esse-sense Future Forum 2025
📅 18–19 September 2025
📍 Tokyo Midtown Yaesu Innovation Field, Tokyo, Japan
The esse-sense Future Forum 2025 will take place over two days in Tokyo under the theme “The Path to the Future – Co-Creation of Knowledge and Future Pathways.” Organized by esse-sense Inc., the forum will convene researchers, entrepreneurs, business leaders, and policymakers to explore how research knowledge can help shape and realize future societies.
About the Forum
Researchers have always played a central role in both envisioning and realizing the future—whether through technology forecasting, environmental change, or geopolitical analysis. This forum creates a space for co-creation, connecting cutting-edge research with startups, industry, and society.
The program will feature 36 sessions across seven themes, including:
Co-creation of knowledge for future societies
Emerging topics shaping the next era
Collaboration with deep-tech and science startups
Financing ecosystems for research-based innovation
Innovation and leadership for societal transformation
Designing corporate–research partnerships
Deep-tech startups as applied research in action
Scale & Participation
Speakers: 170
On-site participants: 1,000
Online participants: 500 (pre-registration required)
Venue: Tokyo Midtown Yaesu (directly connected to Tokyo Station)
Special Highlights
At the start of both days, esse-sense will share new initiatives on how its database of 235,000 researchers and AI-driven knowledge platform can support future creation.
Program
Day 1 (18 September): Opening, keynote dialogues, thematic sessions.
Day 2 (19 September): Continuation of thematic tracks, closing reflections.
Networking reception each evening.
Venue
Tokyo Midtown Yaesu Innovation Field (4F–5F), Yaesu 2-2-1, Chuo-ku, Tokyo.