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The global community for hands‑on AI builders.
Curated meetups, hackathons, dinners, and demos for people shipping with foundation models. Bring working code, share what broke, and leave with patterns you can ship.
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Abuja
Jul 27, 2026
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Valencia
Jul 28, 2026
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Jul 28, 2026
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Calgary
Jul 28, 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
Specialist Edge: Shopping Behavior
Specialized 4B models outperform frontier LLMs on shopper behavior prediction by learning proprietary knowledge, not just language.
Mir
Dhaka
Can a local-first agent on small local models discover and verify gen…
MOiRA builds a verifiable knowledge model using local 20-30B models, automatically acquiring capabilities and tracing answers to their sources.
Tajh
DC
My AI Died 10,000 Times and All It Learned Was Physics
An agent learns a game by discovering controls and physics from its own actions, then reasons using imagined outcomes, not code.
Jeff
Manchester NH
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Booting Any AI Coding Agent on a Disposable Cloud Machine in 2 Seconds
Boot AI coding agents like Claude Code on disposable cloud machines in two seconds, offering root shell isolation and persistent cloud execution without local installs.
Hish
Orange County
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The version of your product I wish I had
AI layer over stock research distills articles, generates digests, and analyzes holdings against fund portfolios via Robinhood's Agentic Trading MCP server.
Hunter
Nashville
Mac Companion
Mac Companion is a native macOS voice agent featuring real-time transcription and a unique notch-anchored interface, showcasing innovative STT streaming and custom UI engineering.
Zain
Islamabad Rawalpindi
SwiftUI
macOS
pi-hydra: Agent Mob Programming
pi-hydra enables mob programming for AI agents by letting observer "heads" review agent work in real-time, catching errors cheaply via byte-for-byte prompt replays.
Andreas
Cologne
Evaluating Multi-Agent Systems Beyond the Final Answer
See how multi-agent AI systems collaborate and fail, not just the final answer, through detailed tracing and novel evaluation metrics.
Purva
Seattle
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OpenAI API
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chief AI scientist
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founder, fintech infrastructure
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Yogananda
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senior architect, banking
Cloud-native Architecture
Kubernetes
Slava
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lead of Gen AI,
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Lyndon
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co-founder, AI infra startup
GPU orchestration
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P.
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Pablo Carrera
E.
AI software engineer
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Python
Diana
A.
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Research
Michał
K.
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founder, AI automation
AI agent architecture
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Omid
M.
cloud database engineer, fintech
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Sarah
O.
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Product
Peter
S.
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L.
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founder, AI marketplace
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S.
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Ethel
Z.
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Large Language Models (LLMs)
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Teia Studio
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N.
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Machine Learning Engineering
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Chaima
J.
applied AI engineer
Agentic systems
LLMs and generative AI
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V.
CTO, AI education startup
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Flask
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A.
senior AI engineer
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PyTorch
Guillaume
S.
software engineer, AI focus
Agentic AI coding tooling setup and usage
Software Analytics
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founder, AI startup
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Cloud computing
Mikhail
A.
CTO, proptech startup
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Leandra
T.
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Sahil
R.
Head, AI Initiatives
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Mohammed
p.
founder, edtech startup
Python
LLM Integration
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C.
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TypeScript
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C.
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Noa
S.
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Shiven
M.
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N.
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Python
Node.js
Danijel
S.
Solutions Architect, fintech
Apache Spark
Apache Airflow
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O.
CTO, AI startup
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Spring Boot
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S.
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Next.js
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B.
Staff Software Engineer, AI
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H.
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Tim
D.
CEO, data infra startup
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Daniela
V.
data science lead, biotech
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Bioinformatics Pipelines
Atakan
F.
ML engineer, search
Machine Learning
Computer Vision
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Z.
engineer @ A24
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Foad
G.
software engineer, AI
Generative AI
machine learning
Jak
A.
founder, AI systems
Search Infrastructure
Distributed Systems
Cao
T.
AI research engineer
PyTorch
Machine Learning
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H.
member of technical staff,
AI Agent Architectures
Security Engineering
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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