Thursday Gathering #397
Weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Tokyo: parallel sessions and open networking for founders, engineers, and Tokyo's startup community.
- When
- Thu, September 17, 2026 · 16:00–21:00 JST
- Where
- CIC Tokyo, Toranomon Hills Business Tower 15F, 1-17-1 Toranomon, Minato City, Tokyo · Hybrid
- Region
- Kanto (Tokyo)
- Organizer
- Venture Café Tokyo
- Language
- JA/EN
- Source
- gather.us
Summary
Thursday Gathering is Venture Cafe Tokyo's weekly innovation gathering, held at CIC Tokyo on the 15th floor of Toranomon Hills Business Tower. Check-in is on the 1st floor, and the programme runs from late afternoon into the evening with a series of parallel sessions covering startups, technology, and the wider innovation ecosystem.
Attendance is free but registration is required through the "Register to Event" button on the event page. Remote participation is also supported: once the gathering starts, a "Join Remotely" button appears under each session in the session list, and registered participants can click through to join online.
The event page is published in Japanese and English, and sessions draw a mixed crowd of founders, engineers, investors, corporate innovators, and students of the Tokyo startup scene. Open networking time runs alongside the sessions.
About the community
A recurring weekly gathering that has run for hundreds of editions, drawing founders, engineers, investors, corporate innovators, and students from across the Tokyo innovation ecosystem. Programming mixes short themed sessions with unstructured networking, and the community runs bilingually in Japanese and English so newcomers from either side can join. Both in-person and remote attendance are normal, and regulars return week after week.
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