PingCAP to Sponsor AI Engineering Summit Tokyo 2026 as a Gold Sponsor

PingCAP K.K. announced that it will sponsor AI Engineering Summit Tokyo 2026 as a Gold Sponsor. The conference will be held over two days, June 8 and 9, 2026, and is designed for engineers and leaders who use, build, and promote AI agents. The event will gather practical case studies and insights from real-world implementation, operations, and organizational rollout efforts, helping participants bring back concrete ideas for changing development practices within their own companies and applying them immediately. PingCAP will exhibit at a special booth and deliver a session on the first day, Monday, June 8. Event overview: AI Engineering Summit Tokyo 2026 will take place from 9:00 to 21:00 on Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9, 2026, at Hamamatsucho Convention Hall & Hybrid Studio. The event is organized by Findy Inc. Admission is free with advance registration. The event website is https://ai-engineering-summit-tokyo.findy-tools.io/2026-summer. Session overview: The session will be held on Monday, June 8, 2026, from 14:00 to 14:30 in Room A. The session title is “Product Development and Organizational Transformation Accelerated by AI Agents: Lessons from the TiDB Product Suite.” PingCAP, which advocates an “AI-first” approach, is rapidly bringing AI agent-oriented products such as TiDB X, TiDB Cloud Zero, and mem9 to market. To accelerate this development, the company is transforming its organizational structure and development processes around the premise of AI adoption. The session will explain how AI is changing product development on the ground and how AI agents are being rolled out company-wide in support operations. It will also introduce concrete examples of cross-functional co-creation enabled by AI and share practical knowledge for making AI function as a core organizational capability. Speakers include Masatoshi Sekiguchi, TiDB X Evangelist at PingCAP K.K. After working as a DBA, architect, and project manager at a financial systems integrator, mainly on scratch development projects, he served as a solution architect at multiple foreign database vendors. Since 2022, he has worked at PingCAP K.K. on the promotion and adoption support of TiDB and NewSQL, while also serving as a technology evangelist. He has spoken at numerous technical events in Japan and overseas, including TiUG and Serverless Meetup, and is a co-author of “Wakaba-chan to Tsukutte, Kowashite, Naoshite Manabu NewSQL Nyumon” published by Shoeisha. Another speaker is TONG MU, TiDB X Evangelist at PingCAP K.K. Since 2019, he has worked on distributed systems at PingCAP, mainly in the fields of distributed transactions and storage engines. He has developed many core TiDB features and is one of the main developers of mem9. TiDB is a distributed NewSQL database adopted by more than 4,000 companies worldwide. It is increasingly used in mission-critical systems across industries such as gaming, finance, payment services, e-commerce, content services, telecommunications, manufacturing, distribution, and media. TiDB allows data access using SQL like traditional relational databases, while its distributed architecture provides horizontal scalability, strong consistency, high availability with MySQL compatibility, and high-performance analytical processing through columnar storage. With the adoption of the new TiDB X architecture, it is evolving into a next-generation platform that supports multimodel capabilities, including vector search. In addition to high scalability and cost efficiency, TiDB can support AI agent workloads that process large volumes of on-demand queries with high concurrency. Founded in 2015, PingCAP is an enterprise software service provider committed to offering open-source, cloud-native, one-stop database solutions. The company name combines “Ping,” the command used to check network connectivity, and “CAP” from the CAP theorem. While the CAP theorem states that systems generally must choose two of consistency, availability, and partition tolerance, the name reflects PingCAP’s aspiration to connect all three. More information is available at https://pingcap.co.jp. Company overview: PingCAP K.K. is located at TOKYOTORCH Tokiwabashi Tower 9F, 2-6-4 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The representative is Eric Han. The company was established on March 15, 2021. Its website is https://pingcap.co.jp/. Its business is providing open-source, cloud-native, one-stop database solutions centered on the distributed NewSQL database TiDB. Company and product names mentioned in the release are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.