Zepi Rooftop #10

Rooftop meetup for English-Japanese bilingual professionals in tech and marketing, hear startup stories and meet people navigating similar career paths.

Ayana Tobiishi shares her story of arriving in Australia with no English and building a career across startups and education, while Jonatas Lira talks about founding MindMate AI, a mental wellness app that prioritises user trust and emotional care. This is Ayana's final Sydney session before moving back to Japan, so her talk on "communication that truly connects" carries particular weight. You'll start with informal networking, then hear from both speakers back-to-back with Q&A, giving you time to ask about their specific career moves and the challenges of building things in Australia as an international founder. The crowd is bilingual professionals and career-changers in tech and marketing, people genuinely trying to navigate cross-cultural work and global skill-building rather than generic networking.