An immersion bootcamp for European ecosystem leaders in Japan’s #1 innovation ecosystem. Your bridge to the Asian tech industry.
An immersion bootcamp in Tokyo is Japan's leading innovation ecosystem and the gateway to the Asian market.
Gain strategic and practical tools from top industry players to best develop and manage your innovation community.
Connect and build collaborations with peers, industry-leading players, and top speakers from Japan.
Join an exclusive global network of like minded professionals.
FORTUNE 500
HEADQUARTERS IN TOKYO
(OUT OF 41 IN JAPAN)
NUMBER OF EXITS BETWEEN
2018-2022
CARBON NET ZERO GOAL BY 2050
TOKYO ECOSYSTEM VALUE
TOTAL MARKET VALUE OF TOKYO’S STOCK EXCHANGE COMPANIES
(3RD IN THE WORLD)
PARTICIPANTS AT LAST YEAR’S INTERNATIONAL ROBOT EXHIBITION
For example: TTO’s, heads of: accelerators, innovation agencies, research centers, labs, incubators or other business creation activities from academia, industry
The programme is not suited for individual start-ups or consultants.
*Including Horizon Europe Associated countries
The selection will be competitive and based upon excellence and the above noted criteria. The final selection will be made by the EIT Global Outreach Working Group
*The below agenda is subject to change
Cultural Immersion to Tokyo
Begin your journey with a cultural immersion into the human, cultural, and geographical landscape of Tokyo, gaining an understanding of what stands at the foundation of this ecosystem.
Welcome to the Tech Tokyo Ecosystem
The day’s focus is to immerse participants in the rich tapestry of the Tokyo Tech Ecosystem, uncovering its unique dynamics, success drivers, and innovative methodologies. Delve into the deep-seated connections and origins of Tokyo’s innovation landscape, spanning traditional industries and pioneering ventures that have reshaped the city’s societal and economic fabric.
Engage in presentations and intimate discussions led by influential ecosystem stakeholders, including:
Leading Innovation Ecosystem Workshop
Building on insights from exploring the Tokyo Tech Ecosystem, participants will engage in a hands-on workshop tailored to their specific ecosystem challenges and initiatives. Led by local Japanese experts, the workshop will provide a platform for participants to share their experiences and collaboratively develop strategies to address key ecosystem management issues.
During the workshop, participants will:
Through interactive discussions, group exercises, and collaborative problem-solving, participants will gain valuable insights and practical strategies to drive ecosystem growth and innovation within their own communities. This workshop will serve as a catalyst for meaningful action and collaboration beyond the program.
The day will conclude with a VIP Cocktail event to raise our glasses to EU-Japanese collaborations in innovation and technology and celebrate the partnerships built between the European and Japanese innovation ecosystems. It will be an excellent opportunity to meet ecosystem leaders, VCs, and industry players from Europe and Japan and expand your global network.
Ecosystem Development
Our excursion will delve into the unique ecosystem of Akihabara, where technology, creativity, and community converge. We’ll meet with key figures from organizations such as Akihabara UDX and Tokyo Denki University to gain insights into the district’s ecosystem development. Learn how Akihabara fosters collaboration between tech startups, electronics retailers, and academic institutions, driving innovation and entrepreneurship forward.
Explore the bustling streets lined with electronics shops, gaming centers, and anime stores, soaking in the electric atmosphere of innovation and creativity. Engage in discussions with local entrepreneurs and innovators, uncovering the secrets behind Akihabara’s success as a tech hotspot. Discover how Akihabara embraces its unique cultural heritage while embracing cutting-edge technologies, and learn valuable strategies for nurturing a thriving tech ecosystem.
Moving Forward
After you were exposed to the Japanese Ecosystem, it’s time to reflect and think about what’s next, leveraging everything you learnt and the connections you made to take your ecosystem to the next level.
We will also discuss how we can tailor the lessons and opportunities learned in Tokyo to your unique ecosystem characteristics. We will expose the pan-European C&E community that is comprised of alumni from the past 5 years of cohorts, and share exclusive plans and events that will take place in the upcoming future.
