[Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association] “Home Entrepreneurship Summit 2024 ~From Business People to Entrepreneurs~” will be held on September 26th (Thursday) at Kyobashi Edgrand
*Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association*
Press release: September 6, 2024
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“Home Entrepreneurship Summit 2024 ~From Business People to
Entrepreneurs~” will be held on September 26th (Thursday) at Kyobashi Edgrand
*A must-see for women who are worried about their work style! Starting a business at home is the best investment in yourself. You can live your own way without giving up on work or family! In addition to those who have started their own businesses at home, experts and companies will gather together. At the after party, you can get advice on starting a business and meet new people. *
The Japan Women Entrepreneurs Support Council (JMEC) is holding a “Home Startup Summit 2024” with the theme of “Starting a business at home is the best investment in yourself.”
～From Business People to Entrepreneurs～” will be held at Kyobashi Edgrand on Thursday, September 26, 2024.
On the day of the event, we will invite talk sessions and panels with successful female entrepreneurs who have chosen to start their own businesses at home after graduating from office jobs, as well as experts and people from companies who support home entrepreneurship. We will have a discussion.
After the stage event, there will be a company consultation session where participants can receive individual consultations from entrepreneurship experts and senior entrepreneurs, as well as an afterparty where participants can interact with supporting companies and related parties.
Please join us, not only for those who have already started a business, but also for those who want to shift to a work style that allows self-control in the near future while still working as a corporate employee.
* -Event participation application URL-*
https://jmec20240926.peatix.com
2024 is the first year of starting a business at home
“Starting a business at home” means starting a small business at home with a single computer.
Women who are responsible for most of the household chores…The “home-based start-up” of mom entrepreneurs is creating a major paradigm shift.
For housewives, who originally spent most of their time at home doing housework and childcare, the spread of remote technology had a completely different meaning.
The disadvantages of the “home-based work style” of starting a business from home have almost disappeared.
Home Entrepreneurship Summit 2024 ~From business people to entrepreneurs~ This event will give everyone a chance to experience and think about the new ways of working and lifestyle brought about by “starting a business at home”…If you have been a little hesitant about taking a step towards the future, we will give you a vivid idea of what it will look like. It may be an imaginable opportunity.
Nowadays, as work styles become more diverse, many people choose to start a business or have a side job as an alternative way of life even though they belong to a company. In fact, general incorporated association
The fact that 40 to 50% of applicants to the Japan Mama
Entrepreneurship University (hereinafter referred to as Mama University) run by the Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association are employed by companies is a major sign of the times. It’s a change.
Event overview
■Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024
■Time: 13:00 Doors open
13:30～15:30 Stage event
15:30～17:00 Individual business start-up consultation session ※You can come and go as you like, but you can leave midway through.
■Location: Kyobashi Edgrand 29th floor event space within artience Co., Ltd. 2-2-1 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8378
■ Target audience: Those who are planning to start a business, those who have already started a business, those who are looking for a side job or another way of working while belonging to a company,
companies/organizations interested in starting a business at home, media, and government officials. etc.
■Sponsor: Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association (Japan Mama Entrepreneur University)
* -Event participation application URL-*
https://jmec20240926.peatix.com
Event details
* ■Talk session by home entrepreneurs “From business person to entrepreneur” * A talk session on “The Reality of Starting a Business at Home” by female entrepreneurs who have graduated from office jobs and chosen to start their own businesses.
How do you control where and when you work while doing housework and childcare? What kind of efforts have you made and what challenges have you overcome? Honestly, are you happy now that you’ve changed from being a business person to being an entrepreneur? We will listen to the stories of real-life female entrepreneurs in detail.
A female entrepreneur who practices “starting a business at home”
* ■Future panel discussion created by starting a business at home* We welcomed Miki Isogai, general editor of Entrepreneurial Age, a free company that supports many home entrepreneurs, and Tsuyoshi Tomita, a media producer who has worked on a variety of media. We will unravel the social changes and needs that are occurring.
Miki Isogai/Free Co., Ltd. “Era of Entrepreneurship” Editor-in-Chief Miki Isogai/Free Co., Ltd. “Era of Entrepreneurship” Editor-in-Chief After graduating from university, he worked at NTT East/Benesse Corporation, where he was responsible for a wide range of activities including BtoB and BtoC marketing, as well as product planning and development and service development.
In 2021, he changed jobs to Free Co., Ltd. and was in charge of planning and developing the “Entrepreneurship Era” app. Chief editor. “Sumobi’s school” is very long.
As a self-employed business owner, W-Worker is also participating in an educational project to create future learning.
