Google Cloud Next Tokyo 2027
Overview
Japan's largest cloud conference covering the latest Google Cloud and Workspace technologies and domestic case studies. Keynotes, technical sessions, and hands-on labs are free to attend, and the event has become a key venue for production-grade AI agent stories. The 2027 edition moves to Tokyo Big Sight's West Exhibition Halls 1-3 in August.
Foundation
- Founded
- 2016
- Founder
- Google Cloud
Launched to promote Google Cloud technology adoption in Japan
Transition
- 2016 First Google Cloud Next Tokyo held
- 2020 Moved to an online format
- 2023 Returned in person at Tokyo Big Sight
- 2025 13,000 attendees
- 2026 Held July 30-31 at Tokyo Big Sight South Exhibition Hall, with production use of AI agents as the keynote's central theme
- 2027 Confirmed for August 5-6, moving to the West Exhibition Halls 1-3
Voices
An engineer holding every Google Cloud certification concluded that for production AI agents, a foundation you can safely stop and audit matters more to enterprises than simply using the smartest model (from a Day 1 attendee report, in Japanese)
A partner company's on-site photo report highlighted AI agent-driven autonomy as the keynote's central theme, along with improved venue layout and standing-room-only sessions (from a partner photo report, in Japanese)
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