Creating the Future through Carbon Cycles! Open Innovation for Interdisciplinary Exchange 2025: From Haneda to the World!" To be held on May 13 Now accepting applications for general participation

The Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology Chubu TLO, Ota City, and the Carbon Recycle Fund, a general incorporated association, will hold "Creating the Future through Carbon Recycling! Cross-sectoral Exchange for Open Innovation 2025" will be held.

List of Speakers and Exhibitors

The event will feature invited lectures by industry leaders, innovative university-originated research seeds, introduction of new technologies and products by start-up companies, and a variety of exhibitors including research grants, funds, local governments, and open innovation support organizations. As of April 21, a total of about 40 exhibiting projects have been confirmed, and we look forward to seeing you there.

We will begin accepting applications from April 22, 2025 (Tuesday) for those who are interested in finding research and business ideas, gathering information and consultation on funding, and networking with people from different industries. The application period will be open until Tuesday, May 13, 2025, and will close when the maximum number of participants is reached.)

We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to meet others who will work together to create the future of carbon and resource recycling.

Event Outline (tentative)

Date and Time ： May 13, 2025 (Tuesday) 12:30-17:00 (Registration starts at 12:00)

Venue: 1-1-4, Haneda Airport, Ota-ku, Tokyo

　　　　　　　　　　　　　HICity ZONE K201 PiOPARK (event space)

Access : Keikyu Airport Line and Tokyo Monorail

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Keihin Kyuko Railway Airport Line and Tokyo Monorail Tenkubashi Station

Admission : Free

Target ： Researchers, entrepreneurs,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Researchers, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, Banks, Administrators, Local Government Officials, Students, etc.

Capacity ： Up to 120 people

Organizer ： Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology Chubu TLO

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Ota-ku, Tokyo / General Incorporated Association Carbon Recycle Fund

How to apply : Online registration only (link below)

　　　　　　　　　　　　　Online registration only (link below)

URL for details (registration site): https://peatix.com/event/4289789

Please note that the registration will be closed as soon as the number of participants reaches the maximum.

Lectures and Exhibitions

<Invited and Special Lectures> 1.

Social Implementation and Standardization of Carbon Recycling (Invited Lecture)

Kei Kamino (Biotechnology Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation) 2.

Idemitsu Kosan's Challenge to Become Carbon Neutral (Special Lecture)

Mr. Atsuhiko Hirano (Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.)

3. Challenges of Airlines for Decarbonization and Carbon Removal (Invited Speaker)

Mr. Kazuo Hirotani (GX Planning Group, ESG Promotion Department, Japan Airlines Co.)

Challenges of Green Transformation through Chemical Looping

Mr. Junichiro Otomo (Tokyo University of Science, School of Environmental and Social Science)

<Short PR Lecture> 5.

5. topics, approaches and issues on biofuels

Mr. Yuta Okatani (Rokuichi Corporation) 6.

Aiming at the diffusion of safe and secure photovoltaic power generation

Mr. Takushi Kawaguchi (Sigma Energy Co., Ltd.) 7.

7. approach to change toward decarbonized society by deep tech x design methodology

Mr. Kohei Saito (Mirai Relations Co., Ltd.)

8. global start-up trend of carbon recycling

Mr. Yuta Kuroda (Plug and Play Japan K.K.)

9. Venture Support by Japan Finance Corporation

Mr. Atsushi Kobayashi (Japan Finance Corporation, Omori Branch) 10.

10. Introduction of Sojitz Innovation Technology Institute

Mr. Yoshiharu Ajiki (Sojitz Innovation Technology Institute)

About Hiroshima Prefecture's Support for Research and Development of Carbon Recycling Related Technologies

Mr. Yo Kono (Environment and Energy Industry Division, Commerce, Industry and Labor Bureau, Hiroshima Prefecture)

12. Industry-University Collaboration Support Activities at Chubu TLO

Mr. Kenichiro Kami (Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Chubu TLO)

13. research grant activities to create innovation related to carbon recycling

Mr. Shingo Sasaki (Innovation Group, Carbon Recycle Fund)

＜Consultation Booth

Mr. Masafumi Kawai (University of Tokyo Collaborative Platform Development Co., Ltd.)

