Rakuten's AI-nization: Autonomy × empowerment
At Rakuten, we evaluate the value of AI agent along two dimensions: how autonomously an agent can run, and how broadly it can empower people across our business. This session shares the wins and challenges we've encountered driving AI-nization across the company — how we evaluate models to maximize business value, why the ceiling is set by how work is structured rather than by model intelligence, and how we turn AI memory into a corporate asset. With real examples from production.
Details
City
Tokyo, JP
Date
10 June 2026
Time
13:50 – 14:20
Speaker(s)
Yusuke Kaji
Rakuten Group, Inc.
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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