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Tokyo, Japan October 30-31, 2025
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Oct 30-31, 2025
Take your AI agents from prototype to production

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OVERVIEW

What is Fully Connected?

Fully Connected is your chance to join top AI engineers for two days of agent building and model training. We'll help you reach the next level in AI development, with experts from everywhere, hosted by Weights & Biases. Day 1 is hands-on workshops cutting across all domains of agent construction. Day 2 features talks by industry pioneers, sharing hard-earned insights across verticals and applications. You'll walk away with a whole new toolkit for building AI applications that matter.

DAY 1

Hands-on workshops

TIME
Track 1
Track 2
09:30
REGISTRATION
10:00

From 0 to automated evals

Scott Condron
Sr. Product Manager
Weights & Biases

Automation of Document Workflows in the Financial Industry

Beomseok Han
Solution Architect
Upstage
13:00
LUNCH
14:00

Workshop on AI Agents for Practical Field Use

Masato Ota, Shumpei Miyawaki, Masahiro Nishimi, Yuki Goto, Yuya Atagi
Sakana AI, Algomatic, Generative Agents, Dentsu Soken

Building and Improving Customer Support AI

Koki Obinata
Karakuri
DAY 2

AI Pioneer Speaker Series

09:30

REGISTRATION

10:30
Keynote

Keynote by Weights & Biases Cofounder

Chris van Pelt, Distinguished Engineer and Cofounder, Weights & Biases
11:00
Keynote Fireside Chat

Keynote Fireside Chat with Anthropic and Weights & Biases Cofounders

Ben Mann, Co-founder, Anthropic
Lukas Biewald, General Manager and Cofounder, Weights & Biases
11:25
Keynote

Qwen domain models, better for Japanese applications

Xu Zheying, Product Architect, Alibaba Cloud / Qwen
11:50
LUNCHEON SEMINARS / EXPO / LUNCH (please check the tables below for luncheon seminar details)
TIME
Hall A
Hall B
13:00

Trends and Outlook for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's AI Policy

Takuya Watanabe
Section and Division Chief
METI

tsuzumi 2: NTT's Advanced Large Language Model

Kyosuke Nishida
Senior Distinguished Researcher
NTT
13:25

NHK Broadcasting Technology Research Laboratory's AI Technology Development Initiatives

Rei Endo
Researcher
NHK

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Maxime Labonne
Head of Post-training
Liquid AI
13:50

Special Discussion Session: The Present and Future of Generative AI

Takayuki Fukatsu
Representative Director
THE GUILD

Weaving Together Field, Technology, and Culture: TOPPAN's LLM/VLM Development and Operational Practice

Satoko Natsubori
Supervisor
TOPPAN Holdings Inc.
14:15

The Evolution of LLM Evaluation and the Cutting Edge of Japanese Evaluation Revealed by the Nejumi Leaderboard

Yuya Yamamoto
AI Solutions Engineer
Weights & Biases

Beyond AI Implementation: Introducing JDLA's Initiatives

Ryutaro Okada
Executive Director
JDLA
14:40
BREAK / NETWORKING
14:55

NVIDIA's Generative AI Ecosystem Supporting Japan's Sovereign AI

Mana Murakami
Solution Architect Manager
NVIDIA

LLM Research and Development Initiatives at the National Institute of Informatics

Koichi Takeda
Vice Director/Project Professor
LLM-JP
15:20

Evolving Large Language Model Evaluation: Practices and Insights from the Swallow Project

Naoaki Okazaki
Professor
Institute of Science Tokyo

From AudioLLM to PodCastLM: Turning Research into Product at NAVER Cloud

Sanghyuk Choi
Research Engineer
NAVER Cloud
15:45

Introducing Our Approach to Design Document Review Using Business-Specific Large Language Models

Takeshi Shirai
Head of Centre
Hitachi

AI that explains the market: A new paradigm in financial forecasting

Wonbin Ahn
AI Research Scientist
LG AI Research
16:10

How to Build AI Agents Capable of Competing in Real-World Settings

Takuya Akiba
Staff Research Scientist
Sakana AI

The Cutting Edge of Generative AI Adoption in Manufacturing and Toward Building an Air Conditioning-Specific LLM

Shohei Hido
Cheif Engineer
Daikin
16:35
KEYNOTE

Mistral AI Ecosystem for Japanese builders and enterprises

Joffrey Thomas
Mistral AI
17:00

W&B User Nomination

17:20

Closing

17:30
RECEPTION / NETWORKING / EXPO
DAY 2

Luncheon Seminars [Hall A]

11:55

Weights & Biases on Google Cloud - Better Together: Secure and Scalable MLOps and NSSOL's Implementation Case Study

Jetha Chan　　　Google DeepMind
Toshio Ishimori　 Google Cloud Japan
NS Solutions Corporation
12:20

