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AI Tinkerers – Mombasa Chapter Launch · 22 August 2026
Mombasa
Aug 22, 2026
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AI Tinkerers Manchester, NH — August 2026 Build Night #3
Manchester NH
Aug 24, 2026
Meetup
Demo Night August — AI Tinkerers Valencia
Valencia
Aug 25, 2026
Hackathon
Welcome to AI Tinkerers Little Rock
Little Rock
Aug 25, 2026
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No slides. Demo the thing.
We focus on demos, code, and technical insight. No sales pitches, no generic AI panels. Working systems set the agenda.
Innovate. Share what broke.
Bring side projects, unfinished systems, architecture notes, trade-offs, and failure modes. The room is built for candid technical work.
Local rooms. Global signal.
Each city protects the room locally while contributing to a shared global standard for serious AI builders.
Standard
Working code beats hype.
Demos, traces, systems, and scars carry more weight than predictions.
Belief
Practitioners, not spectators.
The future of AI is built by people close enough to the work to show it.
Room Rule
Demos over decks.
If it matters, bring the thing and show how it behaves.
Like the Homebrew Computer Club, AI Tinkerers is built around small rooms where practitioners compare notes before the path is obvious.
Recent Talks & Demos
Self-Hosting Models: Real Costs
Discover the true cost of self-hosting open weight models, revealing surprising integration savings and a novel, zero-label evaluation method.
Michael
San Diego
AWS
Amazon S3
Ubiklaw: Local Voice-to-Dashboard Agent
Ubiklaw transforms an Android tablet into a local, voice-controlled dashboard, letting AI choose bounded JSON state for a persistent household display.
Nishaanth
Seattle
RAG Song Recommender: System Design
This RAG system uses semantic lyric retrieval and emotion awareness for song recommendations, proving better AI stems from data and design, not just more AI.
Chuqing
Orange County
DeepSeek: Small Model Advantage
Autonomous loop tests small models against real traffic, proving their potential to replace large ones safely before rerouting.
Coleman
New York City
Compiled LLM: 100MB, Fast Start
We compiled a 1 trillion parameter LLM into a 100MB binary that cold-starts in fifteen seconds, running directly on hardware without Python.
Yusuf
Palo Alto
AI Pre-Consultation in Healthcare
AI pre-consultation streamlines patient intake by securely redacting PHI before analysis and routing summaries via HL7 to clinic systems.
Yousaf
Islamabad Rawalpindi
LiveKit
OpenAI
BAML: Agent Language, No Escapes
BAML is a programming language designed for AI agents, eliminating type-safety escape hatches common in human-focused languages, ensuring invalid states are unrepresentable.
Vaibhav
Da Nang
Pulse: Proactive Product Management
Pulse proactively guides product decisions by analyzing data, suggesting experiments, and generating PRs, evolving from scheduled reports to an LLM-powered product brief.
Vasco
Bremen
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G.
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AI & RAG pipelines
Julian
T.
founder, ML compiler
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GPU Compute
Leandra
T.
founder, edtech
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Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Omid
M.
cloud database engineer
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Azure)
Anton
K.
software engineer, tech
Generative AI
React
Daniela
V.
data science lead
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Bioinformatics
Jason
L.
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Chaima
J.
applied AI engineer
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Sophie
A.
ex-Google ML lead
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Model optimization
Ghalim
S.
solutions architect, AI studio
AI systems design
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Anton
A.
ML researcher, industry
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Nik
B.
ML & software engineer
ML Systems Engineering
Computer Vision
Aya
S.
CTO, ko-br
Physical AI
Reinforcement Learning
Amin Ben
S.
ML researcher, biotech
Machine learning
Software engineering
James
F.
founder, AI systems
AI systems strategy and implementation
Digital growth and systems coordination
Matthias
B.
cloud architect, SaaS
Apache Beam
Google Cloud Platform
Vincent
A.
founder, AI startup
Applied AI
Computational Biology
Yanis
C.
software engineer, AI safety
LLM evaluation
Multilingual guardrail systems
Arul Thileeban
S.
software engineer @ Bloomberg
Go
C++
Scott
S.
lead software engineer
TypeScript
React/Next.js
Antoine
C.
CTO, cybersecurity startup
AI-powered Cybersecurity
Offensive Security Engineering
Chandrasekar
R.
generative AI PM
Agentic AI
LLM Integration
Jonathan
C.
software engineer, AI
LLM Observability
Machine Learning
Chidiebere
K.
founder, security
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Dave
O.
head of product, healthcare
Product Management
Mobile App Development (iOS/Swift/SwiftUI)
Riccardo
M.
