Glow Tech Nagoya
Kenji Kushida
I was delighted to give a hybrid talk at Glow Tech Nagoya at the Nagoya Innovator's Garage. It's the third year of this startup accelerator program for early stage startups sponsored by the City of Nagoya. The political leadership, city officials, university-related people, and large companies are all in for this program, and it was great to meet many of these people in person. Nagoya City is doing fascinating things such as having "entrepreneurs in residence" help the city government (in its first iteration, some very successful entrepreneurs originally from Nagoya joined) and an upcoming program, Nagoya City Lab, will enable startups to utilize a wide range of Nagoya City resources as a testbed to accelerate and further develop their products.
Putting a spotlight on these exciting entrepreneurial activities spearheaded by regional governments while making useful connections across various interpersonal networks is part of my role at Carnegie, which fits exactly with my personal mission.
I added the link to the video of a webinar at Glow Tech Nagoya held on October 17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clBlLT4Gwzg
