AI Events in Seattle | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

A banner advertising an AI Evals & Observability Workshop hosted by AI Tinkerers in Seattle.. Text: AI Evals & Observability Workshop
w/ Weights & Biases (Encore!)
January 14, 2025, 5PM - 9PM PST
AI TINKERERS - SEATTLE
Workshop
over 1 year ago

AI in Production: Evals & Observability Workshop (Second Night)

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 5PM to 9PM
Alex Volkov Valentina Komarova Rishi Mullur Marina Zub Lana Zumbrunn Deepti G Bugra Karabey Katherine Bergey Marianne Goldin Kelly Han,PhD Dinesh Kumar Chinnasamy Martha Schumann Cindy Nie Chris Natale Benjamin Dykstra Sanghamitra Johri Frank Cho Eyoel Gebre Aman Agarwal Aishwarya Jayaramu
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AI Tinkerers hosted a workshop on AI production, focusing on evaluation and observability for LLM applications. Attendees built real pipelines and implemented tools. Weights & Biases sponsored the event.

A banner advertising an AI Evals & Observability Workshop with Weights & Biases, taking place on January 13, 2025, from 5 PM to 8 PM PST, hosted by AI Tinkerers - Seattle.. Text: AI Evals & Observability Workshop
w/ Weights & Biases
January 13, 2025, 5PM - 8PM PST
AI TINKERERS - SEATTLE
Workshop
over 1 year ago

AI in Production: Evals & Observability Workshop

Monday, January 13th, 2025 5PM to 9PM
Joe Heitzeberg Alex Volkov Shama Keskar EJ Thomas Michelle Inez SuiLin Yap Victor Learned Aziza Mirsaidova Laksh Advani Bhavana Ganesh Santosh Ganji Sherril Wang Zhenbin Xu Tien Tran Sreeja Das Sandeep Avula Sanghamitra Johri Mamtha Banerjee Toby Huang Logan Kocka
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AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person workshop on AI production evals and observability. Weights & Biases sponsored the event.

A promotional banner advertising an 'Advanced Prompt Engineering Workshop' presented by Boundary, featuring white line-art illustrations of four people working on laptops against a blue background stylized like a technical blueprint or circuit diagram, with the Seattle Space Needle visible in the center.. Text: Advanced Prompt Engineering Workshop
Presented by Boundary
December 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM PST
AI TINKERERS - SEATTLE
Workshop
over 1 year ago

AI In Prod: Advanced Prompt Engineering Workshop

Friday, December 13th, 2024 3PM
Vaibhav Gupta Joe Heitzeberg Lara Martin Kevin Atkinson Katherine Bergey Dasha Cherepennikova Tammy Wang Pavan Katepalli David Aronchick Chundong Wang Anna Fuller Chandan Golla Nandini Shrinidhi Chris Doornink Danny Franklin David Pitman Evan Boyle Art Litvinau Gordon Hempton Himanshu Tayal
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The workshop provided hands-on techniques for reliable, production-ready large language models, covering accuracy, consistency, and evaluation strategies.

An illustration advertising an AI Tinkerers meetup in Seattle on December 11, 2024, sponsored by Pilot Capital and Bloomberg Beta.. Text: AI Tinkerers December Meetup
Sponsored by Pilot Capital and Bloomberg Beta
December 11, 2024, 5PM - 8PM
AI TINKERERS-SEATTLE
Last:
Seattle
Tor Pala pate
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Seattle - December 2024 Meetup

Wednesday, December 11th, 2024 5PM to 8PM
Vaibhav Gupta Joe Heitzeberg Killian Lucas Lori Berenberg Jason Kono Ishan Anand Brian Fioca Telli Koroma Salman Paracha Sean Robinson Chundong Wang Lana Zumbrunn Carly Rector Ryan Evans Martha Schumann Srujan Jonnadula Deepti G Brandon Ngacho Kiana Ehsani Aziza Mirsaidova
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AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup for AI professionals to share works-in-progress and network. Pilot Capital and Bloomberg Beta sponsored the event.

