2019 Award Outline

Date	Wednesday, October 30th to Friday, November 1st, 2019
Venue	Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab [KOIL] and Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC] (Kashiwa city, Chiba)
Host	Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee
Co-hosts	Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd. Division of University Corporate Relations – The University of Tokyo TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association (TEP) The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs (JASVE)

Award Procedures

(1) The entrant companies present their business plans in the semi-final (November 1st) and final sessions.
(2) In the semi-finals, each of the entrants delivers a 10-minute presentation on their businesses. The top six goes to the final.
(3) At the final session, finalists make a 10-minute presentation. After a fair judgement, prize winners of each prize will be elected.

Judging criteria

(1) Possibility of collaboration with Japanese large corporations
(2) Innovativeness, commercial viability and social impact of the business, with consideration given to the potential of the business to expand and bring about changes in the global economy and society.
(3) Business performance, which includes the nominee’s competitive advantages, management team, strategic vision, and communication capabilities, including presentation skills.

Awards

-First Prize: 3 million JPY
-Second Prize: 1 million JPY
-Third Prize: 500,000 JPY

-Microsoft Award
Azure Sandbox Environment, Technical Mentoring
* Free sandbox environment will be closed in max. 3 months. The final date of the sandbox environment is 2020/5/31 even if the environment would have not been fully utilized.

-Life Science Award
1. One-year free membership of LINK-J (Life Science Innovation Network Japan)
2. Business support during the recipients’ business trip to Japan, including 1-1 meeting set-up, PR support, etc.
3. Invitation to Biocom Global Life Science Partnering Conference

-The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs(JASVE) Award: 50,000 JPY
…The award will be given by JASVE to the most challenging team in solving problems and which is full of entrepreneurship.

-IP Bridge Award
Award：Strategy building support for Intellectual property

-Audience Award
… This is awarded to the company receiving the most votes from the audience at the final session.

Qualification for Entry

Startup companies must meet all of the following requirements.
(1) Must have specific interest in Japanese market or desire in expanding business in relation with Japanese large corporations.
(2) Must be a technology startup focused in either fields of AI/ IoT or Medical/Healthcare.
(3) Must be an early stage startup which has completed PoC (Proof of Concept), and is able to communicate with a specific customer by using prototypes, samples or mockups.
– There are no conditions on the number of years of establishment or the amount of capital.
– A venture-backed company or a company with VCs involved is acceptable.
– Public companies or affiliates of large corporations are not accepted.
(4)Must be nominated by a person responsible for startup incubation/acceleration at a university, research institute, incubator or accelerator.
(5)Startup company must be able to participate in all the programs held between October 30th – November 1st, 2019.

9:00-9:30 <KOIL 6F KOIL STUDIO>	Orientation
9:30-10:00 <KOIL 6F KOIL STUDIO>	Introduction to Kashiwa-no-ha smart city
10:00-12:30	Kashiwa-no-ha smart city tour
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-16:30 <KOIL 6F A3, KOIL SALON / KCC 2F Room3-6>	Mentoring Session Startup entrants will be divided into 4 groups and will have 10-minute presentation followed by 15-minute mentoring session.
16:30-16:45	Break
16:45-17:45 <KOIL 6F KOIL STUDIO>	Lottery for Semi-final Session
17:45-18:00	Break
18:00-20:30 <Kakedashi Yokocho>	Meet Kashiwa-no-ha ! (Networking party)

10:00-10:10 <KCC 2F Room1,2>	Introduction for the day
10:10-11:25 <KCC 2F Room1,2>	Talk Session：Startup scenes in Asia 【Moderator】Shigeo Kagami Chairman of Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee ・（tentative）「Present Startup scenes in Asia」 POH KAM WONG Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School ・（tentative）「Investment in Asian Startups」 Ted Yamamoto Partner and Board Director, The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Co., Ltd.（UTEC）・「JETRO’s Support plan for presence in Japan」 Hyoung-il Moon Invest Japan Department, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) ・Panel Discussion
11:30-12:15 <KCC 2F Room1,2>	Alumni Speech： William Chomley Founder&CEO, IMAGR LTD (Newzealand) Li Min CEO, Girasol Energy Inc. (Japan)
12:15-12:30 <KCC 2F Room1,2>	Announcement for Semi-final Session
12:30-14:00	Lunch Break
14:00-16:30 <KCC 2F Room1-6>	Semi-final Session 10-minute presentation will be followed by 15-minute Q&A session in 6 groups of companies.
16:30-18:00	Break
18:00-20:00 <KCC 1F COMESTA>	Networking Dinner *Open only to Host, Co-hosts, Sponsors and Partners

