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

🔥 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.

Interested in sponsoring a future meetup? Reach out here.

📊 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

See you THIS FRIDAY June 27.