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.
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 231-city global network with 113,000+ 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 - July 13 on July 13, 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 231-city network with 113,000+ members worldwide.
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration.
React is an open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces (UIs).
TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.
MCP is the open-source standard for securely connecting AI agents (like LLMs) to external tools, data, and enterprise workflows.
Node.js is a high-performance JavaScript runtime built on the V8 engine for executing scalable network applications.
Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.
Git is the distributed version control system (DVCS) that tracks source code changes, ensuring data integrity and enabling non-linear development workflows.
Claude Opus: Anthropic's flagship large language model, delivering frontier intelligence for complex reasoning, advanced coding, and autonomous agentic workflows.
"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"
"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."
"Meetup idea and demos were great. Keep doing this. You are doing fantastic already for the developer community."
"The main stage demos and science fair carousel are a really great way to learn about new tech projects from the community and see what everyone's building!"
"Better time management would be great. Group B of the science fair never gets the attention it deserves. I would prioritize it over networking time."
Last updated: June 2026