An illustration of people networking at an event called AI Tinkers Founder Speed Matching, sponsored by Ascend and J.P. Morgan, with a city skyline in the background.. Text: AI TINKERERS
FOUNDER SPEED MATCHING
Sponsored by: Ascend J.P.Morgan
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Founder Speed Matching

Tuesday, December 10th, 2024 6PM to 9PM
Adam Burgh Joe Heitzeberg Maxwell Larson Mattie Quigley Lindsay Randall Kelly Han,PhD Ethan Byrd Tammy Wang Chris Watts Haiyan Chen Greg Wroblewski Ayushi Mishra Vikash Kodati Dinesh Kumar Chinnasamy Sanghamitra Johri Tyler Brown Daisy Chen Ankit Dhawan Himanshu Tayal Sina Nejati
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AI Tinkerers hosted a founder speed matching event. Founders heard success stories and participated in AI-powered co-founder matching sessions, supported by JP Morgan and Ascend.

An illustration advertising a Women in AI gathering hosted by JP Morgan and AI Tinkerers in Seattle.. Text: Women in Al Gathering
December 5, 2024, 6PM - 8:30PM
JP Morgan
AI TINKERERS-SEATTLE
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Seattle - Women in AI Gathering

Thursday, December 5th, 2024 6PM to 8:30PM
Joe Heitzeberg Lindsay Randall Pallavi Garg Vaibhav Gupta Mamtha Banerjee Mamtha Banerjee Priyanka Kulkarni Lana Zumbrunn Deepti G Ismail Enchikalathil Enchikalathil Jelal RIYA PAREKH Vrinda Bhatia Nicol Kosky Danny Tayara Tammy Wang Yifan Zhang Yuanjie Tu Ahmed Yassin Kiana Ehsani Menghe Wen
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The Women in AI Gathering featured a leadership panel with Microsoft and GoDaddy executives and community AI project demos, sponsored by JP Morgan.

An advertisement for an AI Tinkerers VIP dinner focused on AI innovation in real estate, taking place in Seattle on October 30th at 6 PM. The image depicts people seated around a table in a modern setting with a cityscape backdrop.. Text: AI Innovation in Real Estate
AI Tinkerers VIP Dinner
October 30th - 6PM
AI TINKERERS - SEATTLE
VIP Dinner
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers VIP Dinner: Uncover Opportunities for AI Disruption in Real Estate

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 6PM to 9PM
Joe Heitzeberg Jason Kono Matt Walters Diego Oppenheimer Noor Aftab Kyle Rippey Arindam Khaled SuiLin Yap Varun Pant Tamas Burghard Nick Hume Mike Fridgen Kyle Corbitt Shaiwal Singh Joe Stockton Aaron Goldfeder Grant Goodale Brian Goffman James Feore Ankit Dhawan
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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.

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Gen Al Demos & Code
October 24, 2024 from 5PM to 8PM
AI TINKERERS-SEATTLE
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Seattle - October 2024 Meetup

Thursday, October 24th, 2024 5PM to 8PM
Vaibhav Gupta Joe Heitzeberg Killian Lucas Ernie Archambault Elisa La Cava Sasha Manuilova Yuval Neeman Alex Volkov Patrick Doring Simon Guest Antonio Quinonez Eugene Yan Shannon C Leonard Gangadhar Payyavula Lara Martin Bhavya Shah Martha Schumann Tyler Devenere Nistha Mitra Saumya Gandhi
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AI Tinkerers Seattle fostered community with AI practitioners. Discussions and demos explored AI advancements, supported by Trilogy Equity Partners and Weights & Biases.

