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Introduction to our 2025 program participants/pitch speakers for 90days Kyoto Stay Program Showcase & Networking Event!

For a wide promotion of participants business ideas to Kyoto international entrepreneurs eco system, we provide a showcase event where they meet many stake holders and players in the local circle. 

① Yvonne Hung
     Founder: Otelier

■Business Biography
Otelier is a multi-disciplinary design studio working at the intersection of innovation, culture, and sustainability. We design transformative environments, products, experiences, and services that bridge heritage with innovation, utility with beauty. Through our diverse backgrounds in design, technology, design, urban planning, economics, and anthropology, we take a holistic approach to design, with reverence to cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental contexts to create positive impacts for communities.

💡 Pitch Title 💡
Farm Futures: Reimagining the Next Generation of Rural Living
(農業の未来：次世代の田舎暮らしを再構築する)

②Eva Gorobets & Tim Rizvanov
　Founders:Art Flaneur Global Pty Ltd

■Business Biography
Eva Gorobets is a professional photographer and an art researcher (PhD candidate in Fine and Applied Arts) with experience in art management and gallery business.
Tim Rizvanov is a professional who has spent many years working in the media industry, specialising in Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions, and has a deep passion for the arts.

💡 Pitch Title 💡
Art Flâneur – Exploring Art and Culture Through “Art Spirits”
（Art Flâneur-“Art Spirits”を通じて探求する芸術と文化 ）

③ Michelle Chan
Sound of Rain Studio

■Business Biography
Sound of Rain Studio is company that promotes wellness and inner peace.

💡 Pitch Title 💡
Promoting wellness for aging population in rural Kyoto
(京都の過疎地域における高齢者の健康促進)

【January Support Diary】
As days of participants arrivals are getting closer, we support them to clarify their milestones during the program by having online meetings with each of them. In a same time, we are giving feed backs to presentation slids  to make them more receivable for Kyoto community.