Thursday Gathering #398
Venture Café Tokyo's weekly open innovation evening at CIC Tokyo, with parallel talks, workshops and networking, joinable in person or online.
- When
- Thu, September 24, 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
Summary
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.
About the community
A long-running weekly gathering for Tokyo's innovation community, now approaching its 400th edition. It draws founders, corporate innovation teams, investors, researchers and newcomers looking for a low-barrier entry point into the ecosystem. Programming is a mix of curated sessions and open networking, run bilingually in Japanese and English, free to attend, and open to anyone who registers.
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