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Mon, August 17, 2026 Today
1eventTue, August 18, 2026
8eventsTech Brunch Event
A small-group brunch in Iidabashi digging into functional programming and category theory: monoids, functors, applicatives and monads.
Tokyo Weekly Lunch
Weekly Tuesday lunch networking for Tokyo founders, investors, and engineers. No pitches or presentations, just conversation over food.
[For Educators: Observer Registration] FY2026 SMRJ Entrepreneurship Education Program: Mid-Program Exchange Session Out of scope: Students programming: the session is a high school entrepreneurship education program, and this listing only offers a back-of-room observer slot for teachers and education administrators.
Educators can observe SMRJ's entrepreneurship education program mid-term session, where high school students work with young founders at TiB.
[Computational Learning Theory Team Seminar] Talks on Machine Learning for Mobility and Sensing
Two research talks at Kyushu University and on Zoom, on AI for spatial intelligence in cyber-physical systems and deep learning for remote sensing.
Global Women Leaders: TIB Lounge
Small-group roundtable at Tokyo Innovation Base with bilingual leadership coach Helen Iwata on confidence, career, and building a business.
Physical AI & Robotics Nomikai
A casual Shibuya nomikai for people building in physical AI and robotics: no slides, no talks, just conversation over drinks.
Digital Nomads Tea Night in Shinagawa Out of scope: A social tea tasting evening for digital nomads and expats with no tech, startup, or engineering content (non-tech social gathering).
Guided tasting of rare living teas with sound for digital nomads and expats at a Shinagawa coliving residence, 500 yen at the door.
Weekly Tuesday Meetup
Tuesday open house at Tokyo Hackerspace in Akasaka, 19:30 to 22:00: drop in, meet the members, and see the workshop.
Wed, August 19, 2026
8events2026 Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit Day 2 - Startup Day
Startup Day of the Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit: 35+ Taiwanese startups pitch, plus matching with Japanese corporates, VCs, and support bodies.
Lunchtime Study Group on Global UX
A 30-minute online lunchtime study group reading The UX Collective articles via NotebookLM summaries and comparing interpretations.
Running a Business in Japan: The Legal & Financial Essentials
Lawyers, a tax accountant, and finance specialists from Japan and Taiwan walk Taiwanese startups through setting up and running a company in Japan.
Snack and Connect
A weekly Wednesday evening networking event with snacks, open to the public, for anyone interested in Tokyo's startup scene.
Business Ideas Don't Have to Start From Problems: Building a Venture From What You Want to Do (JAM MEETUP #5) Out of scope: Student programming: attendance is explicitly restricted to students (参加対象:学生等), which is a hard-out for this adults-only calendar.
Student meetup at Tokyo Innovation Base: four founders on building a business from what you want to do, not just from problems.
Green Drinks Kansai - Osaka
A drop-in evening of casual networking in Osaka for people interested in climate, environmental protection, biodiversity, and sustainability.
[In-Person] JJUG Night Seminar: Valhalla, Now!
JJUG's August night seminar in Shinagawa: Oracle's Nicolai Parlog on Project Valhalla value types, ahead of a likely JDK 28 preview. In English.
THS "Nihongo Night" Open House
A Japanese-language open house at a Nogizaka hackerspace, with a look around the workshop and time to meet members.
Thu, August 20, 2026
6eventsTech Brunch Event
A small morning brunch in Iidabashi where mathematicians and developers dissect favourite theorems and the structures under their code.
AI Salon Hermosillo - Future Founders Academy Out of scope: outside Japan: in-person event at Hermosillo, Mexico on a global multi-city calendar, with no Japan venue or Japan tie-in
TOHOKU STARTUP NIGHT 2026 (TG #393)
A Thursday gathering at CIC Tokyo on the Sendai and Tohoku startup ecosystem, from research commercialization to physical AI in city planning.
