At the official panel session "The Cutting Edge of AI Films: What Is Happening Now in the Entertainment World? What Does Its Future Look Like?" during SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, leading global filmmakers, festival directors, and industry executives gathered to discuss how artificial intelligence is moving past the stage of simple novelty to fundamentally restructure the creative process and economic models of cinema. Moderated by violinist Sumire Hirotsuru, the panel featured Joh

At the SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 Summit, a high-level panel of international music executives, startup founders, and legal experts gathered under the cooperation of the Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA) to address a critical question: How can technology propel Japanese music beyond its traditional borders and sustainably scale it globally? Moderated by Takayuki Suzuki, Representative Director of Music Tech Japan, the discussion highlighted a m

At the global technology summit SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, the discussion surrounding digital governance took a major leap forward on the Innovation Stage. During a panel session titled "Governments at the Frontline in the Age of Agentic AI: Towards a Resilient Society through Global Collaboration," digital leaders from Estonia and Ukraine outlined a profound shift in how nations operate. Modern states are transitioning from passive "digital portals" into active, autonomous "agen

At the prestigious SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 global tech summit, in the session titled "Innovation in Action: Connecting Startups to ADB Opportunities," representatives from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) unveiled an ambitious, tripartite framework designed to bridge the gap between private sector innovation and public sector development needs. Leveraging Tokyo’s world-renowned urban systems as metaphors, the speakers demonstrated how ADB serves as an "honest broker" and financ

Third Ecosystem and Universiti Malaya co-hosted a startup pitch event. Explore four promising deep-tech startups and the potential for open innovation and co-creation with Japanese companies.

At the heart of the global technology landscape, France has emerged as a powerhouse of innovation. Today, the French startup ecosystem boasts over 33,000 startups, 35 unicorns, and has created over 1.1 million jobs since 2000. Backed by massive public and private support, including the historic €54 billion "France 2030" investment plan and hyper-growth support structures like the French Tech Next 40/120, French startups are actively expanding their footprints worldwide. On Da

Introduction: A Shared Industrial Legacy Faces an Urgent Digital Frontier At SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, a critical panel discussion titled "From Pilot to Production: What Japan Can Learn from Germany in Scaling AI for Industrial Impact" gathered leading industrial minds to address a foundational challenge. Germany, renowned globally for deep engineering expertise, and Japan, celebrated for manufacturing excellence (monozukuri), share deep structural similarities. Both nations pos

At the prestigious SusHi Tech Tokyo arena, the 2nd National Network Conference (NINEJP in SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026) successfully gathered nine researchers and university-spun innovation teams. Supported by a nation-wide platform designed to provide global branding, database integration for venture capital, and commercialization support, these visionaries pitched deep-tech solutions ranging from real-time agricultural spectroscopy to medical imaging for rare cancers. Evaluated by

Session: SwissTech at SusHi Tech Startup Pitch 2026 Introduction: The Swiss Innovation Powerhouse Arrives in Japan At the prestigious SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Switzerland made a resounding statement. Switzerland, whose Swisstech Pavilion won the prestigious "The Most Innovative Pavilion" Award at SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025, continues to showcase its peerless creative momentum. Following this milestone, the Swiss startup delegation actively expanded to Osaka during the Expo 2025 year

Session Name Smart Cities Evolving for Citizens: Creating the Future Together with Leading Cities Speakers Moderator: Yuji Yoshimura (Project Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology [RCAST], The University of Tokyo) Panelists: Atsushi Deguchi (Executive Director and Vice President, Professor at the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo) Maria Buhigas San José (Chief Architect, Barcelona City Council) Kang Ock Hyun (Dire

Event: AI x Education for Well-being in the Intelligent Age Speakers: Teruo Fujii (President of the University of Tokyo) Bolor-Erdene Battsengel (Founder and CEO of AI Academy Asia; Former Vice Minister of Digital Development of Mongolia) At the Impact Stage of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, Teruo Fujii, President of The University of Tokyo, and Bolor-Erdene Battsengel, Founder and CEO of AI Academy Asia and former Vice Minister of Digital Development of Mongolia, convened to addres

Unexpected machinery downtime is a critical challenge for manufacturers, directly resulting in lost productivity and increased costs. In recent years, predictive maintenance powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning has attracted considerable attention as a potential solution. However, conventional approaches often require months of historical data before they can generate meaningful insights, while identifying the root cause of a failure remains difficult. Agai

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undergoing a rapid paradigm shift. It is transitioning from screen-bound assistants (Perception and Generative AI) to autonomous software entities (Agentic AI), and finally to Physical AI—intelligence that possesses a physical body (embodiment) to perceive, understand, and act within the real physical world. This comprehensive analysis explores the cutting-edge trends in Multi-AI Agent systems, the rise of Physical AI, and how industry leaders

At the Humanoids Summit Tokyo 2026, Terence Bennett, Executive Director of the Bay Area Robotics Association (BARA), presented a landmark session titled “Building the Global Physical AI Ecosystem: From Silicon Valley to International Collaboration”. His address outlined a comprehensive global strategy to fuse software intelligence with advanced manufacturing, tracing the historical evolution of the industry to explain why physical AI is entering a dramatic growth phase. The T

Beyond Mobility—The Evolution of Honda’s Robotics Philosophy At the Humanoids Summit 2026, Honda presented its latest breakthrough in physical automation under the title "Honda’s New Multi-Fingered Hand." The presentation, delivered by Takahide Yoshiike, Executive Chief Engineer at Honda R&D Frontier Robotics, marked a major milestone in Honda's robotics philosophy. For more than two decades, Honda’s humanoid robot, ASIMO, captured the world's imagination, conducting frequen

The robotics industry is currently standing at the precipice of a historical technological milestone. Drawing on Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam, Aska Liu described the present moment as the beginning of an era in which humanoids move from research prototypes into practical use, calling it the "creation of humanoids". Liu, founder and CEO of EnduX, previously led Insurtech, AI-platform, and voice-bot businesses at OneConnect Financial Technology, part of Ping An Group, af

At a recent industry event, the Senior Director of Product Marketing for Manufacturing at SAP outlined how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transitioning from an exciting concept to a concrete reality that is actively delivering value in the manufacturing sector. The Paradigm Shift: From Cloud Foundations to AI-Native Operations Historically, moving to the cloud was viewed primarily as a foundational IT platform shift focused on maintenance and the total cost of ownership. Ho

As manufacturers face growing pressure to achieve carbon neutrality and cope with rising energy costs, improving energy efficiency at large-scale factories has become an urgent priority. Optimizing HVAC systems, which account for a significant share of electricity consumption in factories, is particularly challenging because companies must balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining a comfortable working environment and reducing energy use. Toyota Motor Corporation h

Japan is embarking on a historic socio-economic transformation, executing a massive national strategy to integrate its artificial intelligence, data utilization, and robotics policies. This unified policy push aims to realize the widespread deployment of Physical AI—systems where intelligence interacts directly with the physical world—to secure Japan's industrial competitiveness in a rapidly changing global economy. The initiative represents a profound shift from purely virtu

At Humanoids Summit Tokyo 2026 (held in Tokyo on May 28–29, 2026), Hanya Huang, Operation Partner at High Torque Robotics, presented Mini Pi and Mini Pi+, the company’s compact bipedal and full-body humanoid platforms. Her central argument was that humanoid development will not scale through better AI models alone: developers also need affordable, modular hardware, stable control infrastructure, simulator-compatible software, and accessible documentation. During the live demo