AI Events in Denver | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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5:30PM to 8PM
AI Tinkerers
Denver
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AI Tinkerers Denver - November Meetup

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 5:30PM to 8PM
Alex Volkov Travis Couture Sam hesson Obomate Gabriel-Whyte Vince Miller Matt Woods Taylor Alekzander Pearce Matt Florence Reid Rumack Junaid Dawud Chris Bledsoe Kirill Zubovsky
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Builders gathered for hands-on demonstrations, short talks, and networking focused on machine learning, large language models, and generative artificial intelligence.

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Meetup
over 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - September Meetup

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 6PM to 8PM
Matt Florence Alex Volkov Steph Chan Pete George Tatyana Huseynova Leps Junaid Dawud Ala Stolpnik Brandon Watson Chris Bledsoe Sam hesson Kevin Wheeler

Builders and practitioners gathered for an in-person session to demo projects, share technical updates on machine learning and generative artificial intelligence, and foster collaborations.

AI Tinkerers Denver - August Meetup
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almost 3 years ago

AI Tinkerers Denver - August Meetup

Tuesday, August 8th, 2023 6PM to 8PM
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Local AI Tinkerers gathered for hands-on talks and demos focused on machine learning and generative artificial intelligence projects. The event featured updates and collaboration opportunities, concluding with thanks for community energy.

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Meetup
almost 3 years ago

July Meetup

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023 6PM to 8PM
Junaid Dawud Alex Volkov Ala Stolpnik Brandon Watson Margaret Melville Phil Vilk Obomate Gabriel-Whyte Craig Morgan Matt Florence Andrew Fischer Aidan Reese Trevor Uptain
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The in-person meetup featured demos of an iOS green-screen app and a "State of AI" briefing covering major developments, alongside community networking.

June Denver AI Tinkerers meetup - June 6th
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almost 3 years ago

June Denver AI Tinkerers meetup - June 6th

Tuesday, June 6th, 2023 6PM to 8PM
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Attendees saw practical demos on video translation, generative 3D world-building, and ML observability from industry leaders. The meetup provided community networking and project presentation opportunities.

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 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Denver chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
7 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 231-city network with 110,000+ 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
The 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
From Messy Inputs to Reliable Community Data: Human-in-the-Loop AI
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

What are people saying about AI Tinkerers Denver?

  • "I had an amazing experience meeting a lot of impressive people and felt both welcomed and highly encouraged by my experience and conversations. Thank you so much!!"
    April 27, 2026 | Audio-Video Field Engineer AI Tinkerers Denver - April Meeting
  • "I enjoy the overall event. This is the first hackathon and wasn't sure on what to expect. Meeting new people. I had a great time."
    August 2, 2024 | site engeer AI Tinkerers Denver Multimodal Hackathon
  • "I love the small consistent community of tech founders that shows up at every event. Going to the meetup feels like meeting your extended family. It's easy and casual and adds a ton of value."
    June 10, 2024 | Prompt Engineer AI Tinkerers Denver - June Meetup
  • "Keep the AI subject matter current and nerdy. Great environment for AI interests including non-tech vibe coding and other new adventurers"
    March 25, 2026 | HPC & Distributed SW/FW DevOps AI Tinkerers Denver Meetup - March 25, 2026
  • "Venue was great, plenty of space and comfortable. Fit the energy of the event very well."
    March 25, 2026 | Technical Investigator AI Tinkerers Denver Meetup - March 25, 2026
  • "Very impressive, everything in the demo functioned. I really loved that the public repo offered was scientific in nature, given the intent of what was built it fit perfectly."
    March 25, 2026 | Technical Investigator AI Tinkerers Denver Meetup - March 25, 2026
  • "Would love it if there was like a discord or online community for the group"
    July 9, 2025 | Unemployed - Tech Research Background AI Tinkerers Meetup - July 9, 2025
  • "Great start and I love how you are leveraging your depth of experience in packaging the product."
    November 24, 2025 | Founder/CEO AI Tinkerers Denver Meetup - November 24, 2025
  • "It was my first hackathon and overall I thought it was amazing. There's not a lot I would change. It was hot in the Code building, but nothing really to do about that."
    August 2, 2024 | AI Engineer AI Tinkerers Denver Multimodal Hackathon
  • "I loved hearing about Groq's underlying technology and seeing the real-time demonstration of how fast the inference is."
    June 10, 2024 | Director of Product AI Tinkerers Denver - June Meetup

Last updated: June 2026