01Ecosystem Session
Each category of support organization featured one-minute lightning talks and a panel session, connecting ecosystem players with startups seeking growth.
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Edition 03 / Official archive
SUMMIT
2024
November 29, 2024 (Fri) 12:15–18:30
Tokyo Innovation Base
Concept / Concept
Points connect into lines,
and lines become a plane.
Japan’s startup ecosystem has steadily taken shape as the country competes on the world stage.
At the third Startup Ecosystem Summit, we explored an ecosystem that had grown more diverse, continued to evolve, and entered a new phase. Entrepreneurs, VCs, accelerators, corporations, and many other players gathered to share their initiatives and achievements.
Category-based sessions highlighted concrete developments across the ecosystem, creating a day for expanding knowledge and networks toward globally competitive innovation.
The information, affiliations, and titles shown are as of the event date. The event has concluded.
Contents / Contents
Exploring today’s ecosystem
from every angle.
01
02Talk Session
Experts analyzed the current landscape and discussed Japan’s future growth strategy through the lens of startup ecosystem development.
03Exhibitor
Ecosystem players offering acceleration, community building, HR and recruiting, accounting, fundraising, and many other forms of support exhibited at the event.
Special Collaboration
EmpowerHER
Initiative
An initiative was launched to advance DEI in the startup ecosystem and create imaginative solutions through diverse perspectives. Beginning with women’s empowerment, its kickoff brought organizations, companies, and projects together in the first-floor event space.
Keynote Session
Advancing DEI in the Startup Ecosystem
Hirokazu Ozaki / Yoshitaka Tabuchi / Moderator: Ai Kawaguchi
Creating an Environment Where Parenting and Business Can Coexist
Toshiaki Shimakawa / Krystal Ikeguchi / Akiko Katsunami / Moderator: Akiko Iwamoto
DEI and a Sustainable Future in the Space Industry
Makiko Hamada / Satomi Takahashi / Hideaki Ishikura
What Kind of Startup Ecosystem Enables Diverse Entrepreneurs to Thrive?
Practitioners shared the realities of programs and communities working to achieve and advance DEI.
Startups × Tokyo — Women Taking on Challenges Discuss Transformation
Women leaders from startups and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government discussed DEI in practice from public- and private-sector perspectives.
Timetable / Timetable
Three stages,
one ecosystem.
Key programs presented on each stage.
Session Stage
- Opening
- Ecosystem Session #1Corporates
- Ecosystem Session #2Support Service
- Special Talk SessionWhat Tokyo and Japan’s Startup Ecosystem Needs
- Special MessageOne Year of TIB and SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025
- Ecosystem Session #3Program
Lightning Talk Area
- Lightning Talk #1Support Service
- Lightning Talk #2Public Sector
- Lightning Talk #3Challenge
1st Floor
- EmpowerHER KeynoteAdvancing DEI
- Initiative Kickoff
- Session #2Parenting and Business
- Session #3The Space Industry and DEI
- Session #4Programs and Communities
- Session #5Startups × Tokyo
Speakers / Speakers
Voices of 2024
Meet speakers from the main sessions and the EmpowerHER Initiative.
Takaaki Umezawa
CIC Japan
Chairperson
Mao Yamada
Dinii Inc.
Representative Director
Michiko Kohyama
Eight Roads Ventures Japan
Vice President / Moderator
Yuriko Koike
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Governor of Tokyo
Hirokazu Ozaki
Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)
Chief Producer
Yoshitaka Tabuchi
Zebras and Company
Co-founder / Representative Director
Ai Kawaguchi
NewsPicks for WE
Founder / Moderator
Krystal Ikeguchi
CIC Tokyo
Community Operations Lead
Makiko Hamada
Axelspace Corporation
CHRO
Satomi Takahashi
Interstellar Technologies Inc.
Head of Communications & Brand
Hideaki Ishikura
Shintaro Yamada D&I Foundation
COO
Akiko Iwamoto
01Booster Inc.
Senior Associate / Moderator
Affiliations and titles are as of the event date.
Public Sector / Lightning Talk #2
Turning Public Support into a Force for Growth.
Ministry of Health, Labour and WelfareNEDOMinistry of Agriculture, Forestry and FisheriesMinistry of Internal Affairs and CommunicationsMinistry of Economy, Trade and IndustryMinistry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and TechnologyCabinet SecretariatJapan Patent OfficeMinistry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and TourismCabinet Office
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