“SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024” opens this weekend Experience “Tokyo in 2050” where nature and convenience are fused “Children’s Smile Movement” will also be exhibited

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will hold “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024” from April 27, 2024, where you can experience the city of the future.
The “Global Startup Program”, mainly for businesses, and the “City Leaders Program”, mainly for city officials, will be held from mid-May 2024, and the “Showcase Program”, which allows a wide range of citizens to become acquainted with future technologies, will be held from mid-May 2024. It will be held in advance.

Significance of holding SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is creating a sustainable city with advanced technology, and disseminating its challenges to solving urban issues and the diverse charms of Tokyo to both Japan and abroad as “Sustainable High City Tech Tokyo = SusHi Tech Tokyo.” There is. The upcoming “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024” is a large-scale international event expected to attract 500,000 participants, creating innovations originating from Tokyo and disseminating future urban models.
By holding SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024, various effects will be created, including an increase in the number of startups originating from Tokyo, problem solving through intercity collaboration, and social implementation of cutting-edge technology in Tokyo. By holding the event simultaneously, city leaders, start-up ecosystem players such as start-up companies and venture capital, companies with cutting-edge technology, and all participants will interact, creating a synergistic effect and working toward the realization of a sustainable city. It is hoped that further initiatives will emerge.

Showcase program (mainly for the general public)

At four venues: Ariake Arena, Miraikan National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Symbol Promenade Park, and Umi no Mori Area, you can see, touch, hear, and taste Tokyo in 2050. We will prepare content that will give you a sense of what it will be like and run a program that allows you to experience “Tokyo in 2050” where “nature” and “convenience” are fused.

Event overview

“Children’s Smile Movement” booth also on display

In addition, in Tokyo, the public and private sectors are working together in collaboration with a wide range of entities, including companies, NPOs, schools, and municipalities, in order to further increase the momentum of valuing children in order to realize a “Children First” society. We are promoting the “Children’s Smile Movement,” which involves various actions that bring smiles to children’s faces.
In order to further spread this movement, we will be exhibiting a “Children’s Smile Movement” booth at the showcase program of “SusHi Tech Tokyo 2024”.
1: About booth exhibition
National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

symbol promenade park

2: About the workshop
At Symbol Promenade Park, workshops for children will be held in cooperation with companies and organizations participating in this movement.
Implementation details (planned)
May 12, 2024
“Let’s try making things together with university students!”
Manufacturing experience (paper cup speaker production, name tag creation, etc.)
Cooperation: Tokyo Denki University
May 18th and 19th, 2024
“Let’s make it with scraps! Walnut badge”
Experience creating a walnut badge using unwanted fabric scraps
Cooperation: Specified non-profit organization Dacharabo
May 25, 2024
“Social experience app for children “Gokko Land” “Bentoya San Pretend” experience”
Craft experiences related to bento boxes, game corner, etc.
Cooperation: Kids Star Co., Ltd.
May 26, 2024
“Walking around Odaiba in Yukata♪”
Wear a yukata and experience taking photos with an instant camera and walking around the area
Cooperation: Nonprofit organization Kimono Shofuku
*Advance reservations are not required for any workshop.
*Details such as implementation times will be published in the event list on the Children’s Smile Movement homepage.

Global Startup Program (mainly for business)

Asia’s largest global innovation conference, creating “unexplored encounters” with domestic and international startup ecosystems. A diverse range of players from Asia and the world, including startups, investors, large corporations, countries and cities, and students, gathered in Tokyo to discuss the vision of sustainable future cities from multiple perspectives. The aim is to lead to the creation of innovation through open and flat exchanges.

Main contents

session
Over 130 speakers and over 40 sessions held
Pitch contest “SusHi Tech Challenge 2024”
507 companies applied from 43 countries and regions around the world.Semi-finals and finals will be held among 20 startups selected after document screening, etc.
Booth exhibition
・More than 400 startups and 47 countries/cities/regions exhibited
・Newly established All Japan Ecosystem Area
・More than 20 companies exhibited (sponsored)

Event overview

City Leaders Program (mainly for city stakeholders)

Leaders of cities from five continents will gather together to discuss efforts to solve urban issues and future prospects, confirm cooperation among cities around the world, and disseminate the results of a communiqué to the world.

Event overview