🛠️ The Frontier of Autonomous Workflows: No Slides, Just Code

Join us for the AI Tinkerers meetup in Palo Alto on Tuesday, June 30, 2026, hosted and sponsored by Dyssonance AI. This is an exciting opportunity for active builders in the AI community to showcase their latest projects, connect with fellow practitioners, and delve into the advancements in AI technology.

We prioritize working code over high-level pitches. If you have spent late nights debugging infinite loops, designing state machines for LLMs, or optimizing context windows for autonomous code generation, this room is for you.

Because of the high demand and our commitment to maintaining a high-signal environment, attendance is strictly screened. Space is limited, and we prioritize active builders.

🕕 Schedule

• 6:30 PM: Doors Open & Science Fair Networking
• 7:00 PM: Community Demos (5-minute technical deep dives)
• 8:30 PM: Peer-to-Peer Technical Exchange
• 9:00 PM: Doors Close

🎙️ Call for Demos: Show Your Stack

We are actively looking for builders to demonstrate their agentic systems. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and hard-earned technical discoveries.

The Rules of Engagement:

• No Slides: Slide decks are banned. Show us your IDE, terminal, workflow graphs, or live local deployments.
• Expose the Internals: Explain how you built it, the orchestration pattern, the failure modes, and what another builder should reuse or avoid.
• No Sales Pitches: Focus on the technical challenge and solution, not why someone should buy your product.

👉 Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

🤝 Sponsors & Partners

We are currently finalizing local hosting and food sponsors for this event. If your organization provides infrastructure, compute, or developer tools and you want to engage directly with 150 of the top AI practitioners in Silicon Valley, please review our sponsorship opportunities.

AI Tinkerers is a global community of active practitioners dedicated to the art of building with generative AI. With chapters worldwide, we prioritize technical depth and working code over marketing fluff.

📊 Palo Alto Community Pulse

• Network Strength: A premium community of 566 technical professionals, specializing in cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The membership spans 82% in core Machine Learning and Large Language Models, 48% in autonomous Agentic Systems, and 42% in MLOps infrastructure. Notably, the group is distinguished by a 35% founder density—including multiple Y Combinator alumni—and creators of major open-source AI libraries.
• Top Engineering Hubs: Featuring tech giants like Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Tesla, alongside AI innovators such as Anthropic, xAI, Character.ai, LlamaIndex, Groq, and MultiOn AI, and more
• Technical Depth: 49 demos have been submitted and 28 have been presented. The event content has centered on building robust AI agents and multi-agent systems, automating developer/ops workflows, and deploying compact models for local or edge vision. It has also explored RAG and vector security, inference/pipeline cost and reliability optimizations, and practical interfaces spanning voice, robotics, and debugging/observability tooling.
• What Builders Say:

  “You are doing the right thing by having this questionnaire and that's a good thing... THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR PUTTING THIS MEET-UP MEETING ON AND MAKING IT HAPPEN. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! THANKS!”

  — CSO, AI & robotics

  “Just going to the effort of having the meetings in the first place! GREAT JOB! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK! Having talks from members and guest hackers is good...”

  — CSO, AI & robotics

  “Food and vibe was great. Keep it up! I enjoyed the event.”

  — Developer advocate, AI speech

  “Having the event was lots of fun... People tend to relax when their is alcohol. Maybe invite people to bring their own alcohol.”

  — AI consultant, ex-Google

  “Meeting other builders is great! I love hearing about what people are working on and exchanging ideas.”

  — Director of Engineering, AI

  “Liked the presentations and the chance to interact, name tags were helpful”

  — Engineering Manager, Fintech

  “Demos were great. The quality of the Hippocratic Demo and conversation --- top notch! I'd come again consistently for these!”

  — Principal AI Engineer

Event photos

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AI Tinkerers - San Francisco

AI Tinkerers - San Francisco

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