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11/15】The 3rd Kansai Tech Plan Grand Prix will be held.

2025/11/13

LIVERNESS Corporation has designated two or three prefectures in the Kansai area (Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama) as priority regions and will hold the 3rd Kansai Tech Plan Grand Prix with the aim of discovering and fostering teams that will change the world from Kansai with their science, technology and passion.

This year, 33 teams from various fields such as manufacturing, biotechnology, agri-tech, eco-tech, marine-tech, food-tech, and life-tech entered the competition, and after a strict screening process, 12 teams were selected to make oral presentations at the Kumamoto Tech Plan Grand Prix. The 12 teams that will present on the day arethis way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker)You can view it from the following page.

＜Outline of the 3rd Kansai Tech Plan Grand Prix

Day Time:Saturday, November 15, 202513:00-19:20 (doors open 12:30, reception 19:20-20:00)

Venue:Hartung Hall Nippon Seimei Midosuji Building 12F (4-2-4 Minami-Senba, Chuo-ku, Osaka, 542-0081, Japan)

Organized by: Liverness Co.

Regional Development Partners:

NEC Solution Innovator, Ltd.
ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd.
Daiichi Rare Element Chemical Industry Co.
DAIDOH LIMITED Group Holdings, Inc.
Total Media Development Institute Co.
West Japan Railway Company
Fuji Electric Co.
Rohto Pharmaceutical Co.
The Senshu Ikeda Bank, Ltd.

Supported by: Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara and Wakayama Prefectures

The keynote speaker will be Yukihiro Ishida, finalist in the 2nd Kansai Tech Plan Grand Prix and CEO of Second Heart Co.

Theme:The challenge to achieve zero leg amputations due to diabetes began with knowing the challenges.

＜Profile of Yukihiro Ishida

Born in September 1981, he has been working as a clinical engineer in the medical field such as dialysis since 2004. 2021, he became a director of Kibata Keiki Seisakusho Co. 2023, he established Second Heart Inc. aiming for zero foot amputation due to diabetes and became CEO and Representative Director. He is promoting social implementation of preventive foot care centered on his main service, "Steplife," a podiatry treatment support platform. In 2024, he will be awarded the Malaysia Tech Entrepreneur Programme by the Malaysian government, and is also focusing on global expansion.

Finalists:

No.	Team Name	Presenter Name	Title.
1	HAKATTE Corporation (Osaka University)	Teppei Araki	Next-generation health care sensors integrated into everyday life
2	Advanced Chemical Research Institute Co. (University of Hyogo)	Kazuya Okamoto	Development of Porous Carbon Electrode Perovskite Solar Cells
3	DIFF.	Yuichi Shimizu	Toward Zero Shoe Refugees! Shoe Industry Revolution in 2022
4	HONESTIES Corporation	Kiyohiko Nishide	Clothing barrier-free with garments that have no backs or front/backs.
5	AquaFusion Corporation	Yukio Matsuo	Introduction of Underwater Visualization Technology: Seeing and Understanding, So You Can!
6	Cell Society Innovation (Kyoto Sangyo University)	Kimiki Kawane	Creation of medicine starting from cell dropout
7	CellROT (University of Hyogo)	Masato Suzuki	Cell analysis that turns and measures -Provides single cells quickly and accurately
8	MacrAuty. (Doshisha University)	Shinnosuke Nishimura	Establishment of a platform for new biomass-derived materials
9	Mimicom (Osaka University)	Risho Watanabe	Mimicom: Barrier-free sign language translation, connecting from the arm
10	Schwarzwald Olfaction (Osaka University)	Moriyama Sakura	Preventing mental illness with aromas based on olfactory receptor sensors!
11	WILFOOD (Kyoto University)	Kenji Matsuura	Using termites to turn unused wood into fodder and food
12	Yearning First (Kyoto University)	Tomohiro Nobuyama	Development of a methodology to produce 1 Kg of any given protein with a delivery time of 3 days