AI Tinkerers: Dev Tools is a monthly session for the AI-first builder: lightning demos, live code audits, and rapid-fire stack debates on the IDEs, the .md’s, and the agents. Brought to you by Actual AI.

What to expect

• “Dev‑Tools Changelog”, an interactive discussion of the latest news
• Short, 5-minute demos covering state of the art AI dev tooling/workflows followed by a 3-minute Q&A
• A collaborative space to exchange stacks, workflows, and lessons learned
• Food & refreshments!

Speaker proposals

We’re soliciting talks that show real code and practical learnings around AI development tooling. Proposals should include a concise talk title, a 2-3 sentence abstract, your technical depth, and an outline of the demo. Submit your proposal using the form linked below. The screening question will be used to assess contribution to this track:

What is your experience with AI development tooling and what will you contribute to this track?

Submit Your Talk Proposal

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Start time and format

• Date: May 5th, 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
• Location: Near Westlake station
• Capacity: 200 attendees

How to participate

• Registration: Space is limited; please register on the event page above to lock your spot.
• Demos: We accept live demos and code-first setups. If accepted, you’ll present a 5 minute demo and then participate in a brief 2m Q&A.
• Proposals: All speaker proposals must be submitted via the link above.
• Information required from attendees: email and at least one of LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub.

Venue notes

The venue is in near Westlake station. Exact details will be provided to attendees who RSVP.

📊 AI Tinkerers Seattle Stats

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 5,360 technical professionals comprises approximately 43% senior software engineers, 32% AI/ML scientists, and 25% technical founders. Members possess deep expertise in agentic workflows, LLM orchestration, and cloud infrastructure. Notably, the group bridges elite enterprise talent from Microsoft and Amazon with venture-backed startups, driving rapid, open-source AI integration and local-first hardware-software innovations.
• Companies Represented: Featuring industry giants like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Google, and Apple, alongside leading AI innovators such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Together.ai, and rising startups like CopilotKit, OpenPipe, Fixie.ai, and Moondream, and more
• Demos: 614 demos have been submitted and 266 have been presented at AI Tinkerers – Seattle. The most exciting themes have frequently blended agentic workflows, production-ready LLM engineering, and agent/tool orchestration, while technical highlights have emphasized RAG and memory systems, structured outputs for reliability, multimodal real-time UX (especially voice/vision), and evaluation/observability for safer iteration—often alongside privacy/security and edge performance work.
• Testimonials:

  “I like the changeup in the opening where you had nate doing news. Keeping that fresh is great. ... I just... didn't really get it I guess?”

  — Agentic engineer, enterprise storage

  “The atmosphere and group size led to candid, authentic, and insightful conversations. ... The group was a really good user sample.”

  — VP of Engineering, EdTech

  “Great selection of demos.”

  — Founder, AI GTM agency

  “I really enjoy these events. Thanks for the great work. ... Love hearing what people are working on, why, and what they are using.”

  — SDE, multimodal AI

  “I'm so happy that I went, and I very much look forward to future events.”

  — Founder, pharma R&D systems

  “Format of networking -> demos -> networking works well”

  — Sr. software engineer

  “Presentations were great! ... Discussions about what people are using and how their workflows are changing - always good!”

  — Senior engineer, cloud AI

Sponsors

Actual AI - Actual AI’s software engineering management platform provides an agent-native system of record for architectural decisions that eliminates code generation context rot and optimizes token usage. Actual AI helps companies build automated software factories for every developer.

AWS Kiro - Kiro gives developers and teams the structure and speed to 10x their output. Build precise context and make your intent explicit with executable specs. Unleash advanced agents to fix bugs in minutes, iterate on features faster, and solve tough technical problems across the most complex codebases.

DevPlan - Devplan is Spec-Driven Development for modern organizations. We help companies reliably ship complex projects with fully agentic execution, not by asking engineers to “try harder”, but by changing the operating system: clear specs first, AI execution second. Devplan turns messy ideas, scattered feedback, and half-baked PRDs into production-grade product + technical specs, decision logs, and AI-ready tasks that engineers and agents can run consistently.

Qumulo Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, the Qumulo Data Platform unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. It is a unified global file system solution that spans data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.

Learn more about sponsorship

If you’re interested in supporting future AI Tinkerers Seattle events, visit https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/sponsors