AI Tinkerers Montreal: Demo Night - November 20, 2025

AI Tinkerers is a hands-on, code-first meetup for builders shipping with foundation models and generative AI. This event focuses on live demos, real code, and practical workflows. Expect a tight, technically dense evening designed for engineers, researchers, and practitioners who ship AI in production.

Why this matters for you

• A curated room of active builders, with short, live demos that show how patterns actually ship in production.
• Three live demos on the main stage, plus three more during the networking hour to keep hands-on collaboration flowing.
• Coveo sponsorship underwrites a focused, technical evening, with a dedicated time block for hands-on debugging and discussions.
• Capacity is limited to 150 attendees to preserve signal and reduce noise. Registration is open now.

Event details

• Date and time: November 20, 2025 from 5:30pm to 9:00pm
• Location: Venue is Coveo, Montreal. Address is withheld in this public draft.
• Venue sponsor: Coveo
• Attendance cap: 90
• Format: physical meetup with live demos only (no slide decks or pitches)
• RSVP and contact requirements: attendees must provide email and at least one of LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub for follow-up

Agenda

5:30 PM - Doors open
6:00 PM - Opening remarks
6:20 PM - 3 live demos (onstage)
6:45 PM - Networking hour (sponsored by Coveo)
7:45 PM - 3 more live demos (onstage)
8:30 PM - Event wrap
9:00 PM - Close

Times and agenda derived from the event configuration. Times are local in Montreal. This is a hands-on, technical event; expect working code and live config walkthroughs rather than slides.

Demos and speakers

Demo proposals

We invite builders to present a live demo of a project, product, or prototype. Show your approach, challenges, and results in 5-7 minutes. Include what attendees will learn and the tech stack. No heavy sales pitches.

Submit you demo

You can submit your demo at the top of the screen or following below link

Sponsors

Coveo - Coveo is the AI-Relevance leader, powering superior digital experiences for the world’s most innovative brands. Their AI-Relevance Platform is purpose-built for large enterprises, transforming how they connect with customers and employees across every point-of-experience, from e-commerce and customer service to website and workplace search. By boosting accuracy and efficiency across AI agents and digital channels, Coveo helps unlock maximum business value. They provide enterprise-class, cloud-based solutions like Coveo In-Product Experience (IPX) to efficiently manage massive volumes of content and products, ensuring every interaction is relevant. Thank you to Coveo for sponsoring this event!

Registration and sponsor opportunities

Registration is open now. Space is limited, and this event tends to fill quickly. If you’re considering sponsorship for this or future events, please visit:

https://montreal.aitinkerers.org/sponsors

City and venue notes

• Venue: Coveo, 1100 Av. des Canadiens-de-Montreal, Suite #401, Montreal, QC (address withheld in public draft)
• Capacity: 90 attendees
• No attendee data sharing; sponsor interactions are designed to be high-signal and builder-first
• Please note a Habs match will be held near the venue, consider usage of public transportation for the event!

AI Tinkerers Montreal Stats

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