Tokyo Design: Your Best UX Career Buddy in Japan

[In-Person] AI Meets Her - AI Build Day To Visualize Your Dream

Sat, Jun 13 · 1:00 PM JST

Mercari, Inc., Roppongi Hills, Mori Tower 18F, Minato-ku, Tokyo, al, JP

Hey, Product Friends especially Our Dear Lady Builders! ✨
Welcome to Tokyo Design Community — one of the most active AI-driven product design communities in Japan, where design meets technology, business, and the tools shaping what comes next. We're focused on AI-native practical insights, real-world experience, and learning together.

Welcome to AI Meets Her — AI Build Day to Visualize Your Dream
No prior tech or coding experience needed 🙌
Femcode Collective × Tokyo Design — two communities joining forces to empower women and non-binary creators to build with AI.
Femcode Collective is a global community for women ready to launch their own AI-coded products.
Together, we're bringing the spirit of the Slush Helsinki women's hackathon to Tokyo — and we want YOU to be part of it.

Event Notice
AI Meets Her is an initiative dedicated to supporting and empowering female and non-binary builders. Individuals who do not identify within these groups are welcome to attend as audience members, supporters, or volunteers.

🪄 Imagine this: you have a small business idea, a side project, or a dream product sitting in the back of your mind. Maybe it's a landing page for your brand, a portfolio to showcase your work, a package design tool, an AI image generator to create products you can resell, or an app that solves a problem you care about. What if you could build it — today — without writing a single line of code?

You might be wondering...
✨ Can I really build something without any coding skills?
✨ What kind of products can I create in just a few hours?
✨ How are other women using AI to launch businesses and side projects?
✨ What does it feel like to go from idea to working product in one afternoon?
✨ How can I use AI tools to design, generate images, and create things I can actually sell?

What we'll do together:

1. Welcome words from the Embassy of Finland in Tokyo
2. Female builders share how they launched products and businesses from scratch using AI with zero technical background — their journeys, mindsets, and living philosophies, shared in the most hands-on way
3. You build! Hands-on session using Lovable, Cursor, and other AI tools
4. Showcase what you created to the room
5. Celebrate, connect, and leave inspired

This isn't a lecture. It's not a workshop you just watch. It's a build day where you walk in with an idea and walk out with something real.

Who is this for?
👩‍💻 Women and non-binary people curious about building with AI
🎨 Designers, creators, and entrepreneurs
💼 Anyone with a business idea, side project, or dream product
🌱 Students and career changers exploring new possibilities
🚀 First-timers welcome — zero experience needed!
✨ A supportive, judgment-free space to explore, create, and grow together 🙌

📅 Agenda
12:30 Doors open & networking
13:00 Welcome words, Embassy of Finland in Tokyo
13:30 Builder stories & vibe coding demo
14:30 Let's build! 🔥
17:30 Showcases & mentorship
18:30 Celebration🎉
19:00 Food, drinks & mingling
20:00 Doors close

🎤 Meet Our Keynote Speakers
Females who've built, pivoted, and figured it out share their personal narratives. This isn't about putting someone on a pedestal. It's girls helping girls, one honest story at a time.

Koyuki Otani
Koyuki, COO of CraftOS, brings a strong background in information science and AI systems. Her work spans retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), retrieval evaluation, and AI product development, with hands-on experience building retrieval systems and domain-specific search solutions. She is particularly passionate about designing AI that is practical, reliable, and deeply embedded in real-world workflows.

CraftOS is a Japan-based AI startup developing proactive AI agents that function as digital workers. Its platform enables startups and businesses to automate back-office and computer-based workflows—such as scheduling, reporting, email drafting, and software operations—through natural language interaction. The company is working toward a future where AI agents can take on meaningful operational tasks and help teams scale more efficiently..

Maki Mizuno
Maki Mizuno is the founder of Sakura Tai Concierge and CMO of Pulsar Innovations, a Tokyo-based organization focused on building global startup ecosystems and bridging Japan with international markets.
She works at the intersection of community building, innovation, and global expansion, creating platforms that connect startups, investors, and industry leaders across borders.
Maki has been actively involved in organizing and leading international startup events, including collaborations with global partners to bring cross-border opportunities to Japanese founders. Through her work, she aims to empower entrepreneurs to scale beyond local markets and access global ecosystems.
She is also a frequent speaker at business conferences and innovation forums, where she shares insights on community-driven growth, global startup ecosystems, and the future of collaboration.

Chio Ishikawa
Chio Ishikawa is a Partner at WPower Partners, where she backs entrepreneurs building globally ambitious businesses with a focus on social impact and advancing women in the workforce. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, she began her career at Sumitomo Corporation in corporate venture capital and new business development, later leading startup investment across Southeast Asia during a two-year secondment in Hong Kong.

More speakers to come 🙌

🙌 Meet Our Venue Sponsor: Mercari
Mercari Japan's largest C2C marketplace and the country's first tech unicorn, Mercari is a Tokyo-based platform connecting millions of buyers and sellers across Japan and the US. Beyond its marketplace app, Mercari also offers Merpay, a mobile payment service enabling users to seamlessly spend their earnings. We're excited to have them as our venue host!

🙌 Meet Our Event Sponsor: Tokyo Dev
Tokyo Dev helps international software engineers find jobs in Japan. Through job listings, community resources, and original research, TokyoDev connects talented engineers from around the world with opportunities at Japan's top tech companies. They are also passionate supporters of Japan's tech community, sponsoring meetups and events across the country.

💜 Supported by
Embassy of Finland in Tokyo
Lovable
Cursor
Lovart
Startup Lady Japan
TEDxInnovation U
FEW Japan
Melting Hack
CreatorLabo
WayTo AGI