AI Events in Boston | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Boston - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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Event
7 months ago

AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup October 2025

Friday, October 24th, 2025 6PM
Salil Darji Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Nate Aune George Hu Sami Jitan Andrei Radulescu-Banu Giri S Dan Wolchonok Vanessa Couturier Dhamodaran Selvam Angela Garabet Ian Venskus Hitika Dalwadi Jerome Chadel Supriya sinha Chris Mack Rachel Kuznetsov Ahmed Raza Vatche Monjian
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The AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup fostered a code-first community sharing generative AI tooling and workflows through live demos, with sponsor support.

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PUBLICIS SAPIENT
FLUX
BOSTON
AI WEEK
2025
September 26 - October 3, 2025
September 29th from 6 - 9 PM
Zakuls
Event
8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Boston Meetup at Publicis Sapient

Monday, September 29th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Nate Aune Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Dan Hermes Brandon Horst Nikolay Vyahhi Sebastian Wallkötter Mark Haseltine Claudia Diaz Murat Melek Thameem Abbas Ibrahim Bathusha Luis Ballesteros Tamara Laine Kaitlin Smith Vanessa Couturier Bob Gregor Ashwin Nair Akshay Bhole Satish Mummadi Ameya Pathare
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a hands-on, code-first meetup for active AI builders, featuring live technical demos. Publicis Sapient and Flux sponsored the event.

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BOSTON MEETUP
LANGCHAIN AND BEYOND
Aug 25, 6PM-9PM EDT
AI TINKERERS-BOSTON
Event
9 months ago

AI Tinkerers Boston: Langchain & Beyond Meetup

Monday, August 25th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Nate Aune CJ Johanson Will Sergeant Craig Chamberlain Jayesh Gupta Dan Hermes Nat Taylor Sebastian Wallkötter Mark Haseltine Luda Kopeikina Jakob Ambsdorf Tacita Morway Nidhi Rutvi Rahul Gadre Deepankar Malhan Devyani Bothra Supriya sinha Shipei Feng Asbjørn Munk Siqi Sun
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a meetup focused on Langchain and advanced LLM technologies. The event encouraged builders to share technical insights and sought sponsor support for food and drinks.

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July 2025 Event at Tech Superpowers - Recap

July 29, 2025 · 2 minutes

Tech Superpowers hosted a Boston AI Tinkerers night with hands-on demos—from autonomous agents building tools to Claude Code observability metrics and a React app for presentations. Noting Claude Code’s rapid adoption, and thanks to Valeriano Velasquez, Will Sergeant, Nate Aune, and Edgar Garcia for organizing this successful meetup.

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AI TINKERERS - BOSTON
Meetup
10 months ago

AI Tinkerers July Meetup @ Tech Superpowers

Monday, July 28th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Nate Aune Salil Darji Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Jayesh Gupta Chris Mack Rafael Mendiola Mark Watkins Ella Cook Jesse Witkowski Paula Bass Werner Iris Wing To Lam Lenny ROsenfeld David Clark Umbereen Sultana Nehal Gilbert Mizrahi Shreya Gupta Asbjørn Munk Nidhi Abhaya shukla
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Active AI builders shared technical demos and code-forward talks in a hands-on peer setting, powered and hosted by Tech Superpowers.

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Sponsored by Tech Superpowers
June 30, 6–9 PM EDT
BUILDING 10
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
AI TINKERERS - BOSTON
Event
11 months ago

AI Tinkerers Boston June Meetup @ MIT!

Monday, June 30th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Nate Aune Salil Darji Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Edgar Garcia Griffin Bishop Ivan Campos Jason Haley Sayam Khatri Gabriela Torres Heera Sharma Snehal Shivaji Molavade Andrei Radulescu-Banu Hema Seshadri, Ph.D. CJ Johanson Isabel Johnson Ignacio Castro Dominique Miles Umbereen Sultana Nehal Vatche Monjian
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AI builders gathered for focused feedback and collaboration on foundation models and generative AI projects. Tech Superpowers sponsored the practitioner-focused in-person meetup.

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MEETUP
MAY
Event
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Boston May Meetup

Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Salil Darji Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Jenni Goodman Nate Aune David Clark Issam Gharios Alexander Ivkin Andrei Radulescu-Banu Srijha Kalyan Pedram Fard Kat Kozyrytska Tanmay Shekhar Sravya Avasarala Amelia Henkel Vishwani Singh Luis Ballesteros Mohit Karnani Brian Lee Shaili Gupta
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Practitioners gathered for an in-person session focused on building with foundation models and generative AI, featuring five-minute demos and networking, supported by Underscore VC.

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Cutting-Edge AI Innovations
March 24, 2025, 6PM - 8:45PM
AI TINKERERS- BOSTON
Event
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Boston March Meetup - AI21 Labs Takeover!

Monday, March 24th, 2025 6PM to 8:45PM
Salil Darji Jonathan Murray Will Sergeant Valeriano Velasquez Amit Mandelbaum Yaniv Markovski Rodolfo Marre Juan Pablo Andrew Chang Brandon Horst Gregory Raiz Mark Zheng Betsy Gilgun Alex Kozyr Kanika Rajput Allison K Yolanda Pricilla Ricapa Guerrero Nathan Pickett Srijha Kalyan Sai Suraj Suravajhala
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Practitioners gathered for a hands-on evening focused on foundation models, featuring a presentation by AI21 Labs' Amit Mandelbaum and a hackathon showcase, supported by AI21 sponsorship.

