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AI Tinkerers will gather for a monthly session focused on AI-first builders. Attendees will discuss dev-tools, see short demos, and share practical learnings, with support from Actual AI.
AI Tinkerers will host a global hackathon exploring agents and bots. OpenAI, CopilotKit, and OpenRouter will sponsor this in-person event.
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Women in AI - Builders Track
Seattle
September 22, 05:00 PM
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Women and non-binary AI builders will gather for practical engineering discussions, lightning demos, and code audits. Rooftop will sponsor this free, in-person event.
Past
AI Tinkerers Seattle focused on building AI for go-to-market functions, featuring live demos, technical Q&A, and networking, sponsored by PSL.
AI Tinkerers Seattle held an August Demo Night. NVIDIA and OpenRouter sponsored the event, which featured demonstrations and was hosted at CopilotKit.
Women in AI builders met to share AI engineering challenges and practical learnings, supported by Rooftop Global.
The AI x Bio Demo Night featured demonstrations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biology, sponsored by NVIDIA and the Allen Institute.
AI Tinkerers - Seattle hosted a VIP Founders Dinner focused on trust and long-running agents, sponsored by Okta.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup for AI-first builders, featuring demos, code audits, and stack debates, sponsored by actual ai.
AI Tinkerers hosted an engineering meetup focused on building and shipping AI systems for go-to-market functions, featuring live demos and technical discussions, sponsored by Pioneer Square Labs.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a summer bash. Ashurst Perkins Coie, SageOx, CopilotKit, and Lightning AI sponsored the community event.
The Women in AI meetup fostered practical AI building discussions and demos. PostHog sponsored this inaugural event for women and non-binary technologists.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup in Seattle focusing on AI-first builder tools and workflows, featuring demos and discussions, sponsored by Actual AI, Qumulo, PostHog, and OpenRouter.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a special session featuring recaps from the AI Engineer Summit, insights from industry leaders, and a "Science Fair" for technical demos.
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AI Dev Tools
June 8
06:00 PM
Actual AI
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AI Tinkerers hosted a session on AI-first development tools and workflows, featuring a changelog discussion, lightning demos, and collaborative learning. Sponsorship opportunities were available.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a GTM/Growth meetup for builders. Sponsors Clarify, Tarka, and Foundations supported the event.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a demo night featuring Oracle and NVIDIA, highlighting community innovation and sponsor support.
The AI Tinkerers community held a hackathon focused on agentic interfaces. Google DeepMind, CopilotKit, and other sponsors supported the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person VIP dinner for engineering leaders to discuss the new AI tool stack, sponsored by TensorWave and Kiro.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup focused on AI-first builder tools, featuring discussions, lightning demos, and collaborative exchange, supported by sponsors.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a "Science Fair" for vetted builders to showcase AI teammate systems. SageOx sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted builders focused on go-to-market AI engineering. The event featured live demos and technical discussions, sponsored by Tarka.
AI Tinkerers hosted a two-day practical workshop for software engineers.
AI Tinkerers - Seattle hosted a technical workshop with Vapi on scaling voice pipelines in production.
AI Tinkerers hosted a Seattle meetup focused on AI-first builder tools. Attendees discussed dev tool updates, saw lightning demos, and exchanged workflows, with support from sponsors.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a GTM Engineering track focused on building AI for go-to-market functions, featuring live demos and technical Q&A from builders, with sponsorship opportunities available.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP Founders Dinner focused on using autonomous systems to scale businesses. The event facilitated discussions among founders.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup focused on AI development tools. Attendees shared insights on tooling and workflows, with support from sponsors Actual AI and DevPlan.
The OpenClaw Global Unhackathon brought together the AI Tinkerers community for an in-person hackathon focused on innovative AI solutions.
AI Tinkerers Seattle launched a GTM Engineering series for builders to share AI architecture and lessons learned, sponsored by Anthos Capital.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a Dev Tools Track meetup. The event featured lightning demos, code audits, and stack debates for AI builders.