The full cost of the programme is 6,000 EUR, however EIT Global Outreach can offer partial funding of the programmes and/or Travel & Accommodation reimbursement based on the following categories:
Category Number | Participant Category | Eligible KIC’s | Eligibility for Programme Funding | Eligibility for Travel and Accommodation Reimbursement |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | KIC Partners and KIC cooperating entities under the EIT Regional Innovation Scheme(RIS) | 6 KIC’s: EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Culture & Creativity, EIT Digital, EIT Food, EIT Health and EIT Manufacturing. | Fully funded | Reimbursement up to €2,600 per participant per module |
2 | KIC Staff | 6 KIC’s: EIT Climate- KIC, EIT Culture & Creativity EIT Digital, EIT Food, EIT Health and EIT Manufacturing. | Fully funded | Financed by the KIC’s own resources. Grants will be available for KIC staff under special conditions. |
3
| Partner/Staff from other KIC’s
| EIT InnoEnergy, EIT RawMaterials, and EIT Urban Mobility. | 85% Funded; Price: €1,000 | Financed by participant’s own resources |
4 | Ecosystem Manager (Non EIT) | Any individual professional can apply. |
66% Funded;
Price: €2,000 | Financed by participant’s own resources |
Yes, participation in Tokyo is required, and the core Connect & Experience event provides you with professional training and builds the community. You will have the chance to travel around the city, meet Japanese peers, and learn from one of the world’s leading innovation ecosystems.
The cohort will be comprised of ecosystem leaders from all over Europe that were carefully selected to join the programme. You will meet peers and ecosystem leaders from Tokyo and Japan, top speakers and lecturers on several topics, executives from global companies active in Tokyo, and many more.
An ecosystem leader is an experienced senior professional at the management/decision-making level in an organization boosting European start-up growth, significantly impacting the European ecosystem. They should deal with innovation or business creation in any of the following sectors: industry, academia, and government. For example, VCs, TTOs, heads of accelerators, innovation agencies, labs, incubators, or other business creation activities from academia, industry, and government.
The programme encompasses various subjects, including an overview of the Tokyo ecosystem and meetings with leading figures from the industry. You will have the chance to get your hands ‘dirty’ and delve into an ecosystem-building workshop, learn the dos and don’ts of branding, visit academia and governmental offices, meet with VCs, and become inspired by the many opportunities that will arise.
This depends on a financial category that varies from participant to participant. Check out the finance section for more information.
The applicants will be ranked according to the criteria noted here, and the Global Outreach Working Group will make the final decision as to the participants. Applicants will receive responses by 9th May 2024.
If you wish to submit an inquiry about the answer you got following the selection process, you can email Ido: [email protected]
Please explain your inquiry as clearly as possible; the deadline is 15th May 2024.
Past participants have established long-standing collaborations with experts they met and cohort members. You can expect to be left with a change of mindset that will enable you to approach your day-to-day activities with a newfound sense of purpose, as well as a tangible toolkit to establish the best practices you were exposed to. The Connect & Experience community is extremely active, with joint ventures taking place regularly; you can expect to expand your network and be part of a supportive and professional group of people that will take your ecosystem to the next level.
Dive into the heart of global innovation at Tokyo’s vibrant tech ecosystem, ranked as the top hub in Japan, 3rd in East Asia, and a powerhouse amongst global players. Immerse yourself in the energy of the world’s 3rd largest economy, concentrated in this dynamic city. Leverage the expertise of Japan’s world-renowned educational system, ranked 4th globally, with Tokyo at its helm. Use Tokyo as a friendly bridge to unlock the vast potential of Asian markets. Collaborate with government initiatives leveraging significant funding programmes, and tap into leading domains like advanced manufacturing, robotics, AI, and life sciences.
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The annual highlight of the C&E community network – European Playground, is a professional conference that offers practical tools and strategies to develop and manage innovation communities and startup support systems, bringing together professionals from all across Europe.
Members will be offered the opportunity to design and co-facilitate content and workshops with a European peer who has experience in connecting the public and private sectors, startups, and corporate players. As such, the playground can be used as a testbed for new ideas and initiatives, receiving real-time feedback and potential collaborations from leading experts in the field.
C&E alumni of 2024 will be entitled to a complimentary ticket to the Playground if they are eligible for reimbursement.
Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.
The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.
Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.
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Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.
1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?
2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?
How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.
How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?
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HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?
Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones. They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.
The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.
How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to effectively manage their care
As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.
This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements.
How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?
How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?
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We invite you to apply to this one-of-a-kind, full immersion programme that brings European innovation ecosystem leaders to Tokyo, Japan, for a bootcamp designed to foster organic collaboration between the ecosystems.
The programme provides participants with a deep dive and comprehensive understanding of the key players and stakeholders driving innovation in the region through a tailor-made agenda that is developed to support European and Japanese innovation goals, providing hands-on tools and best practices as well as exclusive networking opportunities.
Connect & Experience provides the chance to engage with peers, top speakers, industry leaders, and executives from global companies, fostering invaluable connections and insights. Through workshops, branding sessions, and meetings with academia, government officials, and venture capitalists, participants will immerse themselves in a vibrant ecosystem, engage in a diverse array of experiences that will unlock boundless opportunities for growth and inspiration, and become part of an exclusive European innovation community.