2nd Japan Global Innovators’ Forum 2025 (JGIF)

J-STORIES ー Tokyo-based international media company Pacific Bridge Media and Consulting Inc. (PBMC) is happy to announce that the 2nd annual Japan International Innovators’ Discussion board (JGIF) will likely be held in March 2025. PBMC’s solutions-focused multilingual information service J-Tales will co-host the occasion with the Mainichi nationwide each day’s startup accelerator, Mainichi Future Creation Lab.

Modern Japanese and worldwide startups with international ambitions will collect within the coronary heart of Tokyo on March 13, showcasing the options they provide to deal with the world’s greatest social and environmental challenges. A panel of trade specialists will assess their progress potential each in Japan and overseas on the cross-border pitch occasion.

Taking part startups within the 2025 occasion will embody not solely Japanese startups aiming to broaden into international markets, but additionally bold inbound Asian startups which can be taking over the problem of fixing a few of Japan’s crucial issues — equivalent to its growing older inhabitants and rural depopulation.

The classes to be centered on are Age Tech, Well being Tech, Mobility, and Inexperienced Power. There may also be particular classes that includes East Asian startups in addition to Japan’s regional startups.

Organizers hope that the occasion will present sensible alternatives for taking part entrepreneurs to satisfy potential companions and supporters in Japan and abroad, together with enterprise capitalists and company enterprise capitalists, amongst different startup ecosystem gamers.

Particulars of the occasion will likely be unveiled on a particular web page in J-Tales by the tip of January.

The inaugural Japan International Innovators’ Discussion board, a pioneering English-language startup occasion that promoted dialogue between innovators in Japan and their potential supporters abroad, was held in March of this yr on the Tokyo Innovation Base in central Tokyo and live-streamed globally. The occasion highlighted Japan-based social entrepreneurs aiming to scale globally whereas providing options to social and environmental challenges generally shared internationally.

“2nd Japan International Innovators’ Discussion board”

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025

Time: 1-6 p.m. (Topic to alter), adopted by a networking occasion

Venue: Mainichi Corridor (Situated on a basement ground of Palaceside Constructing in Takebashi, Tokyo)

Organizers: J-Tales/Pacific Bridge Media and Consulting; Mainichi Future Creation Lab

Focus Classes (Anticipated) :

• Age Tech
• Well being Tech
• Mobility
• Inexperienced Power
• Particular classes (that includes Japan’s regional startups and East Asian startups)