AI Dev Tool Track — Seattle Meetup

AI Tinkerers: Dev Tools is a new 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

Submit Your Talk Proposal

Start time and format

• Date: January 12th, 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Location: South Lake Union (exact location will be shared with accepted attendees only; address withheld per event policy)
• Capacity: 150 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 2-3 minute demo and then participate in a brief 3m 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 South Lake Union. Exact details will be provided to attendees who RSVP.

📊 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:

  “I like the changeup in the opening where you had nate doing news. Keeping that fresh is great. ... I just... didn't really get it I guess?”

  — Agentic engineer, enterprise storage

  “The atmosphere and group size led to candid, authentic, and insightful conversations. ... The group was a really good user sample.”

  — VP of Engineering, EdTech

  “Great selection of demos.”

  — Founder, AI GTM agency

  “I really enjoy these events. Thanks for the great work. ... Love hearing what people are working on, why, and what they are using.”

  — SDE, multimodal AI

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

  — Founder, pharma R&D systems

  “Format of networking -> demos -> networking works well”

  — Sr. software engineer

  “Presentations were great! ... Discussions about what people are using and how their workflows are changing - always good!”

  — Senior engineer, cloud AI

Sponsors

Actual AI - Actual AI develops an AI-assisted engineering management platform designed to build high-performing AI-native software teams and automate Agile grunt-work.

Learn more about sponsorship

If you’re interested in supporting future AI Tinkerers Seattle events, visit https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/sponsors