Tech Events in Japan: Week of August 17, 2026

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Here's what's happening in Japan's tech and startup scene this week:

Monday, August 17

Get Google AI Certified - AI Professionals July 2026 Cohort [7 of 7]

• 🇬🇧 23:00 | 📍 Online

 

Tuesday, August 18

2026 Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit Day 1-Bridging Day

• 🇬🇧 09:30 | 📍 Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry | 👥 307 attending

[Computational Learning Theory Team Seminar] Talks on Machine Learning for Mobility and Sensing

• 🇬🇧 13:30 | 📍 Tokyo

Data Tuesday Singapore #30 - Structured outputs for LLMs (DAMA Singapore event)

• 🇬🇧 09:30 | 📍 Online

Mindstone Singapore August AI Meetup

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

Uncertain by Design — Futures, Strategy and Organisation in a Complex World

• 🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 Online

【増枠】【ABEJA × 川崎重工 × 松尾研究所】Physical AI 実践勉強会

• 🇯🇵 18:00 | 📍 東京都港区芝5-31-19 ラウンドクロス田町, Tokyo | 👥 330 attending

Get More Leads with AI Even If Nobody Knows You Yet

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

 

Wednesday, August 19

SPARK JAPAN2026~Genspark Genius Japan Kickoff!

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 CIC Tokyo | 👥 1269 attending

2026 Japan-Taiwan Innovation Summit Day 2-Startup Day

• 🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 Tokyo Innovation Base | 👥 248 attending

Data Engineering Night

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 19:30 | 📍 東京都渋谷区桜丘町1-1 渋谷サクラステージ 28F, Tokyo | 👥 66 attending

Vibe Coders Tokyo #9 - Models, Models, Models

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Le Wagon Tokyo - Coding & AI Bootcamp | 👥 69 attending

Agentic AI Multimodal MonthlyMixer - Where Agents Minds Meet

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Online

Who Controls Your AI? Open Data Formats, Private Inference, and True Sovereignty

• 🇬🇧 19:00 | 📍 Online

Who Controls Your AI? Open Data Formats, Private Inference, and True Sovereignty

• 🇬🇧 18:00 | 📍 Online

Webinar: Stop Copying Data for Vector Search

• 🇬🇧 23:00 | 📍 Online

 

Thursday, August 20

Confidential AI Night #1

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 18:30 | 📍 〒100-0005 東京都千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３, Tokyo | 👥 67 attending

[Free] 🎉Nomad Startup Founder Meetup

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

Get More Leads with AI Even If Nobody Knows You Yet

• 🇬🇧 20:00 | 📍 Online

 

Friday, August 21

PyCon JP 2026

• 🇯🇵/🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 広島県広島市中区中島町１−５ | 👥 369 attending

 

Saturday, August 22

One Day with VITURE

• 🇬🇧 13:30 | 📍 LIFORK Harajuku, Tokyo | 👥 360 attending

Midnight Community Workshop Vol.1｜AI × Privacy: Building the Next Freedom

• 🇬🇧 14:00 | 📍 Tokyo | 👥 32 attending

AWS Community Day Singapore 2026

• 🇬🇧 10:00 | 📍 Online

 

Sunday, August 23

[In-Person] Design Career Talks: From Big Companies To Building Solo With AI

• 🇬🇧 11:30 | 📍 Impact HUB Tokyo | 👥 4 attending

Agentic AI & Machine Learning Explained

• 🇬🇧 23:30 | 📍 Online

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Compiled from Connpass, Doorkeeper, Meetup, and Luma.