Our motto is “We want to create a society filled with enthusiastic working adults.” I have been a working mother for 16 years as a mother of twin boys.
* https://twitter.com/kigyojidai* * https://www.freee.co.jp/kigyojidai/* Takeshi Tomita/Representative Director of Tomita Produce Co., Ltd. Takeshi Tomita/Representative Director of Tomita Produce Co., Ltd. Joined Daini Denden (currently KDDI) during its founding period. He launched Japan’s first mobile phone business (currently au) and planned and launched KDDI’s public relations magazine “Televolution”, which had been running for nearly 30 years. After that, he changed jobs to a radio production company, working on J-wave, FM Yokohama, TOKYO.
He has experience in planning and producing radio programs on FM, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, TBS, etc., as well as planning and producing events and online projects. Fukuoka prefecture radio station Cross goes bankrupt
At FM, he is also in charge of business revitalization. As director in charge of planning and sales, he contributed to making the business profitable and laid the foundation for business revitalization. Currently, as a media producer and creative director, I am involved in content media production at the request of clients, as well as “media conversion consulting” that continues to improve management while cultivating “fans” through “media conversion” to small shops and shopping districts. It is currently being practiced by many companies, from large companies to local governments.
* ■Guest Talk “Mom Entrepreneurship and Effectuation – A happy way of working by starting a business at home” *
After reporting on many entrepreneurs as a reporter for the Nikkei newspaper in the US, earned an MBA from Claremont Graduate University, PhD (Business Administration), and Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific
University, an expert in entrepreneurship education who knows the world.
Faculty of International Management
We will invite associate professor Emi Makino as a guest, and she will give an easy-to-understand explanation of the key points for success as a home-based entrepreneur and how women can work happily, based on case studies of former moms.
Emi Makino/Associate Professor, College of International Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
Emi Makino/Associate Professor, College of International Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University
As a reporter for the Nihon Keizai Shimbun’s Americas General Bureau, he covered many venture companies and entrepreneurs. After working in new business development at the US subsidiary of a Japanese company, he was involved in planning and editing Nikkei E-BIZ published by Nikkei BP.
After changing to a Japanese-English simultaneous interpreter in order to balance childcare, she earned an MBA and a PhD (Business
Administration) from Claremont Graduate University (Drucker School). He has been in charge of entrepreneurship education at Kyushu University, Tokyo University of Science, and Hiroshima University, and has been in his current position since 2023.
Academy of Management, United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), Japan Venture Society (Director), Drucker Society (Director) each member
* ■Guest talk: “Forgiveness is a skill when it comes to family and child-rearing!”*
If you try to do everything on your own, whether it’s work, childcare, or family, you’ll end up having a flat tire. If each person takes an active role in raising children and at home, the team will work! ···Are you okay. “Skills” are things that are acquired.
We have invited Kaori Iwata, who developed the “Kaori Method,” a strategy for raising studious and intelligent children without nagging, and has helped more than 7,000 busy mothers across the country with their issues and anxieties while raising children. We will give you tips that anyone can do.
Kaori Iwata/Mama Project Japan Representative
Kaori Iwata/Home education consultant/Representative of Mama Project Japan Co., Ltd.
After working in an early childhood classroom, “Raising children to love learning!” Currently developing the “Kaori Method,” a strategy to raise intellectual children who love learning without being too aggressive, all over the country.
Mother of 3 (1 boy and 2 girls). Many lectures held at elementary schools, kindergartens, and nursery schools. Winner of the 5th Working Mom of the Year 2018.
* -Event participation application URL-*
https://jmec20240926.peatix.com
*List of supporter companies*
* ■About the Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association, a general incorporated association*
https://company.j-mec.com/
In order to support the further success of female entrepreneurs, the Japan Women Entrepreneurs Support Association, commonly known as JMEC, is a general incorporated association.
* [Matching female entrepreneurs with companies and media] * In addition to holding events with an emphasis on, matching exchange meetings with companies, and information dissemination,
* [A management school for professional mom entrepreneurs who are nominated by companies and the media] *
We operate the Japan Mom Entrepreneur University.
Yoko Kondo/Representative Director, Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association/President of Mama University
Yoko Kondo/Representative Director, Japan Women Entrepreneur Support Association/President of Mama University
Established Japan Mama Entrepreneur University in 2013.
Her work style, which focuses on happiness rather than sales, has gained a lot of support, and has produced more than 300 female entrepreneurs to date.
Since 2017, he has served as a business start-up advisor for the Japan Small and Medium Enterprise Agency, and as a judge for the business plan contest sponsored by the Small and Medium Enterprise Agency. Japan Mama Entrepreneur University: https://j-mec.com/