Summer on the Lake - August Tinkerers Meetup! (Demos, Food, Friends) [AI Tinkerers - Seattle]
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Summer on the Lake - August Tinkerers Meetup! (Demos, Food, Friends)

Aug
27
Wednesday
Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 • 6PM to 8:30PM (PDT)
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🔥 AI Tinkerers is back WEDNESDAY, August 27th, 6pm at Thinkspace on Lake Union 🔥

DEMOS. FOOD. FRIENDS. What better way to end the summer of ‘25?

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When? Where?
  • When: Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 from 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Where: Thinkspace on Lake Union (1700 Westlake Ave N #200, Seattle, WA)
  • 🍕 Food will be served!

☝️☝️☝️ Register above to lock your spot for an evening of kick-ass demos (submit yours here!) then forward this email to friends who build. Space is limited, don’t wait! ☝️☝️☝️

Agenda
Time Activity Deets
6:00 PM Doors Open Welcome, grab a pizza, get settled
6:20 PM AI News Recap Group discussion of the latest AI news
6:30 PM Mainstage Demos 4 featured demos — 5 minutes each
7:00 PM Science Fair Hands-on community demos at demo stations
7:00 PM Networking Connect with other builders in the AI space

What is AI Tinkerers?

We’re not “AI Enthusiasts”, we are AI Tinkerers. The essence of AI Tinkerers lies in active collaboration surrounding early-stage discovery and innovation, which requires a high degree of experimentation, vulnerability, openness to sharing challenges and learnings, collaboration and camaraderie among individuals with varied levels of expertise.

If you’re deeply passionate about creating LLM-enabled 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.

The Location

We’re back at 🌅 Thinkspace this month, a beautiful, breezy building with great parking right on Lake Union. Thank you to Thinkspace for hosting us!

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Sponsor This Meetup

📢 Put your brand in front of Seattle’s most engaged AI builders. Sponsorship typically includes on‑stage mention, logo placement, and a small block of priority tickets for your team. We’re actively seeking a sponsor for this meetup! Simply reply to this email if you or your organization are interested.

Demos (Submit early!)

All demos will be approved, as this event allows for Demo Stations / Science Fair. Four demos will be selected to present for 5 minutes on the Mainstage (if this is you, we’ll reach out a few days in advance, so submit your demo now!)

🛠️ Submit your demo / Learn more here! 🛠️

Words From Friends

“I'm so happy that I went, and I very much look forward to future events.”
— Founder, pharma R&D systems

AIT Seattle Stats

  • 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
  • Demo Stats: 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.

If you are new to the group, please be sure to read the AI Tinkerers FAQ.

Then, connect with us on Discord and stay up-to-date on all things Tinkerers.

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PLEASE RSVP AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE ☝️ - space is limited.

Hope to see you there!
Killian

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