AI Events in Austin | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Austin - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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Cutting-Edge Innovations
April 17, 2025, 6PM - 8PM CDT
AI TINKERERS-AUSTIN
Event
about 1 year ago

Community AI Demos April 2025 (ML Infrastructure Theme)

Monday, April 14th, 2025 6PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Jake Crowley Miguel Bravo Maheedhar Gunnam Tamatoa Audouin Kellan McKee Siddhant Sharma Jameer P Ramon Serrallonga

The Austin AI Tinkerers community gathered for an in-person meetup focused on ML Infrastructure. Builders showcased cutting-edge AI systems through brief technical demonstrations and engaged in networking.

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Innovative Community Presentations
February 13, 2025, 6PM - 8PM CST
AI TINKERERS-AUSTIN
Event
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers February Meetup: Community AI Demos - North Austin

Thursday, February 13th, 2025 6PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Rajesh Govindarajan Haytham Mohamed J. Michael Rozmus Raksha Vashishta Dale Sikkema Prerna Sharma Vikram Ahuja Alondra Synai Mayorga Jenny Yu Raheem Dadabhoy Ramon Serrallonga Kanishk Garg Nassim rostane Govardhan Reddy Annapureddy Kurtis Welch Miguel Bravo John Joseph Fowler Chandu Venigalla Vamsi Vegi
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AI Tinkerers showcased community AI demos, fostering collaboration among LLM practitioners. Attendees engaged in technical discussions and networking.

A banner advertising the AI Tinkerers January Meetup in Austin, sponsored by KAMIWAZA AI. It features an illustration of people at computers in a room with large windows overlooking a cityscape.. Text: Al Tinkerers January Meetup
Sponsored by KAMIWAZA AI
Thursday, January 16th - 6PM to 8PM
AI TINKERERS - AUSTIN
AI
Meetup
over 1 year ago

2025 New Year January Meetup

Thursday, January 16th, 2025 6PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Bri snook Anu Rai Raksha Vashishta Varun Arumugam Reilly Bailey Anup Puri Raheem Dadabhoy Govardhan Reddy Annapureddy Eric Engineer Sai Krishna Gunda Sarthak Dayal Milind Choudhary Eddie Hudson A. Newton David Bailey Anish Zute Kurtis Welch David Taylor Dillon Cortez
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The Austin AI Tinkerers met, featuring community demos and deep-dive discussions on LLM development, sponsored by Kamiwaza AI.

A banner advertising a community AI demo event hosted by AI Tinkerers in Austin on October 10, 2024.. Text: Community Al Demos
Innovative Al Presentations
October 10, 2024, 5:30PM CDT
AI TINKERERS- AUSTIN
Meetup
over 1 year ago

Community AI Demos - October Edition with Live Streaming

Thursday, October 10th, 2024 5:30PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Betty Fan Brandi Beasley Kshitij Aggarwal Abraham Leal Hyejee Bae Greg Barto Elisa Rowell Sowmiya Govindaraj John Joseph Fowler Siddhant Sharma Dale Sikkema Chandu Venigalla Matt Walters Haytham Mohamed Michael Maloney Grant Marvin Brent Brightwell Ethan Lowe Eric Landry
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The Austin AI Tinkerers hosted a community AI demo event showcasing LLM and generative AI projects. Attendees engaged in technical discussions and networking.

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Cutting-Edge Innovations
September 12, 5:30PM - 8PM
AI TINKERERS - AUSTIN
Event
over 1 year ago

Community AI Demos - September Edition

Thursday, September 12th, 2024 5:30PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Isabella Reed Nathanael Sirmons Jered Sutton Sagar krishnaraj Sharon Liu Arnav Parihar Brandi Beasley Thaniel Amerongen Haider Ali Martin Dao Dale Sikkema Ramon Serrallonga Steven Rea Krispy schludermann Michael Dodd Austin Johnson Hassan Hayat Parihar Austin Perkins
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AI Tinkerers hosted a community meetup for builders and practitioners to showcase their work with foundation models and large language models.

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Event
almost 2 years ago

August Meetup: Community AI Demos

Thursday, August 8th, 2024 5:30PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Marat Gaziev Joshua Johnson Ashia Livaudais Jeffrey Craig Parisa Ghane Atousa Gholaminezhad Michelle Rueda Jeet Chaudhuri Parisa Jannatifard Steven Rea Brandi Beasley Sai Akhil Pulikam Ananth Natarajan Jenny Yu Sowmiya Govindaraj Haider Ali Armando Fandango Ramon Serrallonga Kshitij Aggarwal
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The Austin AI Tinkerers hosted a meetup focused on community AI demos. Builders showcased their foundation model and generative AI experiments during technical demonstrations.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

July Meetup: Community AI Demos

Thursday, July 11th, 2024 5:30PM to 8PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Dustin Mihalik Jujube Li Hector Ramirez Michelle Rueda Igor O Jessica Pena Brandi Beasley Joshua Johnson Collin Caram Kshitij Aggarwal Miguel Bravo Brent Brightwell Ryan Thomas Oivind Loe Haider Ali Renan Ugalde Ramon Serrallonga Steven Rosenberg Nathanael Sirmons
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The AI Tinkerers hosted a community AI demo meetup. Builders showcased novel foundation model projects, fostering technical cooperation and discussions.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

June AI Tinkerers meetup in Downtown Austin, TX

Thursday, June 13th, 2024 5PM to 7PM
Achyut Sarma Boggaram Jujube Li Nathanael Sirmons Debajoy Mukherjee Betty Fan Roger C. Garcia Jenny Yu Romil Sonigra HO Maycottr Matthew Weiss Ujwal Dinesha TJ Larkin Steven Rea Dale Sikkema Dan Manning Haider Ali Roy Dale Childers Sai Akhil Pulikam Hector Ramirez Kevin Liu
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AI Tinkerers met in Austin for networking and collaboration. Capital Factory sponsored the event, supporting AI professionals and innovators.

