Join AI Tinkerers Toronto and Mozilla for our March monthly meetup — hosted by Mozilla, for a special evening dedicated to open source AI.

The night features live tech demos from builders in Toronto’s AI/ML community, followed by an AMA with Raffi Krikorian, Mozilla’s new Chief Technology Officer. Raffi leads Mozilla’s portfolio-wide efforts to build trustworthy, open source AI — and believes deeply that the future of AI must be sovereign, developer-empowering, civic-minded, and built for the public good.

Come demo, connect, and ask hard questions about where open source AI is heading.

March is for Open Source: Calling out for open source AI builders working on community, civic tech, social good applications, and anyone interested in sovereign AI systems and open source dev experience and tooling.

🗓️ Event Details

Date: Wednesday, March 25th 2026 

Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM 

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! We’re also limited by space capacity, and so please come early – late comers may not be able to get in.

🎤 Call for Demos!!

We are actively curating the lineup for March. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action, and especially all things open source, civic tech, AI for good, and all kinds of AI for this one!! Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?” No pitches or pitch decks.

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: March 17th EOD

✔️ Acceptance Notification: March 20th EOD

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

🌟Sponsor Spotlight: 

Mozilla is working to put control of the internet back in the hands of the people using it. Mozilla is a global community of passionate volunteers, fellows and contributors who have been building, protecting and shaping the internet with us since 1998.

🌟Meet and Greet with Raffi Krikorian 

Raffi Krikorian is Mozilla’s first-ever portfolio-wide CTO and leading the effort to develop trustworthy and open source AI, ensuring Mozilla is inventing and building technology that pushes us all in the right direction. Raffi joins from Emerson Collective, where he led efforts to bring technologists into sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and economic mobility. Prior to that, he was the first CTO of the US’s Democratic National Committee; Director of Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center, where he led the development and rollout of the first passenger-carrying self-driving car fleet; and VP of Platform Engineering at Twitter, where he managed and built Twitter’s global infrastructure.

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

Read more in the FAQ

🕕 AI Tinkerers Event Schedule:

5:00 Doors open
5:40 Welcome & Orientation
5:50 Demo x3
6:20 Break & Food
7:20 Demo x3
7:50 final thank yous
8:00 Networking & cold food
9:30 or after: GTFO

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 5,376 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.

Organizers

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

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