Tech Brunch Event
Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi for sharing functional programming projects in Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Scala and more.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Where Japan's entrepreneurs & engineers meet.
This week·Nov 9 – Nov 15 · 38events
Mon, November 9, 2026 Today past
4events
Computational Social Choice Team(Talk by Stanisław Jerzy Kazmierowski, University of Warsaw).
Online RIKEN AIP talk by Stanisław Jerzy Kazmierowski (Univ. of Warsaw) on computing equilibria in Colonel Blotto-style multi-battlefield games.
Online EN
Foodα X Tokyo Summit: Building the Future City Through Food
Project updates, a panel and networking from Foodα, a food-tech co-creation cluster based in Shimbashi and Toranomon.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
MINATO Global Meetup
Free weekly English-led networking night in Minato for founders, startup members, professionals and anyone working across borders.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Tue, November 10, 2026 Today past
3events
Tech Brunch Event
Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi on vibe coding: writing specs, voice input and comparing AI models and dev tools.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
S.O.R.A. Summit: Better Skies for Japan Through Utility Pole Removal
Summit on burying utility lines underground: a panel with Japan's infrastructure minister and Tokyo's governor, plus company talks and booths.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Nagoya | Claude Code Meetup
First Claude Community meetup in Nagoya on Claude Code, with a case talk and five lightning talks. In Japanese, in person only.
In person Chubu JA
Wed, November 11, 2026 Today past
6events
Tech Brunch Event
Small breakfast meetup in Iidabashi for Vim and Neovim users to share plugins, configs and modal editing tips.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Industry-Government-Academia Panel Discussion: From Lab to Market, the Future of Deep-Tech Startups
Euglena's Izumo, Sony's Kitano, UTokyo President Fujii and Tokyo Vice Governor Miyasaka on taking deep-tech startups from lab to market.
Hybrid Kanto (Tokyo) JA
YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #49 - 2nd Anniversary!
YOKOHAMA CONNÉCT's 2nd-anniversary edition: talks on Physical AI and Yokohama's ecosystem, plus an English global startup pitch.
Hybrid Kanto (Tokyo) JA/EN
Snack and Connect
Weekly drop-in startup networking at ShibuyaBridge, every Wednesday 16:00-18:00 with snacks. No registration needed.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA/EN
【HerRise #4: Fueling Growth with Finance & Capital Strategy】HerRise Workshop / Open Day | A Practical Program for Women Entrepreneurs
HerRise #4 for women founders: a hands-on workshop building a P&L and cash flow statement in a spreadsheet to learn startup finance.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA/EN
Small Group Cafe Chat for Engineers ☕ #3
Small-group cafe chat for software engineers near Shibuya Station, 4 to 6 people in conversational English, LinkedIn-approved.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Thu, November 12, 2026 Today past
9events
Tokyo Test Fest 2026
Two-day software testing conference in Tokyo with workshops, keynotes, and EN/JA talks on test automation and quality engineering for AI.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA/EN Nov 12 – Nov 13
Tech Brunch Event
Small brunch meetup in Iidabashi on computational humor: NLP, joke generators and datasets for teaching machines to be funny.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
qcp Startup Pitch 2026
Science and deep-tech startup pitch contest co-hosted by Tokyo University of Science, with 7 startups, a keynote and networking.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Thursday Gathering #404
Venture Café Tokyo's weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Tokyo in Toranomon, with sessions and networking, in person or online.
Hybrid Kanto (Tokyo) JA/EN
TAI x Cohere - Enterprise AI Under Your Control
Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Cohere's Japan team on sovereign, self-hosted enterprise AI, agents and deployment, in Shibuya.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Open-Endedness: Can AI Keep Discovering?
English research evening in Tokyo on open-endedness in AI, with talks on artificial life, Lenia and a Picbreeder experiment run by VLMs.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Shinjuku | Claude for SMBs
Offline Shinjuku event for SMB owners, with lightning talks on practical uses of Claude in small businesses.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Sapporo | Claude Code Meetup
Sapporo developer meetup with Claude Code case-study talks from companies in and outside Hokkaido, plus community lightning talks.
