AI Events in Boston | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

August 2024 Meetup at Æthos

Monday, August 26th, 2024 6PM
Jihye Kim Valeriano Velasquez Andrew Chang Luke Geel Vineet Sinha David Berlin Mark Zheng Camila Hennessey Debbie Hayes Adriana Beltran Andrade Trevor Keith Shweta Agrawal Isabel Johnson Dunya Baradari Jay Aung Saichandu Juluri Akshay Bhole Guivens Andre Evangelos Efstathiou William Ferraro
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Practitioners gathered for technical talks, demos, and networking focused on building with foundation models. The evening featured lightning pitches and sponsor support from Æthos.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

July 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs

Monday, July 22nd, 2024 6PM
Valeriano Velasquez Suprateem Banerjee Andrew Chang Sean Kruzel Ali Muhammad Nita Akoh Jeff Green Shelly Natalia Uday Shankar Gattu Louise WASSON Muskan Jain Yen Diep Ben Greene Shweta Agrawal Anushka Singh Julia Whippo Matthew Albrecht Yu Lai William Mulholland Eishna Ranganathan
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Practitioners showcased LLM-enabled app demos and networked. The technical exchange featured foundation model work, supported by Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.

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Meetup
almost 2 years ago

June 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs

Monday, June 10th, 2024 6PM
Suprateem Banerjee Ivan Campos Andrew Chang Brandon Horst William Mulholland Will Sergeant Thameem Abbas Ibrahim Bathusha Nikolay Vyahhi Cansu Canca Anushka Singh Adriana Beltran Andrade Laura Lu Duygu Goksu Matthew Rajcok Ali Muhammad Aleef Mahmud Olivia Gebhardt Michael J.J. Tiffany Muskan Jain Jean arnaud
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AI Tinkerers hosted a high-value, in-person meetup for technical builders focused on foundation models, featuring demos and networking, with pizza provided by Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.

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Meetup
about 2 years ago

April 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs

Monday, April 22nd, 2024 6PM
David Berlin Yolanda Pricilla Ricapa Guerrero Matt LeMay Thameem Abbas Ibrahim Bathusha Cashman Andrus Zhu Suprateem Banerjee Subash Rajaseelan Aleef Mahmud William Mulholland Michael J.J. Tiffany Michael Boensel Will Sergeant Benjamin Chen Soma Raju Adapa Ashish Bhatia Noah Evers Yogi Nishanth
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AI Tinkerers - Boston gathered practitioners to share challenges and learnings in foundation models. The event featured demos, talks, and networking, with gratitude to C10 Labs for hosting.

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Event
about 2 years ago

March 2024 Meetup at C10 Labs

Monday, March 25th, 2024 6PM
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AI Tinkerers Boston hosted a hands-on meetup for machine learning builders focusing on foundation model experiments and collaborative discussion, supported by C10 Labs.

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Event
over 2 years ago

February 2024 Tinkerers Unite!

Monday, February 26th, 2024 6PM
Ivan Campos Joe Heitzeberg Benjamin Manning David Berlin Grace Hua Anushka Singh Preethi Chandrasekaran Chandrahas Aroori Caroline LeMay Sal Darji Daphne Pariser Caesar Lastowski Adi Carmel Michael Blake Laura Lu Dan Legmann William Mulholland Matthew Rajcok Cashman Andrus Shivang Soni
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Practitioners gathered for hands-on building with foundation models, featuring demos, lightning talks, and networking for technical builders.

January 2024 Tinkerers Unite!
Meetup
over 2 years ago

January 2024 Tinkerers Unite!

Monday, January 22nd, 2024 6PM
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Builders gathered for demonstrations, talks, and networking focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative artificial intelligence collaboration.

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Milner Nerd Center
Meetup
over 2 years ago

December 2023 Tinkerers Unite!

Monday, December 18th, 2023 6PM
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Builders and tinkerers gathered for a hands-on evening featuring demos, talks, and networking focused on machine learning, LLMs, and generative AI projects.

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Meetup
over 2 years ago

November 2023 Tinkerers Unite!

Monday, November 27th, 2023 6PM
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Builders focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative AI gathered for hands-on networking, member demos, and discussions on recent developments.

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