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Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Seattle - September 2024 Meetup

Thursday, September 26th, 2024 5PM to 8PM
Joe Heitzeberg Killian Lucas Subhadeep Chatterjee Avi Arora Vaibhav Gupta Skander Hannachi Diego Oppenheimer Varun Pant Alex Volkov Claire Abu-Hakima Steve Isley Martha Schumann Aziza Mirsaidova Sudha Elavarti Lucia Botiquin Yuanjie Tu Ethan Byrd Kelsie Greear Sean Robinson Ian McCann
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AI Tinkerers Seattle hosted an in-person meetup focused on technical AI building and demos. Google sponsored the event.

A banner advertising a Humans-in-the-Loop Hackathon in Seattle, hosted by AI Tinkerers Seattle, Anthropic, and CopilotKit.. Text: AI TINKERERS SEATTLE
Humans-in-the-Loop
Hackathon
with ANTHROPIC and CopilotKit
Seattle, September 21-22
HACKATHON
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Humans-in-the-Loop Hackathon with Anthropic

Saturday, September 21st, 2024 from 9AM
Denzil Eden Jen Haller Joe Heitzeberg Jake Laes Killian Lucas Nistha Mitra Jonathan Murray Aaron Villalpando Aaron Begg Raouf Chebri Aviel Ginzburg Jacob Harbich Dexter Horthy Vasek Mlejnsky Nikita Shamgunov Alex Albert Horus Hernandez Nick Khormaei Jacob Laes Diego Oppenheimer
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AI Tinkerers hosted a Humans-in-the-Loop Hackathon, sponsored by Anthropic and others, where developers built collaborative AI systems.

Meet the Organizers

Jake Laes Ben Steinher Joe Heitzeberg Killian Lucas Keerti Bhogaraju
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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 112,000+ 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.

Next event
July 13, 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.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Seattle chapter is part of a 231-city network with 112,000+ members worldwide.

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.

Node

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

Gemini

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

git

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

Claude Opus

Claude Opus: Anthropic's flagship large language model, delivering frontier intelligence for complex reasoning, advanced coding, and autonomous agentic workflows.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Seattle

Shimin Zhang
Inhabited-design: an adversarial-persona Claude Code skill that produ…
Jun 8
An AI design skill that creates personalized, personality-driven UI designs through adversarial personas, iterative refinement, and an inspiration-based protocol, moving beyond generic AI outputs.
Shimin Zhang Seattle
Andrei Alikimovich
Consistent UI at scale
Jun 8
I built a framework that keeps AI coding agents on a design system as a team ships faster, without losing UI consistency. Why i...
Andrei Alikimovich Seattle
Ryan Waliany
SPEAR: A Framework for Autonomous Agents
Jun 8
I built SPEAR, a management framework for autonomous agents that turns AI work from “prompt → output” into a structured loop: S...
Ryan Waliany Seattle
Devashish Meena
Autonomous SDLC with hetrogenous agent fleets
Jun 8
Fleet of Hermes and Zeroclaw agents to autonomously manage a project. Agents decide work to be done, they plan the work, execut...
Devashish Meena Seattle
Robert Gumeny
SQLite for Agent Memory: Building AKG, an Open Knowledge Graph File F…
Jun 8
Agent Knowledge Graph (AKG) is an open binary file format for agent memory that borrows inspiration from SQLite, but the data m...
Robert Gumeny Seattle
Parth Parikh
Strawberry: entirely local voice assistant using Gemma4
Jun 8
Strawberry is my personal entirely-local voice assistant that transcribes with Whisper, thinks with Gemma via LiteRT-LM, speaks...
Parth Parikh Seattle
Patrick Thompson
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
Ryan Waliany
AI-native workspace
May 26
At Ambiguous AI, we rebuilt fifteen SaaS products to feature parity with their category leaders in under thirty days. At first,...
Ryan Waliany Seattle
SPEAR Coding agents using process/checklists
Andrei Alikimovich
Consistent UI at Scale
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
Jon Gordner
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
Jenn Steele
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
Sheikh Shuvo
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

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Last updated: June 2026