Practitioners from major companies, start-ups, and local governments will gather at "Global Bridge Conference 2025" on December 12! Global Bridge Conference 2025" will be held on December 12 to find the "next step" for overseas 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, "Immediate Action! Practitioners Focused on Results" will be held at the conference.

Challenging the global market does not proceed only with strategies on the desk. In this session, we will hear from practitioners such as ugo Corporation, which is taking on the world with its service robots, and Kanemasa Manufacturing Corporation, which is promoting the overseas development of solar panel tracking systems. We will learn about their real-life trajectories, including stories of failure, and the support measures provided by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) to encourage these Japanese companies to take action. 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, 14:20-15:10
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.

Kanemasa Manufacturing Co.
representative director (i.e. someone chosen by the board of directors from among the directors to actually represent the company)
Seiji Sekine

Born in Ibaraki Prefecture. During his college years, he traveled overland from Southeast Asia to Europe. Wandered in about 30 countries. After graduating from university, joined THK Co. After working in Japan for about 5 years, he was transferred to the UK branch. After 13 years in Europe, he returned to Japan in 2013 and joined Kanemasa Seisakusho Co. In addition to traditional metal product manufacturing, he embarked on energy-related business as his second start-up. Currently, he is focusing on overseas expansion in Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and other regions.

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]