Tomohiro Iida

In one sentence

Iida founded Miyako de IT in February 2019 and Netsujo in June 2023. The community’s record now covers 7 years, 165+ events, and 615 connpass members, alongside participation in Kyoto Prefecture’s Chain Up KYOTO working group and Netsujo’s social-enterprise certification.

Areas of expertise

Ways to work together

Selected record

Selected collaborating organizations

• Kyoto Chiesangyo-sozonomori: co-host of the IT Engineer Networking Event series
• Taisho University Kyoto Academia: venue and educational relationship
• Digital Nomad Kyoto: joint organizer of co-working study sessions
• XRPL JAPAN: Web3 event collaboration
• Butsugenji, Daikoji, Kokando, and Soba Teuchi Takahashi: venue relationships

Miyako de IT

Founded in 2019, Miyako de IT connects IT practitioners, companies, universities, and regional institutions in Kyoto. It has held 165+ events over 7 years for 615 connpass members, often using temples, machiya townhouses, universities, and civic settings.

The TEMPLE model organizes the community’s operating lessons around Theme, Environment, Members, Persistence, Local relationships, and Evolution.

Career

Born in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, in 1991, Iida graduated from Waseda University’s School of Culture, Media and Society. He worked as a police officer with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department for approximately two and a half years, where frontline responsibility shaped his view that systems work only when trust and responsibility are designed for actual conditions.

He then spent approximately four years in human resources at a software-development company, working on engineering recruitment, development, and organizational design. During that period he moved his base to Kyoto and founded Miyako de IT in 2019.

In June 2023 he established Netsujo Inc. in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto. The company supports Web3 and blockchain business development and its own services, combining a Vietnam-based development team with Japanese project management.

From 2025, Miyako de IT became an official Netsujo activity. The current community record is 165+ events, 615 connpass members, and 7 years of continuity.

Why Miyako de IT began

After moving to Kyoto, Iida saw fewer recurring engineering study groups than in Tokyo and many activities that ended as one-off events. Kyoto is home to the headquarters of global technology companies including Nintendo, Omron, and Kyocera, as well as a concentration of universities and research organizations, but there were too few places where they met in everyday activity.

Kyoto also had a distinctive ecosystem of temples, machiya townhouses, traditional industries, local government, universities, and neighborhood communities within close reach. Those assets could create a technical community with a different identity from Tokyo.

The community began with a monthly co-working study session. Opening laptops on tatami in a temple’s main hall created an unusual but focused experience, and over time engineers, recruiters, researchers, public-sector practitioners, and international digital nomads began meeting in the same setting.

After 7 years, the network of Kyoto IT practitioners, connections across industry, academia, and government, and trusted regional relationships have accumulated as community assets. Community operation is not the purpose. Implementation is the purpose: creating the conditions for IT, Web3, and AI to be implemented in Kyoto. The community is a means to that end.

What the operating record has taught

• A recurring, modest format can build more trust than a single high-profile event.
• Place matters: a temple, machiya townhouse, university, or civic setting changes who participates and how people talk.
• Organizations should contribute useful knowledge and protect participant choice instead of treating a community as a lead list.
• Research, public policy, and company projects often need an informal first point of contact before a formal program exists.

Contact

Use the partnership page for community collaboration. Use Netsujo’s form for software, AI, Web3, proof-of-concept, or public-sector implementation work.