AI Events in Denver | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Denver - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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Celebrating the Colorado AI Community
January 30, 2025, 6PM - 8PM MST
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Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - January Meetup

Thursday, January 30th, 2025 6PM to 8PM
Kristen Montesano Alex Volkov Jeremy London Francesco Vassalli Megan Grave Ramit Gulati Vishal Patil Paulina Gallardo Vishadh Vilas Sawant Madhuresh Gore Rohit Thakur Jean-Pierre Broz Ian Charles Dunning Crawford Dave Drach Nikko Lobato Matt Bruehl Parikshit Rohit Pravin Srivastav Gordon Weakliem Rana Ahmad Mike Sax
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The in-person gathering celebrated two years of local AI momentum, featuring short hands-on demos and a planning discussion to shape the year ahead.

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over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - October Meeting

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 6PM
Alex Volkov Darius Atmar

Attendees engaged in hands-on demos, project show-and-tells, and community networking, featuring presentations on Weave and Caret, with support from Weights & Biases.

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Cutting-Edge AI Demos
September 19, 2024, 6PM - 8PM
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almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - September Meetup

Thursday, September 19th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
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The in-person gathering focused on connecting AI builders, sharing work, and featuring short talks and demos following a recent hackathon.

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Hackathon
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver Multimodal Hackathon

Friday, August 2nd, 2024 from 6PM
Sarah Kainec Charles Sullivan Austin Vance Alex Volkov James Beasley Neil Fonseca Nooshin Hashemi Clifton Bryce Hirschfeld Jeremy London Lexie Marinelli Alan Meigs Hannah Neumann Jesse Neumann Francesco Vassalli Nila Masrourisaadat Steve Manuel Kristen Montesano Todd Gardiner Dana Martinelli Axel VandenHeuvel
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Local peers gathered for a multimodal AI hackathon featuring access to specialized tools and expertise, concluding with prizes awarded to top teams. Groq, Twelve Labs, and Focused Labs sponsored the event.

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almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - July Event

Monday, July 8th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
Lizelle Vuuren Connor Michael Holly Gordon Weakliem Tim Morrissey Jason Musgrave Daniel Martinez Ira McMahon Mark Koh
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Fellow AI tinkerers gathered for hands-on learning, short talks, and demos. The event featured guests Junaid Dawud and Alex Volkov, with beverage sponsorship from Code Talent and Weights & Biases.

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about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - June Meetup

Monday, June 10th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
Matanya Loewenthal Alex Volkov Gordon Dri Connor Michael Holly Chris Smith Eli Wood Rana Ahmad Jason Griffing Robert Liptak Adam Litton Ethan Lockshin Mark Koh Reid Rumack Omer Shachar Mike Hartman Charles Sullivan Ira McMahon Don Barlow Jeremy London Qinfeng Wu
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The in-person gathering featured Groq demonstrating their LPU inference engine and answering questions for hands-on builders. The community shared AI developments and demos, sponsored by Groq.

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about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - May Meetup

Monday, May 13th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
Jeremy London Jason Musgrave Jaidev Shah Connor Michael Holly Yaro Pasichnychenko Vince Miller Gordon Weakliem Omer Shachar Arnold Werschky
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Practitioners gathered to demo, learn, and network, fostering open sharing and practical knowledge transfer within the growing community.

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Meetup
about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - April Meetup

Monday, April 15th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
Aaron Dignan Mark Koh Aleesha Mundra Ben Wallace Ala Stolpnik Jason Musgrave Gordon Weakliem Chris Bledsoe Vince Miller Daniel J Mullins Junaid Dawud Connor Michael Holly Pete George Kirill Zubovsky David Duzer
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The in-person gathering featured practical AI work sharing, demos including Spotify recommendation models, and open collaboration among builders.

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over 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - March Meetup

Monday, March 18th, 2024 6PM to 8PM
Ala Stolpnik Ben Wallace Alex Volkov Riley Wood Junaid Dawud Omer Shachar Jason Musgrave Matt Florence Pete George Chris Bledsoe Gordon Weakliem Ethan Wdowiak Brian S Miller Kevin Wheeler

The AI Tinkerers group held an in-person meetup in Denver. The gathering focused on artificial intelligence topics for tinkerers and developers.

AI Tinkerers Denver - January Meetup
Meetup
over 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - January Meetup

Wednesday, January 17th, 2024 5:30PM to 8:30PM
Alex Volkov Ala Stolpnik Junaid Dawud Riley Wood Matt Florence Tyler Dorland Taylor Alekzander Pearce Earl Potters Pete George Aaron Titus Omer Shachar Bob Dans

Builders and tinkerers gathered for hands-on learning, demos, and collaboration focused on machine learning and generative AI. Hosts guided the practical evening.

Meet the Organizers

Junaid Dawud

Best AI meetup in Denver for builders

AI Tinkerers Denver is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Denver is built for engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Each meetup centers on real projects from local builders: working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and practical demos rather than sales talks or general AI lectures.

