🔥 AI Tinkerers Montreal is back to town: WEDNESDAY, September 24, 5:30 pm at Upgrade 🔥

DEMOS. FOOD. FRIENDS. What better way to kick of fall season?

AI Tinkerers Montreal – September 2025 Meetup

AI Tinkerers are back from summer break and returns for the fall season with a September meetup. This session emphasizes hands-on demos from active builders working with foundation models and generative AI, AI agents, AI Coding. No pitches or slide decks—bring a live demo, a story, or a working prototype to share with the community.

When? Where?

• When: Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from 5:30PM
• Where: Upgrade
• 🍕 Food will be served!

☝️☝️☝️ Register above to lock your spot for an evening of kick-ass demos submit yours above! then forward this email to friends who build. Space is limited, don’t wait! ☝️☝️☝️

What to expect

• Live, 5-minute demos focused on technical depth (no pitch decks).
• 75-attendee capacity; RSVP to secure a spot.
• Demos and discussions happen during the networking hour.

Registration

• Registration is open now. Space is limited to 75 attendees.

Submit a Talk Proposal

• Submit your talk proposal here]https://montreal.aitinkerers.org/meetup/mu_67RCkrHqkh4/speaking
• Screening question: What is your AI project and what will you share or demo at the meetup?

How to apply

• In your proposal, describe what you built or are exploring, the goals, and a brief 8–12 minute outline. Include any required setup or demo needs.

Sponsors

Pizza Sponsored by:

This event is hosted by Upgrade:

Sponsor a future event

• We welcome sponsors. See our sponsor page or reach out to organizers!

Agenda at a glance

• 5:30 Doors open
• 5:50 Welcome & orientation
• 6:00 Special guest speaker
• 6:20 Demos x3
• 6:50 Break & food
• 7:30 Demos x3
• 8:00 Final messages & thank yous

Speakers and VIPs

📊 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