AI Alliance 2025: Open Innovation in the Age of Agents, 26 June | Event in Minato City | AllEvents

AI Alliance 2025: Open Innovation in the Age of Agents

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Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 am

8.5 hours

Meta Tokyo Office Toranomon, 1 Chome−17−1 Toranomon Hills Business Tower #35F, Minato City, Tokyo 105-6415 Japan

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Date & Location

Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 am to 05:00 pm (GMT+09:00)

Meta Tokyo Office Toranomon, 1 Chome−17−1 Toranomon Hills Business Tower #35F, Tokyo 105-6415 Japan

Meta Tokyo Office Toranomon, 1 Chome−17−1, Minato City, Japan

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AI Alliance 2025: Open Innovation in the Age of Agents
Join AI Alliance members to celebrate the first-year anniversary of the AI Alliance in Tokyo!

About this Event

Join us in Tokyo for AI Alliance Summit Tokyo 2025 — Advancing Industrial & Sovereign AI in the Agentic Era, a full-day event bringing together developers, researchers, industry leaders, and policymakers shaping the future of open source AI in Japan and beyond. Hosted at Meta’s Tokyo office, this event will highlight real-world use cases, foster collaboration, and introduce cutting-edge projects from AI Alliance and its members.



Why Attend?
  • Discover open source AI innovations from Japan’s tech and research communities
  • Engage with AI Alliance’s global working groups in areas like semiconductors, industrial AI, time series, and Japan-specific language models
  • Contribute to domain-specific open source efforts in finance, health, materials, and more
  • Network with leaders from industry, government, and open source communities
  • Explore new projects and opportunities for collaboration
  • This event will not be livestreamed


Updated 6/6/25


🕑: 08:30 AM
Registration

Info: With coffee and light breakfast



🕑: 09:30 AM
Opening Keynote: AI Alliance—Year One and the Road Ahead
Host: Dr. Anthony Annunziata, IBM

Info: AIA executives recap the alliance’s first-year milestones, unveil new cornerstone projects (AIA Foundation, OpenDXA, OTDI), and outline bold 2025 growth targets for Industrial & Sovereign Agentic AI.



🕑: 09:45 AM
OpenDXA + Dana: The World’s 1st Neurosymbolic AI Framework & Language/Runtime
Host: Dr. Christopher Nguyen, Aitomatic

Info: Launching OpenDXA and its companion language/ AI-native runtime DANA—write your domain logic in deterministic code; the AI-enabled runtime orchestrates LLM fault-tolerant, context-based reasoning, automatic retries, and adaptive functions without frustrating prompt tinkering.



🕑: 10:05 AM
Open-Source Foundation Model for Semiconductor Materials
Host: Tomoki Nagai, JSR

Info: Motivating an openly licensed foundation model built on semiconductor-process and materials data, designed to accelerate R&D and production analytics.



🕑: 10:20 AM
Llamarine: A Maritime Foundation Model for Safer, Greener Shipping
Host: Mika Tanaka, Furuno

Info: How AIS traffic, weather and ocean data fuel Llamarine, enabling route optimisation and anomaly detection for global fleets—fully open for community fine-tuning.



🕑: 10:35 AM
Granite-TS: Lightweight Time-Series Models for Industrial Edge AI
Host: Takkayuki Katsuki, IBM

Info: Granite-TS brings forecasting and anomaly detection to gateways and PLCs via compact foundation models—no cloud latency, factory-floor ready.



🕑: 10:50 AM
Materials Discovery WG Spotlight — Open-Source AI for Rapid Materials Innovati
Host: Dr. Seiji Takeda, IBM

Info: Marking its first anniversary, the Materials Discovery Working Group will outline its roadmap, demo live workflows, and unveil five open-source foundation models—inviting collaborators to accelerate open, AI-driven material discovery worldwide.



🕑: 11:00 AM
Coffee & Snack Break

🕑: 11:15 AM
Smart Capital: Agentic AI Use-Cases in Finance
Host: Ken Yonezawa, Itochu-CTC

Info: Banks and fintechs deploy open-source agents for KYC, risk scoring and automated research—delivering faster compliance reviews and higher portfolio accuracy.



🕑: 11:30 AM
Building with Llama
Host: Rangaprabhu Parthasarathy, Meta

Info: A guided tour of the latest Llama models and Llamastack to help you harness its full potential and build innovative applications.



🕑: 11:45 AM
EasyAnswer JINN RAG-Opt
Host: Shigeru Kohata, DI SQUARE

Info: A RAG solution to accelerate knowledge discovery powered by open source AI.



🕑: 12:00 PM
OTDI: Trust, Evaluate, Iterate: Monitoring Agents
Host: Dean Wampler, IBM

Info: OTDI offers metrics, drift checks and feedback loops that feed curated data back into training, closing the governance gap for enterprise agents.



🕑: 12:15 PM
Limited-Seat OpenDXA Hands-On Workshop – Crafting Self-Learning Dana Agents
Host: Vinh Luong, Aitomatic

Info: Open your laptop and follow live coding demos that turn plain business logic into deployable, self-improving agents on the OpenDXA + Dana stack. Registration to the Hands-on Workshop required.



🕑: 01:45 PM
Registration for afternoon session

🕑: 02:00 PM
Executive Briefing: AIA Milestones, Japan Charter & New Members
Host: Dr. Anthony Annunziata, IBM

Info: Alliance leaders recap year one, launch the AIA Foundation and Japan Charter, highlight open-source business wins and welcome new corporate members.



🕑: 02:15 PM - 02:25 PM
Unlocking New Opportunities with Llama
Host: Mia Garlick, Meta

Info: Growing trend of open source AI and its potential to transform industries and governments, with insights on economic impact



🕑: 02:25 PM - 02:55 PM
Panel - AI Innovation in Japan: GENIAC program and Industry Perspectives
Host: Takuya Watanabe, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Info: Bringing together government and industry leaders from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, ELYZA and Ubitus to explore innovations enabled by open-source AI in Japan.



🕑: 03:15 PM
Keynote — Global Perspectives on Open Innovation in AI
Host: Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, Sinovation Ventures

Info: The “AI Superpowers” author distils East–West lessons and explains why open ecosystems will drive the next era of industrial and sovereign AI.



🕑: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM
Scaling AI with llm-d
Host: TBD, Red Hat

Info: TBD



🕑: 04:00 PM
Industrial AI Framework: Standards for Factory-Grade Agents
Host: Dr. Christopher Nguyen, Aitomatic

Info: A reference architecture and compliance checklist for deploying resilient, explainable agents on shop floors and across supply chains.



🕑: 04:15 PM
Open Infrastructure: The Bedrock of Sovereign AI
Host: Kunihiro Tanaka, SAKURA internet Inc.

Info: How open hardware, cloud stacks and data-governance norms create neutral ground for national AI strategies.



🕑: 04:30 PM
LangCheck: The Open-Source Toolkit for Automated LLM Evaluation
Host: Kenny Song, Citadel AI

Info: LangCheck streamlines benchmark design, bias detection and drift monitoring, with plug-and-play tests



🕑: 04:40 PM
Closing Remarks

🕑: 02:55 PM
LLM-jp: Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Japan
Host: Koichi Takeda, NII

Info: Inside Japan’s government–industry push to create nation-tuned LLMs and a secure ecosystem for public- and private-sector adopters.




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Meetup (Evening 6 pm - 9 pm) Free
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AI Alliance 2025: Open Innovation in the Age of Agents, 26 June | Event in Minato City | AllEvents
AI Alliance 2025: Open Innovation in the Age of Agents
Thu, 26 Jun, 2025 at 08:30 am
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