In person Hokkaido JA
0/1 club Third Event
Five makers present their own hardware projects, from an HDMI signal generator to a relay-based 4-bit CPU, with a social afterwards.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Fri, November 13, 2026 Today past
9events
[107th TrustML Young Scientist Seminar] Talk by Prof. Mengyue Yang (University of Bristol) "Grounded LLM Reasoning: From Causal Reasoning to World Models"
TrustML seminar on grounding LLM reasoning with causality, from chain-of-thought evaluation to world models and causality-seeking agents.
Hybrid Kanto (Tokyo) EN
[Tensor Learning Team Seminar] - Talk by Dr. José Ramón Pareja Monturiol (Polytechnic University of Madrid) "Tensor Networks for Machine Learning: Models, Applications, and Learning Methods"
Seminar on tensor networks for machine learning: privacy, robustness, interpretability, model compression and learning methods.
Hybrid Other EN
NAGOYA CONNÉCT #131
Recurring innovation community meetup at Nagono Campus in Nagoya, with sessions and networking, in person or online.
Hybrid Chubu JA/EN
Real-time AI at the Edge: Inference, Kernels and Accelerators
Three talks on fast, reliable edge AI: Jetson computer vision, agent-driven edge deployment and MoE offloading in LLM inference.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Sharpen Your Thinking with AI: A Hands-on Bootcamp to Rapidly Create Business Ideas and MVPs
3-hour hands-on bootcamp using AI to create a startup idea or build an MVP, with mentors, for early founders and intrapreneurs.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Local LLMs for Coding Study Session in Tokyo vol.2
Second study session on using local LLMs for coding, held at the LY Corporation Kioicho office in Tokyo.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Design Matters x Spectrum Tokyo
Pre-event for Design Matters 26 in Shibuya with eight design lightning talks and mingling, in English.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Nerd Nite Tokyo #83: Cosmo Bronco
English bar talks in Shin-Okubo: designing electronics that survive space, plus lessons on people learned from horses.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Continuing Tokyo Test Fest 2026
Two-day software testing conference in Tokyo with workshops, keynotes, and EN/JA talks on test automation and quality engineering for AI.
In person Osaki Bright Core 4F, 品川区北品川５−５−１５ JA/EN
Sat, November 14, 2026 Today past
5events
Coffee and Code
Casual Saturday meetup at a Roppongi Hills Starbucks where people bring laptops, talk about what they code, and trade tips.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
Tech Brunch Event
Small brunch discussion in Iidabashi on how LLMs change language learning, with a show-and-tell of custom apps.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
TORYUMON KYUSHU 2026 Winter
A startup conference in Fukuoka for the under-25 generation, featuring entrepreneur panels, pitch sessions, and VC investment consultations.
In person Kyushu JA
AI Salon Osaka x OKTech Hackathon
Osaka hackathon where teams take the same starter app to production level in 2.5 hours, scoring points per working upgrade.
In person Kansai JA/EN
Forward Deployed Engineer Career Night | Current FDEs from GAFAM and Top Silicon Valley AI Companies Speak
Working FDEs from GAFAM and top Silicon Valley AI firms discuss the job and career paths, followed by networking.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
Sun, November 15, 2026 Today past
3events
Tech Brunch Event
Brunch meetup at a Iidabashi hotel for sharing open source experiences, projects, licensing and community topics.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) EN
The 369th Haskell-jp Mokumoku Session @ Online
Online Haskell work-along session hosted on Slack, with optional lightning talks. Join and leave at any time.
Online JA
Startup Mind Exhibition
Free talk on persuasive presentation skills with startup-minded case studies, followed by Q&A, networking and a poster exhibition.
In person Kanto (Tokyo) JA
