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X-HUB TOKYO 2019 Final Demo Day

We are holding the largest event in this March for the 2019 fiscal year edition of ""X-Hub Tokyo 2019"", the global venture creation platform organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Global statups such as ""TBM"" who developed a method for manufacturing paper from limestone without using water, ""Holoash"" who is expanding its business to overseas successfully through X-Hub's program, will be sharing their presentations on how they realize business goals.

We will also be arranging a panel discussion among this year's X-hub program startups and one of the most renowned global accelerators, to deliver the insights and know-how derived from the program. Learning experience will be suitable for any startup looking to expand to overseas markets and for the anyone who is planning start cross-border businesses in general, don't miss this chance!

Date: March 10 (Tue), 2020　18:15-22:00 (Registration: 17:45)
Place: Bellesalle Roppongi B1
No. of Visitors:　Approx. 300
Participation fee: free

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India’s Startup Ecosystem & Healthcare Innovation

India has achieved an extensive growth as the center of the global startup ecosystem, leveraging IT-related technologies.
On the other hand, the lack of social infrastructure centered on healthcare has created a number of problem-solving innovations

This event will bring together experts from the Indian startup ecosystem and healthcare innovations to give an overview of the Indian market in the healthcare system and hints on succeeding in India as startups.

Date: March 5th, 2020 (Thursday)　18：00〜20：30 (Open: 17:30)
Place: Global Business Hub Tokyo
Attendance capacity: 100 people
Participation fee: free

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Taiwan & Japan Alliance Cases and Overseas Marketing Know-how

Taiwan is geographically close to Japan and is also very similar culturally. Both regions have strong interest in technology and appreciation of traditional culture. According to “Global Entrepreneurship Index (GEI)” reported by GEDI in 2018, Taiwan is nominated as the 18th nation under global ranking, and has marked 2nd place in Asia ranking coming after Hong Kong (Japan is 28th globally, 6th in Asia), which proves that Taiwan has created one of the strongest innovation ecosystems in Asia. In recent years, deregulations for startup businesses and increasing attraction of overseas human resources have been engaged as key national policies ran centrally by the Taiwanese government.
With its limited domestic market size, there is a lot of strategies to learn from Taiwan’s ecosystem where global-minded startups are emerging constantly across different industries especially in the high-tech space. Such learning experience will fit perfectly with the Japanese corporations facing scalability issues under saturated domestic market growth.
In this X-hub event, *Garage+; one of the leading acceleration program in Taiwan, and 3 Taiwanese private entities, with proven success in cross boarder business collaborations, will be sharing with us the themes of “Outline of Innovation Ecosystem in Taiwan”, and “ Cases of Taiwan-Japan Alliance, and its Practical Strategy”, through lecture style.
Do not miss this chance to knowing the latest startup scenes in Taiwan.

*Garage+:
An acceleration program organized and founded by Epoch Foundation, supporting startups from various perspectives, including offering of incubation facilities. The Foundation is sponsored and supported by funded 20 large Taiwanese technology corporates with global business experiences.

※In case of speakers are unable to travel to Japan caused by the impact of coronavirus, lectures may be arranged online.

Date: February 20th, 2020 (Tuesday)　18：00〜20：30 (Open: 17:30)
Place: EBISU SHOW ROOM (Ebisu) 1F Large Hall
Attendance capacity: 100 people
Participation fee: free

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Forefront of Food-tech in Italy with Developed Food and Food Service Industry, and Italy’s Innovation Ecosystem

Italy is a country well-known with luxurious brands and football, but nowadays Italy is becoming popular with startup ecosystems.
Remarkably in Italy, investment into startups had almost doubled in 5years from 3.5 billion Euros in 2014 to 9.7 billion Euros in 2019, and out of all the investments 65% of funds are from overseas which is powerfully supporting startup’s initiatives.
Under such proactive investment scenes, generation of startup ecosystem for “Food” and cross-border alliances among both large enterprises and startups expanding significantly. An acceleration program for food-tech startups has been launched in 2019, which is a program for startups to collaborate with Italian enterprises from manufacturing to retailing under the food industry through new business development and PoC trials. 7 global startups from Israel, U.S.A., and Italy have been selected to join this program, and this January, additional 10 startups are taking part of the program too.
As export of food product from Italy is estimated to be as much as 40 billion Euros, a lot of expectations are focusing on the birth of food-tech unicorn from Italy!
For this X-Hub event, we will be arranging a virtual startup pitch who are the participants of “Food-tech Accelerator Program” started from Milan, and a special lecture to introduce “Japan-Italy Innovations Alliance Cases”.
This will be a great chance to learn, for startups who wish to challenge the Italy market and also for food manufacturing enterprises considering to ally with Italian startups.

*Due to recent local transmission of corona virus, please make sure to wear facial masks at venue. Thank you.

Date: February 13th, 2020 (Thursday)　18：00〜19：30 (Open: 17:30)
Place: Hibiya Mitsui Conference, Room 6
Attendance capacity: 110 people
Participation fee: free