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A month-long popup city on Port Island in Kobe, Japan (October 2026) where a curated community of builders, researchers, founders, and policy folks co-designs what a frontier-biotech SuperCity should look like. We'll run a Longevity Summit, a Human Augmentation Summit, and close with a Demo Day + Fashion Show.
Japan has state-of-the-art clinical infrastructure, the world's oldest population (huge internal demand), world-class researchers (Yamanaka, Koto), and — critically — regulatory freedom that's already live. 10+ Special Economic Zones, a sandbox regulation that lets companies propose regulatory changes, and a new SuperCities framework that allows designated zones to change regulations and offer fiscal incentives. See 🚀 The Vision for the full pitch.
Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi and her party won a landslide legislative majority — the most one-sided in modern Japanese history. She's been explicit about pushing Japan to develop technologically (extended startup visa nationwide, US–Japan cooperation agreement for AI and biotech). If anyone has the political capital to pass the regulation we need, it's her. We just need to make it easy.
Both, on purpose. It's structured like a conference (3 summits, programmed content) but lived like a popup city (month-long, residential, community-owned, with hacker houses and shared labs).