Kobe Calling 2026 Adds Kobe Steel, Kobe University and a Free Student Hackathon
The second lineup puts heavy industry and university research on the same floor as art and club culture, which is the event's stated premise, and it opens that floor to students at no cost.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
The Kobe Calling 2026 organizing committee announced the second lineup for the October 31 and November 1 event at KIITO in Kobe. Kobe Steel joins with a VR exhibition on its manufacturing sites, Kobe University medical researchers present a heartbeat-driven installation, and Mazda's training school shows a Le Mans rotary engine. Registration opened for free student passes, and BizWorld Japan runs a free student hackathon, HackARThon.
Kobe Steel's exhibition centers on a VR dive into its manufacturing sites: a steelworks handling 1,600-degree iron, welding robots for large structures, and a super-large machine used to demolish buildings safely. It also screens a special movie shown at the company's Osaka-Kansai Expo booth. Mazda's Kobe training school brings a four-rotor racing engine that ran Le Mans and a live Roadster engine teardown.
Kobe University cardiologists and a music producer present CORAZONES, an installation that turns donated heartbeat data into image and sound. Registration opened for free student passes, and BizWorld Japan, the entrepreneurship school founded by investor Tim Draper, holds a free student hackathon, HackARThon, alongside the event.
- Kobe Steel: VR exhibition on steelworks, welding robots and demolition machinery, plus an Expo movie screening
- MASTeC KOBE (Mazda automotive training school): Le Mans four-rotor racing engine display and Roadster engine teardown demonstration
- Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine and Hospital: CORAZONES heartbeat installation with music producer Yusuke Asada
- Kobe University V.School: Student projects and a salon and cafe for direct exchange
- Regional ICT Promotion Council (COPLI): Smart city work and Barcelona Smart City Expo cooperation
- High school student pitch: Students present ideas for future society, cities and technology
- U Inc.: AI glasses experience sharing the wearer's view
- HackARThon: Free student hackathon run by BizWorld Japan
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