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: April 13th, 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 elite community of 5,285 technical professionals consists of 84% AI/ML specialists and 74% full-stack infrastructure engineers. Representing tech giants like Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta, members actively build production-grade agentic workflows, LLMs, and cloud-native systems. Notably, over 30% of the membership are startup founders or CTOs, driving rapid, real-world AI implementation and collaborative open-source innovation.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google, alongside high-growth AI innovators and startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Snowflake, Figma, OpenPipe, Fixie.ai, and more
• Demos: 611 demos were submitted and 266 were presented. The most exciting themes have clustered around agentic systems for real-world automation, and production-grade LLM engineering focused on reliability via evaluation, observability, and structured/typed outputs. Multimodal real-time experiences and RAG/memory/context architectures have been especially common, alongside security, privacy controls, and MCP-style tooling to unify agent capabilities.
• Testimonials:

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

  — Founder, pharma R&D systems

  “I love the venue. It's closer to the light rail than the previous one ...”

  — Engineering manager, AI/QA

  “Excellent excellent work.”

  Joel — May 27, 2026

  “The short format, the lack of sponsorship pitches. ...”

  — Staff engineer, platform engineering

  “...I really enjoy these events. Thanks for the great work.”

  — Fractional CMO, B2B tech

  “...Really helpful, patient and thorough. Nice job!”

  — Principal engineer, healthcare

  “Well done! I wish these were more frequent. Happy to help organize.”

  — Founder, AI tools

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