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Call for Submissions: ISPIM Connects Sendai

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The ISPIM Connects Sendai Conference, “Innovating for a Resilient Future”, is a three-day event bringing together around 250 innovation management professionals from over 30 countries.


Sendai, the largest city in Japan’s Tohoku region, is globally recognised for its leadership in resilience and disaster risk reduction. Following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, the city has become a model for building back better, combining advanced research, technology and community-centred innovation. With leading institutions such as Tohoku University and its association with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Sendai Framework, the city provides a compelling setting for exploring how innovation can strengthen societies and shape a more resilient future.


ISPIM encourages examples and insights into successful innovation practice, challenges or research from all regions of the world. If you are in doubt, please discuss your idea with an email to admin@ispim.org.


Themes include:


Local Focus Themes: 

  • Advanced Manufacturing & Resilient R&D

  • Global Cooperation & SDG Leadership

  • Green Transformation & Climate Adaptation

  • Life Sciences & Innovation

  • Smart & Human-Centred Cities


General Themes:​

  • AI and Innovation

  • Blue Economy & Innovation (SIG)

  • Business Models

  • Circular Innovation (SIG)

  • Digital Disruption & Digital Transformation (SIG)

  • Entrepreneurship, Start-Ups & SMEs

  • Futures & Foresight (SIG)

  • Health & Innovation (SIG)

  • Innovation Leadership & Organisational Culture (SIG)

  • Innovation Training, Teaching & Coaching (SIG)

  • ISO 56000 Family of Standards, Certification & System Approaches (SIG)

  • Knowledge & Technology Transfer

  • Living Labs (SIG)

  • Methods & Skills for Innovation Management Research

  • Open Innovation

  • Platforms, Ecosystems and Supply Chains

  • Regenerative & Resilient Futures (SIG)

  • Responsible Innovation (SIG)

  • Social Innovation (SIG)

  • Values-based & Sustainability-Oriented Innovation Management (SIG)

  • Other Innovation-Related Submissions


SIG = ISPIM Special Interest Group


Submit now at https://www.conferencesubmissions.com/sendai26 by 4 October 2026


Download full call for submissions here

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