Thursday Gathering #398

Thursday Gathering is Venture Café Tokyo's weekly open innovation evening, and this is edition #398. The programme runs from 16:00 to 21:00 at CIC Tokyo on the 15th floor of Toranomon Hills Business Tower, with check-in on the 1st floor. Parallel sessions fill the afternoon and evening: panels, talks, workshops and pitch slots covering startups, technology, research commercialisation and the wider innovation ecosystem, interspersed with unstructured networking time. Registration is through the "Register to Event" button on the event page, and it is free. Remote attendance is supported: once the gathering begins, a "Join Remotely" button appears under each session in the session list, so people outside Tokyo can follow individual talks. Registration is required for online participation as well. Sessions are run in Japanese and in English depending on the speaker, and the crowd mixes founders, corporate innovation staff, investors, researchers, students of the ecosystem and newcomers to Tokyo's startup scene.