Day 1: Entrepreneurship Training

How researchers could approach their first business plan

Are you curious about how to develop your technology into a business? Dr. Khaled will talk you through the principles of how you would create a plan to do that. His talk will be tailored to the needs of researchers taking their first steps in this area.

Scientific entrepreneurship - Panel Discussion

What inspires people to start their own company? Why do post-docs transition to becoming entrepreneurs? What are the highs, the lows, and how are researchers suited to entrepreneurship? If you are interested in these questions and more, then please come to this panel talk where 3 founders will discuss their thoughts and experiences on starting their own companies.

Bringing biotechnology to the market: one researcher's journey

Magali Soumillon, Co-Founder of Flexomics, will talk about how she has developed a genomic analysis technology, and why she developed it first in an academic and then as an entrepreneur.

Climate Launchpad 21 - Join the Largest Green Business Idea Competition

You have a green idea? You want to create impact and scale this idea? You should apply to the EU backed initiative Climate Launchpad. Christian Schmitz, Founder/CEO of PDIE Group will tell us about this exciting program.

Fireside Chat with "Hardy" Kagimoto

Fireside chat with Dr. Tadahisa “Hardy” Kagimoto, MD, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Healios K.K., a biotechnology company leading the development of stem cell derived regenerative therapies.

Possibilities in Africa -From the perspective of entrepreneurs, investors, and Okinawa startup companies-

Language: Japanese only

Co-organized by JICA and SME Support Japan

Registration required by March 5, 2021 17:00

Science to Society: Dr. Sebastian Weidt - CEO Universal Quantum

Dr. Sebastian Weidt will talk about why he chose to do both research on, and start a company developing, quantum computing technology.

Day 6: Entrepreneurship Training-Final presentation

Language: English

Reservation required

Application Deadline: Sep 2 (Wed)

Day 5: Entrepreneurship Training-Mid-check-in