AI Tinkerers Montreal - June Demo Meetup [AI Tinkerers - Montreal]

AI Tinkerers Montreal - June Demo Meetup

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 • 5:30PM to 8:30PM (EDT)
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Attendees include engineers and leaders from PwC, Red Hat, and Bell, featuring Google Developer Experts, a Microsoft MVP, and a GitHub Star skilled in AI/ML, Python, and data science.

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🛠️ Show, Don’t Tell: Technical Demos with Bell AI Fabric & CGI

AI Tinkerers Montreal is returning on June 17th for an evening dedicated to the architecture and implementation of generative AI. Hosted at ax.C in Place Victoria, this session brings together active builders to share the “how” behind their latest experiments.

We prioritize technical depth over product pitches. This is a forum for engineers, researchers, and developers to pop the hood on agentic workflows, custom model fine-tuning, and complex orchestration layers.

Registration is mandatory and selective to maintain a high-signal environment for technical collaboration.


🎤 Demos & Science Fair: Show Your Work

We are looking for builders to share messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries. Whether you are optimizing inference for local LLMs or building autonomous multi-agent systems, we want to see your code and architecture.

  • Main Stage Demos: 5-minute deep dives into the technical stack and specific challenges solved. No slides allowed—just live code and working systems.
  • Science Fair: An informal, decentralized format during networking for hands-on walkthroughs and peer feedback on early-stage projects.

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đź•• Event Schedule

  • 5:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking
  • 6:00 PM: Technical Demos & Q&A
  • 8:00 PM: Science Fair & Hands-on Networking
  • 8:30 PM: Doors Close

🤝 Our Partners

GOLD SPONSOR:
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Bell AI Fabric is a national platform of secure, sovereign, and sustainable AI data centers designed to build Canada’s sovereign AI ecosystem. By combining Bell’s national fiber network with advanced NVIDIA GPU clusters, they deliver secure, Canadian-hosted AI solutions for enterprises requiring strict data residency.

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CGI is a global business and technology services firm. They partner with organizations to integrate advanced AI solutions and system orchestration, helping builders scale their workflows from prototype to enterprise-grade production.

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AI Tinkerers Montreal Stats

  • Attendees: A premier community of 1,430 AI professionals, featuring 80% specialized in Machine Learning, 65% in Generative AI/LLMs, and 45% in MLOps. Members represent elite institutions like Mila, Google, and Shopify. This technical powerhouse uniquely bridges academic research with enterprise-grade production, driving cutting-edge developments in agentic systems, real-time streaming architectures, and highly scalable AI infrastructure.
  • Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants and platform leaders like Google, Microsoft, Shopify, and ServiceNow, alongside established innovators such as Unity, Ubisoft, and Databricks, and emerging AI startups including Cerebras Systems, Cohere, Botpress, and GovernGPT, and more
  • Demos: Across 124 submitted demos, 71 have been presented. The most exciting themes have focused on agentic and multi-agent orchestration, practical developer automation, multimodal/vision pipelines, and AI infrastructure for interoperability and routing. Technically, teams have explored graph/stateful agent architectures, RAG and verification loops, constrained structured generation, real-time event-driven systems, and reliability/safety mechanisms like guardrails, injection resistance, and output certification.
  • Testimonials:
    “Alternating between demos and networking breaks is great, makes it dynamic and keeps the demos fresh in memory.”

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