Japan, Tokyo Weekly Tech Event Digest [`25 Mar 10 - Mar 16]

Hello, tech enthusiasts! Hope you’re having a great week. Here’s a list of upcoming tech events in Japan for the week of March 10 to March 16.

Events

Monday, March 10

• TIB EmpowerHER WEEK | 🕐 17:00 | Tokyo Innovation Base, Tokyo | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: TIB EmpowerHER WEEK, part of SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025, features female leaders discussing DEI. The event includes a panel, interactive discussions, and networking opportunities focused on promoting DEI and supporting women entrepreneurs.

• Sendagaya.rb #489 | 🕐 21:00 | Online | 🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Sendagaya.rb #489 is an online event discussing topics from Kaigi on Rails 2024 and RubyKaigi 2024. It also offers a platform for consultations on development challenges and exploring areas of interest. Participants are encouraged to share diverse topics. The event will be held on Google Meet. A detailed timeline and participation details are provided.

Tuesday, March 11

• Tokyo Startup Lunch Club | 🕦 11:30 | Tokyo International Forum | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Casual lunch meetup for startup founders, investors, and enthusiasts to connect and network in an informal setting.

• Tokyo HackerSpace Weekly | 🕢 19:30 | HackerSpace, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Weekly gathering for tech enthusiasts, makers, and hackers to collaborate, share ideas, and work on projects together.

• DeepSeek Tech Salon: Open-Source Large Models and Future of AI | 🕐 20:00 | Online | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Online workshop exploring DeepSeek’s impact on AI in Japan. Featuring expert speakers discussing its technical features, competitive advantages, open-source strategy, and practical applications. Presentations in Chinese with real-time Japanese translation.

Wednesday, March 12

• Understanding the Working Mechanism of Transformers | 🕐 13:00 | Online | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Seminar on understanding how Transformers work, focusing on model depth and multi-head attention. Presented by Prof. Difan Zou (HKU). Explores memory, reasoning, generalization capabilities of different Transformer depths. Discusses the role of multi-head attention and its working mechanism in various layers. Open to the public.

• YOKOHAMA CONNECT #9 | 🕐 16:00 | Tech Hub Yokohama | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #9, held at Tech Hub Yokohama, offers various sessions such as “How to enjoy YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT”, discussions on optimism, coworking spaces, and social innovation.

• Shibuya Public Event Brunch | 🕕 16:00 | Shibuya Startup Support Space | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Networking brunch hosted by Shibuya Startup Support, providing tools and connections for startups to grow.

• Tokyo HackerSpace Weekly JP | 🕢 19:30 | HackerSpace, Tokyo | 🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Weekly gathering for tech enthusiasts, makers, and hackers to collaborate, share ideas, and work on projects together. In Japanese.

• Drinks With Founders | 🕐 19:30 | Perrys Bar, Shibuya, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Networking event for entrepreneurs in Tokyo. Held every Thursday at Perrys Bar. Purchase one drink. Open to various industries.

Thursday, March 13

• AI Agent Summit ‘25 Spring | 🕐 10:30 | Bellesalle Shibuya Garden, Tokyo | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: The AI Agent Summit ‘25 Spring, hosted by Google Cloud, focuses on the evolving landscape of generative AI and its shift towards sophisticated AI agents. The event explores how these agents enhance productivity, offers insights into building custom agents, and provides updates on Google Cloud’s latest generative AI products and customer use cases. It features keynote speeches, breakout sessions, demo booths, pitch contests, and an AI Agent Hackathon. The event also includes an on-site raffle for original T-shirts.

• Yokohama Startup Lunchclub | 🕐 11:00 | Tech Hub Yokohama | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Yokohama Startup Lunchclub, expanding from Tokyo, connects entrepreneurs, investors, and enthusiasts. Monthly networking event at Tech Hub Yokohama. Inspiring conversations, knowledge sharing, and networking opportunities. Bring your own lunch or purchase at the venue.

• J-Startup Night: From “Boom” to “Culture” | 🕓 16:00 | CIC Tokyo | 🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: A deep dive into Japan’s startup ecosystem with panel discussions on growth incentives, corporate partnerships, global expansion, and female entrepreneurship.

