AI Tinkerers Seattle - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

Best AI meetup in Seattle for builders

AI Tinkerers Seattle is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

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 111,000+ 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 Track - June 2026 on June 30, 2026. Subscribe to the Seattle chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event

June 30, 2026

Local cadence

37 events in the last 12 months

Format

Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches

Audience

Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Seattle for hands-on builders

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.

What makes AI Tinkerers Seattle different from other AI meetups?

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.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Seattle

Claude Code

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

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

Claude

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

React is an open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces (UIs).

TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.

MCP

MCP is the open-source standard for securely connecting AI agents (like LLMs) to external tools, data, and enterprise workflows.

Gemini

Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.

Node

Node.js is a high-performance JavaScript runtime built on the V8 engine for executing scalable network applications.

git

Git is the distributed version control system (DVCS) that tracks source code changes, ensuring data integrity and enabling non-linear development workflows.

OpenAI API

OpenAI API: Your direct gateway to cutting-edge AI models (GPT-4o, DALL-E 3, Whisper), enabling scalable, multimodal intelligence integration into any application.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Seattle

Scaffolding a GTM Motion From the Terminal

May 26

A new CLI and external API for Clarify that lets you stand up an entire go-to-market motion — pipeline, ICP, prospecting, outre...

Patrick Thompson Seattle

Clarify CLI/API/MCP Claude

AI-native workspace

May 26

Experience an AI-native workspace with 15+ integrated SaaS tools designed for seamless human and AI agent collaboration and communication.

Ryan Waliany Seattle

SPEAR Coding agents using process/checklists

Consistent UI with AI Agents

May 26

I'm a design systems lead. My team got dramatically faster with AI agents, but without guardrails the speed produced a mess wit...

Andrei Alikimovich Seattle

Claude Opus Claude skills and hooks

Will people want your product? Bots can help you find out (and fix it)

May 26

I've made a set of agents that will pressure test your product idea to help it create better product/market fit. I will demo th...

Jon Gordner Seattle

Botspring AGENTS

Website RAG-based chatbot that doesn't suck (much)

May 26

"What if visitors to our website could chat with our years of free content without making sh*t up?" Will show the bot itself li...

Jenn Steele Seattle

Claude Code (obvs github) to build Supabase

Selling to Scientists: Sales Intent Identification for Super Technica…

May 26

Sales intent tools watch behavior — they tell you an account is researching your category. They can't tell you what a researche...

Sheikh Shuvo Seattle

Claude Sonnet 4 Claude Haiku

How We Built AI Agents That Buy Media Across 10+ Ad Platforms

May 26

Synter is an agentic AI platform that autonomously manages paid media campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, ...

Joel Horwitz Seattle

MCP Claude

Automating Speaker Badges That Drive Community Growth

May 26

I built an automated recognition loop that turns AI Tinkerers speakers, demo presenters, newsletter-featured builders, and work...

Joe Heitzeberg Seattle

Ruby on Rails Sidekiq

Oracle // NVIDIA Demo

May 21

Oracle Database integration with NVIDIA KVDB for vector search. Technical approach: - RAG blueprint with Oracle 23ai database b...

Suresh Veeragoni Seattle

Clawrium: Autonomous Agent Fleet Management

May 21

CLI tool to manage multiple Openclaw (and its variants like Zeroclaw, nanoclaw etc) on the local network. I'll show a one comma...

Devashish Meena Seattle

Python Ansible

Pi Dash: Async Vibe Coding

May 21

Pi Dash is an open-source AI agent orchestration platform built for As Coding (asynchronous vibe coding) — a workflow where you...

Richard Miao Seattle

I Built an ACP → AG-UI Adapter So Coding Agents Can Escape the Termin…

May 21

I built an open-source reference bridge that lets any ACP(agent-client protocol)-compatible coding agent power a web frontend v...

Naman Rajpal Seattle

What are people saying about AI Tinkerers Seattle?

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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."

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  "It was my first event – the community was welcoming and great! Appreciated the demos and examples with practical applications."

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  "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."

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  "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."

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  "no slide presentation/demos are great and the networking opportunities and time set out for that is very valuable"

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  "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."

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  "Felt more like a pitch for his business. Would have loved to learn more about the technical background, or his workflow."

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  "Meetup idea and demos were great. Keep doing this. You are doing fantastic already for the developer community."

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  "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!"

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  "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."