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About This Event

Spectrum Tokyo is all about new design trends and digging into broader perspectives in technology and design.

This is our in-person meetup where designers (and non-designers) gather to talk randomly about design, share ideas, and casually connect. We feel that the local designers have little chance to speak English and interact with international talents, which is such a loss of opportunity in many ways.

Therefore, all Lightning Talks and mingling will be in English. Please note that the crowd will consist of various English levels, and we insist that speakers of all levels pay respect to each other to make an encouraging, friendly atmosphere for all. We look forward to meeting up with all of you!

Spectrum Tokyo Meetup #09

Date: Feb 28, 2024
Time: 19:00-21:30 (18:45 open)
Place: Fabric｜MAP
Tickets: 1,000 yen
*Drinks and snacks will be served at the venue
*In alignment with venue sponsor’s sustainability efforts aimed at reducing plastic usage, we kindly request attendees who plan to consume soft drinks to bring their own cups.

Lightning Talks (5 min each)

Talk Theme

Tell us about your latest passion & trends in Design

Speakers

(Re) defining creativity
AKA Virtual｜Creative Director
Busson Remy｜Linkedin

Re-design Design Organization
McKinsey & Company｜Design Director
Asuka Kondo

Just Wanted to Learn English, But Somehow Ended Up Redesigning an English School’s Business!
Toyota Connected / Freelance｜Executive AI Director / Experience Designer
Shota Kawamura｜X

Rapid value verification to avoid creating unnecessary functions in product design
booklista Co.,Ltd｜Designer
Crema｜X

Exploring the Potential and Opportunities of Product Designers in the Music Industry
Freelance｜Product Designer / DJ
Masaya Takizawa｜X

Role of design in the age of sustainability transformation
Fabric｜Sustainability Strategist
Tomoko Saigan｜Linkedin

Facilitators

Marika Hirano｜Spectrum Tokyo Director｜Linkedin

Program

Call for Speakers

We are looking for speakers in our upcoming events. People from any industry, job titles, skill levels are welcome, as long as you are talking about design (we are a design community within the area of IT, so it should be somewhat relevant to technology).
If you wish to speak, send your pitch to via Google Form.

• The talk themes will be the same as above.
• We do not accept if your talk is going to be mainly about recruiting designers or selling your products.

Join our Discord / Social Media

In our Discord, we have prepared a thread specifically for meetups where you can ask questions about the speakers’ talks and interact with other participants! We hope it becomes a hub for ongoing networking and idea exchange beyond the meetup. Make the most of this opportunity!
You can join the meetup thread from our [events] channel on Discord.

In addition to this, at LinkedIn we share event schedules and calls for speakers. We’ve also just started our Instagram, where we’ll provide exclusive contents and more!

Tickets

At this event, we are using the external event platform ‘Tito’ for registration, and credit card payments are processed through ‘Stripe’.

Notes

• The event will all be in English without translations. For important announcements, we might include Japanese for English beginners, so please bear with us)
• We will open the venue from 18:45. You cannot enter before that time.
• The office is non-smoking.

Special Thanks

Fabric for letting us use the venue, and supporting us run the event

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