Sponsoring "DigiTech Quest 2026" — A Student DX Contest Tackling Gifu City's Tourism Challenges

"DigiTech Quest 2026," a hands-on DX contest hosted by Walker, Inc. (株式会社ウォーカー), kicks off at Gifu University on Saturday, August 8, 2026. The theme of this third edition is "Solving Gifu City's Tourism Challenges." The Gifu Convention & Visitors Bureau is providing real-world challenges from the field, and participating students will analyze NTT DOCOMO's "Mobile Spatial Statistics®" population-flow data as they develop their proposals.

Our company is joining this year as a sponsor, supporting the contest.

Event Overview

Name: DigiTech Quest 2026 in Gifu (3rd edition)
Theme: From solving Gifu City's tourism challenges to building a model that can save tourism across Japan
Dates: Saturday, August 8 – Saturday, August 29, 2026
Venue: Active Learning Classroom, Building F (General Education), Gifu University
Eligibility: University, graduate, vocational, and technical college (kosen) students, and high school students (free of charge)
Special Sponsor: NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
Sponsors: Gifu Bungeisha Co., Ltd., Rebounder, Inc., Next-Generation AI Education Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Branch), Sokyuas Co., Ltd., and others

Our Connection to This Contest

Our CEO, Kaito Okumura, took part in the 2nd DigiTech Quest in 2025 while enrolled at Gifu National College of Technology, leading team "Open World" to the Grand Prize. The award-winning idea — a school signage system called "Kimiterasu" — was carried directly into the founding of Rebounder, Inc. in February 2026 (currently running a pilot deployment at Ginan Technical High School).

As an example of an idea that grew out of a "place of learning" into real-world implementation, we are glad to now take part in the 3rd edition as a sponsor supporting the students who follow in our footsteps.

Sponsoring "DigiTech Quest 2026" — A Student DX Contest Tackling Gifu City's Tourism Challenges

Event Overview

Our Connection to This Contest

Related Links