SCALE Batch2 Kickoff Special Session: When Pay No Longer Decides, How Do People Choose a Company?
Kickoff for SCALE Program Batch2: pitches from 10 selected startups plus a session on attracting talent beyond pay.
🏐🍻 Beginners Welcome! - Fun Dodgeball in Shimokitazawa! :: 下北沢ドッジボール! Out of scope: non-tech sports event
LY Corporation Data Science Share #2
The second edition of a data science knowledge-sharing meetup, held in person on a weekday evening at a Kioicho office in Tokyo.
Fri, August 21, 2026
3eventsShip Fast x Fix Fast: The Full DevOps Picture with CircleCI and PagerDuty
A CircleCI and PagerDuty webinar on CI/CD cost structure, cutting incident response time, and turning post-incident reviews into fixes.
JichiTIME Meetup: Extended Edition
Local governments from across Japan pitch co-creation cases and partnership needs to startups, with booths and networking at Tokyo Innovation Base.
The Digital Reading Brain X The Paper Reading Brain
An online session from UX DAYS TOKYO on how the brain reads differently on screens versus on paper.
Sat, August 22, 2026
3eventsDaikanyama Morning Code
A two-hour morning meetup in Daikanyama for people working on code, web, design, cloud, or AI. All levels welcome, bring a laptop.
Tech Brunch Event
A small-group brunch meetup in Iidabashi for the Lisp language family, with lightning talks, live demos, and language design discussion.
[#95] Let's Translate MDN Together! Regular Translation Community Meetup
Monthly online meetup (#95) where volunteers translate MDN Web Docs into Japanese together; beginners welcome.
Sun, August 23, 2026
4eventsTech Brunch Event
A small brunch gathering in Iidabashi for practitioners and the curious to discuss natural language processing over a meal.
☀️🏐 Rooftop Beach Dodgeball and Hangout in Shibuya! 🍻🍻 Out of scope: non-tech sports event
Tech Networking Meetup in Shibuya #15
Casual IT networking evening at a Shibuya bar, with rotating small groups so participants meet engineers, founders and recruiters.
Digital Nomads Special Night in Aoyama Out of scope: A purely social evening for digital nomads and expats with food and drinks and no tech, startup, or engineering content (non-tech social gathering).
Sunday evening social for digital nomads and expats at a converted former swimming pool in Aoyama, 2,000 yen with food and drinks included.
Mon, August 24, 2026
1eventTue, August 25, 2026
2eventsTokyo Weekly Lunch
Weekly Tuesday lunch networking for Tokyo's startup community: founders, investors, and engineers talking over food, with no pitches.
Weekly Tuesday Meetup
Tokyo Hackerspace's Tuesday open house in Akasaka: drop in from 19:30, meet the members, and see the space and its shared tools.
Wed, August 26, 2026
6eventsYOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #44
Yokohama innovation night at TECH HUB YOKOHAMA: sessions on Hong Kong as a gateway to Asia and on AI adoption, plus open networking.
Snack and Connect
Weekly drop-in networking at the Bridge office in Higashi-Shibuya, with snacks, startup conversation, and no registration required.
[Pitch Applicants / Audience Wanted] TIB SANDBOX (Pitch Event) / For Idea-Stage to Early-Stage Startups
Five early-stage startups give three-minute pitches and receive immediate feedback from VC commentators. Free to attend in Marunouchi, Tokyo.
Rethinking Hiring Through Candidate Experience: An Introduction to Startup Recruiting CX
A seminar on designing startup hiring around candidate experience, from awareness to offer acceptance, with case studies and expert insight.
IDEA CLIMBING: Learn to Explain Your Business Idea to Others Out of scope: Student programming: attendance is explicitly restricted to students (参加対象:学生等), which is a hard-out for this adults-only calendar.
A 90-minute workshop for students: generate a business idea and shape it into something you can explain to others.
THS "Nihongo Night" Open House
A Japanese-language open house at a hackerspace in Akasaka, with 3D printers, a laser cutter, and other tools to look around.
