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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.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for AI practitioners to share LLM application demos and network. Logic and Foundations sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an exclusive, invite-only VIP dinner for 20 attendees to discuss new frontiers in AI research, sponsored by Ascend.
The hackathon focused on building practical AI agents with CrewAI, offering quick-start sessions and mentorship. Sponsors included Neon, OpenPipe, and CopilotKit.
Twenty-five enterprise AI practitioners attended an exclusive, invite-only dinner discussing open-source models, fine-tuning, and low-latency production deployments, sponsored by OpenPipe.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for AI practitioners to share LLM applications, with demos and networking, sponsored by Comet and Foundations.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an invite-only VIP dinner discussing AI in defense tech, featuring Jay Wisham and sponsored by Ascend.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a community meetup for AI practitioners, featuring demos and networking, sponsored by Langflow and Foundations.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for AI practitioners. The event featured mainstage and science fair demos, networking, and was sponsored by Langflow and Foundations.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a VIP dinner for active practitioners discussing generative AI in enterprise, sponsored by Kamiwaza AI and Bloomberg Beta.
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AI enthusiasts gathered for an in-person meetup focused on AI advancements, collaborative discussions, and project demos, fostering a community atmosphere. Kamiwaza AI and Ascend sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted a workshop on AI evaluation and observability. Participants learned practical skills for managing AI pipelines, with support from Weights & Biases Weave.
AI Tinkerers and Weights & Biases hosted a workshop on AI production, focusing on evaluation and observability for developers.
The workshop provided hands-on techniques for reliable, production-ready large language models, covering accuracy, consistency, and evaluation strategies.
AI Tinkerers Seattle fostered AI innovation and collaboration with networking and live demos of messy projects. Pilot Capital and Bloomberg Beta sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted a Founder Speed Matching event connecting AI enthusiasts with startup ideas. The event featured founder stories and networking, with support from Ascend and JP Morgan.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted a Women in AI Gathering for practitioners and builders, featuring a leadership panel and community demos, sponsored by JP Morgan.
AI and real estate leaders gathered for an intimate dinner to explore generative AI applications in valuation, market analysis, and property management, sponsored by Pilot Capital and CBRE.
The AI Tinkerers Seattle meetup fostered collaboration among AI professionals, featuring project demos and discussions. Trilogy Equity Partners and Weights & Biases sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for technical AI builders to share innovations and network, featuring live demos and supported by Google for Startups, Weights & Biases Weave, and Foundations.
AI Tinkerers hosted a Humans-in-the-Loop Hackathon, fostering collaboration on AI agents, with significant prizes sponsored by Anthropic and others.
Seattle CISOs and security leaders gathered for an intimate dinner to discuss practical applications of generative artificial intelligence in cybersecurity workflows and incident management. The event was sponsored by Scrut Automation.
AI Tinkerers hosted a Summer Social celebrating community growth, featuring networking with AI builders and demos, supported by Groq, Microsoft, and Madrona.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person event featuring talks on LLM mechanics, GPT cost savings, and LLM performance comparisons, with networking and refreshments provided.
The organizers conducted a brief virtual test of new livestream functionality to verify stream setup and latency before a broader rollout.
The AI Tinkerers Seattle meetup brought together technical AI builders for unpolished, code-running demos. The event fostered innovation and networking, supported by Weights & Biases and Open Interpreter.
Developers prototyped and shipped creative apps using open-source generative AI. Mentors and judges attended. Ascend sponsored the event, providing food, drinks, and prizes.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for builders of foundation models. The event featured demos and networking, supported by sponsors CBRE and SuperMicro.
AI Tinkerers Seattle gathered builders for demos and networking. The event, sponsored by Vannevar Labs and CoMotion Labs, fostered connections among practitioners working with foundation models.
AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for practitioners building with foundation models, featuring demos and networking, sponsored by Trilogy Equity Partners.
The in-person gathering featured hands-on collaboration and demonstrations for builders working with foundation models and large language models, supported by CoMotion Labs and Supermicro.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on demos and high-signal networking focused on foundation models and large language models, supported by Madrona and OctoAI.
Technical practitioners gathered for hard-core demos and a fireside chat with OctoAI's CTO, supported by Madrona Venture Labs.
The technical builders community gathered for hands-on sharing of work with foundation models and large language models, supported by FUSE.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on large language model demonstrations and technical exchange. Hedgehog showcased live infrastructure provisioning, supported by Techstars Seattle.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on demonstrations, networking, and troubleshooting focused on building with large language models and generative artificial intelligence, supported by Trilogy.
Practitioners shared hands-on demonstrations of foundation models and large language models during an in-person gathering sponsored by Axon and Ascend.vc.
The community meetup featured a panel on AI intellectual property and eight demos of generative AI projects, sponsored and hosted by Techstars.
Builders and practitioners gathered for a hands-on day where six teams presented demos; winners received credits and early access, supported by sponsors including Microsoft and Cohere.
The technical gathering featured presenter Keiji Kanazawa and ten rapid-fire lightning demos of AI-enabled products, drawing engineers and entrepreneurs, sponsored by Point72 Ventures.
AI Tinkerers Seattle held an in-person meetup focused on Agent Systems toward Artificial General Intelligence, featuring guest Yohei Nakajima and community talks, sponsored by the AI2 Incubator.
The in-person networking night featured short demos and lightning talks from presenters including OpenAI and Fixie. TechStars provided the venue, appetizers, and drinks.
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 264-city global network with 136,000+ 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 GTM AI Tinkerers - October on October 7, 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 264-city network with 136,000+ 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."
"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."
"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"
Last updated: October 2026
