​Description

​What does it take to make enterprise AI useful, secure, and deployable in real organizations? Join Tokyo AI and Cohere for an evening with the teams building and deploying Cohere's North platform and AI models.

​Aidan Gomez opens the programme in conversation with Ilya Kulyatin. Cohere's Japan and technical teams then share product demonstrations and practical lessons on agent workflows, security, forward-deployed engineering, customer infrastructure, and model customization. The evening is for software and AI engineers, architects, infrastructure teams, and enterprise technology leaders who want to understand how these systems work in practice.

​When: Thursday, November 12, 2026, 18:00-21:00 JST
Where: Tokyo, venue to be announced. The address will be shared with approved guests.

​Agenda

​The programme begins at 18:00.

• ​18:00-18:30 - Talk 1: Aidan Gomez in conversation with Ilya Kulyatin

• ​18:30-18:40 - Talk 2: Cohere in Japan (Takeo Tokunari)

• ​18:40-18:55 - Talk 3: North 2.0 and enterprise AI workflows (Yuta Kihara)

• ​18:55-19:05 - Talk 4: Product security and vulnerability management (Jack Zhang)

• ​19:05-19:15 - Audience Q&A

• ​19:15-19:30 - Break

• ​19:30-19:40 - Talk 5: Making North work for customers (Taiga Kubota)

• ​19:40-19:50 - Talk 6: Deploying Cohere on customer infrastructure (Connor McBrine-Ellis)

• ​19:50-20:05 - Talk 7: Cohere models and customization (Steven Connors)

• ​20:05-20:20 - Audience Q&A, facilitated by Takeo Tokunari

• ​20:20-21:00 - Networking with food and drinks

​Talks

​Talk 1: Aidan Gomez in conversation with Ilya Kulyatin

​Aidan Gomez, Cohere's Co-founder and CEO, joins Ilya Kulyatin for an opening conversation about enterprise AI.

​Talk 2: Cohere in Japan (Takeo Tokunari)

​Takeo Tokunari, Customer Success Manager at Cohere, introduces Cohere's global and Japan teams, its products, and Japanese customer stories.

​Talk 3: North 2.0 and enterprise AI workflows (Yuta Kihara)

​Yuta Kihara, Solutions Architect at Cohere, demonstrates North 2.0, from retrieval and agents to builder tools, automation, evaluation, and governance. Examples include a custom agent and a manufacturing workflow.

​Talk 4: Product security and vulnerability management (Jack Zhang)

​Jack Zhang, Engineering Program Manager at Cohere, explains how Cohere manages vulnerabilities and works with customers and partners to keep deployments secure. The session also covers Cohere's announced AISLE transaction.

​Talk 5: Making North work for customers (Taiga Kubota)

​Taiga Kubota, from Cohere's FDE Agents team, shares a sanitized customer example and explains how forward-deployed engineers adapt North to customer needs, including the boundary between product features and customer-specific work.

​Talk 6: Deploying Cohere on customer infrastructure (Connor McBrine-Ellis)

​Connor McBrine-Ellis, from Cohere's FDE Infrastructure team, covers customer-specific deployment, air-gapped environments, and model performance on customer GPUs.

​Talk 7: Cohere models and customization (Steven Connors)

​Steven Connors, from Cohere's FDE Agents team, surveys Cohere's generative and retrieval models, model customization options, and real-world examples.

​Organizers

​Tokyo AI (TAI) and Cohere organize this event together.

​Ilya 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 is a three-time founder, building the AI community in Japan through Tokyo AI while leading Foundry Labs株式会社.

​Supporters

​Cohere is an enterprise AI company building foundation models and end-to-end products for business use. Its North platform brings together AI agents, enterprise knowledge, automation, and governance to help organizations put AI to work. With deployment options across cloud, private cloud, and on-premises environments, Cohere gives enterprises control over their data, security, and AI systems.

​Foundry Labs K.K. is a Tokyo-based AI systems integrator and solutions provider, delivering end-to-end support for enterprises from strategy through implementation, deployment, and operations. Its work is tailored to clients' operational, regulatory, and security needs.

​About TAI

​Tokyo AI (TAI) connects the people building AI in Japan with the global ecosystem through technical events and community collaborations.

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