[Event] Holding a Mobility Night, a Technical Get-Together for Software Engineers in the Mobility Industry

This article is day 1 of the KINTO Technologies Advent Calendar 2024. 🎅🎄

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Hello! Rina (@chimrindayo) here. I am an engineer at KINTO Technologies, where I am involved in the development and operation of Mobility Market and part of the Developer Relations (DevRel) Group as well.

Today, I would like to tell you about a study session called “Mobility Night” that we have formed together with t-kurimura-san at Luup, Inc. 🙌

What is Mobility Night?

Source: Documents created by t-kurimura-san

Mobility Night is a collaborative study session aimed at advancing the mobility industry. It provides companies and organizations in this field with a platform to share their software technologies and expertise 🚀 We believe that many technical challenges in mobility-related software are shared across the industry, including areas such as GPS, IoT, quality assurance, and product design. This study session was created with the hope that sharing unique insights from the mobility industry on such topics will drive the advancement of software technologies and contribute to overall product improvement across the entire industry.

The name "Mobility Night" was chosen to reflect our vision of creating a casual and inclusive space where everyone can come together to share and exchange information freely.

Holding a Closed Event

For the first event, we held a closed study session called “Mobility Night #0.” We invited Luup, Inc., Charichari, Inc., GO Inc., newmo, Inc. (all of which gave presentations), along with many other mobility companies, to join us. Participants shared mobility-related insights, with a focus on introducing their businesses and products to one another.

We initially decided to hold a closed event to gauge interest in a technical study session focused on the mobility industry. This approach allowed us to assess whether such an event would resonate with participants and to identify common themes that could make future open study sessions meaningful and valuable for the community.

Results from Holding a Closed Event

Thankfully, the closed event was a big hit and a huge success.
The event was so lively that some attendees continued the excitement by heading straight to an after-party 🍻

It felt inspiring to see people from different companies in the mobility industry engage in passionate discussions about current trends and what the near future holds 🔥

Here are some of the impressions shared by attendees in the study session questionnaire:

Gathering insights about the mobility industry was highly beneficial.

Industry-specific study sessions are great, aren’t they?

With everyone focused on mobility, every discussion was incredibly engaging and fascinating to listen to!

The information shared was closely related to my field, making me think, "I want to connect with these people again in the future."

It had a warm and welcoming vibe, almost like being at home.

Mobility Night Going Forward

To ensure the continuity of these study sessions, we plan to hold them every other month (during even-numbered months) to start with.

Currently, as the event is still in its early stages, only companies invited by the organizing members are giving talks. However, in the future, we aim to foster an environment where anyone feels comfortable stepping up to share, regardless of whether they were specifically invited by the organizers! If you’re interested in giving a talk, feel free to submit your entry via Connpass 🙌 (If we receive a large number of entries, speakers may be selected through a lottery.)

We’re also sharing the latest updates about Mobility Night on Discord. If you’d like to participate in Mobility Night, are interested in giving a talk but want to discuss it with us beforehand, want to join as an organizing member, or are curious about it in any other way, please feel free to join us on Discord!

Personally, I hope it becomes a space not only for sharing information about Mobility Night but also for initiatives like finding collaborators to co-host mobility-related study sessions.

https://discord.gg/nn7QW5pn8B

Notification about the Next Session

We are going to hold Mobility Night #1! The schedule is as follows:

https://mobility-night.connpass.com/event/334400/

Date and time	December 5, 2024 (Thu), starting at 6:30 p.m.
Theme	GPS and location information
Venue	KINTO Technologies Muromachi Office

We welcome everyone interested in the mobility industry to join us, whether or not they are currently part of mobility-related companies or organizations!

Spots are limited, so if you’re interested, be sure to apply soon! We genuinely look forward to seeing you there.