AI Salon Tokyo (AIST) - January 2025
AI Salon is a global community by and for AI-focused founders, builders, investors, and enterprise partners. The format is a monthly in-person event with lightning talks from startups with a presence in Japan.
Come for the community and to learn about the most recent applications in AI!
January 15, 2025 Agenda
18:00 Doors open
18:30 - 18:40 Community and supporter announcements.
1. Ilya Kulyatin @ TAI
2. Yusuke Kaga @ JETRO
3. Hiroshi Nemoto @ DEEPCORE
18:40 - 19:00 Guest Speaker
Guest speaker: Jad Tarifi Ph.D., CEO & Co-founder of Integral AI
Jad is a pioneer in AGI with over 20 years of experience spanning research, leadership, and entrepreneurship. At Google AI, he founded and led its first Generative AI team and spearheaded research on brain-inspired foundation models.
Talk: “Powering Civilization with AGI: A Tale of Two Ends”
The talk will examine how AGI integrates into society through two endpoints.
Stream, the universal interface, marks the next evolution in human-technology interaction and serves as the front end of AGI.
Genesis, the platform for universal operators, which function as versatile AI worker capable of acting across both digital and physical domains, forming the back end of AGI.
19:00 - 20:00 Startup Speakers
Company: ModAstera
Speaker: Joshua Owoyemi, Co-founder & CEO
ModAstera is an AI platform that helps health and medical tech companies save up to 90% of AI model development and deployment costs by simplifying and automating the AI engineering workflow.
Company: Eigyo AI
Speaker: Vraig de Leon, Founder & CEO
Eigyo AI is an AI Sales platform that automates your entire sales pipeline—from researching and qualifying leads to personalized outreach and Demos. Businesses use AI Salesman to automate their sales operation and let human teams focus on product innovation and customer success.
Company: SDio
Speaker: Azamat Kai, Co-founder & CEO
We make enterprise video content instantly searchable and actionable. Our platform processes video streams in real-time, understanding everything from various objects to text and speech, allowing businesses to search through their video content as easily as they search through documents.
Company: I.W.G Inc.
Speaker: Xiaoxi Guo, Co-Founder & COO
I.W.G Inc. provides DOCloud, an AI-powered healthcare collaboration platform that integrates data sharing, task management, secure communication, and billing to streamline workflows, reduce costs, and enhance efficiency for clinics and hospitals.
Company: LR Inc.
Speaker: Shoyu Ro, Founder & CEO
Their "sugar" automatically collects, analyzes, and stores all "work-related data" in the workplace through AI, providing an enterprise search engine.
Company: Tackle AI
Speaker: Mika Sagindyk, Co-founder
Tackle AI is a calendar-native tracking and reporting solution for agencies and customer-facing teams. We help folks with busy schedules capture their work hours, make informed decisions, and align their goals with their day-to-day - all with the help of AI and workflows.
Company: Polymerize
Speaker: Tomoya Yamada, Japan Country Manager
Polymerize offers a cloud-based Materials Informatics (MI) platform designed to accelerate R&D in the chemical and materials industries. Their solution enables centralized data management and uses AI-driven machine learning to predict material formulations and properties. This helps companies reduce costs, streamline development processes, and innovate faster.
20:00 - 21:00 Food, drinks, and open networking.
21:00 Doors close
Location
Japan, 〒107-6006 Tokyo, Minato City, Akasaka, 1-chōme−12−３２, Ark Mori Building, 総合案内7階
Take the elevator to Floor 7.
Note that the elevator is located behind the Starbucks in the same building
AI Salon information
AI Salon is a global community by and for AI-focused founders, builders, investors, and enterprise partners.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/aisalon-ai/
AiSalon was launched by Jeffrey Abbott, GP at Blitzscaling Ventures, who decided to partner with Tokyo AI (TAI) through JETRO's patronage for the Tokyo chapter.
Tokyo AI (TAI) information
TAI is the biggest AI community in Japan, with 1,600+ members mainly based in Tokyo (engineers, researchers, investors, product managers, and corporate innovation managers).
https://bit.ly/tai_overview
JETRO information
JETRO is a government-related organization that works to promote mutual trade and investment between Japan and the rest of the world.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/jetro-japanexternaltradeorganization/
DEEPCORE information
DEEPCORE is a Tokyo-based AI-focused incubator and VC firm supporting AI Salon Tokyo.