Consultation on investment and commercialization from the standpoint of university-affiliated VC

15. Japan Finance Corporation, Omori Branch

Consultation on investment and financing

16. aiESG Corporation

Making invisible carbon and ESG risks visible

17. incubation facility (fembase) operation in Ikegami for business start-up support, training, dispatch, IT support, etc.

Sophia Communications Inc.

18. public interest incorporated foundation Kihara Memorial Yokohama Life Science Foundation

Industry-academia matching, commercialization support, subsidy application, etc.

19. Carbon Recycling Promotion Group, Environment and Energy Industry Division, Commerce, Industry and Labor Bureau, Hiroshima Prefecture

Support for research and development of carbon recycling-related technologies

20. Agri-Open Innovation Organization

Consultation on open innovation, etc. in the agriculture, forestry, and livestock industries

21. Plug and Play Japan K.K.

Venture capital / accelerator on a global scale

22. Carbon Recycle Fund Incorporated Association

Consultation on research grants, carbon recycling, member support, etc.

23. Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology Chubu TLO

Consultation on grant applications, membership support, etc.

＜University Seeds Exhibition

24. double-sided perovskite solar cell with single-walled carbon nanotube thin film transparent electrode

Tokai National University Organization Nagoya University

25. research and development of marine degradable multi-loc biopolymers from inedible biomass

Kozo Ito Laboratory, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

26. Development of Low-Energy CO2 Capture and Utilization Technology

Carbon Recycle Energy Research Center, Ibaraki University

Development of Ultrafine Particle Catalysts for Diversification of Electrochemical CO2 Reduction Products

Norihisa Kawawaki (Tohoku University, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Laboratory of Fine Inorganic Materials Chemistry) 28.

28. approach to change toward decarbonized society by deep tech x design methodology

Mirai Relations Co.

＜Technology Product Exhibit: Startups and Companies

29. evaluation device for photosynthesis

Ato Corporation

30. super multifunctional cement, vegetable-based plastic, etc.

Sojitz Innovation Technology Institute Corporation

31. technology to produce animal feed from unused biomass resources

Biomass Resource Development LLC

32. application development of mizuabu oil and fat: conversion of oil and fat derived from food waste into fuel

Basic Bio LLC/Hearts Corporation/Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology

33. photovoltaic power generation safety shutdown switch

Sigma Energy Co.

34. decarbonization efforts by injection molding professionals

IMIT Inc.

35. use of biofuels in motorcycle racing and future development

Rokuichi Corporation

36. "Coolic Dehumidifying and Cooling Air Conditioner" to Prevent Heat

Replus Corporation

37. decorative solar panel

INSHI Corporation 38.

38. atmospheric CO2 capture (DAC) system using zeolite

Planet Savers Corporation

39. waste plastic recycling

AC Biode Corporation 40.

40. visualization of carbon recycling by XR

Mogura Corporation

41. CO2 Derived Biomanufacturing Using UCDI(R) Hydrogen Bacteria

CO2 Resource Recovery Institute Co.

42. Urban Development Starting with Roads

Japan Road Corporation

43. accelerating decarbonization through technology - "visualization" XR experience

Mogura Corporation

Events held in the past fiscal year

Organizers

Nagoya Institute of Industrial Science and Technology Chubu TLO:

Chubu TLO is a wide-area TLO, which promotes not only technology transfer through patents, but also technology fostering and research activity support for future industry creation, especially for research results produced by universities and research institutes in the Chubu and Tokai regions.

Ota Ward:

Located in the southernmost part of Tokyo's 23 wards, Ota Ward is home to Haneda Airport, the largest airport in Japan. Known as a city of "monozukuri" (manufacturing), Ota Ward is home to many small and medium-sized companies and boasts high technological capabilities in fields such as precision machinery and metal processing. In the environmental and GX fields, the municipality is taking on a variety of challenges, including the establishment of a system to collect and recycle SAF materials and the promotion of bottle-to-bottle initiatives, utilizing a public-private partnership scheme.

Carbon Recycle Fund Incorporated Association:

The Carbon Recycle Fund aims to simultaneously solve the global warming problem and improve energy access by providing research grants and promoting public relations activities related to carbon recycling to create carbon recycling innovations. (Website: http://carbon-recycling-fund.jp/ )