noise that helps him to work more efficiently.
As part of our Venture Talk series, organized jointly with SAP Bay Area, we had the pleasure of welcoming Azella Perryman (Caviar National Catering Operations Lead at Square) & Sagar Sanghvi (VP of Finance and Strategy at Instacart). The two discussed the logistics and operations of managing people and finances in a hyper competitive marketplace.
As part of our Venture Talk series, organized jointly with SAP Bay Area, we had the pleasure of welcoming writer, investor, and entrepreneur Chris Yeh. Here are a few insights and takeaways from Chris on how to build world-changing companies like Amazon, Alibaba, and Airbnb in record time.
Landan Laurusaitis defies stereotypes, in that he embodies them all. The high school jock, the theater kid, and the free spirit. Landan is not running a technology startup, but a personal fitness brand built around the intensity and energy he so effortlessly emits.
Why are we living in one of the most interesting ages in computer history? Read more about the recent Cafe Sci talk on the future of computing with John Hennessy, former Stanford University president, chairman of Alphabet and Turing award winner.
We are very fortunate we were able to find such an exceptional place for the opening of our second location. HanaHaus Newport Beach is located in one of the most iconic buildings on the Balboa Peninsula with just a few steps away from Lido Marina Village and direct access to the Newport Bay. The building itself has an exciting history and was able to create a pipeline of success stories.
