Local Hub Opens Official Page and Registration for “GOV Meeting meetup 2026 in Osaka KAWACHINAGANO”

Cloud Cien Inc. (headquartered in Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture; CEO: Shogo Kanbara), operator of Local Hub, a platform that supports public-private co-creation between local governments and companies, announced that it has launched the official landing page and opened registration for “GOV Meeting meetup 2026 in Osaka KAWACHINAGANO,” a public-private co-creation event to be held on Friday, July 10, 2026. The event is the second in-person meetup expanding on the regularly held and well-received online “GOV Meeting.” Local government officials and corporate representatives will gather to share frontline challenges and initiatives, creating a venue to discover the seeds of new co-creation projects. The event will take place from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on July 10, 2026, at Lovely Hall, the Kawachinagano Municipal Cultural Hall in Osaka Prefecture. It will be held in person with archive viewing available afterward. The offline capacity is 100 participants, consisting of 30 local government participants and 70 corporate participants, with a maximum of two people per organization. Participation is free, with advance registration required. At the previous “GOV Meeting meetup in YOKOSUKA,” held in February 2026, 20 local government organizations with 32 participants and 50 companies with 75 participants joined offline, while 32 organizations reserved archive viewing. Post-event surveys showed high satisfaction, with an overall rating of 4.30 out of 5.00 and a local government participant rating of 4.48 out of 5.00. Participants commented that they were able to hear real stories from local governments, improve the resolution of their proposals, learn from how other municipalities proceed, and engage in concrete dialogue rather than simply exchange business cards. At the same time, participants requested more time for networking, deeper opportunities to ask local governments questions, and clearer paths for post-event follow-up. In response, this year’s event will introduce prior disclosure of each municipality’s keywords, desired proposals, and collaboration stance; a QA round where participants can directly ask questions to municipalities of interest; and exclusive networking time for sponsor companies and local governments. These additions are designed to make the event more connected to practical dialogue. The event marks an evolution of GOV Meeting from “learning” to “taking action.” The online GOV Meeting has attracted more than 150 organizations per session and has been highly evaluated by both companies and municipalities interested in local government collaboration. This in-person meetup will share realities that are difficult to convey online, including the genuine challenges municipalities face, coordination issues, failures and trial-and-error in advancing collaboration, and the field-level context and processes companies should understand when making proposals. The program is scheduled in three parts. Part 1, “Understanding the Reality of Local Governments,” will include a study session and talk session featuring municipalities such as Kawachinagano City, Miyazaki City, Izumiotsu City, Daito City, and Higashiosaka City. Part 2, “Making Proposals Based on Local Government Realities,” will include local government reverse pitches, QA rounds, and short discussions, allowing participants to move to the tables of municipalities they are interested in for more detailed questions and dialogue. Part 3 will consist of networking and sponsor dialogue, including open networking among all organizations and an exclusive session for sponsor companies and local government representatives. After two years of verification, Local Hub has achieved a 58% business meeting rate and a 38% project commercialization rate. The aim of this meetup is to create a sustainable cycle of co-creation: enabling municipalities to speak honestly about their current challenges, making it easier for companies to offer more in-depth proposals, and continuing proposals through Local Hub after the event. Rather than being a one-off event, it is designed as a place to create the trigger before the trigger for commercialization. The event is intended for local government officials who want to advance collaboration with private companies but face barriers such as internal coordination, budgets, and lack of precedent; those newly assigned to public-private collaboration who want to learn real processes and failures from other municipalities; and those exploring new cross-sector initiatives in areas such as planning, policy, public-private collaboration, DX, tourism, health, human resources, and migration. It is also suitable for private companies and startups considering projects with local governments, those unsure about municipal decision-making processes and timelines, and those seeking to understand how to apply their services or technologies to local government challenges. Local Hub is a public-private co-creation platform that enables local government officials to publish their challenges externally on a consultation basis and explore solutions together with companies, universities, and organizations. As of October 2025, the platform had 25,000 registered companies and 120 registered municipalities. Its key feature is that municipalities can use all functions completely free of charge, including registration, project posting, messaging with companies, and document sharing, even under budget constraints. Cloud Cien will continue supporting practical public-private co-creation that each official can begin on a small scale, under the theme of “essential public-private co-creation.”