Speaking engagement | Kaz Matsune Author

Kaz Matsune was born with a love for cooking. His passion led him to be a diligent student and a skilled sushi chef at restaurants such as Minako (San Francisco's first organic, Japanese restaurant), Ozumo, and the famed Fort Mason restaurant, Greens.

Today, Kaz teaches corporate teams and sushi lovers of all stripes his craft with Breakthrough Sushi - the first and only sustainable team building sushi company in the US.

Over the course of his 18-year professional culinary career, Kaz has served top celebrities and some of the Bay Area's top companies, including Google, Facebook, Oracle, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Verizon Wireless, and Citibank. He has taught over 10,000 sushi lovers and even held lessons at the Culinary Institute of America at Copia.

Kaz has also appeared in videos for Grammarly and Survey Monkey, as well as ad campaigns for Adobe and Eventbrite. His writing is featured on Quora, The Huffington Post, Slate, Apple News, and he has published three books on sushi. The most recent book, How I Became a Sushi Chef, is a memoir of his culinary journey.

(^) Speaking Engagement

The Science of Sushi

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April 3, 2018

UC Berkeley, CA

September 26, 2019

Autodesk, San Francisco, CA

Talk, presentation, sushi demonstration, Q&A, Book signing.

All the Answers You Always Wanted to Hear from Your Sushi Chef

(almost) all the answers you always want

January 24, 2017

Adobe, San Jose, CA

Talk, presentation, sushi demonstration, Q&A, Book signing.

(;) Media Appearances

Sharing the Joy of Sushi

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November 8, 2018

Grammarly

Over 30,000,000 views since the video is published on Youtube.

Customer Success Story

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January 25, 2015

SurveyMonkey

Featured in the promotional video, Customer success story. 1,800,000 views.

Cutthroat Kitchen

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July 5, 2015

S8 • E7, Circus Spectacular,

Food Network Channel

TV appearance as a chef contestant for the episode

Kaz Matsune, Breakthrough Sushi

JANUARY 21, 2019

Slow Living Radio

Radio interview

Combining Sushi and Team Building with Kaz Matsune

2019

My Food Job Rocks

Podcast interview

His sushi looks great. His PDFs do, too.

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2017

Adobe

Digital ad campaign for Adobe PDF.

Print ad campaign

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2017

Eventbrite

Print ad campaign.