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Summit I · October 17–18

Eradicate disease.

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Summit II · October 24–25

Extend the healthspan.

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The Frontier Human Fashion Show · October 26

Augment the human.

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Japan's Premier Longevity Biomedical Popup City

One month. Two summits.
One runway.

Summit I
Oct 17–18
The Science & Tech Augmenting Life
Summit II
Oct 24–25
From East to West — Bridging the Longevity Gap
Fashion Show
Oct 26
The Frontier Human Fashion Show & Demo Day
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The Longevity Biomedical Summit

Two summits,
one week apart.

SUMMIT — 01
October 17–18

The Science & Tech Augmenting Life

Why the next decade of longevity biomedicine runs through Japan: regenerative medicine, devices, and the regulatory path that takes prototypes to patients in months.

Regenerative MedicineMedical DevicesAccelerated Approval
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Tickets on Luma · KBIC, Port Island
SUMMIT — 02
October 24–25

From East to West — Bridging the Longevity Gap

The bottlenecks holding the field back, and what the world looks like once we cure disease.

CapitalRegulationEast ↔ West
Stay through Monday — the Frontier Human Fashion Show closes the run.
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Aubrey de GreyJosé CordeiroYukiAdam
Across the two weekends: Aubrey de Grey, José Cordeiro, and 36 more.
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38 Confirmed Speakers

Speakers & Residents

Aubrey de Grey
Aubrey de Grey
LEV Foundation
José Cordeiro
José Cordeiro
The Death of Death
Yuki
Yuki
Cellular Agriculture
Adam
Adam
Announcement Soon

Also in the arena: Rodney Kelly, Rob Claar, Masa Nakatsu, Zoe, Cassox, Devinder Sodhi, Pedro Henrich, Natalie Coles, Keita Masui, Sumit Jamuar, Nelson Milla.

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The Runway · October 26 · 19:00 JST

The Frontier Human
Fashion Show

A live demo day, staged as a runway show. Device residents put their prototypes on models. CES meets Tokyo Fashion Week — and everyone's wearing exoskeletons.

ExoskeletonsNeural InterfacesSmart Prosthetics BiosensorsHaptic SuitsAR/VR Medical
0 / 9 presenters revealed · 鎧 脳 義 感 触 機 衣 視 命
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Ecosystem

The communities behind it

Viva CityKBICLearning Layer LabsBiopunk AevitasBroken Symmetry CapitalVibe Coding Nights LEV FoundationAsagi Labs VenturesZuCity Japan CHANGEHekaBioAugmentation LabVitalist BayThe MU
One evening in Kobe · 17:58 → 23:41
Kobe harbor at golden hour
17:58 Kobe Harbor
Izakaya counter seat
19:47 Dinner is a counter seat
Lantern night
21:15 Lantern night
Port Tower at night
22:30 One more street
Mt. Rokko night view
23:41 Mt. Rokko — the ten-million-dollar view · Live here a month →
The Residency · October 1–31

Join us all of October
for the Residency.

Live the future now.
Build together

Longevity hackathons, Vibe Coding Nights, and benches shared with your cohort.

Find your people

Partners, co-founders, co-builders — the people you meet at breakfast build with you by night.

Partner with Japanese biotech

KBIC's 370 member organisations, direct PMDA connection, AMED subsidies.

EP.01 壱

Open Weeks

Oct 01–16

Arrivals, tours, Welcome Day on Oct 4. Benches open. Two weeks to settle into Kobe with your cohort.

EP.02 弐

Summit I

Oct 17–18

The field comes to Port Island. Your cohort hosts it.

EP.03 参

Summit II

Oct 24–25

Capital, regulation, and the bridge between ecosystems.

EP.04 肆

Fashion Show & Close

Oct 26–31

The show on Oct 26 — devices become couture. Then press days and the close of the city.

夜 Vibe Coding Nights研 The Residency学 Learning Layer Labs 実 Biohackers Workshops宴 Socials休 Me-Time
Medical Devices

Devices Residency

Lab infrastructure for first-in-human prototypes.

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Therapeutics

Therapies Residency

Direct PMDA connection for conditional approval.

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Community

Builder Pass

Full access to everything. Build, connect, explore.

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Why Kobe

What takes years elsewhere
takes months here.

Japan's regulatory framework is the fastest legal path from clinical evidence to patients. KBIC is its front door.

$88B
3rd-largest pharma market · ¥12.4T
4
Accelerated regulatory pathways
2/3
AMED subsidy · matches 1:2 vs VC
370
KBIC member organisations
32
Nobel prizes · 4 biotech clusters
Track Record

Four times at scale,
on three coasts.

500+

Vitalia City Pop-Ups — Roatán · 2024–25

Builders in a regulatory sandbox. Two popups became a permanent hub.

400+

Viva Frontier Tower Pop-Up — San Francisco · 2025

Residents of a 6-week vertical village with biomarker testing, daily programming, and a Demo Day. Peter Diamandis, Aubrey de Grey, Emmett Shear, Patri Friedman.

40M+

Meet the Drapers — Roatán & SF · 2025–26

TV viewers across two shows with Tim & Adam Draper. Muse.Bio won the $1M finale.

MIT

Human Augmentation Summit — Media Lab · 2025

~300 people on BCIs and bioengineering, with Stephen Wolfram, Life Biosciences, and Harvard.

◆ NEXT · 2026 · KOBE — MIRAI TECH POPUP CITY · YOU ARE HERE
October 2026 · 300 Curated Residents

The future is
built here.

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