Four of the world’s busiest AI calendars sit within five hours’ flying time of each other, and nobody keeps them in one place.This page does: the conferences, summits, expos, hackathons and meetups running in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul, each checked against the organiser’s own listing and each carrying a line on who it is actually for. The list Metis AI keeps for its own clients.
21 events in the next 90 days · 8 more on the horizon · last updated 4 August 2026
Each event shows its own local time — HKT (UTC+8) in Hong Kong; SGT (UTC+8) in Singapore; JST (UTC+9) in Tokyo; KST (UTC+9) in Seoul.
Google Hong Kong, 21/F Tower 2, Times Square, 1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay
A Google Developer Group Hong Kong session on running AI models locally in the browser using LiteRT.js and Gemma, led by Google's Web AI lead and local developers.
Who it’s for: Engineers and technical product people who want to watch on-device inference actually run. Free, but genuinely developer-level — a non-technical manager will be lost by the third slide.
MeetupFreeHong KongVerified 4 Aug
Organised by GDG Hong Kong (Google Developer Groups)
Korea's flagship applied-AI conference and expo at COEX, pairing enterprise keynotes and agentic-AI case studies with a large exhibition hall of startups and vendors.
Who it’s for: Executives with a Korea mandate. The keynote track is enterprise case studies rather than research, and the exhibition floor is the real reason to go — three days is more than most people need, so pick your day.
ConferencePaidSeoulVerified 4 Aug
Organised by DMK Global, in partnership with COEX and KITA
Two-day enterprise AI expo pairing IPI Singapore's tech-transfer platform TechInnovation with AIMX's adoption-focused tracks (robotics, healthcare, logistics, retail) — aimed at moving companies from AI pilots to deployment via live demos and matchmaking.
Who it’s for: Operations and transformation leads shopping for vendors. The matchmaking format rewards anyone arriving with a defined problem and a budget; everyone else gets an expo hall.
ExpoPrice TBCSingaporeVerified 4 Aug
Organised by IPI Singapore (Enterprise Singapore) with MP Singapore, in partnership with TechInnovation
A Japanese-language evening talk from Tokyo AI Lab, one of Japan's largest AI communities, digging into vision-language-action models, world models and dexterity as the building blocks of physical/embodied AI in robotics.
Who it’s for: Robotics and ML engineers with working Japanese — this one is Japanese-first with no interpretation. Business attendees without the language should skip it.
A hands-on weekend sprint where non-technical founders and professionals build and ship a working AI agent product using no-code tools like Lovable, run by School of Applied AI.
Who it’s for: Non-technical founders and professionals who want to leave having built something. A full weekend and a real fee, so treat it as training spend rather than networking.
The monthly gathering of Hong Kong's hands-on AI builder community, featuring live technical demos and discussion, this edition supported by OAX Foundation and GMAsia.
Who it’s for: The best low-cost way into Hong Kong's AI builder scene. The demos are real and technical, but the room is friendly to smart non-engineers who ask questions.
Mercari Tokyo Office, Roppongi Hills Mori Tower, Minato Ward, Tokyo
A two-day, company-run hackathon at Mercari's Tokyo HQ where roughly 40 selected students build AI-agent solutions to real product problems, judged more on problem framing than raw engineering polish.
Who it’s for: Students only, roughly forty places. Worth forwarding to a graduate hire or an intern — not something a working professional can attend.
A one-day media-hosted conference gathering executives from global AI firms and Korean industry to discuss AI market trends, policy direction and cross-border cooperation.
Who it’s for: A one-day, media-run conference: good for a fast read on Korean policy direction and market mood, thin on implementation detail.
Seoul city government's flagship global startup festival, themed 'AI Changes Everything' this year, combining tech showcases, investor meetups and keynotes on AI's impact across industries.
Who it’s for: Founders, investors and corporate venture teams. Free and city-run, so signal-to-noise varies — go for the meetings, not the main stage.
The Agentic AI Foundation's Asia-Pacific flagship developer conference for the open agentic-AI ecosystem, bringing together contributors and enterprises building on the Model Context Protocol and related agent-system standards.
Who it’s for: The one Tokyo event a technical leader building on agent standards should not miss. English-language, Linux Foundation-run, and much closer to the standards work than to marketing.
ConferencePrice TBCTokyoVerified 4 Aug
Organised by Agentic AI Foundation / Linux Foundation
Fourth edition of this fintech expo and awards show, drawing 1,000+ senior decision-makers with AI-in-finance as one of the headline agenda tracks alongside payments, blockchain and regtech, plus AI vendor exhibitors on the floor.
Who it’s for: Fintech commercial teams. AI is one track among payments and regtech, so it earns a day only if financial services is your sector.