The AI Tinkerers Seattle January Meetup featured a hands-on Science Fair format for vetted builders, showcasing community demos and technical deep dives, sponsored by CopilotKit.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an "AI Dev Tool Track" meetup. Attendees discussed AI development tools, saw demos, and debated stacks.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a curated Holiday Science Fair for AI builders, featuring live demos and interactive stations. Auth0 by Okta sponsored the event.
AI builders gathered for a monthly session featuring AI dev-tool demos and discussions, with opportunities for hands-on exploration and speaker proposals.
Builders showcased bleeding-edge, code-first AI experiments pushing model behavior and infrastructure limits during this in-person demo night hosted by the Allen Institute for AI.
Engineers and founders participated in a hands-on build sprint to deploy AI-driven backends from prompt to production using LiquidMetal AI tools.
The AI Tinkerers Seattle Meetup featured interactive discussions on AI dev tooling, demos, and networking, fostering community collaboration.
AI Tinkerers hosted a demo night focused on trust and security in AI. Auth0 sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a science fair for LLM practitioners to network and demo projects, with support from Google Cloud AI.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a Dev Tools Track meetup. Attendees explored AI development tools through demos, code audits, and stack debates, with food and refreshments provided.
AI Tinkerers Seattle held an in-person meetup on September 30, 2025, organized by Jake Laes.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup focused on AI development tooling. The event featured lightning demos, code audits, and discussions on AI dev tools.
AI Tinkerers held an in-person meetup for LLM application builders. The event featured demos, a science fair, and networking, with support from sponsor Thinkspace.
Seattle AI builders gathered for a hands-on session on building production AI agents using Google Cloud AI tools, featuring a technical deep dive and community demos, sponsored by Google and Google Cloud AI.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner discussing scaling agentic AI from pilot to production, featuring a moderated discussion for AI leaders sponsored by Squid AI.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner for select engineers and researchers to discuss agentic AI, sponsored by SeekOut.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup featuring LLM application demos and networking for active builders. Sponsors Vannevar Labs and CoMotion Labs provided food and drinks.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a VIP dinner for active AI builders to discuss building trustworthy AI. The event fostered candid conversations and peer learning.
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AI Tinkerers hosted a coding workshop where participants built apps with Bolt, fostering community entry and offering prizes. Hal9 and Foundations sponsored the event.
Best AI meetup in Seattle for builders
AI Tinkerers Seattle is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The Seattle chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 125,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Seattle chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Seattle meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is AI Dev Tools Track - Seattle - September 8 on September 8, 2026. Subscribe to the Seattle chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Seattle is the best AI meetup in Seattle for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Seattle chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
AI Tinkerers Seattle is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Seattle chapter is part of a 253-city network with 125,000+ members worldwide.
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"It was my first event, I thought overall the quality was high! Thanks so much for putting together. I loved the demos and the shoutouts of useful tools people are using."
"It was my first event – the community was welcoming and great! Appreciated the demos and examples with practical applications."
"Great energy. I think the most valuable thing I got was not the GTM stuff but how he organized claude context to allow it to think better. Great Talk overall."
"The surveys on state-of-the-industry are always a great addition. Real feedback and insights are so valuable compared to the biased discourse you see online."
"no slide presentation/demos are great and the networking opportunities and time set out for that is very valuable"
"More stickers/keychains i broke my old one. You ahould encourage people to present things and give prizes. Like if there was gold/silver/bronze ai tinkerers keychains for the 1st 2nd and 3rd best sci fair thing"
"I literally have a workflow for this too, got my last 3 jobs with varying versions of it over the years. I always love to see how others are tackling the issues that crop up at scale"
"This was my first event. I really enjoyed the intimate and casual, yet focused nature of the event. It's a great opportunity to present to and build connection with builders tinkering with similar challenges."
"Hard balance but would love more networking time baked in halfway through the session and then some more at the end. A lot of value is from just organic discussions with other founders + builders."
"Felt more like a pitch for his business. Would have loved to learn more about the technical background, or his workflow."
Last updated: August 2026
