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: June 8th, 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 5,394 technical professionals features a high-signal membership where 35% are CTOs, founders, or principal architects. Key skill areas are balanced across generative AI orchestration (35%), distributed systems infrastructure (35%), and applied machine learning research (30%). Notable achievements include members deploying production-grade agentic architectures, pioneering open-source AI developer tooling, and optimizing GPU-compiler performance at scale.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google, alongside innovative AI platforms and startups such as OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenPipe, Fixie.ai, CopilotKit, and more
• Demos: A total of 623 demos were submitted and 270 were presented, yielding a dense mix of agentic software automation, retrieval/agent memory, and production-grade evaluation/observability. Exciting themes also emphasized real-time multimodal experiences (especially voice), structured deterministic tool-calling, and safety mechanisms such as sandboxing and authorization, alongside data-centric workflows like fine-tuning, synthetic data generation, and benchmark automation.
• Testimonials:

  “So freaking cool... Excited to try it out but also just think it did everything right.”

  — Founder, marketing AI

  “Really cool... The reverse engineering component blew my mind.”

  — Founder, marketing AI

  “Great selection of demos.”

  — Founder, AI GTM agency

  “Very interesting and nice to meet new people.”

  — CEO, decentralized AI infrastructure

  “Comfortable and well organized.”

  — Applied math researcher

  “Presentations were great!”

  — Senior engineer, cloud AI

  “It was my first time, I really enjoyed myself.”

  — Senior scientist, automotive

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