with alliz: Startup Internships — The Untapped Value Journey ~ スタートアップインターン — 潜在価値を拓く成長の旅 ~
Event Overview
New graduate hiring demands significant investment in Japan, and national data confirms that new hire turnover remains a persistent challenge. How can businesses mitigate this entry-level hiring risk and proactively ensure a strong long-term talent fit?
This event explores Startup Internships as the strategic solution. They act as an accelerated, low-risk way to build a reliable talent pipeline and foster deep, mutual growth for everyone involved.
For Founders: This internship journey is a direct investment that provides critical foresight. You gain crucial market insights from working directly with youth, especially valuable for educational or young-targeted businesses, and provide invaluable leadership development by mentoring and training future talent.
For Students: This is your chance for accelerated career growth. You work directly with founders and leadership, contribute to key business decisions, and gain invaluable real-world experience before starting your job search. Your contribution helps shape the future of the business.
This is our last in-person event in Tokyo for the year! Come join us for an insightful conversation where founders and interns will share their unique journeys and expectations. Let's celebrate the end of a productive year and cheer for a new one ahead!
with alliz: Startup Internships — The Untapped Value Journey ~ スタートアップインターン — 潜在価値を拓く成長の旅 ~
Who is this for
- Startup Founders & Leaders: Gaining strategic insight into future talent investment and team development
- Ambitious Students & Interns: Seeking direct founder mentorship and career acceleration opportunities
- Network Builders: Tech professionals focused on expanding startup connections and business collaboration
- Startup Ecosystem Supporters (VCs, Accelerators): Identifying top talent and market trends to inform future investment and scaling strategies
- University & Educational Personnel: Aligning student programs with current startup hiring demands and trends
Guest Introduction
Speaker 1: Leonid Posadskov, CEO, Luminari Inc.
Leonid Posadskov is the Founder and CEO of Luminari Inc., a Japan-based security-first advisory bureau. His work explores how education, design, and interactive systems can reshape the way organizations think about security. With a background in AI architecture and strategy consulting, he focuses on translating complex technical and behavioral challenges into clear, experience-driven learning that builds real understanding and accountability.
Topic: Siminari – Modernizing Security Education Through Gamification
Much of today’s security education still treats people like checklists. Courses explain what to do, but rarely why it matters or how decisions feel under real pressure. Siminari, developed by Luminari Inc., takes a different approach—using interactive, story-driven scenarios to connect rules with experience. This talk explores where traditional methods fall short, what we’ve learned from rebuilding them, and how understanding behavior leads to lasting awareness.
Speaker 2: Alejandro Pascual, CEO, Boksen
Alejandro Pascual is the founder and CEO of Boksen, a Tokyo-based startup building AI-driven marketing systems. Having lived in Mexico, China, Korea, Luxembourg and Japan and now fluent in eleven languages, he blends business development experience with a cross-cultural insight. His work focuses on helping companies reclaim time through practical AI, and he is known for his no-nonsense communication style and commitment to his mission of helping people regain their most valuable currency: time.
Topic: The Best Internship in the World (No, Seriously)
Most internships at big companies turn students into furniture. You sit in a corner, touch tasks no one will ever read again, and spend three months learning only office politics (at best). Boksen is the opposite. Interns work directly with the founder, learn to build real software in as little as one day, attend and present in live customer meetings, and even join business trips. The work is no-nonsense, hands-on, and brutally educational. If you want an internship that actually upgrades your life, this is the one.
Speaker 3: Liam Persad, Web Development Intern, alliz
Liam Persad is a fourth-year Computer Science student at Temple University Japan, currently interning as a Web Development Intern at alliz. In this role, he contributes to expanding the alliz platform and developing features that enhance user experience. Liam is passionate about exploring new areas of web development, particularly front-end technologies. Outside of his professional interests, he enjoys writing music and immersing himself in video games.
Topic: From Classroom to Workplace: Leadership Lessons at alliz
In this presentation, Liam will delve into how his internship at alliz has reshaped his understanding of leadership. He will explore the transition from an academic environment, which encouraged initiative and independence, to a real-world team setting, and how he learned to effectively apply new leadership skills. This experience has provided him with a fresh perspective on success, evolving from a theoretical understanding of leadership to actively making a meaningful impact in the workplace.
Timetable
Important Information
Application: The event is free to attend and will accommodate up to 50 participants. You need to fill in a short visitor form required by Google for Startups after registration on the alliz website. Upon successfully filling in the visitor form, you will then receive a calendar invitation. Please register by Friday, December 5th, 2025, to secure your spot. If your plans change, please also cancel your registration by Friday, December 5th, 2025.
Livestream: A livestream will be available, and no registration is needed to join.
Language: The event will primarily be conducted in English. During networking time, conversations in both English and Japanese are welcome.
Refreshments: Light refreshments will be provided; please manage any allergies accordingly.
Photography: Photos and videos may be taken during the event and could be used for promotional purposes on alliz’s website and social media. By signing up for this event, you permit us to use these photos and videos. If you do not want to be photographed but still wish to attend, please contact alliz.
Schedule: The event schedule is subject to change on the day.
Contact: For any event-related inquiries, please contact alliz via email at event@alliz.jp.
Host & Supporter
Host: alliz
alliz is a member-led career mentorship community dedicated to helping students and early-career professionals with career design and development in Japan. Through events, mentorship, and shared learning, we foster connections that inspire personal growth, skill development, and long-term success in the tech industry.
Event Space Supporter: Google for Startups Campus
Google for Startups Campus locations around the world are vibrant innovation hubs where everyone involved in each city's startup ecosystem can gather. There, startups grow through technical training, technical mentoring, business support provided by Google, and a community where diverse entrepreneurs and startups come together. It's a coworking space for founders, a place to connect with others and Google employees, and to increase their chances of success. Campus Tokyo, located in Shibuya, the center of Tokyo, was created to function as a hub for innovation throughout Japan.