Thu, August 27, 2026
7events[Imperfect Information Learning Team Seminar] Prof. Micah Goldblum: Easy-to-Hard Generalization and Small Batch Training for LLMs
Columbia University's Micah Goldblum on easy-to-hard generalization and why small-batch SGD keeps pace with Adam for LLM pretraining.
Thursday Gathering #394
Venture Café Tokyo's weekly Thursday Gathering at CIC Tokyo: talks, sessions, and open networking for the startup scene, in person or online.
AI Salon Sydney | Building AI with Trust & Security Out of scope: outside Japan: in-person event at Ultimo, NSW on a global multi-city calendar, with no Japan venue or Japan tie-in
Vibe Coding With Rust
A Tokyo Rust talk on agentic coding tools for Rust: where AI assistants fit into systems work, and which ones hold up in daily use.
AI Salon Singapore (27 August 2026) Out of scope: outside Japan: in-person event at Singapore on a global multi-city calendar, with no Japan venue or Japan tie-in
A Singapore chapter evening of the global AI Salon community, with founder talks, an investor panel and networking on AI trends.
How Enterprises Are Adopting AI - Roundtable #004
A candid Tokyo roundtable where AI consultants, builders, and enterprise practitioners discuss what really works in corporate AI adoption.
🏐🍻 Beginners Welcome! - Fun Dodgeball in Shimokitazawa! :: 下北沢ドッジボール! Out of scope: non-tech sports event
Fri, August 28, 2026
3eventsAI Salon Lisbon Out of scope: Held in Lisbon, Portugal, an AI Salon chapter meetup abroad with no Japan tie-in.
AI Salon's Lisbon chapter meetup for AI builders and enthusiasts.
NAGOYA CONNÉCT #126
The 126th edition of NAGOYA CONNÉCT, a startup and innovation community event held at Nagono Campus in Nagoya.
The Era of Shared Research and Data: Turning Ideas into Reality Without a Big Budget
Five talks on cutting R&D cost through sharing: lab equipment, second-hand instruments, experiment data plus AI, and a technical talent bank.
Sat, August 29, 2026
2eventsMarunouchi Morning Code
A free two-hour morning meetup in Chiyoda for people working on code, web, design, cloud, blockchain, or AI. Bring a laptop, all levels.
[Intermediate] Circuit Design Basics Course: Breadboard Challenge!
A small-group workshop teaching circuit design basics through breadboard practice: component placement, noise reduction, and heat management.
Sun, August 30, 2026
1eventMon, August 31, 2026
1eventWed, September 2, 2026
2eventsSnack and Connect
Weekly drop-in startup mixer at the Shibuya Bridge office: no registration, snacks provided.
Local LLMs for Coding Study Group in Tokyo
A study group on local LLMs for coding, held in person on a weekday evening at an office in Kioicho, Tokyo.
Thu, September 3, 2026
3eventsThursday Gathering #395
Weekly bilingual innovation gathering at CIC Tokyo, with sessions and open networking for Tokyo's startup ecosystem, in person and online.
ProductTank Tokyo - Monthly Casual @ TenCups Cafe Bar & Lounge
Casual in-person networking meetup for Tokyo's product management community, over food and drinks in Shibuya.
The Future of Education Cannot Be Built by Schools Alone: New Career Education Shaped by Schools, Companies, and Local Communities [Fukugyo Zemi #3]
A talk session and networking evening on career education, and how schools, companies, and local communities can build it together.
Fri, September 4, 2026
2eventsAI Salon Groningen · Kick-Off Event Out of scope: Held in Groningen, Netherlands, a chapter stop on the global AI Salon calendar with no Japan tie-in.
Kick-off networking event for the AI Salon Groningen chapter, with talks, demo pitches, and open networking.
2600 Meeting
Monthly Tokyo 2600 meeting: open conversation about hacking and security in a reserved Kabukicho bar.
