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AI Tinkerers will host a global hackathon for engineers and designers to build agent prototypes, integrating them into existing tools and environments. OpenAI, CopilotKit, and OpenRouter will provide support.
Past
AI Tinkerers San Francisco hosted a GTM Engineering Demo Night for technical founders and engineers to share AI experiments and growth lessons, sponsored by Attio and PostHog.
AI Tinkerers San Francisco hosted a GTM Engineering Track focused on building distribution into applications, sponsored by Attio.
The AI Tinkerers San Francisco community gathered for an offensive security demo night, sponsored by XBOW and WorkOS.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner focused on harnessing agents. BrightData sponsored the in-person gathering.
AI Tinkerers San Francisco hosted an in-person meetup focused on the GTM Engineering Track.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person build night focused on agents with real-time data.
The Generative UI Hackathon brought together developers to explore agentic interfaces. Google DeepMind, CopilotKit, and others sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner with Kiro & B-Capital, featuring discussions on building software factories. Amazon sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person build night focused on "Cage the Claw." Ian Butler organized the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person hackathon focused on background agents. Dexter Horthy organized the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted a global hackathon with Google DeepMind and Cactus Compute. Attendees collaborated on innovative AI projects.
AI Tinkerers held its inaugural build night, fostering community engagement and hands-on AI experimentation.
The OpenClaw Unhackathon fostered community engagement, exploring unique themes. Organizer Dexter Horthy led the event.
Experienced builders gathered for an intense evening of creating cutting-edge conversational agents across 30 cities. Teams competed for a $200K prize pool, supported by partners like ICONIQ and Redis.
Engineers built production-minded, secure agents during a focused, in-person buildathon. Projects underwent stress testing judged on stability and security, supported by Google Cloud.
Builders attended a hands-on, code-first session focused on shipping AI agents with live demos, sponsored by Google Cloud.
Technical founders and researchers gathered for an intimate, invite-only dinner discussing shipping AI quickly and safely with practical frameworks, supported by Okta Ventures.
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Builders gathered for a hands-on session focused on creating production-ready applications using LiquidMetal AI and Vercel technologies.
Builders gathered for an in-person session focused on testing and improving production AI through live-code demos and real metrics, sponsored by Ragas and Okta Ventures.
Technical leaders attended an invite-only dinner discussing hidden technical debt in production Generative AI systems, facilitated by candid conversation and supported by Databricks and Nandy.
Attendees participated in a full-day hackathon building action-capable agents leveraging Redis context stores and Composio tool orchestration, sponsored by Redis Inc.
Builders with production experience gathered for practical help on running agents, focusing on orchestration and human-in-the-loop patterns, supported by Temporal and WorkOS.
AI Tinkerers hosted a protocol demo night featuring demonstrations of MCP, A2A, and AG-UI.
Builders gathered for a mini-hackathon to prototype marketplace agents using LiquidMetal AI's Raindrop and Vercel for rapid UI deployment. Teams built autonomous buyers and sellers.
AI Tinkerers hosted a code-along workshop. Attendees built a fullstack agent app with PydanticAI and AG-UI, featuring Samuel Colvin and Tyler Slaton.
The hackathon featured LlamaIndex, CopilotKit, and Composio, with support from B Capital, fostering community innovation in fullstack agents.
Builders gathered for a code-forward night where infra teams demonstrated recent, cutting-edge capabilities. Sponsors included Wordware, E2B, CopilotKit, Composio, and Cua.
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Engineers shared practical AI development value through live demos and lightning talks on agent workflows. A coding competition awarded a prize, sponsored by WorkOS and Amp Code.
Elite AI builders gathered for hands-on demonstrations of advanced workflows, including parallel Claude sessions and AI-driven continuous integration and continuous delivery. CircleCI, HumanLayer, and Sourcegraph sponsored the event.
Active AI engineers participated in a hands-on, RSVP-only meetup featuring raw demos of Google AI tech, sponsored by Google Cloud AI and SignalFire.
AI Tinkerers hosted a workshop focused on building fullstack AI agent applications using CopilotKit and Mastra.
Technical builders gathered for live demonstrations and networking focused on voice agents. The event featured demos and a science fair, supported by ElevenLabs and AWS.
AI Tinkerers hosted an advanced MCP showcase, bringing together the community for demonstrations and discussions.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person session detailing the engineering of planning-based AI systems like AI21 Maestro, featuring company leaders and industry experts, supported by AI21 and Assembled.
Active AI engineers attended a full-day workshop on building reliable agents and advanced prompt engineering, featuring YC founders and a catered lunch panel, sponsored by Baseten and OSS4AI.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner discussing the future of SaaS.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup for the community, sponsored by Comet and SignalFire.
AI Tinkerers held an in-person meetup in San Francisco. The event featured demos and a science fair.
AI Tinkerers, ElevenLabs, and a16z are hosting a worldwide hackathon on Feb 22–23. Apply now at https://hackathon.elevenlabs.io. Seven hackathons in San Francisco, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Seoul, plus Online; limited spaces, with prizes from Mistral, Vercel, and Windsurf.
The AI Tinkerers San Francisco community met for an in-person gathering.
AI Tinkerers held an in-person workshop focusing on advanced prompt engineering techniques for production systems, featuring expert guidance from Vaibhav Gupta.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup focused on securing agentic systems. The event was organized by Joe Heitzeberg.
Builders prototyped agent-native, human-in-the-loop systems at the hackathon, receiving support from Google Cloud and sponsors like Weights & Biases.
AI Tinkerers hosted a Halloween-themed in-person meetup. The event offered a unique opportunity for the community to connect and explore AI.
AI Tinkerers held an in-person meetup in San Francisco. The event focused on artificial intelligence topics.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup focused on artificial intelligence. The event provided a platform for community engagement and discussion on AI topics.
The AI Tinkerers community gathered for an in-person meetup. Organizers encouraged attendees to use the contact form for inquiries.
Builders, researchers, and engineers swapped AI hacks and demos during a fireside chat featuring Amjad Masad, with pizza and beverages sponsored by Replit.
The in-person gathering featured short, high-energy demos and lightning talks for local AI enthusiasts, supported by MindsDB hosting and TQ Ventures sponsorship.
Best AI meetup in San Francisco for builders
AI Tinkerers San Francisco is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.
The San Francisco chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 124,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local San Francisco chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers San Francisco meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More — Global Hackathon on September 12, 2026. Subscribe to the San Francisco chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers San Francisco is the best AI meetup in San Francisco for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The San Francisco chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.
AI Tinkerers San Francisco is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The San Francisco chapter is part of a 253-city network with 124,000+ members worldwide.
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"Really enjoyable event. Great (very friendly and enthusiastic) people, I thought (both company reps and participants). Nice location."
"Keep having high signal events like these! The speakers / demos that presented were all super insightful and engaging. Great to really feel all of the builder energy in the room. Super curated audience. Etc."
"Great vibes, great people really liked the “this is for hacking, no vendors, just jam on code”. Demos was nice and quick and flexible too."
"Thanks for doing this service to the community. Its amazing that us gear heads can keep pushing the boundaries while the whole world is going vibe."
"Ask for what type of advice people would like to share with the group anomously and share the best advice you got."
"All the demoes were great. Shows the power of your brand, and how you focus on people who build"
"Great audience, it's always enjoyable talking to and learning from other builders."
"Bright data seems to be a great partner for the community"
"I really appreciated the dedicated project building time. Having that uninterrupted focus time was the best part of the event."
"The time constraint made it so it was “who has the best prompt” and not a hackathon"
Last updated: August 2026
