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Participation in the Kyoto Prefecture IT Industry Promotion Working Group

Miyako de IT joined Kyoto Prefecture’s IT Industry Promotion Working Group as a local community operator, bringing practitioner perspectives into policy design.

Background

Kyoto Prefecture has continued promoting its IT industry and supporting startups, but few participants at the policy table could provide an ongoing view of how local engineers gather and what they need. Through 7 years and 165 events, Miyako de IT was invited as a community that routinely observes the field.

Trigger

The responsible Kyoto Prefecture division was aware of Miyako de IT’s activity and its co-hosting record with Kyoto Chie-Sangyo Sozo-no-Mori, and invited it to participate as a representative of the local IT community.

How it developed

Kyoto Prefecture invited Miyako de IT after recognizing its 7-year, 165-event operating record and its co-hosting work with Kyoto Chie-Sangyo Sozo-no-Mori (KOIN). Of four forms of public-sector collaboration—venue provision, co-hosting, working-group participation, and migration-related programs—the working group connects first-hand field information to upstream policy design.

The community’s role is to bring observations that policy designers may not easily see: what working engineers seek and what gathering formats function. Participation is unpaid. A public article also explains the principle of starting with purpose and program design before combining available subsidies.

On May 30, 2026, the relationship also took concrete form in an AI-agent lightning-talk special event at the Former Assembly Hall of the Kyoto Prefectural Office, an Important Cultural Property. About 30 people, including prefectural staff, attended; roughly 90% of survey respondents reported being satisfied or very satisfied. It created direct conversation between government staff and IT engineers.

Together with eight co-hosted IT Engineer Networking Event in Kyoto editions at KOIN, these activities create a recurring structure through which engineers’ perspectives reach public policy. Future work includes events with new themes in government facilities and exploration of other prefecture-owned spaces.

People and organizations involved

—Kyoto Prefecture’s IT industry promotion division
—The Miyako de IT organizing team
—Companies and experts participating in the working group

What we did

—Continued participating in the Kyoto Prefecture IT Industry Promotion Working Group
—Shared what working IT engineers seek and which gathering formats work with policy designers
—Continued co-hosting networking events with Kyoto Chie-Sangyo Sozo-no-Mori (KOIN)
—Implemented industry–academia collaboration through everyday community activity rather than formal meetings alone

Outcomes

Created a continuing route for working engineers’ perspectives to reach government policy design

Became a reference model for community-operator and government collaboration

Increased collaboration inquiries from companies and universities through trust-based activity

Stabilized connections with IT talent programs across Kyoto Prefecture

What came next

Expansion to other municipalities is under consideration. The model is being organized as a reusable way for trusted local communities to reduce the distance between policy and practitioners.

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7 years and 165 events, with collaboration history