AI Tinkerers - Toronto
April 2025 Meetup @ Shopify
Apr
24
Thursday
5PM EDT
Main Stage Speakers
Mayank Singh
Mayank Singh
CEO at Advicehub
AI powered reading buddy - what Kindle should be, but isn't
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Building a local AI reading assistant; architecture and development lessons.
Andrew McNamara
Andrew McNamara
Director Applied ML at Shopify
Shopify Sidekick using MCP
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Learning how Shopify uses AI to run merchant businesses.
Adam Archer
Adam Archer
Freelancer Software Engineer at Freelancer
Building educational content with AI workflows
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Live demo: creating software courses using AI workflows.
Thanh Quach
Thanh Quach
AI Engineer at TargoFlow
“Where Did My Money Go?” - Reconciling Ecomm Sales with LLMs, Not Spreadsheets
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Using LLMs to reliably reconcile complex business finances.
Yasaman Parhizkar
Yasaman Parhizkar
Data Scientist at RBC
WhimsyPaws
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LLMs extract child emotional data for parental monitoring.
Curtis Collicutt
Curtis Collicutt
Consultant at Serverascode
Railpath - A Python Library for Securing AI Agent and Model Context Protocol Server File Access
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Protects AI agents from file access and data exfiltration.
Danial Hasan
Danial Hasan
Founder at LegalFlow
The Death of Agents: Building AI Workflows That Actually Scale
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Replacing AI agents with scalable, debuggable LLM reasoning pipelines.
Science Fair Presenters
Luis Felipe Varoni Barro
Luis Felipe Varoni Barro
Student at University of Toronto
Bringing STEM to Life: Automating Manim Visualizations with LLMs
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Automating visual STEM education using LLMs and Manim.
Aayush kapur
Aayush kapur
Software dev at McGill university
Agents on edge
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Testing TinyLlama agent feasibility and limits on Jetson Nano.
Peter Hamilton
Peter Hamilton
Lead Data Scientist at Ontario Government
Developing AI Solutions for Busy Parents
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Practical LLM development: notebooks showing model selection and scoring.
Reni Stephen
Reni Stephen
Developer at Northeastern University
Personalized AI Tutor
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Adaptive AI tutors: dynamic knowledge assessment and web development.
Stefan Etarsky
Stefan Etarsky
Founder at Lunshot Ventures
What Happens When You Let AI Build a Game?
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Rapidly prototyping complex 3D games using AI workflow hacks.
Geoff Flarity
Geoff Flarity
Staff Infrastructure Engineer at CentML
DeepSeek-ing a Needle in a Haystack
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Implement DeepSeek agentic workflows using Temporal for filtering.