Hokenno Katachi 2026 Demo Day: A Hackathon for Building New Insurance

This is Demo Day, the closing session of Hokenno Katachi 2026, a hackathon run by the GuardTech community and FP Cross Initiative to push collaboration and co-creation across the insurance industry. Participating teams built customer-centric insurance and risk-care service ideas on top of insurance and risk-care APIs. Teams that cleared the first round of judging present their entries, answer questions from the judging panel, and then face final judging. Awards follow: a grand prize, a runner-up prize, honorable mentions, and special awards, followed by a closing and a group photo. The team list mixes corporate entrants such as Itochu Techno-Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services Japan, Optage, and Living Technologies with an individual entrant. Judges come from law firms, life and non-life insurers, consulting firms, academia, and the insurance trade press. The event is in-person only. Doors open at 16:30 and Demo Day starts at 17:00. A standing reception runs from 19:00 in the same room and is open to anyone holding a ticket. Attendance is free, but entry to the venue requires TIB membership registration, done in advance through the TIB app.