CEO, AI startup
Agentic AI
Multi-agent Architectures
Vikram
S.
software engineer, AI
Python
JavaScript/Node.js
Shruti
K.
principal data scientist, healthcare
Predictive modeling
Natural language processing (NLP)
Slava
M.
lead of gen AI
AgTech innovation
software engineering
Alec
director @ Malec Systems
LLM Tooling
Agentic Workflows
Teh Kok
H.
ex-CTO, unemployed
AI/ML Development
Python
Danijel
S.
solutions architect, finance
Data Engineering
Apache Spark
Juliana
B.
staff software engineer
Distributed Systems
Java Spring Boot
Joey
J.
CTO, AI startup
AI agent orchestration
Full-stack product development
Doug
S.
Founder, martech
TypeScript
React
Alejandro Daniel
N.
software engineer, AI/ML
Machine Learning
Python
David
B.
CEO, AI research lab
AI-first Product Development
Multi-agent Orchestration
Muhiim
A.
researcher @ university
AI/ML Project Development
Natural Language Processing
Jayeeta
P.
senior data scientist, NLP
Natural Language Processing
Generative AI
Alexander
G.
founder, AI startup
AI engineering
Product engineering
Julian
C.
founder, AI platform
AI product development
Full-stack development
Yan
S.
PhD in data science
Machine Learning
Cognitive Modeling
Luke
L.
co-founder, AI startup
AI/ML Systems Design
Enterprise ML Infrastructure
Bogdan
G.
data engineer, finance
AI Engineering
Data Systems
Naga Venkata Sai
C.
AI engineer, fintech
LLM Fine-Tuning
Multi-Agent Systems
Mitesh
K.
AI engineer, healthtech
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Jak
A.
founder, AI systems
Search Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Stefen
E.
ML engineer, Knovel Protocol
RAG
NLP
Georgy
T.
founder, AI automation
AI agent architecture
Automation systems
Mohammadmahdi
M.
ML researcher, founder
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
Jeremie
F.
ML engineer, PixelStudio
Generative AI pipelines
PyTorch
Vinith
J.
founder, healthtech
Multimodal AI
Voice AI
Allie
H.
MTS, AI startup
AI Agent Architectures
Security Engineering
Joe
H.
founder, AI community
AI product strategy
technical leadership
James
F.
founder, software agency
Software Engineering
Backend Development
Haonan
C.
founder, AI products
AI product management
Machine learning
Adam
B.
ML engineer, Databricks
Machine learning
Software engineering
Nila
M.
data scientist, AI/ML
Deep Learning
Machine Learning
Daniel
S.
co-founder, Shopify SaaS
Full-stack engineering
React
Zi
Z.
CTO, security startup
Agentic Systems
Distributed Systems
Jamilton Alonso Quintero
O.
CTO, AI startup
Java
Spring Boot
Cao
T.
research engineer, AI/ML
Python
Machine Learning
Sanjay
K.
software engineer, 5G tech
GoLang
Kubernetes
Myroslav
V.
CTO, AI apps
AI Integration
Python/Flask
Ruth Moraa
N.
software developer, digital health
TypeScript
React
Vishal Vincent
J.
data science research manager
Agentic LLM Workflows
Geospatial Machine Learning
ABDul
R.
AI security researcher
AI Security & LLMs Red Teaming
Threat Modeling & Edge-Case Analysis
Vela
G.
AI engineer, voice AI
AI Voice Products
LLM-powered Search
Zahra
A.
data scientist, stealth startup
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs)
Vishaalini
M.
data scientist @ CPG
AI/ML Systems Deployment
Generative AI
Michał
K.
Founder, AI/ML startup
Machine Learning
Python
Yogananda
T.
senior architect, finance
Azure
GCP
Kaung Htet
S.
AI engineer, labs
AI Agent Development
Python
Eryk
M.
senior ML engineer
Machine Learning
Data Science
Samarpartap
P.
founder, voice AI
Real-time Voice AI
LLM Orchestration
Varun
P.
ML engineer, AI startup
NLP
Machine Learning
Karthikeyan
R.
SDET architect, Trellix
Test Automation
Java
Raghunandan
R.
data scientist, non-profit
LLM evaluation
Data pipelines
Jegosh
J.
software engineer, Apple
Inference Optimization
LLM Inference Engineering
Suprad
P.
software engineer, AI/ML
Python
Java
Thank you for organizing the event. It is a wonderful space to meet others that are also passionate about building things.
It was my first event. The community was welcoming and great! Appreciated the demos and examples with practical applications.
This was my first time attending the event, and getting to present was so much fun! Looking forward to attending more!
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