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Weights & Biases Annual User Conference: Fully Connected 2025 Tokyo

Weights & Biases Japan (W&B Japan) is excited to announce the hosting of its annual user conference, Fully Connected 2025 Tokyo, set to take place on October 30 and 31, 2025. This year marks the third iteration of this significant event, which is expanding its scale by 1.5 times compared to last year and will be held over two full days for the very first time. The first day will focus on practical hands-on workshops, while the second day will feature lectures from well-known AI developers and researchers, including representatives from user companies like Sakana AI, NVIDIA, and Woven by Toyota.

This conference presents a valuable opportunity for attendees to directly learn about the latest AI research and best practices cultivated in daily development environments across various fields such as Generative AI, large language models (LLMs), autonomous driving, drug discovery, and recommendation systems.

For those interested in attending, further details and registration can be found on the official event website: http://fullyconnected.jp.

About Fully Connected 2025 Tokyo

Originating in San Francisco, where W&B's headquarters is located, Fully Connected serves as a user conference where ML engineers and researchers from rapidly advancing AI fields gather to share practical insights. Earlier this June, a fully attended event took place in San Francisco, drawing over 1,100 participants over two days. The first day featured workshops focused on building agent-based AI applications and designing safe and robust AI systems, while the second day welcomed leaders from top-tier AI companies such as Meta, Google, CoreWeave, Adobe, Pinterest, and Cohere, who shared their experiences and visions under the theme of “AI Pioneer Series.”

The Tokyo edition of Fully Connected 2025 will follow the overarching theme of “Take your AI agents from prototype to production.”

Event Details:

• - Date: October 30-31, 2025
• - Location: TODA HALL & CONFERENCE TOKYO
• - Format: Offline (no streaming planned)
• - Languages: Simultaneous interpretation in Japanese, English, and Korean.

Event Program

Day 1 (October 30): Hands-on Workshops
On the first day, attendees will engage in hands-on learning through workshops that will utilize W&B to explore hot topics in the field. Below is a list of anticipated workshops:

• - _From 0 to Automated Evals_ (by W&B)
• - _Document Workflow Automation in the Financial Sector_ (by Upstage)
• - _AI agent Workshop for Practical Use_ (by Algomatic, Sakana AI, Generative Agents, Dentsu Soken)
• - _Building and Improving Customer Support AI_ (by Karakuri)

Day 2 (October 31): Lecture Sessions
The second day will feature insights from leading researchers and engineers who are at the forefront of AI development, sharing specific examples and the latest research trends to enhance AI development and operations knowledge.

Featured Speakers:

• - Takuya Akiba / Staff Research Scientist, Sakana AI
• - Xu Zheying / Product Architect, Alibaba Cloud Qwen
• - Takayuki Fukatsu / Representative, THE GUILD
• - Mana Murakami / Solution Architect Manager, NVIDIA
• - Naoki Okazaki / Professor, Tokyo University of Science
• - Takuya Watanabe / Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
• - Shohei Hito / Chief Engineer, Daikin
• - Ikugen Koide / Head of Generative AI & MLOps, Woven by Toyota
• - Go Shirai / Center Head, Hitachi
• - Wonbin Ahn / AI Research Scientist, LG AI Research
• - Sanghyuk Choi / Research Engineer, NAVER Cloud
• - Ryo Endo / Researcher, NHK
• - Tomoko Natsuhori / Senior, TOPPAN
• - Koichi Takeda / Vice Director & Specially Appointed Professor, National Institute of Informatics
• - Maxime Labonne / Head of Post-training, Liquid AI
• - George Mathew / Managing Director, Insight Partners
• - Chris van Pelt / Distinguished Engineer and Co-founder, Weights & Biases
• - Akira Shibata / Head of APAC, Weights & Biases
• - Yuya Yamamoto / AI Solutions Engineer, Weights & Biases

(Note: Additional speakers are expected to be confirmed leading up to the event.)

Event Sponsors

This event is supported by various sponsors, including:

• - Google Cloud Japan LLC
• - Nippon Steel Solutions Corporation
• - Elith Corporation
• - Estyle Corporation
• - Karakuri Corporation
• - Macnica, Inc.
• - Upstage AI Co., Ltd.
• - NTT Docomo Business, Inc.
• - Geedep Advance, Inc.
• - VAST Data

Co-sponsored by

• - Japan Deep Learning Association (JDLA)
• - Tokyo AI (TAI)

About Weights & Biases Japan

Weights & Biases Japan is the Japanese branch of a company that provides enterprise-grade ML experiment tracking and end-to-end MLOps workflows for developers and operators. W&B is trusted by over 500,000 machine learning developers globally, including NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Toyota, and it addresses a wide array of deep learning use cases such as LLM development, image segmentation, and drug discovery. It represents a new best practice in AI development.

For more information, visit the W&B Japanese website: https://wandb.jp.