The Denver chapter is part of a 243-city global network with 114,000+ members, making AI Tinkerers the world's largest hands-on AI builder community. Members include AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, founders, and builders from the local Denver chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Denver meetup runs about three hours with live demos from local builders, technical Q&A, and networking. Demos are expected to show real systems or code, not sales decks. The next event is AI Tinkerers Denver - June Meetup on June 30, 2026. Subscribe to the Denver chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
June 30, 2026
Local cadence
6 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Denver for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Denver is the best AI meetup in Denver for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Denver chapter hosts in-person events for engineers, founders, researchers, and product builders working on AI agents, multimodal and voice interfaces, RAG and knowledge systems, AI coding tools, workflow automation, evals, observability, and production AI infrastructure. Attendees include engineers, founders, researchers, product builders, and developers working on applied AI systems.

What makes AI Tinkerers Denver different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Denver is screened, demo-first, and no-pitch. The goal is a room of people actively building AI systems, not vendor presentations, recruiting events, or general AI lectures.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Denver chapter is part of a 243-city network with 114,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Denver

MCP

MCP is the open-source standard for securely connecting AI agents (like LLMs) to external tools, data, and enterprise workflows.

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

Playwright

Playwright is the Microsoft-developed, cross-browser automation framework: it drives Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with one unified API for fast, reliable end-to-end testing.

agent-browser

Automate browser-based workflows using LLMs and computer vision to navigate complex websites without custom scripts.

Claude

Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration.

Claude code for building

An agentic coding system that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and delivers committed code directly from your terminal or IDE.

Claude Code SDK

The programmatic interface for Claude Code: build production-ready AI agents with full access to code execution and rich tool use.

Claude SDK

The Claude SDK provides official client libraries (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go) for direct, programmatic integration with the Claude API.

Claude SDK for agent development

Anthropic's Claude Agent SDK is a developer toolkit in Python and TypeScript that packages the autonomous agent loop, context management, and tools powering Claude Code into an embeddable library.

DuckDB

DuckDB is the high-performance, open-source, in-process analytical data management system (OLAP) that runs complex SQL queries directly on your data files.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Denver

George Bezerra
Autonomous Data Platform
Apr 27
Most tools make data teams more efficient. We've built a solution that makes them obsolete, by automating the data platform wor...
George Bezerra Denver
Claude Code Claude SDK
Sami Serrag
Colorado Songwriters: Human-in-the-Loop Data
Apr 27
I built Colorado Songwriters Collective, a human-in-the-loop AI workflow that converts messy event/member inputs (DMs, forms, a...
Sami Serrag Denver
OpenAI API Claude
Patrick Padden
Spatial Intelligence for Sustainable Design
Mar 25
I built a water wise planning tool that water companies can offer to their customers to guide them through creating an accurate...
Patrick Padden Denver
OpenAI Gemini
Lucas Morris
Re-inventing CSS, again, but this time for AI
Mar 25
Modifying ow CSS is compiled in NextJS to improve design iterations with AI.
Lucas Morris Denver
Next Tailwind CSS
Marcus Waldman
Turning a Textbook into an Architecture Consultant with MCP and Knowl…
Mar 25
An MCP server that extracts a knowledge graph from *Agentic Architectural Patterns for Building Multi-Agent Systems* (Arsanjani...
Marcus Waldman Denver
MCP Claude Code
Mikayla Thompson
Playwright MCP vs CLI? Benchmarking for performance & effectiveness
Mar 25
I benchmarked an agent using Playwright MCP vs Playwright CLI vs agent-browser. The CLIs were much more context efficient, but ...
Mikayla Thompson Denver
Playwright MCP
Alan Meigs
DungeonMind: D&D AI Tools
Nov 24
DungeonMind.net, I've got a number of tools from item card generation to statblock generation. All using image generation and t...
Alan Meigs Denver
GPT-5 Image generation
George Bezerra
Teaching an AI Agent to Build a Data Warehouse
Nov 24
This talk presents Modlr, a prototype AI agent that automates the design and management of data warehouses, one of the most com...
George Bezerra Denver
Claude Code DuckDB
KUSHAL LOYA
Introducing AppChat
Nov 24
AppChat is a new way to build apps you can chat with, in ChatGPT and via its own client.
KUSHAL LOYA Denver
GPT-4 LangChain
Jeremy London
rulesync: Unified AI Rules
Nov 24
A live demonstration of rulesync, a Node.js CLI tool that solves the growing problem of AI development tool fragmentation. I'll...
Jeremy London Denver
Claude Code GitHub Copilot
Mark Koh
Semantic IDs: Generative Recommendations
Oct 24
How do you get LLMs to understand vast catalogs of music, podcasts, images, videos, and any other entity that you may be workin...
Mark Koh Denver
GPT-4 Claude-3
Mustansir Bohari
Edit AI: Real-Time Video AI
Feb 24
EditAI is an AI video editor that streamlines your efforts and saves time to edit & customize videos, empowering content creato...
Mustansir Bohari Denver
MoviePy FFmpeg

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Last updated: June 2026