Mirai Tech PopUp City 🇯🇵 A month accelerating Longevity Biomedical in 🏯 Kobe, Japan ⛩️
Hello Builders,
This October, we co-live in Mirai Tech Pop-Up City. Thirty days inside KBIC, Japan's most advanced National Strategic Special Zone for Biomedical Innovation in Kobe.
Let's accelerate the next generation of Longevity Biomedical using Japan's advance regulations and infrastructure
We will write the open-source playbook for faster, better, safer biotech. Together!
Applications are now open. Become an early supporter and get early bird pricing. Here is what we are building this October.
🇯🇵 Oct 1-16 - Community Integration weeks
🧬 Oct 17–18 - Summit I The Science & Tech Augmenting Life
🦾 Oct 24–25 - Summit II From East to West: Bridging the Longevity Gap
🪩 Oct 26 - Enhanced Fashion Show & Demo Day
TG: https://t.me/+ZMuhGH9YEcxiNWU8
Partner Hotel: Portopia [Book here special prices]
Kobe Guide: https://www.feel-kobe.jp/en/
Learn more about the community, how to contribute and practicalities of coming to Japan here
“Kobe has welcomed the world's builders since 1868. When its port opened, foreign engineers and innovators came to help shape modern Japan. Mirai Tech City continues that tradition.”
Questions: team@miraitech.city
⚡ TL;DR
Location: Kobe, Japan 🇯🇵. Port Island.
Dates: October 1 to October 31.
The Mission: Build the bridge between East and the West in Japan to accelerate the curing and preventing human age-related diseases and enhancing life.
Our Vibe: builders with Radical Collaboration and Self-reliance, cultural integration wanting to build a better future for all.
Next Step: apply and grab your builder ticket (Early Bird right now).
Subscribe: subscribe to our event calendar for more events to come.
🎯 The Purpose
This October, we are hosting a 31-day biotech pop-up city in Kobe to write the regulations, the frameworks, and the shipping playbooks for frontier biotech.
For the global biotech community, Japan has become the fastest path nobody talks about across multiple categories. While US and EU regulators stall, Japan's PMDA has been quietly running pathways that get cell and gene therapies to patients years ahead of anywhere else.
We want to give you the chance to go down the rabbit hole and build inside it.
We encourage our community to co-create events which can be meetups, workshops, hackerhouses, etc. Builders creating descentralised and self-organised activities in the true spirit of a Pop-up!
📍 The Venue. The Heart of Japan's Biomedical Cluster.
Mirai Tech is set up on Port Island, Kobe, anchored at KBIC (Kobe Biomedical Innovation Cluster). Japan's most active biomedical innovation hub.
You are immersed in an ecosystem with 360+ resident biomedical companies, Kobe University Hospital, Mega Pharma and close to Osaka and Kyoto, as well as connected by railway and plane to Tokyo.
From our hub, you are within reach of every major Japanese pharma giant, regulatory consultancy, and clinical infrastructure provider in the country.
🗓️ Programming. A Month-Long Biotech Co-living experience
To show the depth of Japan's biomedical ecosystem, we structured the month around two frontiers: Longevity Biomedical and Human Augmentation.
We will have different type of activities during the month:
The Residences: Two [application only] residences with access to specialised labs to develop medical devices and therapies [more info to come].
The Summits: the last 10 days, we drop two Mirai Summit weekends
Ecosystem Lifestyle and Events: Outside the conference weekends, builders and residents self-organise their own side events, meetings, cultural programs and hacker houses, etc at their desired additional cost . FYI Kobe is full of beautiful onsens, food and drinks! (Calling all partners. Come co-create these with us.
[Invite only] The Blueprint: We will have a group of experts, policy makers, entrepreneurs, private and public sector developing the blueprint for a zone that accelerates biomedical progress for longevity.
Dates:
🇯🇵 Community Integration (Oct 1-16) The community arrives to Kobe and Port island and explores the area, makes connections, focus on how to enter Japan market, actively get to know the ecosystem in Kobe and KBIC and explore their regulatory systems and processes from the experts.
🧬 Summit I (Oct 17–18) The Science & Tech Augmenting Life What are the opportunities and imperative of Longevity biomedical innovations in Japan? AIxBIO · Bioengineering · Biostasis, Replacement · MedTech · Women Health.
🦾 Summit II (Oct 24–25) From East to West: Bridging the Longevity Gap What are the bottlenecks and solutions to accelerate longevity biomedical innovations? How does the world look like once we cure all diseases? Regulations · Investment · Future of Longevity.
🪩 Enhanced Fashion Show & Demo Day(Oct 26) A live demo day reimagined as a runway show. Device residents showcase medical-technology prototypes where science becomes couture. Think CES meets Tokyo Fashion Week.
Speakers and Collaborations:
Aubrey de Grey, Natalie Coles, Jose Cordeiro, Adam Gries, Sumit Jamuar, Devinder Sodhi, Jordan Lasker, Kobe University, KBIC, Asagi Labs, Viva City, Biopunk House, ZuJapan, Broken Symmetry Capital, Aevitas House, and more...
📝 Application Process. How to Join.
This is not a walk-in event. Apply beforehand. We are processing applications fast.
Early Bird pricing.
🫡 Final Words
The biotech revolution of the last 30 years did not happen in a vacuum. It was fuelled by borderless collaboration and the belief that the next medicine belongs to everyone who can ship it.
We are here to build the next generation of Longevity Biomedical in the place where is possible!
See you in October. See you in Kobe.
Cheers, Victoria