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AI Tinkerers
Global Hackathon
Agents, Everywhere
September 12
49 cities
Find your city
The global community for hands‑on AI builders.
Curated rooms for people shipping with foundation models. Bring working code, share what broke, and leave with sharper judgment, trusted peers, and momentum for what you build next.
AI Tinkerers
Global Hackathon
Agents, Everywhere
September 12
49 cities
Find your city
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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
vhrn: Jailing Coding Agents
This tool runs coding agents in a project-specific jail, denying network egress by default and ensuring they can only access one directory, preventing prompt injection exploits.
Aravind
Seattle
Referral Systems: GTM Engineering
Seven referral systems tested on real companies, exploring AI's impact on asking, timing, messaging, and rewards, with live integration into insider.works.
Gerard
Valencia
Streaming Context: Zig Engine
An inference engine enabling infinite-length streaming context and model-native memory retrieval, outperforming RAG and dramatically shrinking GPU memory usage.
Charles
Columbus
Selling AI Agents
AI agents source, qualify, and nurture leads, then the product itself uses AI to quote and automatically follow up, freeing up human time for crucial phone calls.
Joseph
Boston
Claude
Anthropic API
QAgent: Agentic Data Science
QAgent acts like a data scientist, completing end-to-end tabular ML projects via a web app, demonstrating reliable agentic data science with enforced action space constraints.
Louis
Amsterdam
Claude Sonnet 5
Claude Haiku
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Michi: Conversational AI Avatar
Michi is a 3D avatar travel concierge that uses human-like gestures and vocal cues to create natural, complex conversations, making AI feel more like a local.
Chris
Tokyo
Claude Sonnet
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MathCat: Adaptive Learning Platform
Building an adaptive math platform using AI critics to validate question quality and deterministic templates for scalable content generation.
Natalia
Hong Kong
The Constraint: agent competition
The Constraint offers a live arena for AI agents to prove themselves under strict compute limits, generating labeled data on creativity under constraint.
Jose Angel
Mexico City
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Michał
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Luke
L.
co-founder, AI startup
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Zahra
A.
data scientist, stealth startup
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Antoine
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Slava
M.
lead of gen AI
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Justin
P.
developer relations, Google
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Rust
Zi
Z.
CTO, security startup
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Jonathan
C.
software engineer, AI
LLM Observability
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Adam
B.
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Machine learning
Software engineering
Bogdan
G.
data engineer, finance
AI Engineering
Data Systems
Cao
T.
research engineer, AI/ML
Python
Machine Learning
David
B.
CEO, AI research lab
AI-first Product Development
Multi-agent Orchestration
Jason
L.
software engineer, AI
AI agent development
eval infrastructure
James
F.
founder, software agency
Software Engineering
Backend Development
Amin Ben
S.
ML researcher, biotech
Machine learning
Software engineering
Anudeep
A.
senior AI engineer
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Multi-agent system orchestration
Mikayla
T.
software engineer, AI
AI Agent Testing Frameworks
OpenSearch
Vela
G.
AI engineer, voice AI
AI Voice Products
LLM-powered Search
Luis Carlos Charris
C.
CTO, AI startup
AI Product Engineering
LLMs & AI Agents
Jeremie
F.
ML engineer, PixelStudio
Generative AI pipelines
PyTorch
Stefen
E.
ML engineer, Knovel Protocol
RAG
NLP
Chidiebere
K.
founder, security
AI/ML
Machine Learning
George
P.
AI engineer, open source
AI Agent Systems
Multi-Agent Systems Orchestration
Daniela
V.
data science lead
Python
Bioinformatics
Ghalim
S.
solutions architect, AI studio
AI systems design
LLM application development
Ruth Moraa
N.
software developer, digital health
TypeScript
React
Haonan
C.
founder, AI products
AI product management
Machine learning
Daniel
S.
co-founder, Shopify SaaS
Full-stack engineering
React
Arul Thileeban
S.
software engineer @ Bloomberg
Systems Security Engineering
Go
Joe
H.
founder, AI community
AI product strategy
agentic dev workflows
Eryk
M.
senior ML engineer
Machine Learning
Data Science
Suprad
P.
software engineer, AI/ML
Python
Java
Anton
K.
software engineer, tech
Generative AI
React
Doug
S.
Founder, martech
TypeScript
React
Jamilton Alonso Quintero
O.
CTO, AI startup
AI Agent Building
Java
Allie
H.
MTS, AI startup
AI Agent Architectures
Security Engineering
Aya
S.
CTO, ko-br
Physical AI
Reinforcement Learning
Mitesh
K.
AI engineer, healthtech
Generative AI
Machine Learning
Chaima
J.
applied AI engineer
Generative AI
LLMs
Vincent
A.
founder, AI startup
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Computational Biology
Juliana
B.
staff software engineer
Distributed Systems
Java Spring Boot
Omid
M.
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Alexandre
T.
tech lead, Rentalmatics
AI/ML Engineering
Python
Dave
O.
head of product, healthcare
Product Management
Mobile App Development (iOS/Swift/SwiftUI)
Sophie
A.
ex-Google ML lead
Large-scale LLM deployment
Model optimization
Teh Kok
H.
ex-CTO, unemployed
AI/ML Development
Python
Fathima
p.
full-stack engineer
Python
Django
Scott
S.
lead software engineer
TypeScript
React/Next.js
Joey
J.
CTO, AI startup
AI agent orchestration
Full-stack product development
Jayeeta
P.
senior data scientist, NLP
Natural Language Processing
Generative AI
Shruti
K.
principal data scientist, healthcare
Predictive modeling
Natural language processing (NLP)
Anton
A.
ML researcher, industry
Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Jegosh
J.
software engineer, Apple
Inference Optimization
LLM Inference Engineering
Alexander
G.
founder, AI startup
AI engineering
Product engineering
Muhiim
A.
researcher @ university
AI/ML Project Development
Natural Language Processing
Vikram
S.
software engineer, AI
Python
JavaScript/Node.js
Yogananda
T.
senior architect, finance
Azure
GCP
Olga
G.
senior ML engineer
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
James
T.
senior software engineer
Scala
Compiler Engineering
Varun
P.
ML engineer, AI startup
NLP
Machine Learning
Daniyal
A.
graduate researcher, AI
Python
Django
Karthikeyan
R.
SDET architect, Trellix
Test Automation
Java
Danijel
S.
solutions architect, finance
Data Engineering
Apache Spark
Naga Venkata Sai
C.
AI engineer, fintech
LLM Fine-Tuning
Multi-Agent Systems
Mohammadmahdi
M.
ML researcher, founder
Reinforcement Learning
Computer Vision
Paul
G.
CTO, AI/Web3 startup
Full-stack engineering
AI & RAG pipelines
Alejandro Daniel
N.
software engineer, AI/ML
Machine Learning
Python
Nik
B.
ML & software engineer
ML Systems Engineering
Computer Vision
Kaung Htet
S.
AI engineer, labs
AI Agent Development
Python
Julian
T.
founder, ML compiler
Compiler Design & Code Generation
GPU Compute
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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