AI Tinkerers - Montreal
Demo Night | November 20, 2025
Nov
20
Thursday
5:30PM to 9PM EDT
Main Stage Speakers
Drew Anderson
Drew Anderson
Software Engineer at Bell
Super Coool Super Awesome Tennis Serve Analyzer
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Building an LLM web app for tennis serve analysis.
Azfar Khoja
Azfar Khoja
Senior Applied Scientist at Coveo
Prompt Engineering is Dead (Long Live Prompt Optimization)
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LLMs self-refine prompts via language-space optimization (OPRO).
Cedric L'homme
Cedric L'homme
Lead at Osedea
Parakeet's French Accent: No GPU Required to Sound Fancy
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Building quick, non-English ML proofs of concept without GPUs.
Angie Ariza
Angie Ariza
AI Tech Lead at Plus Company
AI Ops Circuit Breaker: Multi-Model Fallback Agent
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Multi-agent system ensures AI reliability using Circuit Breakers.
Carl Lapierre
Carl Lapierre
Senior Software Developer at Osedea
Constrained decoding: Can language models generate cute pixel art?
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Using constrained decoding to see LLM token behavior and failures.
Khaled Sellami
Khaled Sellami
Data Scientist at Université Laval
MonoMorph: An Agentic tool for refactoring monoliths into microservices
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Practical GenAI: Structured code generation and autonomous debugging workflows.
Science Fair Presenters
Serge Masse
Serge Masse
Co-founder at Dolphin Whispers
What is an effective AI model for dolphin communication research?
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Building custom TFLite AI models for dolphin communication research.