Setting Up Virtual Employees

Seattle’s monthly meetup combines hands-on Science Fair stations with curated Mainstage demos, AI news updates, and conversations. This month’s theme is Setting Up Virtual Employees: the practical systems behind AI teammates that can remember context, follow team conventions, coordinate with humans, and carry work across sessions without losing the plot.

Connect with the most ambitious engineers and researchers to trade notes, debug systems side-by-side, and get fresh eyes on your project. Selective by design, space is strictly limited to 150 vetted builders.

Expect 8-16 demo stations around the room, a central networking area, and a short whole-room presentation block between demo rounds.

Demos, Not Decks

This event is built around the demo. We encourage messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your presentation must answer: “How did you even build this??” Working code or nothing.

For this month’s theme, we’re especially excited to see demos around:

• AI agents that can act like useful teammates instead of one-off chat sessions
• Shared memory, repo context, task ledgers, and durable team knowledge
• Human-in-the-loop approval flows, review loops, evals, and observability
• Multi-agent coordination, task handoffs, permissions, and guardrails
• Local, cloud, and hybrid infrastructure for running AI coworkers in production workflows

All approved demos will participate in the Science Fair, setting up hands-on stations for deep-dive Q&A and peer review. Two or three demos may be selected for the Mainstage.

Mainstage Demos: Capped at 5 minutes.

Science Fair Stations: Capped at approximately 45 minutes per group.

This is for hands-on technical Q&A at your station. Bring your laptop and be ready to pop the hood on your stack.

Submit Your Demo Here

Agenda (5:30pm - 8:30pm)

Event Details

Sponsor Spotlight: SageOx

We thank SageOx for supporting this builder-focused event.

SageOx is building the hivemind for agentic engineering: context infrastructure that helps humans and AI agents work from the same shared memory. Instead of every agent session starting from zero, SageOx captures discussions, coding sessions, decisions, and intent so future AI coworkers can inherit the context your team already created.

That makes them a perfect sponsor for this month’s theme: Setting Up Virtual Employees. If AI agents are going to behave like real teammates, they need memory, constraints, team context, and a way to understand why work happened-not just what changed in the code.

This month, Ajit Banerjee, Founder & CEO of SageOx, will give a short demo of how SageOx approaches the virtual-employee problem in practice. Ask him about their recent Ox CLI work, session recording, AI coworker isolation, and the SageOx “puck” prototype they’ve been showing publicly.

Explore SageOx
Ox CLI on GitHub

Thanks also to CopilotKit for hosting the community.

Featured Speakers & Demos

Partner with the Builders

We maintain a selective sponsorship model: only brands that ship get in. If your company builds infrastructure, models, or tooling that accelerates the work of engineers and researchers, we should talk.

Learn more about sponsorship opportunities: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/sponsors

Registration: Curated. Technical. No Fluff.

Entry is strictly curated to maintain a high-signal room. We require demonstrable proof of hands-on work with AI for entry. Space is limited, so register now to lock your spot.

We have a limited number of spots and we want to fill the room with people who will actually make it. Please only RSVP if you plan on attending, and make room for builders who can be there.

Required for entry: email and at least one of GitHub, LinkedIn, or Twitter/X.

📊 AI Tinkerers 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