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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.

Demos and office hours run all day. Drop by for a demo between sessions. Sign up in advance for office hours. All times in Japan Standard Time (JST).

A note on language. Sessions run primarily in English with some in Japanese (marked on the agenda), and live simultaneous interpretation is available in both directions throughout the event. Office hours are held in English.

08:00 – 09:00
Check-in and breakfast
09:00 – 10:00
Opening keynote
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(Main stage)
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Angela Jiang
Anthropic
Cat Wu
Anthropic
Dianne Penn
Anthropic
Katelyn Lesse
Anthropic
10:00 – 10:30
Morning break
10:30 – 11:00
What's new in Claude Code
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(
Main stage
)
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Charmaine Lee
Anthropic
Memory and dreaming for self-learning agents
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(
Breakout stage
)
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Mahesh Murag
Anthropic
10:30 – 11:15
Picking the right model
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(
Workshop
)
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Rodrigo Olivares
Anthropic
11:15 – 11:45
Inside Canva AI: Architecting an agentic system for tens of millions of users
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(
Main stage
)
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Danny Wu
Canva
The expanding toolkit
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(
Breakout stage
)
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Jake Dejno
Anthropic
11:30 – 12:15
Beyond the basics with Claude Code
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Workshop
)
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Sosuke Suzuki
Anthropic
12:00 – 12:30
How to get to production faster with Claude Managed Agents
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(
Main stage
)
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Jess Yan
Anthropic
Michael Cohen
Anthropic
Yusuke Kaji
Rakuten Group, Inc.
From "AI-assisted" to "AI-delegated": Redesigning the development process to standardize AI across the org
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(
Breakout stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Kohei Noguchi
CyberAgent, Inc. / MG-DX Inc.
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
12:30 – 13:15
Stop babysitting your agents
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Workshop
)
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Sid Bidasaria
Anthropic
13:30 – 14:15
AI with Claude on AWS: From code to orchestration
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Workshop
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Kazuya Iwami
AWS
13:50 – 14:20
Rakuten's AI-nization: Autonomy × empowerment
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(
Main stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Yusuke Kaji
Rakuten Group, Inc.
The thinking lever
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(
Breakout stage
)
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Donny Greenberg
Anthropic
14:30 – 15:15
Build a production-ready agent with Claude Managed Agents
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(
Workshop
)
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Gabe Cemaj
Anthropic
14:35 – 15:05
Building an AI-native engineering organization at Mizuho
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Main stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Kentaro Someya
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Tatsuto Fujii
Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.
Running an AI-native engineering org
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(
Breakout stage
)
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Fiona Fung
Anthropic
15:20 – 15:50
The capability curve
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(
Main stage
)
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Theo Chu
Anthropic
Rebuilding SaaS for AI: Where the done-for-you experience finally began
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(
Breakout stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Ryu Yokoji
freee K.K.
15:30 – 16:15
Build AI agents using Claude in Microsoft Foundry
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Workshop
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Madoka Chiyoda
Microsoft
Nobu Tanahashi
Microsoft
16:05 – 16:35
How NRI picks models with business-task benchmarks: A continuous eval loop for enterprise adoption
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(
Main stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Yuki Kitamura
Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
Building with Claude on Google Cloud
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(
Breakout stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Ivan Nardini
Google Cloud
Kaz Sato
Google Cloud
16:30 – 17:15
Build a proactive agent workflow with Claude Code
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(
Workshop
)
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Ash Prabaker
Anthropic
Christian Ryan
Anthropic
16:50 – 17:20
Getting more out of the Claude Platform
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(
Main stage
)
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Brad Abrams
Anthropic
Rod Howarth
Anthropic
Toward human-on-the-loop: How Mercari is transforming our software development into AI-native
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(
Breakout stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Yu Nakai
Mercari, Inc.
17:30 – 18:15
The prompting playbook
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Workshop
)
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Hannah Moran
Anthropic
17:35 – 18:05
The democratization of software development, and the future of the Japanese community
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(
Main stage
 // presented in Japanese
)
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Junichiro Tsuji
Anthropic
18:00 – 20:00
Evening reception

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