Event
GTIE SEP 2025 Outcome Report Meeting!
The Greater Tokyo Innovation Ecosystem (GTIE) is a platform for universities and research institutions in the Tokyo metropolitan area that aims to nurture entrepreneurial talent and develop university-launched startups that change the world.
Regarding the “GTIE Student Entrepreneurship Program” (GTIE SEP), an entrepreneurship education program for students of 14 universities participating in the GTIE Entrepreneurship Education Program, the program will continue in FY2025 to realize student overseas dispatch programs, various theme-based training programs, and diverse exchanges. Meetup events and other events have been held.
This event will feature presentations by students who participated in the GTIE SEP in FY2025 and have been ambitiously refining their business ideas, as well as a report on the results of GTIE’s Entrepreneurship Program.
In addition, as GTIE enters the final year of the first phase of the “Startup Ecosystem Formation Support Program” of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), student volunteers from sites other than GTIE that are involved in the program, which promotes the further nationwide development of the entrepreneurship program, will participate in the pitch session. The students will participate in the pitch session.
In addition, Mr. Mine Ogawa, a young leader of a unicorn company, will deliver a commemorative speech to encourage young people to continue taking on challenges.
Students, faculty, and staff of GTIE-affiliated universities are also welcome to attend.
To register, please click here
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Please note that speaker information and times will be updated as necessary.
Date: March 17, 2026 (Tuesday) 13:15-17:00
(Doors open 12:45 / Meet-up 16:40-17:30)
-Method: Hybrid (Face-to-face & Online (ZOOM))
– Venue: Tokyo Innovation Base (TIB) 2F STAGE
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*TIB application is required to enter the venue. Please download/login in advance.
-Program
13:15-13:20|Opening Remarks / Introduction of GTIE SEP
Hiroyuki Ishii (Director, Entrepreneurship Center, Waseda University / GTIE Program Representative)
13:20-13:25|Greetings
Masahide Kokubu, Director, Industrial Collaboration and Regional Development Division, Science and Technology Policy Bureau, MEXT
13:25-13:30|Greeting
Toshiro Sasatsuki, Director, Startup and Technology Transfer Promotion Department, Japan Science and Technology Agency
*Speakers to be announced
13:30-13:55|Pitch Session 1
13:55-14:25|Pitch Session②
14:25-14:35|Break
14:35-15:00|SEP Report Session 1
15:20-15:35|SEP Report Session 2
15:35-15:50|Pitch Session Awards
(Awards to be presented)
NEDO Award
15:50-16:00 Break/Scene change
16:00-16:30|Memorial Speech – “Keeping Challenges (tentative)
Mine Ogawa (Representative Director, Timey Co., Ltd.)
16:30-16:35|Closing Remarks
Masaharu Tsujimoto (Director, Innovation Design Organization, Tokyo University of Science / GTIE Program Representative)
16:40-17:30|Networking, closing
[ Speakers ] (in no particular order, to be updated)
<GTIE
Yo Sato, The University of Tokyo, Science 2, 1st year
Shuichiro Ozawa, 1st year master student at Mizoguchi Laboratory, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Yumi Kawashima, 2nd year student, Department of Information Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Tokyo
Kota Kanno, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2nd year, Master’s student, Shiota Laboratory, Graduate School of System Design, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Yugo Okamoto, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2nd year master’s student at Shimokawahara Laboratory, Graduate School of System Design
Takuryu Yang, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1st year master’s student at Shimokawahara Laboratory, Graduate School of System Design
Tadashi Sumi, Master 2, Someya-Yokota-Yamagishi Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Naito Daiki, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Department of Bioengineering, 1st year
Mana Mizobuchi, Department of Management, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, 2nd year
Yusei Moriwaki, 2nd year student, Faculty of Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo
Akimasa Oka, Yokohama National University, sophomore, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration
<Tongali
Hiruma Boda, senior, Nagoya University
Takuma Kaneko, Waseda University, sophomore
<HSFC
Ryoya Sato, Hokkaido University, 1st year, Master’s student, Department of Materials Science for Resource Recycling, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
Rihee Takeda, 1st year master student, Laboratory of Materials Science for Resource Recycling, Department of Environmental and Recycling Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University
<PARKS
Aimika Yamazaki, Graduate School of Agriculture, Miyazaki University, 1st year, Master’s student
<MASP
Graduate School of Medicine, Tohoku University
<PSI
Yunosuke Ikeda, Graduate School of Integrated Biosciences, Hiroshima University, 2nd year of Master’s course
[ Commemorative Speech – Continuing to Take on Challenges (tentative) ]
Mine Ogawa (Representative Director, Timey Co., Ltd.)
In 2017, at the age of 20, he founded an apparel-related business, Recolle Corporation, and the following year decided to change his business.
In August 2018, he launched “Taimy”, a spot work service that matches “the time you want to work” with “the time you need to work”. The company achieved significant growth by capturing the needs of society and realizing PMF at an early stage.
In July 2024, at the age of 27 years and 3 months, after 7 years in business, Taimy became the youngest unicorn to be listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth Market.
Since the launch of Taimy, the company has consistently worked to create innovation toward the realization of a “working” infrastructure, aiming for a society where people can freely obtain the work they want, when they want, where they want, and in the type of work they want.