AI Tinkerers - Toronto
June 2025 Meetup at NEXT Canada | Sponsored by Intel AI
Jun
18
Wednesday
5PM to 8PM EDT
Main Stage Speakers
Eze Lanza
Eze Lanza
AI Software Evangelist at Intel
Building Production-Ready Multi-Agent AI Applications
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Scaling multi-agent GenAI using modular microservice architecture.
Steve Cosman
Steve Cosman
CEO at Kiln AI
Fine Tune and Evaluate 10 LLMs in in 10 minutes
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Rapidly fine-tune, evaluate, and benchmark LLMs for specific tasks.
Alec Miller
Alec Miller
AI Engineer at MTS
Print Your Prompt
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Audience votes on prompts; live AI generation and printing.
Wilfred Lee
Wilfred Lee
Creative Director at Artists Journey
Dream Engineering: Building an AI Film Pipeline with Custom GPTs and Evolving Toolchains
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Taming unstable AI tools with custom GPT creative logic.
Alnur Ismail
Alnur Ismail
Founder (Between Tracks) at Next Episode
Building Interactive Worlds with VAEs and JEPA
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Analyzing VAE loss and I-JEPA for world dynamic learning.
Sarah Simionescu
Sarah Simionescu
Tools Engineer at MongoDB
MeetingBot Demo
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Deploying scalable, self-hostable meeting bots using Terraform/AWS.
Science Fair Presenters
Sergiy Dybskiy
Sergiy Dybskiy
Developer Experience Engineer at Sentry
Toronto Open Data MCP Server
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Implementing AI chat over government data using web technologies.
Shao Hang He
Shao Hang He
CEO at Athena AI by DevFortress
Sign up to Luma events with an AI Agent
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Automate browser tasks with AI Agents to multiply productivity.
Sahand Sojoodi
Sahand Sojoodi
VP Eng at 8090 Inc
From Idea to Prototype on a Commute: How Gen AI Unlocks Creative Leverage
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See one prompt build a working AI prototype fast.
Sam Shahsavani
Sam Shahsavani
Product Manager at Stoop inc
Zoning Pal: A Lightweight AI Agent for Parsing City Planning Bylaws
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Lessons learned building custom AI for complex zoning bylaws.