・SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 will be held May 8-10 at the Tokyo Big Sight international exhibition center.
・This year too, the event will draw a range of players committed to realizing sustainable cities, with special focus on AI, quantum technology and foodtech.
・The event will be much larger than in 2024, targeting 500 exhibiting startups and venture capitals from around the world, 5000 business meetings, and 50,000 visitors. Prominent speakers, major governments and cities, large companies and investors will also attend.

The Governor of Tokyo, KOIKE Yuriko, has unveiled the key details of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025, Asia’s largest startup conference, held May 8-10. The first two days will be dedicated to businesses, while the last day will be open to the public. The Governor made the announcement at Tokyo Innovation Base, a startup center run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.

Launched in 2023, SusHi Tech Tokyo (Sustainable High City Tech Tokyo) seeks to realize sustainable cities through high technology. By leveraging diverse ideas, digital know-how, and cutting-edge innovation, the initiative seeks to resolve issues facing humanity, including demographic change, environmental and energy concerns, aging infrastructure, and the preservation of traditional culture.

The Governor explained that SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 will focus especially on AI, quantum technology and foodtech, three fast-growing fields that will shape human societies in the 21st century and can contribute greatly to resolving the complex challenges facing the world. Inside Tokyo’s Big Sight’s sprawling exhibition space, visitors will be able to envision the future created by innovative solutions in these fields.

The 2024 event was a roaring success, attracting 434 startups—approx. 60% from overseas— and about 40,000 visitors from 82 countries and 321 cities. This year’s event promises to be even bigger, with exhibits by an expected 500 startups from around the world, 5,000 business meetings, and 50,000 visitors, as well as a multitude of investors, venture capitals, large corporations, representatives of countries and cities, and student entrepreneurs. The number of exhibits by large companies has increased from 29 to about 40, and the number of pavilions by cities and countries will nearly triple.

The inspiring speaker line-up includes Taro Shimada, Representative Director, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation, Ashley Grosh, Vice President of Breakthrough Energy (founded by Bill Gates) and Caroline Winnett, Executive director of Berkeley SkyDeck, the global startup hub of UC Berkeley. Moreover, approximately 500 investors and venture capitalists from around the world are expected to attend.

A highlight of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 will be the startup pitch competition, SusHi Tech Challenge. Applications opened on November 1, 2024. After an initial screening, twenty semi- finalists will be selected in March to make pitches on stage in front of a panel of investors, venture capitalists and other ecosystem players.

To enhance the openness of Tokyo’s startup ecosystem, SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 will also feature “EmpowerHER” sessions on the theme of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Furthermore, university students from the student project ITAMAE (Innovative Technology Academic MAEstro) will hold workshops about starting and growing businesses. Finally, visitors will be able to enjoy a “future zone,” complete with a giant controllable robot.

Ranked #10 globally and #4 in Asia on Startup Genome (https://startupgenome.com), Tokyo has in recent years seen a surge of capital and talent flowing into ventures ranging from consumer apps to AI, as well as areas where Japan offers unique opportunities, such as healthtech and robotics.

About SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025
The SusHi Tech Tokyo (Sustainable High City Tech Tokyo) initiative was launched by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2023 to generate diverse ideas, digital know-how, and cutting- edge technology to resolve issues facing humanity, with particular focus on urban issues. For more information, please see: https://sushitech-startup.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en/
https://x.com/SusHiTech_SUEN
https://www.facebook.com/SusHiTechTokyoStartup
https://www.linkedin.com/company/sushi-tech-tokyo-official-account/
https://www.youtube.com/@STT2024_GSP

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