A twenty-minute summary of what's new in Claude Code: what shipped, why we built it, and how to get started.
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
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
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(
Main stage
)
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Danny Wu
Canva
11:30 – 12:15
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
afternoon sessions
12:30 – 13:15
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.
14:30 – 15:15
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.
15:20 – 15:50
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
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
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
Evening
18:00 – 20:00
Evening reception
Keynotes, demos, and conversations with the teams behind Claude. Recorded at Code w/ Claude 2026 Tokyo and ready to replay.