Brendan Pierce Presents 'Elements for Building Great Solutions' and InspectorPro
This week, November 5-7, we're in Tokyo, at Claris Conference 2025 Japan, highlighting FileMaker. It's the largest Claris® / FileMaker® Developer conference in Japan this year, and Beezwax is proud to participate for the second year in a row.
Claris, an Apple company is EngageU's primary sponsor, and the conference welcomes several Claris employees and technical staff, including: Marie Normand, Claris Global Partner Manager, Douglas Wallis, Claris Product Manager and Clay Maeckel, Claris Software Architect. Other speakers will also include top-level partners, innovative developers and community leaders from Europe and from all over the world with continuing focus on innovations in Claris® and FileMaker platform development.
At Claris Conference - Japan, Brendan Pierce from Beezwax presents:
Claris FileMaker Development To The Future - Eliminate Technical Debt

Speaker: Brendan Pierce, Senior Developer, Beezwax
Date: November 5, 2025
Time: 17:40 - 18:25, JST
Note: presented in Japanese and English with Japanese simultaneous translation
Summary:
The biggest attraction of Claris FileMaker is speed of development. However, beneath that speed, there is a pitfall of technical debt. Over time, accumulated complexity and inefficiency will slow down the speed of development without realizing it, reducing flexible responsiveness and ROI.
This session will cover:
- What is technical debt?
- Why is it a big risk in the long run?
- How can I control it to solve it?
- Thorough explanation. In addition, using the latest release InspectorPro 9,
- Simplified code
- Early detection of risks
- Multi-user collaboration
- Collaboration with GitHub/GitLab
- Development efficiency using AI
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We will show you how to practice the front line. - Whether it's a developer or a team, what you can bring back from this session is 'thinking for the future' and 're-to-use practical tools'. Let's evolve your Claris FileMaker development 'fast, strong, and flexible'.
- This session will be held in English, but simultaneous interpretation in Japanese will be provided.
- What you can learn in the session
- Simplified code
- Early detection of risks
- Multi-user collaboration
- Recommended for people like this
- Those who work on development projects with multiple people with Claris FileMaker
- Those who want to simplify the structure of Claris FileMaker
- Those who want to accelerate the development speed of Claris FileMaker
Thorough explanation. In addition, using the latest release InspectorPro 9,
- Simplified code
- Early detection of risks
- Multi-user collaboration
- Collaboration with GitHub/GitLab
- Development efficiency using AI
We will show you how to practice the front line.
Whether it's a developer or a team, what you can bring back from this session is 'thinking for the future' and 're-to-use practical tools'. Let's evolve your Claris FileMaker development 'fast, strong, and flexible'.
This session will be held in English, but simultaneous interpretation in Japanese will be provided.
What you can learn in the session
- Simplified code
- Early detection of risks
- Multi-user collaboration
About Brendan Pierce
Over 25 years of full-time experience as a master consultant, as well as a dedicated creator of products for the Claris developer community, Vincenzo Menanno is widely considered one of the leading FileMaker developers in the world. He’s been a featured speaker at industry events such as Claris Engage and FileMaker DevCon, FM Conférence, CQDF, and many Claris FileMaker Developer Meetups. Vince is the author of InspectorPro, a leading development tool that provides in-depth solution analysis and advanced data visualizations.
Sponsors for Claris Conference 2025 - Japan
Thank you to the main sponsor, Claris, the chief organizers, Square Moon and ClickWorks, as well all of the EngageU 2024 sponsors and exhibitors: B, Beezwax,
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