Ubie Office, Nihonbashi Life Science Building, Chuo Ward, Tokyo
A small, business-side (non-engineer) hackathon from the Loglass/LayerX/Ubie-founded AI Ops Community, focused on using AI slash commands to automate everyday internal operations rather than software engineering per se.
Who it’s for: Business-side operators, explicitly not engineers — the rare hands-on session aimed at internal operations rather than software. Japanese-language.
HackathonPrice TBCTokyoVerified 4 Aug
Organised by AI Ops Community (Loglass, LayerX, Ubie)
Inaugural defence-tech hackathon putting agentic AI and autonomous systems to work on real security problems (drone defence, maritime security, electronic warfare), with winners funnelled into NUS's Defence Tech Venture Lab for incubation.
Who it’s for: Deep-tech founders and engineers with a security angle, plus anyone tracking where defence money is moving in the region. Not a general AI event.
HackathonPrice TBCSingaporeVerified 4 Aug
Organised by NUS Enterprise, TUM Venture Labs, European Defense Tech Hub
A five-day international academic conference on AI agents for scientific research, with parallel oral tracks, poster sessions, a hackathon and an AI art competition, backed by Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT.
Who it’s for: Researchers and R&D leads. Five days in an academic format — corporate attendees should cherry-pick a day rather than commit the week.
ConferencePaidSeoulVerified 4 Aug
Organised by Korean Society for Practical AI (AI Friends), with the Korean Science AI Forum
Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
The data/AI conference track inside the broader Tech Week Singapore trade show, pulling in senior data and AI buyers for two days of theatre sessions on AI strategy and machine learning, with a single pass covering the co-located Cloud & AI Infrastructure and DevOps Live tracks too.
Who it’s for: Data and AI buyers with budget. One pass covering the co-located cloud and DevOps tracks is most of the value; the theatre sessions are vendor-led.
City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
An inaugural academic conference bringing together AI researchers, policymakers and social scientists to examine how large language models are reshaping research methods and governance, co-run by CityU, Oxford and Peking University.
Who it’s for: Policy people, researchers and anyone whose work touches AI governance. Academic in register — read the programme before paying.
ConferencePaidHong KongVerified 4 Aug
Organised by Talking to Machines (CityU Computational Social Sciences Lab / Oxford Nuffield / Peking University)
A World Bank-organised policy summit with Korea's finance and science ministries on using AI and digital tools to drive jobs and productivity in developing economies; most sessions are invitation-only with select sessions livestreamed.
Who it’s for: Policy and development-finance professionals. Largely invitation-only, so for most people this is a livestream to watch rather than a trip to book.
SummitPrice TBCSeoulVerified 4 Aug
Organised by World Bank Group, with Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance and Ministry of Science and ICT
A large multi-show B2B exhibition (about 700 exhibitors, 31,000 visitors) where the co-located Japan DX & AX Week puts AI-driven transformation, automation and enterprise AI tooling alongside broader IT/digital-marketing/e-commerce exhibits.
Who it’s for: Enterprise buyers doing vendor discovery at scale. Free entry, around seven hundred exhibitors, and mostly Japanese-language at booth level — bring a colleague who reads Japanese.
An invite-only closed-door forum where roughly 30 senior data and technology leaders compare notes on AI-first strategy, governance and real-world execution.
Who it’s for: Data and technology chiefs only — roughly thirty seats, invitation-only. Worth asking for an invitation if that is your title, and nothing to do here if it is not.
Singapore's flagship startup and deep-tech week, with AI, robotics and quantum as core main-stage themes, 400+ exhibiting startups and the SLINGSHOT pitch competition running alongside — broader than pure AI but consistently AI-heavy in programming.
Who it’s for: Founders and corporate innovation teams. Broader than AI, but the deep-tech programming and the SLINGSHOT pitches are where the region's next AI companies surface.
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre + multiple venues
Asia's flagship fintech festival, expecting 45,000+ attendees and dedicated AI in Finance, AI and DeepTech, and AI in GBA forums alongside the broader startup and investment programme.
Who it’s for: The one week Hong Kong finance clears its calendar for. Dedicated AI-in-finance forums, though the corridor conversations matter more than the stages.
ExpoPaidHong KongVerified 4 Aug
Organised by Finoverse, with HKMA, SFC, Insurance Authority, InvestHK and other government co-organisers
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On the horizon
Confirmed, but more than 90 days out. Worth diarising now if travel or budget approval is involved.
Metis AI advises Hong Kong professionals and their teams on putting AI to work — which tools, which workflows, and which of this calendar is genuinely worth a Tuesday evening. The list is a by-product of that advisory work, kept current because clients keep asking for it.
If the harder question is what to actually do with AI inside your own role, that is a conversation rather than a conference.
