The democratization of software development, and the future of the Japanese community
The barrier to building software has fallen, and the real constraint has moved from "can you code?" to "can you put the problem into words?" Drawing on the global Built with Opus hackathon, where four of the top five winners weren't professional developers, and on how companies are adopting AI both top-down and bottom-up, Jun Tsuji closes Day 1 with what this shift means for Japan and how to get more involved in the Japanese Claude Community.
Details
City
Tokyo, JP
Date
10 June 2026
Time
17:35 – 18:05
Speaker(s)
Junichiro Tsuji
Anthropic
Agenda
08:00 – 09:00
Check-in and breakfast
09:00 – 10:00
10:00AM – 10:30AM
Morning break
morning sessions
10:30 – 11:00
10:30 – 11:15
11:15 – 11:45
Inside Canva AI: Architecting an agentic system for tens of millions of users
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
·
Danny Wu
11:30 – 12:15
12:00 – 12:30
How to get to production faster with Claude Managed Agents
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
·
Jess Yan
Michael Cohen
Yusuke Kaji
From "AI-assisted" to "AI-delegated": Redesigning the development process to standardize AI across the org
(Breakout stage)
Claude Code
·
Kohei Noguchi
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
afternoon sessions
12:30 – 13:15
13:30 – 14:15
13:50 – 14:20
14:30 – 15:15
14:35 – 15:05
Building an AI-native engineering organization at Mizuho
(Main stage)
Claude Platform
·
Kentaro Someya
Tatsuto Fujii
15:20 – 15:50
Rebuilding SaaS for AI — where the done-for-you experience finally began
(Breakout stage)
Claude Platform
·
Ryu Yokoji
15:30 – 16:15
16:05 – 16:35
Fit-for-purpose model selection: A work-specific eval loop for enterprise adoption
(Main stage)
Research
·
Yuki Kitamura
16:30 – 17:15
16:50 – 17:20
Toward human-on-the-loop — How Mercari is transforming our software development into AI-native
(Breakout stage)
Claude Code
·
Yu Nakai
17:30 – 18:15
17:35 – 18:05
The democratization of software development, and the future of the Japanese community
(Main stage)
·
Junichiro Tsuji
Evening
18:00 – 20:00
Evening reception
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