10:30-11:00 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Greetings by Co-Hosts : Shigeo Kagami Chairman of Asian Entrepreneurship Award Steering Committee Shingo Kokudo Chairman, Director of the Board, TX Entrepreneur Partners
11:00-11:20 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Greetings by Special Sponsor : Hennie Loubser Enterprise Commercial Lead, Microsoft Japan
11:20-12:00 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Speech : Ryota Kanai CEO, Araya Inc. ・Biophysics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan PhD in experimental psychology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands ・Engaged in research for visual experiments and time perception under Professor Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology, USA ・Former associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, University of Sussex, England ・Leading the world in image analysis of brain structure ・Founded Araya Inc.
12:00-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-13:30 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Announcement of Finalists
13:30-14:15 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Special speech：Do What You Love Akiko Naka CEO, Wantedly, Inc. 　Akiko Naka is founder and chief executive officer of Wantedly, a social-networking service for professionals. Following its official launch in February 2012, Wantedly grew to 2.5m monthly active users and 30,000 corporates, and has become the leading professional social-networking service in Japan. Prior to founding Wantedly, Ms Naka was a growth co-ordinator at Facebook Japan, where she contributed to marketing and product development for Facebook in Japan. Before joining Facebook, she worked at Goldman Sachs in equity sales. Ms Naka graduated from Kyoto University in 2008 with a BA in economics. Ms Naka was named as a 40 under 40 leaders by Harvard Business Review Japan. She is the youngest female founder ever to take a company public in Japan.
14:15-14:30	Break
14:30-17:30 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Final Session (6 teams) 10-minute presentation will be followed by 15-minute Q&A session of 6 startup teams.
17:30-19:00 <KCC 2F Room1-2>	Matching Session
19:00-21:00 <KCC 2F Room5-6>	Farewell Reception & Announcement of Award winners

2019 Award Outline

Award Procedures

Judging criteria

Awards

Qualification for Entry

2019 Program

※Program detail is subject to change without notice.

■Program : Day 1

【Limited program for ; Co-hosts, Sponsors, Partners, Nominating committee members and Startup entrants】

Wednesday, October 30th, 2019

Venue1：Kashiwa-no-ha Open Innovation Lab [KOIL]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

Venue2：Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

■Program : Day 2

【10:00-16:30 Open to public】

Thursday, October 31st, 2019

Venue：Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

■Program : Day3

【09:00-21:00 Open to public】

Friday, November 1st, 2019

Venue：Kashiwa-no-ha Conference Center [KCC]（Kashiwa city, Chiba）See Map

Host

Asian Entrepreneurship Award steering committee

Co-Hosts

Division of University Corporate Relations – The University of Tokyo

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

TX Entrepreneur Partners General Incorporated Association (TEP)

The Japan Academic Society for Ventures and Entrepreneurs General Incorporated Association (JASVE)

Special Sponsors

Nikkei Inc.

Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.

Platinum Sponsors

Global Brain Corporation

Toppan Printing CO., LTD.

HItachi, Ltd.

GREEN HOSPITAL SUPPLY, INC.

Nihon Unisys, Ltd.

Gold Sponsors

TAISEI CORPORATION

Mitsui Fudosan Residential Co.,Ltd.

SHIMIZU CORPORATION

KAJIMA CORPORATION

KOMATSU MATERE Co.,Ltd.

Nikken Sekkei Ltd

Mitsui Home Co.,Ltd.

Jun Mitsui & Associates Inc. Architects

MITSUI CONSULTANTS CO.,LTD.

MAEDA CORPORATION

OBAYASHI CORPORATION

Kirin Holdings Company, Limited

Ananda Development Public Company Limited

Innospace

ERNST & YOUNG SHINNIHON LLC

DENTSU INC.

Silver Sponsors

Nippon Venture Capital Co.,Ltd.（NVCC）

The University of Tokyo Edge Capital Partners Co.,Ltd.（UTEC）

IP Bridge, Inc.

DAIWA HOUSE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

KONOIKE CONSTRUCTION CO.,LTD.

T-site Co.,Ltd.

UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd.

Miraca Research Institute G.K.

ZGF ARCHITECTS LLP

Mori Hamada & Matsumoto

Media Partners

Newswitch (The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun)

CNET Japan

Partners

Kyungpook National University

Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)

Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

CHIBA Prefecture

KEIDANREN（Japan Business Federation）

Japan Venture Capital Association（JVCA）

Chiba Convention Bureau and International Center

Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

Japan Institute of Design Promotion（JDP）

NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES（GRIPS）

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

【10:00-16:30　Open to public】

【09:00-21:00　Open to public】

ASIAN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AWARD 2019　Winners

Award　3 million JPY

Award　1 million JPY

Award　500,000 JPY