Mirai Tech City Summit II + Demo Day: From East to West, Bridging the Longevity Gap
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Coming for the whole month? Get the Mirai Tech PopUp City pass ($1,200): both summits, Demo Day and every day of programming, including lab tours, workshops and the hackathon, through 31 October.
Summit II and Demo Day: From East to West, Bridging the Longevity Gap. The bottlenecks holding the field back, and what the world looks like once we cure disease. Two days with longevity scientists, founders, investors and regulators from Japan, the US and Europe, then Longevity Lifestyle and Demo Day on Monday, where about 20 global longevity, biotech and medtech companies pitch to a jury of investors. One ticket covers all three days.
Saturday 24 October: 11:00 to 20:30, Kobe University Integrated Research Center, Convention Hall, 7-1-48 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe. Next to Keisan Kagaku Center station on the Port Liner.
Sunday 25 October: 11:00 to 18:00, Kobe Portopia Hotel, 6-10-1 Minatojima-nakamachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe. Next to Shimin Hiroba station on the Port Liner.
Monday 26 October: 12:00 to 20:30, Orbis Hall, Kobe Fashion Museum 5F, 2-9-1 Koyocho-naka, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, on Rokko Island. Next to Island Center station on the Rokko Liner. No food or drink in the hall seating.
Language: Talks are mainly in English, with live AI translation into Japanese.
Saturday 24 October
RMR1 was a qualified win: what combining four rejuvenation therapies did, and what RMR2 does next, Aubrey de Grey, PhD (LEV Foundation)
The death of death: the scientific possibility of physical immortality, Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD (International Longevity Summit)
Research and prospects of supercentenarian data, Natalie S. Coles de Grey (LEV Foundation / Human Longevity Inc.)
Panel: Defining the Evidentiary Standard for Ageing as a Treatable Condition, Aubrey de Grey, PhD; Jose Cordeiro, MBA, PhD; Natalie S. Coles de Grey
Fireside: Building the Vitalism Foundation and the largest longevity community in the US, and why we are looking at Japan, Adam Gries (Vitalism Foundation / Vitalist Bay); Rie Yano (Coral Capital)
Does Japan train clinicians who can work across science, engineering, regulation and business?, Prof. Kentaroh Takagaki, MD PhD BAgr (University of Yamanashi / Institute of Science Tokyo)
From a lab clock to a product: commercialising LinAge2, Julie Ying Baron (LiveBeyond)
The business of biotech: translating research into a marketable product, Irit Rappley, PhD (NNP Labs)
Title to be confirmed, Matt Scholz (Oisín Biotechnologies)
Panel: Why does good science stay in the lab?, Prof. Kentaroh Takagaki, MD PhD BAgr (Institute of Science Tokyo); Irit Rappley, PhD (NNP Labs); Julie Ying Baron (LiveBeyond); Karen Onuma (GlobalDeal); Matt Scholz (Oisín Biotechnologies); Zain Rana (GreyRigge Associates)
Routes to market: why we build longevity science in Japan, Keita Masui (ASAGI Labs Ventures)
Early-stage capital and cross-border founding teams in Japan, Florian Geier (Antler Japan)
Title to be confirmed, Yutaka Fujimoto (J-Pharma)
Panel: Funding longevity and biotech in Japan: what investors need to see, Keita Masui (ASAGI Labs Ventures); Florian Geier (Antler Japan); Paul Yang (Governance Partners); Karen Onuma (GlobalDeal, moderator)
How America is losing the longevity race, Jordan Lasker (Researcher and bioinformatician)
Sunday 25 October
Why Japan makes sense for Minicircle, and why it should matter for others, Mac Davis (Minicircle)
Title to be confirmed, Shun Maruyama (Governance Partners); Dr. Shin-ichiro Imai (LongGen Bioscience), online
When will Superintelligence solve disease?, Joe Betts-LaCroix (Retro Biosciences)
The regulatory advantage: why we license therapies into Japan first, Rob Claar (HekaBio)
Ship in Japan first: the data case, Nelson Milla (Unchain Bio)
The Patient Is the Corridor: What a Longevity Jurisdiction Has to Build After the Law, Josh Mann (The LARTA Agency)
Panel: Governance for open innovation, Laurence Ion (VitaDAO); Patri Friedman (Pronomos Capital, online); Ian Huyett, JD (Cornerstone / Granite Bio Innovation)
From Lab to Industry: Building a Scientific Career in Japan as an International Researcher, Eleanor Sheekey, PhD (RIKEN BDR Kobe); Aya McGlothlin (Happa World); Kyungmin Kim, PhD (Keyence Corporation)
Digital Immortality via Seamless Mind Uploading and AI Replacement of Damaged Brain Circuitry: An Innovative BMI with Precision Read/Write Access, Prof. Masataka Watanabe, PhD (University of Tokyo)
Functional brain isolation, and why we are building it in Japan, Daniel Burger, MSc (Eightsix Science / Synconetics Organisation)
Longevity-driven management: why healthspan is a business metric, Muneaki Goto (Japan Reskilling Initiative)
Fireside: Building the communities that carry the future, Todd Porter (Prosperity Exchange); Marian Goodell (Burning Man Project); Victoria Masso, MSc (Mirai Tech City)
Fireside: The future of longevity science, Nathan Cheng (Longevity Biotech Fellowship); Pedro Henrich (Unchain Bio)
The future of longevity science: the east and the west, Aubrey de Grey, PhD (LEV Foundation); Prof. Masataka Watanabe, PhD (University of Tokyo)
Monday 26 October: Longevity Lifestyle and Demo Day
12:00 Welcome and introductions
12:20 Why Longevity Needs a Culture, Not Just a Cure, Elen Capri (longevity advocate and documentary producer)
13:10 The Missing Variable: What Happens Between the Interventions, Tateki Matsuda (Japan Biohacking Association / HOLOLIFE Center Japan)
13:35 Building startup societies in rural Japan: what Zō Village is learning, Brandon Possin (Merito KK / Zō Village)
14:00 Longevity, Dawn of a New Civilization: A Longer Life Needs a Larger Purpose, Cesar Gonzales (HEIRITAGE EcoCultural)
14:25 Networking with the founders, with snacks
15:25 Demo Day pitches, first half: 10 companies, 4 minutes plus 2 minutes of Q&A each
16:45 Demo Day pitches, second half: 10 companies
17:50 Break while the jury deliberates
18:15 Results and awards: Antler Residency Award and Meet the Drapers Award
18:30 Japan Landing Award, presented by GlobalDeal
18:45 Closing: Daruma painting
19:00 Networking until 20:30
Demo Day jury: ASAGI Labs Ventures, Antler Japan, Governance Partners and GlobalDeal.
Programme as of 14 October and subject to change. Full programme at miraitech.city.
Can't pay for a ticket? A few tickets are paid for by sponsors. They go to researchers, founders and artists who should be in Kobe but can't afford the ticket. Book a call.
Hotel and transport not included.