NSSOL's End-to-End Approach Supporting Value Creation in Enterprise AI Agents

Toshiya Mitsuhashi
NS Solutions Corporation
12:45

The Cutting Edge of Enterprise × Generative AI: Macnica's Vision for the Future and Practical Support

Mamoru Fujita
MACNICA, Inc.
DAY 2

Luncheon Seminars [Hall B]

12:00

From playground to production: Turbocharging Gen AI innovation with AWS and Weights & Biases

Hazumi Kubota
AWS
12:25

Accelerating the Social Implementation of LLMs. From Leaderboards to Enterprises

Ibi Taichi & Tano Motoki
ESTYLE
12:40

Generative AI Risks at the Forefront: Looming Crises and Risk Assessment

Koki Inoue
Elith
Speakers

Hear directly from experts

AI leaders share their journey building innovative AI agents, applications, and models revealing breakthrough insights and lessons learned

Ben Mann

Ben Mann

Co-founder

Anthropic

Takuya Akiba

Takuya Akiba

Staff Research Scientist

Sakana AI

Joffrey Thomas

Joffrey Thomas

Developer Relation Engineer

Mistral AI

Xu Zheying

Xu Zheying

Product Architect

Alibaba Cloud / Qwen

Takayuki Fukatsu

Takayuki Fukatsu

Representative Director

THE GUILD

Mana Murakami

Mana Murakami

Solution Architect Manager

NVIDIA

Naoaki Okazaki

Naoaki Okazaki

Professor

Institute of Science Tokyo

Takuya Watanabe

Takuya Watanabe

Section and Division Chief

METI

Shohei Hido

Shohei Hido

Chief Engineer

Daikin

Kyosuke Nishida

Kyosuke Nishida

Senior Distinguished Researcher

NTT

Takeshi Shirai

Takeshi Shirai

Head of Center

Hitachi

Wonbin Ahn

Wonbin Ahn

AI Research Scientist

LG AI Research

Sanghyuk Choi

Sanghyuk Choi

Research Engineer

NAVER Cloud

Rei Endo

Rei Endo

Researcher

NHK

Satoko Natsubori

Satoko Natsubori

Supervisor

TOPPAN Holdings Inc.

Koichi Takeda

Koichi Takeda

Vice Director/Project Professor

National Institute of Informatics / LLM-JP

Maxime Labonne

Maxime Labonne

Head of Post-training

Liquid AI

Ryutaro Okada

Ryutaro Okada

Executive Director

JDLA

Beomseok Han

Beomseok Han

Solution Architect

Upstage

Masato Ota

Masato Ota

Applied Research Engineer

Sakana AI

Shumpei Miyawaki

Shumpei Miyawaki

AI/ML Engineer

Algomatic

Masahiro Nishimi

Masahiro Nishimi

CEO

Generative Agents

Yuki Goto

Yuki Goto

AI Engineer

DENTSU SOKEN INC.

Yuya Atagi

Yuya Atagi

AI Engineer

DENTSU SOKEN INC.

Koki Obinata

Koki Obinata

Development Group, R&D Team, Team Leader

Karakuri

Hazumi Kubota

Hazumi Kubota

AI/ML Partner Solutions Architect

AWS

Toshio Ishimori

Toshio Ishimori

Partner Business Division ISV Specialist

Google Cloud

Jetha Chan

Jetha Chan

Technical Solutions Consultant

Google DeepMind

Toshiya Mitsuhashi

Toshiya Mitsuhashi

Director of Pioneering Technology Offering Center Digital Solution & Consulting Center

NS Solutions Corporation

Mamoru Fujita

Mamoru Fujita

Sales

MACNICA, Inc.

Ibi Taichi

Ibi Taichi

AI/Data Science Business Division Manager

ESTYLE

Tano Motoki

Tano Motoki

AI/Data Science Business Division Deputy Manager

ESTYLE

Koki Inoue

Koki Inoue

Representative Director, CEO/CTO

Elith

Lukas Biewald

Lukas Biewald

General Manager and Cofounder

Weights & Biases

Chris Van Pelt

Chris Van Pelt

Distinguished Engineer and Cofounder

Weights & Biases

Scott Condron

Scott Condron

Sr. Product Manager

Weights & Biases

Akira Shibata

Akira Shibata

Head of APAC

Weights & Biases

Yuya Yamamoto

Yuya Yamamoto

AI Solutions Engineer

Weights & Biases

Kei Kamata

Kei Kamata

AI Solutions Engineer

Weights & Biases

Attendees

Who should attend?

Any AI developer, ML engineer, researcher, business leader, or investor looking to move more AI applications into production

Venue

TODA HALL & CONFERENCE TOKYO

This conference hall is within walking distance from the Yaesu Central Exit of JR Tokyo Station

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