AI Systems Design: From Models to Production

This session explores how modern AI applications are built end-to-end, beyond demos and frameworks. We’ll look at how models, retrieval (RAG), search infrastructure, and agentic systems come together in real applications, with a focus on practical system design, trade-offs, and failure modes. The goal is to move past “glue code around APIs” and understand what’s actually happening under the hood when you ship AI systems at scale. Agenda 18:00 Doors open 18:30 - 20:00 TBD 20:00 - 21:00 Networking & Food & Drinks 21:00 Doors close Organizers ​​​​​​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'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 Labs株式会社. Supporters ​​Tokyo AI (​​​TAI) is the biggest AI community in Japan, with 4,000+ members mainly based in Tokyo (engineers, researchers, investors, product managers, and corporate innovation managers). ​Value 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. ​Privacy Policy ​We will process your email address for the purposes of event-related communications and ongoing newsletter communications. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. Further details on how we process personal data are available in our Privacy Policy.