Conferences exhaust. Gatherings transform.
SushiTech, residencies, founders' dinners, pop-up summits. ORIJINS Events is the deliberate dismantling of the conference-industrial complex — and its replacement with rooms that actually mean something. No sponsor stages. No swag bags. No theater.
$15 billion a year, and nobody remembers anything.
The events industry sells transformation by the lanyard and delivers fluorescent rooms, sponsored panels, and recycled keynotes. People board planes, stand in line, hand out cards, fly home — and could not tell you a single thing they learned. We watched it for years, and then we walked out.
What if every room you walked into
actually mattered?
— a question we ask before we send a single invitation.
Six formats. Zero theater. Substance only.
ORIJINS Events is not a conference brand. It is a constellation of formats — each engineered for a specific kind of human exchange. Some loud. Some quiet. None for sale.
SushiTech — Flagship Tokyo
Our annual gathering at the intersection of technology, craft, and culture. Five days. Three hundred people. Tokyo in May. A program that reads like a curated playlist instead of a trade show.
Pop-Up Summits — 24 Hours
Spontaneous, single-night gatherings. Announced 72 hours ahead, capped at 80 people, never repeated. The cure for the over-engineered conference: an event you almost missed, in a city you almost weren't in.
Residencies — A Full Week
Twelve people. One house. Seven days of focused work alongside builders, scientists, and writers you'd otherwise never meet. Phones in a basket at the door. The work that comes out of these weeks doesn't fit in a deck.
Founders' Dinners
Twelve seats. One long table. A pre-published prompt that the entire room must answer. Hosted in the home of an ORIJINS member. Phones face-down. Press not invited. The hardest invitation in tech.
GAIA Attendee Matching
You don't get a guest list. You get three names. GAIA reads what each of you is actually working on, then makes the introductions worth flying for — usually before you arrive, sometimes mid-flight.
Open-Source Recordings
Every talk, every panel, every fireside — recorded in studio-grade audio and video, released free on the public internet. Forever. No paywall. No "early access." If the room mattered, the world should hear it.
$3,500 a ticket. Zero recall.
The honest economics of a modern business conference are punishing once you write them down. Then we ask the simpler question: how much would you pay for a single hour of conversation that actually changed how you think?
SushiTech 2026 will cost less than a typical SaaS conference, and we will publish — out loud, after the event — what every attendee built, met, or shipped because of it. If we cannot show measurable change, we shut the format down. No theater. No re-runs. No exit.
By 2050, the new model for how humans convene.
Not bigger. Not louder. Just rooms — many of them, on every continent — where the right people show up to do the real work. We grow on the speed of trust, not the speed of marketing.
Get on the list.
We don't sell tickets in advance. We send invitations. If your work belongs in one of our rooms, leave your name and tell us what you're building. We read everything. We answer the ones we mean.