We’re so happy back at Shopify this month! Come meet fellow AI/ML builders, and submit a demo! As usual, the meetup series is produced by the Human Feedback Foundation.

⚠️IMPORTANT: All Attendees must bring physical Government ID to enter the venue!! A picture will not suffice. ⚠️

🎤 Demos

We are actively looking for presenters! A demo is limited to 6 minutes in length and demonstrates a work in progress. We’ll select 6 of the most interesting topics to present. No pitches! Very few slides! We want to see your messy WIP, with running code!

We’re looking for demos of both AI tools that people are building, and clever/fun/hacky uses of AI. Our best demos tend to be those which show off personal projects, and we have a rule against “pitches” or any kind of corporate feel - this isn’t about your business; this is about the technology of AI and the personal empowerment it can provide.

Got something quirky and awesome to share? Submit your proposal by EOD Monday, April 20th and we’ll let you know by EOD Thursday, April 23rd. The event takes place on April 29th, and yes, we move at the speed of AI 🚀 👉 Fill out the speaker submission form above.

We’ve got a What makes a great Demo at AI Tinkerers FAQ page. Please read before submitting!

Sponsors and Hosts

Thank you to Shopify! Shopify powers millions of businesses worldwide. The all-in-one commerce platform to start, run, and grow a business. Making Commerce Better for Everyone. Shopify is supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, the world’s biggest brands, and everyone in between.

Thank you to LangChain! LangChain provides the agent engineering platform used by millions of developers globally. LangSmith brings observability, evaluation, and deployment together in one platform so teams can iterate and improve production agents. LangSmith works with any stack, including our open source frameworks like Deep Agents and custom code.

LangSmith powers top AI teams, from startups to global enterprises - including Cloudflare, Toyota, Rippling, and Clay. Start building with LangSmith, LangChain’s Agent Engineering Platform

We’re also happy to welcome Tangerine as a sponsor. Tangerine Bank is one of Canada’s leading digital banks, focused on making banking feel more human, honest, and effortless through seamless and innovative financial solutions.

🕕 AI Tinkerers Event Schedule:

5:00 Doors open
5:40 Welcome & Orientation
5:50 Talks x3 + Science Fair Explainer
6:40 Break & Food
7:30 Talks x3
8:00 final thank yous
8:10 Networking & cold food
9:00 or after: GTFO

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 200+ cities, we cater to a dedicated community of AI/ML builders.

Read more in the FAQ

More Information: If you are new to AI Tinkerers, please read the AI Tinkerers FAQ and join our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/8WsqnC6Hk3.

Presentations going down at June’s Toronto AI Tinkerers Event

AI Tinkerers Community Stats 📊

• Members: This exclusive community of 5,351 AI professionals comprises 83% machine learning specialists, 70% generative AI developers, and 65% full-stack engineers. Members represent elite institutions like Shopify, Cohere, and the Vector Institute. Notably, the group is distinguished by a high concentration of hands-on technical founders and researchers actively deploying multi-agent systems and scalable production-grade AI infrastructure.
• Companies Represented: Featuring global tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Nvidia, alongside AI leaders Cohere, Hugging Face, Ollama, and Cerebras, e-commerce powerhouse Shopify, and rising startups like Evenup, CentML, and Retellio, and more.
• Demos Presented: 414 demos were submitted and 111 were presented. The most exciting themes included agentic systems and orchestration, RAG and structured retrieval (including graph-based approaches), reliable evaluation and safety mechanisms, multimodal generation and media pipelines, and practical real-world automation. Technically, attendees explored fine-tuning and local deployment, scalable infrastructure, privacy/security techniques, and production-oriented data pipelines.

🚀 Call for Venue Hosts!

Looking for a company to host our AI Tinkerers meetups this fall! Our past events have been hosted and sponsored by Google Cloud, Shopify, Cerebras Systems, Mozilla, Accenture, Weights & Biases, Drive Capital, Two Small Fish Ventures, and Shopify Ventures.

TL;DR: Want to host the community? Ping elena at humanfeedback dot io

Organizers

Hosted by the Human Feedback Foundation, a Linux Foundation AI & Data nonprofit advancing a human-centric future for AI.

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