• TAI AAI #08 - Offline Reinforcement Learning | 🕐 18:30 | Shinagawa City, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Tokyo AI’s Advanced AI group session on Offline Reinforcement Learning. Featuring speakers on various topics within Offline RL, including an introduction, discussions on nonstationarity, and sample efficiency. Networking opportunities are available.

• Mobility Tips Sharing Meetup #7 | 🕖 19:00 | LY Corporation Hakata Office, Fukuoka | 🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: A meetup for mobile engineers to share development tips and best practices. Topics include SwiftUI, automated testing scripts, mobile DB synchronization, and more.

Friday, March 14

• TAI AMAJ #05 | 🕐 17:30 | Bunkyo City, Tokyo | 🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: The 5th seminar in the Applied Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence series by Tokyo AI (TAI). Speakers include Issei Suketa (EQUES), Hiroki Nakagawa (ACES), Yuichi Fujikawa (Alibaba Cloud), and Kotaro Takahashi (AVILEN), covering topics like drug discovery, expert AI, Qwen, and more.

Saturday, March 15

• Marunouchi Morning Code | 🕐 10:00 | Dean & Deluca Cafe, Marunouchi, Tokyo | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Free meetup for tech enthusiasts of all levels interested in code, web development, design, cloud, blockchain, or AI. Bring your laptop, discuss projects, and share ideas. Purchase at the venue may be required. 3000 yen fee applies for non-registered attendees.

• Saturday Morning UX Meetup | 🕐 10:00 | Cafe D’occi Geihinkan | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Casual meetup for UX professionals and enthusiasts in Tokyo. Discussion and networking over coffee/tea. Hosted by Max, a UX consultant.

• Impact Women Weekend | 🕐 10:30 | Sushi Tech Square, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Impact Women Weekend celebrates women in entrepreneurship and innovation. Event features keynote presentations, panel discussions, founder talks, networking, and partner showcases. Target audience includes women entrepreneurs, impact investors, corporate/NPO leaders, academics, and professionals.

• Tengu Underground | 🕐 11:00 | Kr Ginza Ii, Tokyo | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Hands-on cybersecurity workshop by TenguSec. Learn web app, network security, and white hat hacking. Focused on knowledge sharing, hacking, and networking. Ideal for those who enjoyed “2600 Meeting” or “TenguCon 2024”.

• Feed Forward: Brunch for LLM Enthusiasts | 🕐 12:00 | Hotel Metropolitan Edmont Tokyo, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: A casual brunch for LLM enthusiasts, including developers, computer scientists, data scientists, mathematicians, and anyone actively using LLMs. Discussions on various LLM models, practical workflows, linear algebra, calculus, probability, and LLM applications. First-time attendees who RSVP on meetup.com get free meals.

Sunday, March 16

• Learning how to use AI | 🕐 10:00 | Starbucks Coffee - Shibuya Modi, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: International developer meetup in Tokyo exploring AI tools. Participants introduce themselves, research and try using an AI tool, share their experiences, and wrap up.

• Digital Nomads Morning Activity | 🕐 10:00 | Little Darling Coffee Roasters, Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: Morning activity event for digital nomads and expats in Tokyo. Connect internationally, enjoy specialty coffee, food, and sweets. Limited to 25 people. Photos and videos will be taken. Communication in English.

• EdTechBrunch | 🕐 11:45 | Hotel Metropolitan Edmont Tokyo | 🇬🇧 | 🔗Link: A casual brunch for educational technology enthusiasts, including developers, researchers, learners, and instructors. Discuss learning techniques, tools, platforms, AR, VR, and LLMs. First-time attendees RSVPing on meetup.com get free meals.

• VisionDevCamp Ideathon: Next-Gen Lifestyle with Spatial Computing & AI | 🕐 13:00 | Abema Towers, Tokyo | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: Ideathon exploring next-gen lifestyles through spatial computing and AI. Collaboration between diverse participants to generate new ideas. Includes input sessions, workshops, and presentations. Open to all levels of knowledge and experience. Online participation available for international attendees.

• Master English Pronunciation | 🕐 18:00 | Online | 🇬🇧🇯🇵 | 🔗Link: An online workshop focused on improving English pronunciation for Japanese speakers. Covers tricky sounds like R/L, B/V, and TH, mouth positioning, and natural stress. Includes individual feedback.

Disclaimer

Events above are collected from a variety of online open sources. There might be changes or cancellations. Please check the event page for the most up-to-date information.

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