Global Bridge Conference 2025 will be held on 12th December for you to find the "next step" for global expansion

LIVERNESS CORPORATION has developed the "LIVERNESS", a new website for all companies and local governments that are considering and promoting overseas business development.Global Bridge Conference 2025 [GBC2025].will be held on Friday, December 12, 2025.

interpoint (interword separation)Click here for a report on last year's event.

The conference will bring together practitioners from large and medium-sized companies, start-ups, and government and local governments to discuss realistic overseas expansion strategies and the latest policies in depth through panel discussions and poster exchanges. It will provide an opportunity to find concrete tips and new connections to accelerate global expansion.

A panel session "TheDo It Now! Results-Driven Actions for the Global MarketThe "Mere Old Man" will implement the "Mere Old Man" program.

Challenging the global market does not proceed only with strategies on the desk. In this session, practitioners such as ugo Corporation, which is taking on the world with its service robots, and amu Corporation, which is promoting upcycling of fishing nets, will speak on the stage. We will learn about their real trajectories, including their failures, and the support measures of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which encourages such efforts by Japanese companies, and the City of Sendai, which promotes the overseas expansion of startups in Tohoku and Sendai City. This session is packed with practical knowledge to help you take a steady, yet muddy, step forward tomorrow.

Past cases)

interpoint (interword separation)AMEICC Project to Promote ASEAN Cooperation among Startups　

interpoint (interword separation)ugo signs MoU with TrackerHero for Expo '70 Osaka/Kansai, Malaysia Pavilion　

interpoint (interword separation)UGO selected for "Subsidy for Global South Future-oriented Co-creation Project" by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

interpoint (interword separation)Hiroshima Prefecture Project] Kanemasa Manufacturing Selected as Company to Advance to Demonstration Project Design in Collaboration with Southeast Asian Startups

We will have a program of discussions with researchers, ventures, and companies from a variety of perspectives, not limited to the themes of this session. For more information,Global Bridge Conference 2025Please refer to our website.

Immediate action! Results-oriented practice
Date: Friday, December 12, 2025, 14:55-15:40
Place: Nihonbashi Congress Square 3F Hall C & D
(Tokyo Tatemono Nihonbashi Bldg. 3F, 1-3-13 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan)

speaker

METI
Assistant Director, Trade Promotion Division, Trade Policy Bureau
Mr. Shoji Unno

He joined the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in 2015. He has been involved in drafting the "Partnership Building Declaration" to create a relationship between large companies and SMEs to earn together, developing systems to promote business restructuring such as M&A and spin-offs, and creating training and systems to understand the current status of organizations and staff based on surveys and to improve management skills. Currently, he is in charge of developing strategies to strengthen ties with the Global South, assisting in the formation of overseas projects, and providing corporate support for the acceptance of excellent foreign human resources.

ugo corporation
Representative Director, CEO
Ken Matsui

2004 Graduated from Tokyo University of Technology, Faculty of Media Studies. 2006 Joined Monster Lab Inc. as a founding member, developing smartphone apps and web systems for various new businesses. 2011 Founded Mira, an IoT device development company, with experience developing and mass producing various connected devices. 2018 Founded ugo Co. He became CEO and Representative Director.

Sendai City
Startup Support Division, Innovation Promotion Department, Bureau of Economic Affairs
Mr. Hiroshi Kamakura

After joining a trading company as a new graduate, he worked as a sales representative for overseas manufacturers of precision equipment in Japan, facility maintenance for electric power companies, and export agent for coating machines and FA robots, etc. He was also engaged in new transactions with startups. In the Startup Support Division, which was newly established in 2023, he was involved in the establishment of the Sendai Startup Studio, a one-stop support center for startups, and was in charge of establishing a consultation system for startups and planning and managing related events. Since the current fiscal year, he has been in charge of supporting the growth of early- to mid-stage startups and accompanying them on their global expansion to secure overseas business opportunities.

amu corporation
Co-founder
Mr. Shohei Ashihara

Graduated from Kanazawa University, Faculty of Regional Development Studies in 2014. Moved to Ama Town, Shimane Prefecture, where he was involved in the launch of several projects, including the establishment of a new accommodation facility in a renovated vacant house. 2019 Moved to Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. He is the leader of the Kesennuma DMO marketing team. He also serves as an advisor to the Oki DMO's management and marketing team. Ltd. in May 2023, where he is involved in all aspects of the upcycling business, focusing on the construction of recycling systems and product development.

LIVERNESS Corporation
Research and Development Division
Takumi Kando

Ph.D. (Engineering), studied abroad at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2014-15, completed doctoral studies at Yokohama National University Graduate School of Environment and Information Studies in 2016, and was a researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology School of Materials Science and Engineering and a part-time faculty member (assistant professor) at Yokohama National University Center for Higher Education and Universitywide Education from 2017 to 2019 before assuming his current position. Current position. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Deep Tech Serial Innovation Center, Nagoya University. At LIVERNESS, he has been involved in many projects to solve problems using technologies of Japanese ventures and companies in collaboration with Southeast Asian ventures and local institutions.

Audience registration is now open.

We look forward to welcoming large and medium-sized companies, start-ups, government and local government officials, and many others to this conference.

Contact Us

For inquiries regarding this matter, please contact
Strategic Development Division, Liverness Corporation (Attn: Akinaga)
[email protected]