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FEL FEBRUARY
Event
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Boston February 2025

Monday, February 24th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Salil Darji Will Sergeant Nate Aune Ivan Campos Andrew Chang Nader Karayanni Wes Sonnenreich Nikolay Vyahhi Will Ware Mark Zheng Krishica Gopalakrishnan Alan McKinnon Charlotte Wang Chen Wang Urja Damodhar Monzia Moodie Isha Mandawkar David Clark Gayathri Manoj Swara Kamalkumar Joshi
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Builders showcased generative AI projects for feedback and collaboration. Pizza, drinks, and stickers were provided courtesy of sponsors.

Meet the Organizers

Salil Darji CJ Johanson Nate Aune Valeriano Velasquez Wafaa Arbash
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Best AI meetup in Boston for builders

AI Tinkerers Boston is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Boston is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.

The Boston chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Boston chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Boston meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is AI Tinkerers Boston: GTM Agentic AI Launch on June 29, 2026. Subscribe to the Boston chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
June 29, 2026
Local cadence
13 events in the last 12 months
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Boston for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Boston is the best AI meetup in Boston for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Boston chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.

What makes AI Tinkerers Boston different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Boston is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Boston chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Boston

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

Golang

An open-source language by Google designed for high-performance networking and massive-scale concurrency.

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is the viral, open-source, autonomous AI agent: a self-hosted 'digital employee' that executes real-world tasks across your local machine and messaging platforms 24/7.

Python

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

agent-browser

Automate browser-based workflows using LLMs and computer vision to navigate complex websites without custom scripts.

Agent Nexus

An AI-powered automation platform that qualifies leads and schedules appointments for high-volume sales teams.

Agent SDK

Deploy autonomous, multi-step AI agents fast: the Agent SDK provides a lightweight, Python-first framework for LLM orchestration, tool integration, and enterprise-grade tracing.

AI agents

Autonomous software systems that leverage LLMs to reason, plan, and execute complex, multi-step goals across external tools and data sources.

APIs

The software intermediary: APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) define the rules for two applications to communicate, enabling secure data exchange and functionality access.

Beads

Naturbeads delivers high-performance, cellulose-based microspheres, directly replacing non-biodegradable plastic microparticles across industrial and consumer sectors.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Boston

Raj Bala
How to Build a Lovable Competitor
May 26
I built a Lovable competitor. I stepped back one day to really imagine what ingredients go into Lovable. I then realized that I...
Raj Bala Boston
Bryan Hirsch
Beads primer from Software Factory Intensive workshop
May 26
Gas City software factory training for NYC AI Tinkerers I'll show the most practical, applicable, useful slice of the training ...
Bryan Hirsch Boston
Jason Ricciardi
Singularity Machines - Fast Software Services | Sovereign Compute Sys…
May 26
Maximum control, minimum abstraction... Over time, the economic center of software moved away from owned machines and into cont...
Jason Ricciardi Boston
Karl E Wirth
Invest in Your Harness: Building the Layer Around Your Coding Agents
May 26
Every team building with AI ships two products: the one customers see, and the harness their agents use to build it. This talk ...
Karl E Wirth Boston
Daniel Bredun
Recursive Harness Builder
May 26
I'm building an agent harness that facilitates recursive workflows for performing complex long-running tasks. The harness itsel...
Daniel Bredun Boston
Ian Jones
The duct tape was hiding three bugs: an agent migration story
May 26
A four-phase Claude tool-use agent that takes a home project description and outputs a sourced "Project Blueprint" — real Home ...
Ian Jones Boston
Jayesh Gupta
CoChef: Your AI enabled copilot in the kitchen
Mar 30
I am currently working on a device that provides users real time advice on their cooking. It is run on a Raspberry PI and uses ...
Jayesh Gupta Boston
OpenRouter Claude Code
Will Sergeant
Agentic Trust in the Age of Dangerously Skipping Permissions
Mar 30
Agentic Trust and Verification system mvp/poc that showcases the attack surface that agentic tools are creating on our computer...
Will Sergeant Boston
Python NextJS
Rohan Hasabe
"Review Before Review" — the paradox of fixing code before it hits re…
Mar 30
Your AI coding tool writes hundreds of lines while you grab coffee. It just doesn't know why you banned that pattern two refact...
Rohan Hasabe Boston
Golang Claude Code
Wafaa Arbash
TriCoach
Mar 30
I built an app to help me train for my triathlon. It provides a daily dashboard with everything I need to do, along with an AI ...
Wafaa Arbash Boston
Claude Code Vercel
Nate Aune
Adventures in Dark Software Factories and Building Sundai Claw
Mar 30
I will share my adventures trying to build a software factory, and a solution that I landed on that I'm pretty happy with. It's...
Nate Aune Boston
OpenClaw OpenSpec
Bryan Hirsch
Bead Manager
Feb 23
Bead Manager is a proof-of-concept web-based user interface for Steve Yegge's Beads project and GasTown agent orchestration sys...
Bryan Hirsch Boston
Beads Dolt

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Last updated: June 2026