AI Tinkerers - Seattle
AI Tinkerers Seattle - February 2025 Meetup
Feb
21
Friday
6PM to 9PM PDT
Main Stage Speakers
Bilal Tahir
Bilal Tahir
Software Engineer at Steamata
Open Deep Research
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Building open-source research tools using search, scraping, and synthesis.
Jon Turow
Jon Turow
Partner at Madrona Venture Group
AI Startup Scout
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Build AI agents to automate startup scouting and founder research.
Scott Willeke
Scott Willeke
Product Engineer at Tayle
Tayle: Building an AI-Powered Voice Interview System for Life Story Capture (using OpenAI's Realtime API) + Open-Source SDK
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Building real-time voice apps using OpenAI and open-source SDKs.
Danny Franklin
Danny Franklin
CoFounder/CTO at Lightning Rod Labs
LLMs can teach themselves to better predict the future
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Improving small model forecasting using reinforcement learning and actual outcomes.
Evan Boyle
Evan Boyle
CEO at gensx.com
Self-modifying code
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Building self-replicating AI agents using sandboxing and code generation.
Science Fair Presenters
Zak Hussain
Zak Hussain
Founder at Zettaware
KernelSmith
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Explores using AI-powered CLI tools for deep hardware analysis.
David Chataway
David Chataway
CEO at Roundtable Innovations Corporation
Roundtable Demo Video | Discover innovations and researchers for your business
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Balancing structured backends with unstructured LLM outputs for R&D.
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Joe Golden
Joe Golden
Founder / CEO at Paper2Audio.com
OCR? More Like OMG: When AI Can’t Handle Your PDFs
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Solving complex PDF parsing errors using general and specialized models.
Vaibhav Gupta
Vaibhav Gupta
Founder at Boundary
Extract anything - from any model
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Extract structured data from any media using open-source BAML.
Gabe Brown
Gabe Brown
Co-Founder at BigBox VR
Building a Product Powered by Local LLM's Only - Using LLM's in Cursor
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Building privacy-sensitive apps using local LLMs and dedicated hardware.
Murali Krishnan
Murali Krishnan
CEO at Deriq.AI
WhatsApp Post Analyzer
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Building LLM tools to analyze and improve WhatsApp group engagement.
No tech stack listed.
Craig Robinson
Craig Robinson
Senior AI Researcher at Playco
Artixa
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Building AI apps using Replit Agent and Gemini 2.0.
Ali Badereddin
Ali Badereddin
AI Tinkerer at Scale AI
Leela Quest
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Building a digital board game using AI and spirituality.
No tech stack listed.
Santosh Ganji
Santosh Ganji
Applied Scientist at Amazon
Personal Voice Tutor for Teens: Bringing Safety, and Guarding
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Building safe, controlled voice agents for student tutoring.
Sandeep Gangarapu
Sandeep Gangarapu
Applied Scientist at Apple
AI gives you wings
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Building low-cost, self-sustaining niche apps using AI tools.
Tyler Wright
Tyler Wright
CEO, Technical Co-founder at Wanderheart
Wanderheart
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Building multiplayer AI gamemasters using TypeScript and LLM architectures.
John Davidson
John Davidson
Entrepreneur at Cornice Labs
Elder Caregiving Companion
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Preprocessing user intent to improve search results in AI apps.
Rishi Mullur
Rishi Mullur
Software Engineer at University of Washington
How to Get a Job in This Market (While Your AI Does All The Work)
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Coordinating multi-agent systems for reliable browser automation and error recovery.
Dev aggarwal
Dev aggarwal
Co-founder/CTO at Gooey.AI
AI speed dating
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Automating event networking by connecting multiple AI functions and databases.