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Thursday Gathering #396

Name: Thursday Gathering #396
Start: 2026-09-10T16:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-09-10T21:00:00+09:00

Weekly Thursday evening at CIC Tokyo: parallel startup and tech sessions in Japanese and English, plus open networking. Online option.

When: Thu, September 10, 2026 · 16:00–21:00 JST
Where: CIC Tokyo, Toranomon Hills Business Tower 15F, 1-17-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo·Hybrid
Region: Kanto (Tokyo)
Organizer: Venture Café Tokyo
Language: JA/EN
Source: gather.us

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Summary

Thursday Gathering is the weekly open evening run by Venture Cafe Tokyo at CIC Tokyo in Toranomon Hills Business Tower. Edition #396 runs from 16:00 to 21:00 JST, with check-in on the first floor and the venue itself on the 15th floor. The evening is built around a program of parallel sessions: talks, panels, and workshops covering startups, technology, investment, and the wider innovation ecosystem in Japan, interleaved with open networking time. Sessions run in both Japanese and English, and the crowd mixes founders, engineers, investors, corporate innovation staff, students of the ecosystem, and newcomers to Tokyo. Registration is required through the Register to Event button on the event page. Remote attendance is supported: once the gathering starts, a Join Remotely button appears under each session in the session list, available to anyone who registered.

About the community

A long-running weekly innovation gathering in Tokyo, open to anyone who registers and free to attend. Regulars include founders, engineers, investors, corporate innovation teams, and people newly arrived in the city, and the format stays the same each week: several parallel sessions on startup and technology themes, run in Japanese and English, wrapped around unstructured networking time.

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