The Tokyo Conference of the Association of Hyperdifferent Fields 2025 was held on Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2025.

(Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CCO: Jyo Inoue) held the Tokyo 2025 Conference of the Association of Hyperdifferent Fields (hosted by RIVANES) on Friday, March 7 - Saturday, March 8, 2025.

With the cooperation of 24 partner companies and organizations, the conference theme was "Creating Empathy and Expanding Domain," and discussions transcended various boundaries, including different fields and industries, through 2 keynote speeches, 18 sessions, 40 research pitches, and 262 poster and booth abstracts. For details of the program, please seeJapan Society for Hyperdifferentiation Conference Tokyo 2025for more information.

Over 1030 people attended the two-day event, including participants from overseas, researchers, venture companies, large corporations, small and medium-sized enterprises, local governments, and elementary, junior high, and high school students.

<Outline of implementation

Conference Theme: Creating Empathy, Expanding Territory
Date and Time Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8, 2025
Place: Bellesalle Shinjuku Grand Conference Center
(Sumitomo Fudosan Shinjuku Grand Tower 5F, 8-17-1 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo)

In the session "TECH PLANTER World Communication -Go to Asian Market-," the six best teams from TECH PLANTER, Asia's largest deep tech venture ecosystem for FY2024, made their pitches, and two of them, Teraform Inc. SPHinX Inc. were selected to participate in the "Asia Final" to be held in Malaysia in August 2025.

Teraform Corporation (pictured right)	SPHinX Corporation (pictured right)

In addition, "Knowledge Manufacturing Ignition" was implemented as one of the experimental projects to generate collaborative hypotheses among different fields from poster sessions. In this project, during the convention, we utilized the "Super Interdisciplinary Splash" and "Poster & Booth Core Time" to solicit collaborative hypotheses generated from discussions among participants, among which we selected co-creation themes that we particularly wanted to support, and awarded each of them with a prize. A total of 26 application ideas were gathered through this project.

<Award Results

Esther Award. Co-creation theme: Smell makes both pets and owners smile Representative: Mr. Keigo Katsuya, Hamamatsu Gakugei Junior & Senior High School Joint Applicant: Mr. Toyohisa Yamada, Yamada Shokai Holding Co.	Sumitomo Realty & Development Award Co-creation theme: Vibes Air Representative: Mr. Tatsuya Mori, ALAYA Co. Joint applicant: Ms. Sachiko Miyagawa, Ochanomizu University; Mr. Youhisa Kawasaki, International Science Foundation; Mr. Junya Asai, ALAYA Co.
Mazda Prize Co-creation theme: Utilization of interior materials with the texture of wood Representative: Mr. Shohei Kawaguchi, Okumura-gumi Corporation Joint applicant: Dr. Kazuo Yoshida, Yamagata University	Yamagata University 4D Printing Award Co-creation theme: 4D printing x SPACEBLOCK innovative manufacturing demonstration project Representative: Dr. Shion Taniyama, Shikoku University
Super Interdisciplinary Award. Co-creation theme: Microbial material "greevy" x "tire" = Sustainable! Representative: Ms. Momoka Igawa, WEAD Co. Joint Applicant: Mr. Mio Yoshitani, Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.

The Association for Transdisciplinary Research is a place where participants from different fields and industries collaborate across boundaries to create new knowledge. We will promote new projects that emerge from this forum, and based on the results of these projects, we will continue to create a chain of research that will lead to new interdisciplinary fusions in the future.

Hyperdifferentiation Conference 2025-2026 Notice of Event

Japan Society for Hyperdifferential Studies, Osaka 2025

Conference theme: Unknown Marriage
Date: Saturday, September 6, 2025 09:30-18:30
Place: Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka Prefectural International Convention Center)
Abstract submission deadline: Saturday, May 31, 2025

HIC in Southeast Asia

• Philippines November 8, 2025
• Singapore November 15, 2025
• Malaysia November 22, 2025
• Vietnam January 24, 2026
• Thailand January 31, 2026
• Indonesia February 7, 2026

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