The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has officially announced the fourth edition of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026, which will be held from Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, April 29 at Tokyo Big Sight.
Since the event started four years ago, SusHi Tech Tokyo has grown into Asia’s largest global innovation conference. This latest event will be on an even larger scale, aspiring to serve as a global platform where diverse innovators come together in Tokyo to connect and interact.
This year, the event focuses on four key areas to shape the city of the future – AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment.
As an initiative that brings people from around the world together to envisage, debate, and implement the society of the future, this annual event focuses on innovations that bring significant transformation to people’s lives and to society at large. It comprises a comprehensive program featuring intensive sessions and demonstrations of cutting-edge technology.
Other notable features include:
- leading global investors who will share their insights on the outlook for the Japanese market
- record high participation from promising startups with global ambitions (over 700 startups, an increase from 607 last year, including those exhibiting in collaboration with large corporations and in pavilions hosted by countries, regions, and cities, and by municipalities from across Japan.
- the debut of “SusHi Tech Global Startups” a group of growth-stage companies receiving intensive support through Tokyo Metropolitan Government’s collaboration with its partners.
- over 60 major corporations that seek to collaborate with startups and foster new connections that drive innovation
- global innovation and city leaders convene from over 20 countries, regions and worldwide cities at country pavilions that aim to foster exchange and promotion of foreign and Japanese startups.
- An All-Japan effort of over 40 municipalities from across the country, including startup ecosystem hub cities This will create a platform where “coming to Tokyo means connecting with all of Japan, and with the rest of the world.” On the stage of the All-Japan Ecosystem Area, sessions are planned where municipalities and other bodies will introduce their regional initiatives.
(Adapted from press release)