AI Tinkerers SF is back on April 23rd, 2025!

Join us for the AI Tinkerers San Francisco April Meetup, generously sponsored by the team at Comet.

Hang with SF’s top AI engineers, hackers, researchers, and technical founders.

Space is strictly limited for this event and we will be screening attendance.

🥽 What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a meetup designed exclusively for practitioners who possess technical, machine learning, and entrepreneurial backgrounds and are actively building and working with foundation models, such as large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. 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. With AI Tinkerers meetups taking place in multiple cities, we cater to a dedicated community of practitioners.

🌍 Who is this for?

👉 It’s AI Tinkerers, not AI enthusiasts. We screen attendance to active builders with a shared level of expertise in order to create a collaborative environment ideal for early-stage discovery and innovation.

Prior attendee stats: This exclusive community of 7,284 technical professionals comprises 45% machine learning specialists, 40% agentic systems builders, and 30% infrastructure engineers. Distinguished by a 30% founder-to-member ratio and researchers from Google DeepMind and Meta, members actively pioneer real-world autonomous agents, custom Model Context Protocol servers, and hardware-accelerated AI.

Read more about us in the FAQ

🎙️DEMO SIGNUPS🎙️

We’re on the lookout for speakers! Want to showcase your latest AI project or share your findings?

• Kwindla Kramer (Daily) - Lightning talk on training a small audio model for smarter turn detection in voice AI
• Philip Kiely (Baseten) - High-throughput embedding generation for Vector DB corpus fill using TensorRT-LLM
• Henry Mao (Smithery AI) - Building an MCP registry the hard way
• Claire Longo (Comet) - (surprise!)
• Praful Mathur (Sarama) - Using AI and custom hardware to decode dog movements and barks
• Dhiren Mathur (Potpie AI) - Building custom codebase agents using knowledge graphs to automate SDLC

👉 CLICK HERE TO FILL OUT OUR DEMO PROPOSAL FORM 👈!

Demos are capped at 4 minutes, with up to 6 minutes for questions. No pitches! We’re eager to see your raw and exciting WIPs! 🛠️ The best talks are the ones that drive engaging audience participation and questions.

🕕 Tentative Schedule:

• 6:00 PM - Doors Open
• 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Welcome & Community Demos
• 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Followup discussions and networking
• 9:00 PM - Doors Close

🤖 Connect, Collaborate, and Create 🤖

This meetup is your chance to:

• Showcase your latest AI projects: Share your work with the community during our demo session. Submit your proposal for a 4-minute presentation and inspire others with your innovative ideas.
• Network with fellow tinkerers: Meet and collaborate with other active builders, AI engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers who share your passion for building the future with AI.
• Learn from industry experts: Gain insights and inspiration from our sponsors and other leading figures in the AI space.

🍕 Sponsors

Comet 💫

Comet is a model evaluation platform featuring LLM evaluation, experiment tracking and model monitoring. Recently, Comet has seen explosive growth with its new product Opik, an end-to-end evaluation platform, since its launch in September.

SignalFire 🔥

SignalFire is proud to join as a sponsor of AI Tinkerers SF. As a pioneer in data-driven venture capital, SignalFire combines world-class venture capital experience with AI-powered tracking technology to identify and support the most promising technical founders, and their team of engineers, data scientists, and operators provides hands-on support to portfolio companies.

RSVP Today!

Space is limited, so don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity to connect with the Bay Area AI community. RSVP now.