AI Tinkerers is back on April 24th. RSVP now to get in!

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for active builders, including engineers, creative technologists, and vibe-coders, who are building and shipping products with foundation models and generative AI.

If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-powered applications, have hands-on experience in building such systems, and are eager to connect with like-minded individuals who share your level of commitment, then this group is the perfect fit for you.

This event is sponsored by Comet, a 🔥 hot 🔥 model evaluation platform (Opik) featuring LLM evaluation, experiment tracking and model monitoring who will be on-hand to answer questions and show of their latest, and Foundations, the invite-only, member-owned community of tech founders.

When? Where?

• Date: Thursday, April 24th, 2025 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
• 🍕 Food will be served.

Agenda

• Mainstage Demos: 6:30pm - 3 select demos, 10 minutes each with Q&A
• Science Fair: 7:00pm - Hands-on community demos at stations throughout the venue
• Networking: 7:00pm - Trade notes with like-minded individuals who are also building in the AI space

Demos (Submit early!)

All demos will be approved, as this event allows for Demo Stations / Science Fair. A few demos will be selected to present on the Mainstage (if this is you, we’ll reach out a few days in advance, so submit your demo now!)

Mainstage presenters are capped at 10 minutes, but we encourage reserving half of that for Q&A.

Science Fair presenters can demo as long as they’d like, but we recommend capping it at 30 minutes so you have time to see other demos!

whether you’re presenting on the main stage or the science fair, please submit your proposal here.

Remember: AI Tinkerers is not a pitch forum or a demo day. There are plenty of other meetups well suited to that. AI Tinkerers is akin to the Homebrew Computer Club of today’s technology. We want your messy side projects, works-in-progress, and experiments that are on the cutting edge.

🛠️ Presenter Proposal Form 🛠️

🍕 Sponsors

Comet - is a model evaluation platform featuring LLM evaluation, experiment tracking and model monitoring. Recently, Comet has seen explosive growth with its new product Opik, an end-to-end evaluation platform, since its launch in September.

Foundations stands as Seattle’s premier invite-only gathering space for ambitious tech founders, providing the essential infrastructure where innovation naturally unfolds. Their thoughtfully designed Capitol Hill location brings together experienced founders, new innovators, and industry leaders in a space that balances focused work with organic collaboration. Understanding that time is every founder’s most precious resource, they’ve crafted an environment that maximizes meaningful connections while respecting each member’s pace.

RSVP Now!

Space is limited, so be sure to register early ☝️ at the top of the page ☝️ to secure your spot. Come ready to share your insights, learn from others, and enjoy an evening of community engagement.

📊 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.