Sat, September 5, 2026
1eventSun, September 6, 2026
1eventTue, September 8, 2026
2eventsTIB PITCH #28 (Trial Deployment Course)
The 28th TIB PITCH at Tokyo Innovation Base in Yurakucho: startups pitch for a trial deployment slot inside TIB, with product demos and networking.
Practical AI for Non-Engineers: Vibe Coding Startups Can Use Right Now
A free talk on Vibe Coding for non-engineers, with TEKION Group's Ryosuke Sensui showing early-stage startups practical AI workflows.
Wed, September 9, 2026
3eventsYOKOHAMA CONNÉCT #45
Venture Café Yokohama's recurring innovation gathering at TECH HUB YOKOHAMA, with in-person and online sessions and JP/EN text translation.
Snack and Connect
Weekly drop-in networking for founders and investors at Shibuya Startup Support's Bridge office, Wednesdays 4-6pm.
Free Admission! ["Modern-Day Tokiwaso" Entrepreneur Incubation Program] Prototype Showcase (with Keynote)
The first cohort of an anime and manga entrepreneur program shows its prototypes, with a keynote by producer Taiki Sakurai. Free entry.
Thu, September 10, 2026
1eventFri, September 11, 2026
1eventSat, September 12, 2026
1eventSun, September 13, 2026
1eventMon, September 14, 2026
1eventTue, September 15, 2026
1eventWed, September 16, 2026
4events18th AI Salon Torino Out of scope: Outside Japan: this is the in-person Turin, Italy chapter of the global AI Salon calendar, with no Japan tie-in.
Monthly Turin chapter of the AI Salon network, with a roundtable, three startup pitches, and a networking aperitivo.
Snack and Connect
Weekly drop-in startup mixer at SSS's Shibuya Bridge office: no registration, snacks provided.
Hardware Startups x Machining Shops #2: Manufacturing Partnerships That Break Through the Productization Wall
How hardware startups can partner with small factories to clear productization and mass-production hurdles, plus a networking session.
IDEA CLIMBING: Get Ready to Explain Your Business Idea to Others Out of scope: Student programming: the workshop is restricted to students (参加対象:学生等), and this calendar covers adult professional events.
A 90-minute workshop where students shape one business idea they can explain to others, with mentor support on hand.
Thu, September 17, 2026
2eventsAI Salon Singapore Out of scope: Outside Japan: this is an in-person AI Salon chapter meetup held in Singapore with no Japan tie-in.
An in-person AI community gathering in Singapore, part of a multi-city salon series.
[Daytime Part.1] After DroidKaigi 2026 from pixiv [Online]
An online midday recap of DroidKaigi 2026, where engineers who attended share what they took away from the conference.
Fri, September 18, 2026
5eventsAI Salon Bologna Out of scope: This is a chapter event of the global AI Salon calendar held in Bologna, Italy, with no Japan tie-in (outside Japan).
A recurring AI Salon community meetup for AI enthusiasts, held in Bologna, Italy.
AI Salon Montreal - September Out of scope: outside Japan: in-person event at Montreal, QC on a global multi-city calendar, with no Japan venue or Japan tie-in
[Daytime Session Part 2] After DroidKaigi 2026 from pixiv [Online]
pixiv's online lunchtime recap of DroidKaigi 2026, the Android engineering conference. Daytime session Part 2.
TSUKUBA CONNÉCT #88 BEYOND FARM TO TABLE: The Frontier of Food and Agriculture
A Tsukuba Venture Café evening on food and agriculture tech: a new-food PITCH ARENA, an Ibaraki research-to-industry talk, and parallel mixers.
AI Founders Mindset Hackathon #001 - Build AI Agents to Solve Real Enterprise Problems Co-Hosted by Datadog
A four-hour evening hackathon at the Datadog Japan office where builders create AI agents for real enterprise pain points.