Thursday Gathering #397

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.