Meet the Organizers

Achyut Sarma Boggaram Reid McCrabb Jack Moffatt

Best AI meetup in Austin for builders

AI Tinkerers Austin is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Austin 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 Austin chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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 Austin chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Austin 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 AI Tinkerers Austin x PostHog Demo Night on June 18, 2026. Subscribe to the Austin chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
June 18, 2026
Local cadence
10 events in the last 12 months
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Austin for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Austin is the best AI meetup in Austin for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Austin 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.

What makes AI Tinkerers Austin different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Austin 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.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Austin chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Austin

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

Python

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

AWS

AWS is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from 33 geographic Regions.

Claude API

Access Anthropic's state-of-the-art Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) via the RESTful Messages API, integrating advanced AI capabilities directly into your applications.

Cursor

The AI-native code editor designed for high-velocity development through deep LLM integration.

Supabase

The open-source PostgreSQL development platform: a Firebase alternative for rapid backend deployment.

220

220 is a high-performance compute platform designed to optimize AI model training and inference workloads through custom silicon and automated resource orchestration.

Airtable

Airtable is the AI-native, no-code platform: it transforms familiar spreadsheet interfaces into robust relational databases and custom business applications.

Anthropic API

Programmatic access to Anthropic's Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) for complex reasoning, vision, and tool-use applications.

BullMQ

BullMQ is a fast, robust, Redis-backed job queue library for Node.js, engineered for reliable, distributed background task processing.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Austin

Matt Walters
GitKB – A distributed knowledge base protocol for agentic engineering…
Apr 16
GitKB is a git-like distributed knowledge graph protocol with sparse sync and checkout semantics, enabling agents and their hum...
Matt Walters Austin
Rust Git-like distributed knowledge graph
Jonathan Malkin
Jules: An AI Agent That Thinks, Argues, and Writes
Apr 16
I built Jules — a Claude Code-based AI agent with a personality, opinions, and structured decision-making workflows. Jules isn'...
Jonathan Malkin Austin
Claude Code Claude API
Marc de Bary
Soul, Memory, Skills, Brain: Building a Zero-PII Personal AI Agent in…
Apr 16
Rent-An-Agent.AI is a self-hostable personal AI agent platform where each agent is a four-layer artifact — Soul (persona in SOU...
Marc de Bary Austin
Python Docker
Mike Angstadt
ClawForce: Let Claude Spawn People to Do Things at Scale
Apr 16
I built a lite MCP that let's you expose commissioning real people to do anything in the physical world from an AI agentic work...
Mike Angstadt Austin
claudecode MCP
Kirill Zubovsky
Postal - AI Chief of Staff that keeps me organized and updates itself
Apr 16
Postal is the OpenClaw for people that don't want to buy a Macbook. I love the power of AI for coding and information discovery...
Kirill Zubovsky Austin
Tauri Supabase
Cameron Hightower
Juniper: NL to Automation Pipeline
Jan 22
I'll be presenting on how I built a working natural to standing automation pipeline for my app Juniper - it allows users to giv...
Cameron Hightower Austin
Anthropic API Supabase
Sam Gaddis
Transcript-First CRM Automation
Jan 22
A walkthrough of our work-in-progress internal CRM built on Airtable that treats call transcripts as the primary data source ra...
Sam Gaddis Austin
Claude API Airtable
Abeer Raza
Indara: Industry Intelligence System
Jan 22
Indara is an industry intelligence platform that learns how markets convert by analyzing real customer interactions across call...
Abeer Raza Austin
Node PostgreSQL
Russell Sadrieff
northstar.pm: AI Product Manager
Jan 22
AI is dramatically increasing engineering throughput. As a result, the new constraint is product management capacity and reach:...
Russell Sadrieff Austin
Claude Code Replit
Julian Ghadially
DSPy Prompt Optimization
Jan 22
DSPY is a prompt optimization package for self improving AI programs. I implemented some experiments on a fact checker. I'm hap...
Julian Ghadially Austin
DSPY
Raheem Dadabhoy
Infra Vibes
Jan 22
I want to demo how I vibe-coded an AI infrastructure app for Shopify stores.
Raheem Dadabhoy Austin
Cursor AWS
Andrew Smith
Google Cloud GenAI and Gemini
Nov 10
Andrew will provide an overview of Generative AI on Google Cloud including ADK, Agent Engine, and Evaluations, and will also to...
Andrew Smith Austin
ADK Agent Engine

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Last updated: June 2026