Nicely covered. Interview in conjunction with Google’s LuanchPad Accelerator Tokyo, which we’ve been selected for Batch One.

Joyz, Inc. (Head office: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan; CEO: Yoshiyuki Kakihara; hereinafter referred to as Joyz) announces that it has started joint research with the Saruwatari-Koyama Laboratory, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, on the application of speech synthesis technology to language acquisition. In this joint research, Joyz will work with Assistant Professor Shinnosuke Takamichi (hereafter, Assistant Professor Takamichi) in Saruwatari Laboratory, Department of Systems Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, to develop effective foreign language acquisition methods utilising learning history and speech data owned by Joyz, in an industry-academia collaboration system....

I gave a talk at DjangoCongress JP 2018 named “Django in the age of AI - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly”. I have been somewhat distant from the local Python community since I helped run PyCon JP 2014 as a publicity team member. I hope my talk was interesting enough.

AI英会話アプリ「TerraTalk」のHeroku＋AWS活用法 I gave a talk at an AWS user conference. I spoke about the technical challenges of AI English learning app TerraTalk, the back-end configuration and our agility-first architecture. Thank you to everyone involved for the opportunity!