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AI Tinkerers Toronto - February 2026 @ Cohere!

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Thursday, February 26th, 2026 • 5PM (EDT)
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We are very excited to be hosted by Cohere for our February meetup!

Like last month, we expect a waitlist - so please make sure to RSVP early, submit demos (which increases your chances, naturally) and give us time to review all the RSVPs. We can’t wait to see what you’re all building!

🗓️ Event Details

Date: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 

Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 

Location: Cohere, 171 John St 2nd Floor, Toronto, ON M5T 1X3

🎤 Call for Demos!!

We are actively curating the lineup for February. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”

Demos are strictly limited to 6 minutes. No pitches, no lengthy introductions, just live code, architecture diagrams, and hard-won technical lessons.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here:

❗Deadline for Submissions: February 20th EOD

✔️ Acceptance Notification: February 22rd EOD

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

🌟Sponsor Spotlight: 

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Cohere builds foundational models and AI solutions that help teams turn everyday effort into extraordinary impact. Cohere partners closely with companies to deliver seamless integration, full customization, and easy-to-use solutions for partners’ workforce and customers. Their all-in-one platform offers enterprises the highest levels of data security, privacy and optionality to deploy across all major cloud providers, private cloud environments, or on-premises.

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Transformer Lab is an open source research initiative. Researchers use their machine learning research platform to replace a fragmented landscape of scripts and tools (think brittle bash scripts, scattered S3 buckets, and manual Slurm templates) with a unified environment. By applying best practices to environment management, compute coordination, and experiment tracking, every project is reproducible and easy to maintain at any scale. Local, on-prem, or cloud. Open source and free to use. 

🕕 AI Tinkerers Event Schedule:

5:00 Doors open
5:40 Welcome & Orientation
5:55 Demos x3 + Science Fair Explainer
6:40 Break & Food
7:30 Demos x3 
8:00 final thank yous
8:10 Networking & cold food
9:00 or after: GTFO

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is the world’s most curated community of active AI builders: engineers, researchers, founders, and technologists who come together to share real work (and work in progress). Every event delivers working code, technical Q&A, and live demos. We’re selective by design: This is a meetup for builders.

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Read more in the FAQ

📊 AI Tinkerers Community Stats
  • Members: This exclusive community of 5,376 technical professionals comprises 40% machine learning and MLOps engineers, 30% full-stack AI developers, and 25% applied research scientists. Members possess deep expertise in LLMs, agentic workflows, and cloud-native infrastructure. Notably, the group includes engineering leaders from Shopify, Stripe, and Google DeepMind, alongside active open-source maintainers and doctoral researchers from the Vector Institute.
  • Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants and AI leaders like Google DeepMind, Amazon, Nvidia, Microsoft, Cohere, and Ollama, alongside prominent platforms such as Shopify, Instacart, Stripe, and Autodesk, and fast-growing startups like CentML, Cerebras Systems, Modular, and more
  • Demos Presented: 417 demos were submitted and 111 were presented, with recurring excitement around locally deployable and agent-driven AI workflows, grounded retrieval systems (including graph-based approaches), and reliable evaluation/evidence strategies. Technical themes have frequently covered multi-agent orchestration, RAG and structured extraction, multimodal generation (images/video/audio/3D), and production-oriented safety/security controls such as policy replay, sandboxing, and constrained tool access.

Testimonials 💬

“This was a highlight of TTW. ...What I appreciated most was that there were interesting people who would share... Interesting people have thought about problem sets and have unique takes on them... This was the antithesis of boredom...”
— Automation executive on May 28, 2026

🚀 Partner with the Builders

We are community-first. Sponsors and partners support the builders, and every conversation is worth having. If your brand ships serious technical tooling and wants to engage directly with the world’s most active AI builders, we invite you to explore partnership opportunities.

Learn more about sponsoring future events: https://toronto.aitinkerers.org/sponsors

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

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