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AI Tinkerers Montreal will feature live, technical demos on enterprise search and agentic workflows, followed by a science fair, with support from Coveo.
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AI Tinkerers hosted a global hackathon challenging participants to build integrated agents, supported by sponsors including OpenAI and CopilotKit.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a technical demo meetup showcasing generative AI architecture and implementation, featuring live code and informal project walkthroughs, supported by sponsors.
AI Tinkerers Montreal held a technical demo meetup focused on generative AI architecture and implementation. It featured live code demos and informal project walkthroughs.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted an April Demo Night for active AI builders. The event showcased working systems and technical trade-offs, with PlusCompany sponsoring.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a demo night for AI builders, engineers, and researchers. The event featured technical demos and pitches, supported by BDC, Cohere, and Databricks.
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February 24 5:30 PM
AI TINKERERS - MONTREAL
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The AI Tinkerers Montreal community gathered for an in-person meetup.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a demo night for builders, featuring live AI demos and technical discussions, with catering sponsored by Cloudflare.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted a demo night where attendees showcased their projects. The event fostered community engagement and learning within the AI field.
AI Tinkerers Montreal held a spooky October meetup at Shopify. Attendees explored AI topics with organizers.
AI Tinkerers Montreal held an in-person meetup focused on AI. The event was organized by Pierre-Alexandre Lacerte.
AI Tinkerers Montreal hosted an in-person meetup at LightSpeed, fostering community engagement and discussion around artificial intelligence.
The AI Tinkerers Montreal community gathered in person at Shopify for their March meetup.
AI Tinkerers Montreal held an in-person meetup at IVADO Labs.
The AI Tinkerers held their inaugural in-person meetup. The event focused on artificial intelligence and provided a platform for community engagement.
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 268-city global network with 139,000+ 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 — October Demo Meetup @ Coveo on October 22, 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 268-city network with 139,000+ members worldwide.
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"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."
"multiple short presentations is a great setup, networking in the middle helps keeping people engaged."
"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"
"Honestly this was the best talk! Very clear, a good wrap-up of what they did, and questions were answered very well! It all made sense. Congrats to Yanis!"
"The event structure. I love the "you have 5 minutes to present, go". Its fast paced and gets the conversation going!"
Last updated: October 2026
