60,000 Attendees and 700 Startups
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 concluded after three days at Tokyo Big Sight. Organizers reported 60,000 participants, 700 startup exhibitors, and 10,000 business meetings.
The event brought together startups, investors, companies, and government stakeholders around four themes: AI, robotics, resilience, and entertainment.
AI, Robotics, and City Systems
Sessions covered AI implementation, the integration of AI and robotics, disaster response, and the role of entertainment in urban life.
Broader AI deployment themes are tracked in our global AI events coverage.
Startup Policy
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike announced the Tokyo Startup Database, a new effort to increase visibility for Tokyo-based startups.
She also introduced SusHi Tech Global, an initiative for overseas expansion, and reiterated Tokyo’s plan to create a USD 1 billion startup investment flow through public-private collaboration.
The Deployment Gap
City-level AI deployment remains hard to scale. The bottlenecks are procurement, regulation, infrastructure integration, and long operating cycles.
The event showed strong startup activity, but also reflected the distance between pilot projects and public-sector deployment.
Startup Competitions
SusHi Tech Challenge 2026 received 820 applications from 60 countries and regions. Qarbotech won the Grand Prize. LIFESCAPES Inc. received the TechCrunch Prize.
The SusHi Tech Award 2026 recognized EQUES inc., Spectee Inc., NTT QONOQ Devices, Inc., Tripbooking Inc., and Rikkeisoft Corporation as Most Engaged Startup.
Official Media Partner
AIPressRoom provided coverage of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026.
