EU-Japan AI Bridge - Connecting International Researchers with Japan's AI Start-ups
Join us for the "EU-Japan AI Bridge," an event that brings together international researchers based in Japan and Japan's AI startup ecosystem.
Description
The event will first offer insights into the AI and Deep Tech-related research directions of four EU researcher organizations in Japan (Italian, French, Spanish, and German), followed by talks on the available EU funding opportunities for researchers and startups in Japan. The event will also feature talks by three top AI startups based in Japan and focused on advanced AI research.
The attendees will also have the chance to network with AI researchers in both academia and industry, EU funding bodies, and Japan-based startup leaders. Finally, a dozen AI-focused startups will join us to allow researchers to explore paths into the industry.
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Agenda
14:30 – 14:40 Opening remarks (H. E. EU Ambassador Jean-Eric Paquet)
14:40 – 15:00 EU-Japan AI activities and strategies (Peter Fatelnig, Minister-Counsellor for Digital Economy at the delegation of the EU to Japan)
15:00 – 16:00 AI Activities by EU Researchers in Japan
ACE Japon (Spain) - Noa Garcia (Associate Professor, Osaka University)
AIRJ (Italy) - Sarah Cosentino (Chief Researcher, Araya)
JSPS (Germany) - Dominik Köppl (Project Associate Professor, University of Yamanashi)
ScienceScope (France) - Florian Richoux (Senior Researcher, AIST)
16:00 – 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 EU funding opportunities for researchers and startups in Japan
MCAA - Federico Da Rold (JSPS Fellow at Ochanomizu University)
EURAXESS Worldwide - Judit Erika Magyar (Country Representative, EURAXESS Japan)
16:50 Frontier AI research startups in Japan
AI tech ecosystem in Japan - Ilya Kulyatin (Founder @ Tokyo AI)
Advancing humanity with neuroscience and AI - Ryota Kanai (CEO @ Araya)
Building a world-class AI research lab in Japan - Llion Jones (CTO @ Sakana AI)
General Intelligence from First Principles - Andrei Filchenkov (Chief Scientist @ Noeon)
17:50 - 18:00 Closing remarks
18:00 - 20:00 Networking and refreshments: during the networking session, a group of AI research-focused startups will have stands for attendees to approach and discuss their work.
Araya: integrating cutting-edge AI and neurotechnology into business and daily life.
Braid: building real human-machine collaboration for complex engineering designs.
Corpy: developing and implementing AI solutions for sectors where reliability and accuracy are paramount to human lives.
Integral AI: developing new algorithmic approaches and foundation model architectures, starting with robotics.
Liquid AI: an MIT spin-off, building capable and efficient general-purpose AI systems at every scale, with a presence in Japan.
Noeon: working on a novel natively agentic AI system with general capabilities, out of Tokyo.
Quantinuum: the world's largest integrated quantum company, with AI researchers based also in Japan.
Sakana: the fastest unicorn out of Japan, building the highest talent density AI research lab in Japan.
SambaNova: Stanford-originated AI hardware (and now inference) with a strong presence in Japan.
Stockmark: one of the top Japanese LLM and Enterprise AI startups in Japan.
Organizers
The event is organized by AIRJ, with the support of Tokyo AI (TAI), ACE Japon, JSPS Germany, MCAA Japan Chapter, and ScienceScope, with the collaboration of EURAXESS and patronage of the Delegation of the European Union in Japan.