AI / Artificial Intelligence EXPO NEO 2026 (Tokyo)

AI / Artificial Intelligence EXPO NEO 2026 (AI・人工知能EXPO NEO) runs on 5-6 August 2026 at the Tokyo International Forum, organised by RX Japan, Japan's largest trade-fair operator and the team behind the long-running NexTech Week series. This is the inaugural NEO edition, positioned as a practical, implementation-stage AI show rather than a general technology survey.

The exhibition's defining idea is to make each visitor's 'AX phase' - their AI adoption maturity - visible, sorting attendees across four stages: individual-level AI use, organisation-wide deployment, AI substitution of tasks, and autonomous AI-driven decision-making and end-to-end optimisation. The stated aim is to cut wasted pitches and mismatches so that exhibitors and buyers meet at the right level. For visitors, that means the floor is built around moving past stalled proofs-of-concept toward real business deployment, with exhibitors offering partners, know-how and concrete solutions.

The audience is enterprise AI decision-makers and implementation leads - people responsible for getting AI out of pilots and into operations across sectors. Entry requires free advance visitor registration. As part of RX Japan's NexTech Week ecosystem, NEO sits alongside related autumn (Makuhari Messe) and spring (Tokyo Big Sight) editions, so attendees can map it against the broader Japanese enterprise-AI calendar. Note this is an exhibitor-and-business-matching event, not a peer-reviewed conference; treat the value as commercial discovery and dealmaking rather than academic content.