Maya Schwartz from Pitch notified the Startup Village Yokneam community that the deadline for Israeli companies wanting to participate in the HackOsaka competition has been extended for a week until Nov. 8.

The city of Osaka, Japan invites Israeli startups in various fields with an emphasis on Smart Cities, health, tourism, sport-tech and food-tech to the HackOsaka competition. The competition is aimed at projects in the Seed I Early Stage.

The annual international conference “Hack Osaka” is a poster event for the City of Osaka, which prides itself as an open innovation city. For the event’s 7th occurrence, Hack Osaka will center on the theme of “Realizing an Innovation Ecosystem ― Paradigm Shift Toward Hack Osaka Movement”. We will learn from successful examples in the world on how to make Hack Osaka Movement generate innovations one after another with participation of various players who play main roles in ecosystem, including entrepreneurs, investors, large companies, and students.