Ring out the year with one last night of demos, food, and friends.

We’re closing out 2025 at Foundations. Help yourself to hot cocoa and warm cookies, gather round the demo stations, and stay a while!

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is the world’s most curated community of active AI builders: engineers, researchers, founders, and technologists who come together to share real work and push boundaries. Selective by design, entry is earned, not granted. We focus on hands-on innovation, not theoretical pontification. Every event delivers working code, live demos, and systems in motion.

If you are actively building with AI, have hands-on experience deploying these systems, and want to trade notes with peers, this is the room for you. Space is limited, so register early.

The Science Fair: Demos First

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 build this interesting thing?” Working code or nothing.

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 will be selected for the Mainstage.

• Mainstage Demos: Capped at 5 minutes.
• Science Fair Stations: Capped at approximately 30 minutes per cycle. 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: Submit Your Demo Proposal

Event Details

Agenda

Registration & Curation

Entry is strictly curated to maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio. We require demonstrable proof of hands-on work with AI for entry (email and at least one of Github, Twitter/X, or Linkedin).

Sponsors

Auth0

Auth0 — by Okta — is the modern identity platform that makes authentication effortless for developers and seamless for users. From secure login flows to advanced access management, Auth0 empowers teams to build trustworthy, scalable products without reinventing the identity wheel.

📊 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

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