TAI Explorations - vLLM
โvLLM Community Night โ Tokyo ๐ฏ๐ต An Evening of AI Innovation, Insights & Community
โWhether you're shipping LLM-powered products, pushing the boundaries of inference research, or simply obsessed with what's coming next in AI โ this one's for you. Join a high-energy gathering of builders, researchers, and enthusiasts for a night of deep technical content, lively conversation, and great food in the heart of Tokyo.
โ๐ TBC, Tokyo
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Friday, 24 April 2026
๐ 6:00 PM โ 9:00 PM (light dinner + networking included!)
โ๐ What's in Store
โโก Deep Dive into vLLM Get insider insights straight from a core vLLM contributor on how vLLM is powering the next generation of LLM performance. Whether you're already running vLLM in prod or just getting started, you'll walk away with something new.
โ๐ฅ vLLM in Production: From Quants to QPS โ Shisa.AI Hear from the CTO of Shisa.AI, running all-Japan production inference across diverse model types, heterogeneous hardware, and multicloud infrastructure. This session goes deep โ benchmarks, evals, quality vs. performance tradeoffs, hardware-specific tricks, and how they tune their serving architecture for real-world QPS demands. No fluff, all signal.
โ๐๏ธ TBC Sessions ร 2 More vLLM goodness incoming โ details dropping soon. Watch this space. ๐
โ๐ฅ Networking, Food & Drinks Wind down with fellow AI builders and researchers over good food and even better conversations. Whether you're looking for collaborators, hiring, or just want to geek out โ this is your time.
โ๐ฅ Who Should Come?
โAI/ML engineers, LLM researchers, infrastructure & platform builders, AI product folks, open-source contributors and anyone curious about where AI is heading next.
โAgenda
โ18:00 Doors open
โ18:30 - 20:00 TBD
โ20:00 - 21:00 Networking & Food & Drinks
โ21:00 Doors close
โOrganizers
โโโโโโโIlya Kulyatin is an entrepreneur with work and academic experience in the US, Netherlands, Singapore, UK, and Japan. He holds a BA in Economics, an MA in Finance, and an MSc in Machine Learning. He's a 3x founder, now helping Japan grow the local AI ecosystem through a not-for-profit community, Tokyo AI (TAI), while building an AI-native system integrator and solutions provider, Foundry Labsๆ ชๅผไผ็คพ.
โEmbedded LLM is an AI infrastructure company with teams in Singapore, Taiwan, and Vilnius, Lithuania. The company is a leading contributor to vLLM, the world's most widely deployed open-source LLM inference engine, and builds TokenVisor, the commercial platform that turns GPU infrastructure into a metered, governed AI service for enterprises and governments.
โSupporters
โโโTokyo AI (โโโTAI) is the biggest AI community in Japan, with 4,000+ members mainly based in Tokyo (engineers, researchers, investors, product managers, and corporate innovation managers).
โโValue Create is a management advisory and corporate value design firm offering services such as business consulting, education, corporate communications, and investment support to help companies and individuals unlock their full potential and drive sustainable growth.
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