In person
[FIRST-HAND Local.] A Day to Plant Seeds of New Businesses from Real, Field-Collected Regional Challenges
Half-day ideathon at Tokyo Innovation Base turning field-collected regional challenges into startup business models with mentor support.
- When
- Sun, May 17, 2026 · 13:00–16:00 JST
- Where
- Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３
- Region
- Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer
- Tokyo Innovation Base
- Language
- JA
- Source
- Peatix
Summary
FIRST-HAND Local. brings entrepreneurs and business professionals together for a half-day ideathon centered on real, on-the-ground regional challenges that the organizers have personally collected from across Japan — from livestock stress measurement to bamboo industry economics to fishing-fleet labor shortages. Rather than generic brainstorming, participants begin by asking how each problem is currently solved, then work with mentors to structurally surpass existing approaches and assemble a simple business model to take home. The event is run by the Startup Studio Association, which operates a pipeline supporting follow-on PoCs and startup creation through programs like TIB STUDIO. Free, capacity around 30, held at Tokyo Innovation Base in Marunouchi.
About the community
A Japanese-language ideathon for would-be founders who want to build startups around real regional problems — not internet abstractions, but issues the FIRST-HAND Local team has physically gathered from sites across Japan. Expect mentor-guided sessions that push you past first-instinct ideas toward business models that structurally beat the status quo. Free, capped at ~30 people, with a follow-on pipeline into PoC and startup creation via the Startup Studio Association and TIB STUDIO.
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