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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.

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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.

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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.

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PalliAssist: Compassionate Palliative AI
Aug 22
PalliAssist uses Gemma and RAG to provide compassionate AI support for palliative care, managing symptoms, medications, and appointments with personalized, trustworthy guidance.
Christal Mombasa
Gemma 3n RAG
Max
Automated context compaction strategies
Aug 20
Context Structured Merge intelligently retrieves relevant historical context on demand, reducing LLM token usage through database-inspired memory management.
Max San Diego
Large Language Model Context Structured Merge
Nishaanth
Ubiklaw: A Voice-to-Dashboard Home Agent Running Locally on NVIDIA DG…
Aug 19
Ubiklaw transforms an Android tablet into a local, voice-controlled dashboard, letting AI choose bounded JSON state for a persistent household display.
Nishaanth Seattle
Chuqing
I Built a RAG Song Recommender. Vector Search Was the Easy Part.
Aug 19
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
Coleman
Create Your Own DeepSeek Moment
Aug 19
Autonomous loop tests small models against real traffic, proving their potential to replace large ones safely before rerouting.
Coleman New York City
Yusuf
How We Compiled a 1T LLM Into a 100MB Binary That Cold-Starts in Fift…
Aug 18
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
Yousaf
Pre-Consultation Done with AI - Challenges in Healthcare AI
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AI pre-consultation streamlines patient intake by securely redacting PHI before analysis and routing summaries via HL7 to clinic systems.
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research engineer, AI/ML
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senior architect, finance
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Mohammad Jafar A.
senior software engineer, AI
Machine Learning Deep Learning
Jason L.
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Ian W.
Chief AI Scientist @ Renasnce Studios
AI Research
Daniyal A.
Graduate Researcher @ UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
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Manika J.
software engineer @ JPMorganChase
Java Python
Stefen E.
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ML Engineer
Arjun G.
Co-Founder & CTO @ AuraML
CTO Co-Founder
Syrine K.
Data scientist @ Accenture
Data Science Research
Chris B.
founder, AI/ML startup
Software engineering AI
Georgy T.
founder, AI automation
AI agent architecture Automation systems
Ben W.
Co-founder @ Mesa
Co-Founder Founder
Ammad U.
Senior Solution Developer @ Cielo Costa
Engineer Cielo Costa
Karthikeyan R.
SDET architect, Trellix
Test Automation Java
Vikram S.
software engineer, AI
Python JavaScript/Node.js
Teh Kok H.
ex-CTO, unemployed
AI/ML Development Python
Muhiim A.
researcher @ university
AI/ML Project Development Natural Language Processing
Ramesh Sathiya S.
senior application developer
.NET Core 8 ASP.NET Core Web API
Jak A.
founder, AI systems
Search Infrastructure Distributed Systems
Sravani N.
AI engineer, startup
RAG-based LLM systems PyTorch
Hugo I.
senior engineer, fintech
Full-stack Engineering AI Application Development
Cheryl L.
Software Developer @ Village Wellth
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software developer, digital health
TypeScript React
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Head of AI @ Elastics
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Danijel S.
solutions architect, finance
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Haonan C.
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Eric K.
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AI Engineer
Jonathan C.
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Chidiebere K.
founder, security
AI/ML Machine Learning
Scott S.
lead software engineer
TypeScript React/Next.js
Dave O.
head of product, healthcare
Product Management Mobile App Development (iOS/Swift/SwiftUI)
Łukasz K.
Tech Lead @ Space to Grow
Space to Grow
Anthony K.
CTO @ Mursion
CTO Mursion
Anton K.
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Paul G.
CTO, AI/Web3 startup
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Andre B.
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Generative AI Machine Learning
Omid M.
cloud database engineer
Cloud platforms (AWS Azure)
Slava M.
lead of gen AI
AgTech innovation software engineering
Amin Ben S.
ML researcher, biotech
Machine learning Software engineering
Varun P.
ML engineer, AI startup
NLP Machine Learning
Alexander G.
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AI engineering Product engineering
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Benson W.
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Joe H.
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AI product strategy technical leadership
Anton A.
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Staff+ Engineer
Adam B.
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Machine learning Software engineering
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senior ML engineer
Machine Learning Data Science
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head of applied AI
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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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