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Speak at "AI Toys Come Alive!" Hosted by Agora.io and AWS
Yuta Sasaki, founding member and ML engineer at Kotoba Technologies, will speak at AI Toys Come Alive! Real-Time Voice AI × Interactive Entertainment, an event co-hosted by Agora.io and Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Tokyo on Thursday, September 17, 2026.
His session looks at how voice AI is finding its way into everyday life — from communicating across languages to jotting down a quick note — and at the on-device inference work that makes it possible.
About the event
AI toys and AI companions are changing interactive entertainment. By combining real-time communication, voice AI, conversational AI, and hardware, it is now possible to build toys, characters, AI avatars, and devices that talk with users naturally. The event brings together companies working at that frontier for talk sessions and live demos on the future of play.
Event details
Event: AI Toys Come Alive! Real-Time Voice AI × Interactive Entertainment
Date and time: Thursday, September 17, 2026, 17:00–21:00 JST
Venue: GoodSpace Kanda Ekimae, 4F — Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (1-minute walk from Kanda Station, JR Yamanote Line)
Hosts: Agora.io and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Admission: Free, by invitation
Languages: Japanese and English
Registration: Event page
Our session | 18:20–18:40
"From Breaking Language Barriers to Everyday Note-Taking: Kotoba's Real-Time Voice AI"
Speaker: Yuta Sasaki (Founding Member / ML Engineer, Kotoba Technologies, Inc.)
Also on the program
Agora — opening session and a live AI Toy demo, with Donnie Chen (General Manager, Japan)
MiniMax — an introduction to the latest H3 model, with Akira Takeuchi (Head of Japan)
Yukai Engineering — the future of AI Toys and interactive robotics, with Takashi Sagisaka (CTO)
Panel discussion — "Virtual Characters, VTubers & Human Connection in the AI Era," with INBREEZE, AnotherBall, and a guest gaming company
The sessions are followed by networking over food and drinks, along with hands-on demos.
Attendance is by invitation, so please apply through the event page if you would like to join.
