Description en français

AI Tinkerers est la communauté mondiale pour les bâtisseurs, ingénieurs et chercheurs actifs en IA. Nous nous concentrons exclusivement sur les systèmes fonctionnels, le partage de code en direct et les compromis techniques qui accélèrent le déploiement.

Rejoignez-nous pour notre rencontre du mois de Avril à Montréal. Cette édition rassemble des praticiens qui repoussent les limites des flux de travail agentiques et de l’inférence locale. Il s’agit d’un environnement technique, sans superflu, où la scène est réservée à ceux qui bâtissent activement avec des modèles de fondation.

La participation est limitée à 100 bâtisseurs actifs. L’inscription est obligatoire et sélective pour garantir un environnement de haute qualité technique.

📅 Détails de l’événement

• Date : Mercredi 22 avril 2026
• Heure : 17h30 - 20h00
• Lieu : (L’adresse exacte sera envoyée aux participants acceptés)
• Capacité : 100 (Sélection rigoureuse)

🎤 Démos et Foire Scientifique : Présentez votre travail

Nous recherchons des démonstrations techniques et des présentations pour notre Foire Scientifique. Nous voulons voir vos expériences inachevées, vos hacks créatifs et vos découvertes techniques en action.

Votre démo doit répondre à : « Comment avez-vous construit cela ? » et non « Pourquoi devrais-je utiliser ce produit ? ». Nous privilégions le code en direct, les graphes d’architecture et les leçons apprises lors de l’implémentation.

Soumettre votre proposition de démo

🕕 Ordre du jour

• 17h30 : Ouverture des portes et réseautage
• 18h00 : Accueil et introduction
• 18h15 : Démos et Q&A technique
• 19h00 : Science Fair + Réseautage
• 19h30 : Démos et Q&A technique
• 20h00+ : Fin de l’événement

English Description

AI Tinkerers is the curated global community for active AI builders, engineers, and researchers. We are the Homebrew Computer Club for today’s frontier technologists: focused exclusively on working systems, live code, and the technical trade-offs that accelerate shipping.

Join us for our April meetup in Montreal. This session is designed for those navigating the shift toward autonomous agentic workflows and high-efficiency local inference. This is a technical, no-fluff environment where the stage is reserved for those actively building with LLMs and generative AI.

Attendance is limited to 100 active builders. Registration is mandatory and selective to ensure a high-signal environment. Please note that walk-ins will not be permitted.

📅 Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2026
• Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
• Location: (Exact address provided to approved attendees)
• Capacity: 100 (Selective attendance)

🎤 Demos & Science Fair: Show Your Work

We are looking for builders to share messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries. Whether you are experimenting with 1-bit quantization like Bonsai 8B or building autonomous ML agents, we want to see the “how” behind the build.

No pitch decks—just live code and technical breakthroughs. We also feature a Science Fair format during networking for decentralized, hands-on technical walkthroughs of side projects.

Submit Your Demo Proposal

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AI Tinkerers - Montreal

AI Tinkerers - Montreal

AI Tinkerers - Montreal

AI Tinkerers - Montreal

AI Tinkerers - Montreal

AI Tinkerers - Montreal

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📊 AI Tinkerers Montreal Stats

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 1,515 technical professionals features a high-density talent pool: 70% specialize in Machine Learning, 63% in Full-Stack Software Engineering, and 50% in MLOps and Cloud Infrastructure. Notably, over half are actively building with Generative AI and Agentic Systems. Representing elite organizations like Google, Mila, and Shopify, these members excel in deploying production-grade, secure, and scalable AI architectures.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia, prominent regional players such as Shopify, Bell, and Ubisoft, alongside fast-growing AI and infrastructure startups including Cohere, Cerebras Systems, Botpress, and Databricks, and more
• Demos: 130 demos have been submitted and 77 have been presented. The most exciting themes have focused on agentic orchestration and safe tool-use, multimodal pipelines for video/vision, and robust retrieval/context strategies (including caching and local-first approaches). Technical highlights have also covered constrained/structured generation, model routing and efficiency, and production-grade reliability patterns for real-time or long-running systems.
• Testimonials:

  “Having a strong diversity of presenters, maintain the rules of keeping the presentations time bound (but perhaps allocate more time where the presentation is of greater complexity) as this gives time for networking!”

  — Director of IT, higher on April 26, 2026

  “The event structure. I love the "you have 5 minutes to present, go". Its fast paced and gets the conversation going!”

  — Technical consultant, enterprise software on May 27, 2026

  “keep up the good work! <3”

  — Founder, innovation lab on June 18, 2026

  “Thank you for the effort you put forward to being this diverse and talented community together, it is greatly appreciated!”

  — Director of IT, higher on April 26, 2026

  “Bringing people of diverse AI backgrounds together under one roof.”

  — CEO, architecture & design on May 27, 2026

  “Keep the same format, love it”

  — Staff engineer, cloud infra on April 23, 2026

  “Continue to be cool, to prioritize exchange and creativity, not sales.”

  — Senior QA analyst, logistics on February 25, 2026