[Online] Portfolios That Get You Hired In The Age of AI

Hey, Product Friends! ✨ Welcome to Tokyo Design Community, we are the leading AI-driven product design communities in Japan. We're focused on AI-native practical insights, real-world experience, job-hunting in Japan, career advancement and learning together. This session, we're tackling two questions every designer quietly wonders about: what does growth really look like today, and how do you actually get hired? We'll wrap up with a hands-on portfolio workshop where you can work on your own portfolio, case study, or resume with the credit sponsors from Lovable and Tapnow. For a long time, the path seemed clear: master the craft, earn the next title. At the same time, the hiring bar has never been higher. Teams expect broader skill sets, and building a portfolio that stands out is a challenge of its own. You're practicing with AI and shipping with vibe coding tools, but is that enough to land the job you want? That's why we're inviting speakers from different backgrounds to share their insights and insider tips: a designer who has grown across disciplines, and a former UX designer turned recruiter who now sees the hiring side up clos You might be wondering: Should I go deeper in my specialty or broaden my skill set? How do I know which sideways move is the right one for me? How do recruiters read a designer's background, especially a non-linear one? What makes a candidate stand out in today's AI-era job market? Event Highlights: 🌱 Grow Sideways, Stay Rooted: Vincent's journey from graphic design and editorial to branding, then product and experience, and why depth matters as much as range 🔍 The Hiring Side: Insider insights on job-hunting from a former UX designer turned recruiter 💬 Q&A 💜 Portfolio Critique & workshop with FREE credits from Lovable and Tapnow hands-on working session on your case study/ portfolio website/ resume etc. 🙌 Optional networking session 🎙️Featured Speakers: Vincent Wijaya Vincent is a Design Director (Product & Experience) at VM

日本語は下↓ Vol.2｜Co-create — Build business ideas across borders From talking about ideas to building businesses together across borders. The second edition of Go Global Hub 2026 is Build Together – Cross-border Co-Creation Workshop. Date: Monday, October 26th, 2026 at 18:30 (doors open at 18:00) Venue: Sivan's Lab Language: English (with Japanese support) Capacity: 70 - 100 participants Price: Free Overview International and Japanese startups, entrepreneurs, corporations, investors, and other ecosystem players will form mixed teams and work together to turn business challenges and themes into concrete new business ideas. This is open to everyone — whether you're already building your own new business and want to stress-test and sharpen it with cross-border perspectives, or you'd rather start from scratch with a theme and shape a brand-new idea together with your team. Either way, you'll be working through the same core questions: Who is the customer? What problem are we solving? What value can we provide? How can the idea become a sustainable business? What partners do we need to make it happen? Using frameworks such as the Business Model Canvas and Lean Canvas, participants will combine their experience, expertise, and different cultural and market perspectives to develop ideas — whether brought in or built on the spot — into potential business models. At the end of the workshop, each team will deliver a 3-minute mini pitch. The goal is not to create a perfect business plan. What matters is the experience of building something together with people you would not normally have the opportunity to work with. The ideas and connections created during the session can become the starting point for future business development, partnerships, PoCs, and international expansion. Speaker Catherine Li - Co-Founder, Felo AI | Global Strategy | Startup Investment Haruka Aoyama (Catherine Li) brings more than 20 years of experience in international finance, startup investment, busines

English / 日本語は下に↓ Tokyo Tech Talks #9, "Laser Chess and the Consequences of Deterministic Games," is coming up on Tuesday, October 27. In Laser Chess, there are no dice and no hidden cards. Every piece is on the board, every move is visible, and the laser always follows the same path through the same mirrors. If nothing is left to chance, what is actually left to play for? On October 27, Ai, a mathematics and engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh, will use Laser Chess as a starting point to explore what it means for a game to be deterministic, and what follows once every outcome is fixed by the rules and the moves. No game theory background required. Just bring your curiosity, and stay for drinks and conversation afterward. Tokyo Tech Talks #9「Laser Chess and the Consequences of Deterministic Games」は、10月27日（火）に開催します。 Laser Chessには、サイコロも伏せられたカードもありません。すべての駒は盤上にあり、すべての手は相手から見えていて、レーザーは同じ鏡の配置なら必ず同じ道筋をたどります。運の要素がまったくないとき、ゲームには何が残るのでしょうか。 10月27日のTokyo Tech Talksでは、ピッツバーグ大学で数学と工学を学ぶAiさんとともに、Laser Chessを出発点に、ゲームが決定論的であるとはどういうことか、ルールと指し手だけで結果が決まるとき何が導かれるのかを探ります。 ゲーム理論の予備知識は不要です。好奇心だけ持ってお越しください。トークの後は、ドリンクを片手に話しましょう。