Upcoming
AI Tinkerers Montreal will feature technical demos and collaboration on agentic workflows, custom model fine-tuning, and orchestration, supported by Bell AI Fabric, CGI, and Cohere.
Past
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a meetup featuring technical demos, agentic workflows, and custom model architectures, with Ubisoft as a partner.
AI Tinkerers Montreal held a demo night for builders and engineers. The event featured live demos, technical Q&A, and networking, sponsored by PlusCompany.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a technical demo night for builders and researchers, featuring live code demonstrations and rapid-fire pitches, supported by BDC, Cohere, and Databricks.
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Sponsored By IBM
February 24 5:30 PM
AI TINKERERS - MONTREAL
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AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a technical meetup for builders and researchers. The event featured live demos of LLMs and generative AI, with support from IBM.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a curated, in-person meetup for builders. The event showcased working systems and technical trade-offs, with short live demos. Ateko provided the venue, and Cloudflare supplied catering.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a code-first demo night for foundation model builders, featuring live demonstrations and networking, sponsored by Coveo.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a hands-on, code-first meetup focused on AI innovation. The event featured rapid demos and networking, with gratitude extended to Shopify for their support.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted an in-person meetup featuring live demos of foundation models and generative AI, a special guest, and networking, sponsored by Upgrade Inc.
Practitioners showcased works-in-progress, including LLM and generative-AI projects, at the in-person gathering. Google Cloud and Onix sponsored food for the networking event.
Best AI meetup in Montreal for builders
AI Tinkerers Montreal 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 Montreal 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 Montreal chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Montreal 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 Montreal - June Demo Meetup on June 17, 2026. Subscribe to the Montreal chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Montreal is the best AI meetup in Montreal for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Montreal 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.
AI Tinkerers Montreal 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.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Montreal chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
FastAPI is a modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic OpenAPI documentation.
Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration.
Next.js is the full-stack React framework: it delivers high-performance web applications via hybrid rendering and powerful, Rust-based tooling.
TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.
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.
Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.
GPT-4o mini is OpenAI's most cost-efficient, high-performance small model (SLM), offering multimodal (text and vision) capabilities at a fraction of the cost.
Hugging Face is the central, open-source platform and community for building AI applications, hosting over 300,000 models and datasets via the popular Transformers library.
A unified gateway and registry for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that secures and federates AI tools, REST APIs, and agent-to-agent services.
"multiple short presentations is a great setup, networking in the middle helps keeping people engaged."
"Demos were great. Having the founder of AI tinkerers and get his views on the inception of the initiative and how it developed was super insightful."
"I had a great time and met wonderful people. I left quite inspired to go back and build!"
"Great initiative, keep it going! It allows for sharing AI projects and generating networking opportunities within the Montreal community."
"I think it would be beneficial to select places near subway station. Everyone doesn’t have a car and we love to come in-person but if the place is not near subway station it may discourage people from coming :o)"
"The social breaks between speakers was great, it helped a lot of people to know each other"
"Thank you for such a great experience. Seeing all those amazing people and talking to them were the best part."
"Love the venue, networking and second part that showed community speakers and in prompt speakers"
"Keep respecting the schedule. 10-min demos is perfect. Having demos from multiple fields and different levels (Kraft art demo was awesome; "Smaller size" demos lowers "barrier to entance" for other people to demo their stuff without being shy)"
"The event structure. I love the "you have 5 minutes to present, go". Its fast paced and gets the conversation going!"
Last updated: June 2026
