# Speaking at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 — The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products, in Yokohama > Source: > Published: 2026-08-01 14:58:39+00:00 # Speaking at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 — The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products, in Yokohama [Tadashi Shigeoka](/en/author/tadashi-shigeoka/)· Sat, August 1, 2026 On August 1, 2026, I attended [JP_Stripes Connect 2026](https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/) in person at Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College in Yokohama, and spoke at the track session [The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products](https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/sessions/track-a-1610/). JP_Stripes Connect 2026、横浜にて現地参加してます! — Tadashi Shigeoka (@codenote_net) トークセッション「AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル」でお話させていただきます🎙️[https://t.co/pErp74vuaQ] 会場を提供してくださった岩崎学園情報科学専門学校さま、本当にありがとうございます!!🏫[#JP_Stripes][pic.twitter.com/SpGDtgpR1e][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet: Attending JP_Stripes Connect 2026 in person in Yokohama! I’ll be speaking at the track session “The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products.” 🎙️ Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue!! 🏫 #JP_Stripes akiroom and Kana Kitagawa (Taiga) shared snapshots of the session on X. トークセッション：AIプロダクトの開発・課金のリアル — akiroom (@akiroom) ROUTE06重岡さん & ABEJA村主さんのセッション[#JP_Stripes] [https://t.co/rNOUk1wxLf][pic.twitter.com/BcsDDaw5ZT][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet: Track session: The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products. A session by Shigeoka from ROUTE06 & Murasu from ABEJA. #JP_Stripes — Kana Kitagawa/たいがー🐯 (@knuna_t) [#JP_Stripes]トークセッション始まった[pic.twitter.com/H3tJKBuDvr][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet: #JP_Stripes The track session has started ## Session Themes The session covered the following themes. - Q1. How are you using AI and Stripe inside your product? - Q2. What are you doing on the cost side when using AI? - Q3. What are you thinking about when it comes to pricing? - Q4. In the AI era, what do you think really matters in product development to actually generate revenue? The archive video will be uploaded to YouTube at a later date, so I’ll leave the specifics of what was discussed to that. ## After-party After the session, in addition to the official after-party organized by the event, informal 2nd and 3rd after-parties (nijikai and sanjikai) gave us plenty of time to talk with attendees. Hidetaka shared the moment on X. Thank you. — Hidetaka@SaaS Dev ( Stripe / AWS / etc..) (@hidetaka_dev) [#jp_stripes]二次会＆3次会[pic.twitter.com/17Y6eVdHDN][August 1, 2026] English translation of the tweet: #jp_stripes Nijikai (2nd after-party) & 3rd after-party ## Final Notes Huge thanks to Iwasaki Gakuen Information Technology College for hosting the venue, to the JP_Stripes community organizers, to all the sponsors, to the Stripe team, and to everyone I got to talk with at the venue on the day. That’s all from speaking at JP_Stripes Connect 2026 on the reality of building and billing AI products, from the Gemba. ## References The list of URLs I referenced during the track session. [JP_Stripes Connect 2026](https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/)[The Reality of Building and Billing AI Products (session page)](https://connect2026.jpstripes.com/sessions/track-a-1610/)[ROUTE06, Inc.](https://route06.com/gl)[Giselle - Product Hunt](https://www.producthunt.com/products/giselle)[Token billing for LLMs | Stripe Docs](https://docs.stripe.com/billing/token-billing)[Usage-based billing software for AI | Metronome, a Stripe product](https://stripe.com/billing/usage-based-billing)[Acsim - AI Requirements Definition Platform](https://ai.acsim.app/)[Acsim Test launches: AI-driven end-to-end automation of the testing process](https://ai.acsim.app/news/acsim-test-release-2026)[Hono - Web framework built on Web Standards](https://hono.dev/)[AI Gateway - Vercel](https://vercel.com/ai-gateway)[AI Gateway | Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/ai-gateway/)[Prompt caching for faster model inference - Amazon Bedrock](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/prompt-caching.html)[Prompt caching | OpenAI API](https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/prompt-caching)[Prompt caching - Claude Platform Docs](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-caching)[JP_Stripes Connect 2026 opens in Yokohama with AI monetization as its theme](https://x.com/i/trending/2083404903469490556)