Vision: Aichi Prefecture hopes to lead the sustainable future for its citizens and the world.
i. Aichi Prefecture is known for its love of knowledge. We have explored and created new knowledge to share to the world,. Today we continue to produce leaders with new knowledge
ii. In the midst of rapid changes in social activities due to the advancement of Society 4.0 and the spread of infectious diseases, Aichi Prefecture created the "Aichi Vision 2030," which sets directions that the prefecture will focus on in the next 10 years.
iii. Aichi Startup Festival will have startup pitches based on the five themes along with Aichi’s vision, as well as seminars with experts from the National University of Singapore and other organizations.
iv. We are looking for domestic, Asian, and global startups to participate in the pitch sessions, co-creation corporate partners who support the purpose of this event, and spectators to the event.
Concept：Making Aichi a Global Startup Festival place
i. The program concept for is to provide an opportunity for all people, including businesses and citizens, to casually participate and enjoy with activities and innovations of startups.
ii. Now that it is common for everything to be connected digitally, we can provide opportunities to connect with innovations around the world.
*Please see this press release for additional overview
https://www.icmg.co.jp/n_2103041200/
"Overviews of Project Station Ai"
Aichi Prefecture Department of Economy, Trade and Industry
Director for Startup Promotion Masaaki Shibayama
"Innovation with startups in Singapore"
Ng Weiyi - Assitant Professor Strategy and Policy, NUS Business School
about 10startups
"Resilience & Sustainability society"
"Singapore startup-ecosystem and e27"
E27
Co-Founder、COO、CFO
JitSiong Thaddeus Koh
about 10startups
"Create a community where all people can play an active role"
"Strengthening industries through new innovations"
"Sustainability from Singapore"
Sustainable Living Lab
Founder and Director
Veerappan Swaminathan
about 10startups
"Creating an attractive region gathering from the world"
"Education for global leaders who will lead the future and be active in the world and local communities"
In order to realize innovations that are intrinsically meaningful to Aichi Prefecture and the world, we are looking for speakers to participate in startup pitches along with the five pitch themes defined based on the Aichi Vision.
NUS Business School
Assistant Professor, Strategy and Policy
e27 | Co-Founder & COO & CFO
Sustainable Living Lab Pte Ltd | Founder & Director
Sharing overviews of the program and details of the program's challenge concept (assignment content)
Japan's leading city that has led the world's "manufacturing” wave, e.g. head quarter of Toyota exists, centered on the automobile, aerospace, and robot industries. Biggest contributor to Japan's largest shipment of manufactured goods for 42 consecutive years.
A purposeful and impactful innovation co-creator that creates innovation through collaboration with stakeholders while leveraging an innovation ecosystem centered on Asia, with the goal of "creating purposeful and impactful innovation to the world".
NUS Enterprise, the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore (NUS), plays a pivotal role in advancing innovation and entrepreneurship at NUS and beyond. It actively promotes entrepreneurship and cultivates global mind-sets and talents through the synergies of experiential entrepreneurial education, active industry partnerships, holistic entrepreneurship support and catalytic entrepreneurship outreach.
e27 is the startup ecosystem's go-to platformer with a community of 30,000+ startups, 3,500+ investors, and thousands of other tech ecosystem players. Recently, the Singapore-based company launched e27 Pro
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division
Aichi Prefectural Government
Startup Division
ICMG Japan
ICMG Japan
ICMG Japan
ICMG Singapore
ICMG Singapore
ICMG Singapore /
ICMG Japan
ICMG Co-creation Partner
Aichi Award
Criteria：Judging from the potential for business opportunities in Aichi and the potential for collaboration with companies in Aichi
Reward：1 year trial authority to move into Pre-Station Ai（until 23rd March 2022）and business expansion support with community manager of Aichi
Providing a software uses AI to create machine programming automatically that named “ARMCODE1” which required to run numerically controlled machines.
Providing the world’s first token-economy gourmet SNS - “SynchroLife” with a cryptocurrency rewarding system.
Providing “Twidy”, a community-based shopping service from Japan.
Providing the voice-based user interface solutions that enable people to use basic banking service, e-commerce and more.
Operating a smart city platform that manages citizens, industry and government with the powered of mobile participation and AI.
e27 Award
Criteria：Judging from the level of business maturity in global markets
Reward※：Adapting e27’s 「Promising Startups100 platform」 and e27’s 1 year pro-membership（from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022）（Including platform access service to investors and training session）
Providing SaaS solutions that people can discuss and make a consensus without meeting together.
Providing a cloud IP-phone powered by conversation intelligence platform which increases sales conversion rate and customer satisfaction rate.
Providing AI-powered platform helps engineer to improve convert CAD design work by 25% compared to conventional.
Providing a personalized cloud sports club with a matching platform with clients, backed by science and data.
Operating a smart city platform that manages citizens, industry and government with the powered of mobile participation and AI.
Criteria：Judging from the potential for business opportunities in Aichi and the potential for collaboration with companies in Aichi
Reward※：1 year trial authority to move into Pre-Station Ai（until 23rd March 2022）and business expansion support with community manager of Aichi
※It is assumed that the this budget will be approved at the Aichi Prefectural Assembly in February 2021.
Criteria：Judging from the level of business maturity in global markets
Reward※：Adapting e27’s 「Promising Startups100 platform」 and e27’s 1 year pro-membership（from 1st April 2021 to 31st March 2022）（Including platform access service to investors and training session）
Date
3rd Feb
15th Feb
26th Feb
8th March
Week of 8th March
15th - 17th March
22nd March
Item
Launch - Application Open
Program sharing Session
Startup application close
Application Close
1st selection
Event
Results Announcement（TOP startups)
Companies that have been in business for less than 10 years, or organizations or individual businesses that have been operating for less than 10 years(annual sales：generally less than 1 billion yen)
Apply now Co-Creation partnersCompanies that can share the purpose of this event and are willing to collaborate with the startup pitch speakers.
※ There are no fees or expenses for either.
SpectatorAll those who are interested in this event. Especially those who are interested in collaborating with the Startup Pitch speakers.
Apply now+65 6866 3642
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