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AI Tinkerers Seattle – June Meetup
This Friday: Don’t Miss June’s Meetup
It’s been a jaw-dropping month in AI—Gemini 2.5 GA, o3-pro, MiniMax-M1, and more. If you’ve been hacking on any of these breakthroughs (or wrestling with their quirks), this is the room you want to be in. Expect rapid-fire demos, candid field notes from the front lines, and plenty of “wait, you did what?” moments.
Space is capped at 150 builders and every RSVP is screened for hands-on cred, so lock in your spot now.
Registration button is at the top of this page.
🗓️ Key Details
| Detail | Info |
|---|---|
| Date & Time | Friday, June 27 · 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM |
| Venue | Foundations, Capitol Hill – exact address sent to approved attendees |
| Format | 5 min live demos, followed by Science Fair & networking |
| Capacity | 150 active builders (no investors, no recruiters) |
🔥 Agenda
6:00 PM – Doors & check-in
6:40 PM – June AI News Recap
6:50 PM – Main-Stage Demos (5 slots, 5 min each)
7:20 PM – Science Fair
7:20 PM – Networking, code swap, hallway debugging
9:00 PM - Close
🛠️ Submit Your Demo
Think Homebrew Computer Club, not a pitch night. We want:
- Scrappy prototypes, half-baked side projects
- Architecture diagrams, prompt traces, failure modes
- Live code only, NO slides
Hit “Submit Your Demo Proposal” above.
After submitting, you’ll have the opportunity to demo during the science fair portion of the night (hands-on, you will be supplied with a monitor + small whiteboard). 5 presenters will be selected to demo on the main-stage (five-minute demo) at the beginning of the event.
❓ Who Gets In
We screen every RSVP for concrete builder signals—GitHub commits, Kaggle notebooks, indie-hack dashboards, whatever proves you ship code. If your LinkedIn screams “BizDev”, we’ll politely pass.
🙏 Thanks to Our Hosts
Foundations - Seattle’s premier invite-only gathering space for ambitious tech founders, providing 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.
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📊 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:
See you THIS FRIDAY June 27.