AI Tinkerers – San Jose Launch Meetup

AI Tinkerers – San Jose Launch Meetup 🛠️🤖🤖 AI Tinkerers is coming to San Jose This launch meetup brings together some of the prominent local AI engineers, researchers, scientists, founders, and hands on builders working at the edge of what is possible with AI. The goal is simple: create the room where serious AI builders in San Jose meet each other, show what they are actually building, exchange technical ideas, and form relationships with others pushing the field forward. No generic networking. No sales pitches. No surface level AI conversations. Expect four to six concise, high-signal technical demos, including YC-backed projects, alongside researchers and scientists from the local San Jose community (Google, Meta, NVIDIA…). Space is limited to 30 builders. We will be screening applicants. RSVP and event registration: https://san-jose.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-san-jose-launch-meetup-07-oct-2026 What is AI Tinkerers? AI Tinkerers is the world’s largest AI builder community, with 130,000+ members actively present across 261 cities around the globe. It is centered around practitioners: engineers, researchers, scientists, technical founders, and independent builders experimenting with models, agents, infrastructure, developer tools, robotics, multimodal systems, and emerging AI techniques. Meetups are built around real technical work. Members show what they have built, explain how it works, share what failed, discuss the technical decisions behind it, and learn directly from other builders in the room. `The San Jose chapter is being built to become a home for the South Bay's most serious AI builders` Who This Is For: This meetup is for people actively working with AI at a technical or deeply product focused level. AI engineers. ML engineers. Researchers. Scientists. Agent builders. Infrastructure engineers. Technical founders. Open source contributors. Robotics builders. Developer tool creators. And people experimenting with ideas that may not even have a category yet. You do not need a famous company, a large team, or a polished product. You do need curiosity, technical depth, and something real you are working on. `If you want to meet people who are building rather than simply talking about AI, this is your room` When and Where: `Wednesday • 07 Oct 2026 • 6:00–9:00 PM` San Jose Downtown; approved guests receive a QR code with the exact location. 6:00 PM Doors & check-in 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Technical Demos (5 minutes each + Q&A) 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM Networking and Discussions 9:00 PM Wrap Up RSVP and event registration: https://san-jose.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-san-jose-launch-meetup-07-oct-2026 Tech Demos: The core of every AI Tinkerers meetup is the demo. Demos are meant to be technical, practical, and honest. Show what works. Show what broke. Show what you learned. Not pitch decks. Not company presentations. Not polished marketing demos. For the San Jose launch, we’re focusing on AI tools and infrastructure that compound developer productivity: agent frameworks, evals and reliability tooling, orchestration graphs, code-gen and refactoring loops, RAG systems and vector stores, safety/guardrails, observability, and deployment patterns. The best conversations usually start after the demo ends. Submit a demo If you’re building something —messy experiments most welcome—send it in. A presentation/demo is limited to 5 minutes. Submit here → https://aitinkerers.org/meetup/mubSMKJZepOxY/speaking AIT San Jose Home: CMU AI Tinkerers San Jose is proud to call California Miramar University home. CMU is more than our venue partner. Together, we’re creating a physical home for San Jose’s AI builders, founders, engineers, researchers, and scientists. `AIT San Jose and CMU are also launching a community launchpad for local builders` Through this partnership, AIT members can access CMU’s San Jose campus spaces to work with their teams, launch projects, and host meetups, workshops, dinners, and intimate community events at no cost. This opportunity will be available to registered AI Tinkerers community members. The link to request and book available spaces will be shared with meetup attendees. Huge thanks to CMU for opening its doors and helping us build a stronger home for San Jose’s AI community. RSVP and event registration: https://san-jose.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-san-jose-launch-meetup-07-oct-2026