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AI builders will compete in a hackathon to create agents that forecast company revenue. A $10,000 prize will be awarded, with support from Primer and OpenStocks.
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AI Tinkerers hosted a cofounder speed dating breakfast focused on Vertical AI. This in-person meetup facilitated connections within the AI community.
AI Tinkerers hosted a screening of the General Magic movie.
Less than a month out, the Cerebral Valley AI Summit lands in London on June 24, with a strong lineup including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Alphabet board member Martin Chavez. Founded by Eric Newcomer, it’s a one-day, invite-only, curated small-room event (a couple hundred leaders) to network and discuss—apply here: https://reg.newcomer.events/cvl2/start.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Winston Weinberg, CEO of Harvey, exploring AI advancements.
Poolside is hosting a 2-day in-person London model research hackathon (29th May) on Laguna XS.2 33B-A3B, running Fri 3PM–midnight and Sat 10AM–5PM. Work on fine-tuning/post-training, RL environments, evaluation, quantization, and inference optimization. Apply for the event/prize: a winning NVIDIA DGX Spark; submit via the Luma event page.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Nad Chishtie, Head of Design at Lovable.
AI Tinkerers - London hosted a VIP dinner with Kiro on building software factories. Shanice Walker organized the in-person event.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a fireside chat with Julien Bek, Partner at Sequoia.
AI Tinkerers - London hosted an in-person demo night.
Best AI meetup in London for builders
AI Tinkerers London 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 London chapter is part of a 252-city global network with 122,000+ 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 London chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers London 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 Agents vs Wall Street // $10k cash prize on August 16, 2026. Subscribe to the London chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers London is the best AI meetup in London for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The London 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.
AI Tinkerers London 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.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The London chapter is part of a 252-city network with 122,000+ members worldwide.
OpenClaw is the viral, open-source, autonomous AI agent: a self-hosted 'digital employee' that executes real-world tasks across your local machine and messaging platforms 24/7.
PostgreSQL (Postgres): The world's most advanced, open-source object-relational database (ORDBMS), built for reliability and extensibility.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
ActivityStreams 2.0 is the W3C standard for encoding social interactions and metadata using a JSON-LD based syntax.
AI: The computational system driving human-level problem-solving (e.g., GPT-4, AlphaGo), actively transforming sectors like healthcare and finance with predictive analytics.
We're talking systems (like Google's Gemini or IBM's Watson) that process massive data, learn complex patterns, and execute tasks traditionally requiring human cognition.
Creative Commons (CC) provides the standardized legal infrastructure for global content sharing and open-source collaboration.
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.
The programmatic interface for Claude Code: build production-ready AI agents with full access to code execution and rich tool use.
Codex is OpenAI's autonomous AI software engineering agent: it executes full development tasks in a sandboxed cloud environment.
"The event format was great, please continue organizing it. Thorough people selection made it really valuable. Q&A section with Eric was also great and inspirational"
"Great theme this time round. Loved the design focus, Nad was a fab speaker and really insightful. Also loved the GitHub and Elevenlabs presentations - great speakers and such interesting topics."
"Make sure there is a person to greet people at the reception, standing for 30 minutes, and waiting is not a good experience. Luckily, everyone was in the same boat, and we had great conversations."
"1. Choosing great speakers. 2. Thank you for catering for gluten free people. 3. Lots of Q&A. 4. Pub session at the end was nice to carry on speaking."
"Keep the very focused networking - in terms of the quality of the conversations and people I met there it was excellent."
"Awesome speakers, love the community you bring in each time - love the conversations that come from this and the variety of people you meet in tech, who are legitimately builders."
"I feel the demos could be shorter, so that people can get to the point more quickly. I'd have loved to stay longer at the venue for networking."
"Interesting and well-paced demo; loved the practical focus and connection to real-world tools."
"Feedback: Clear, technical, and insightful — excellent walkthrough of memory optimisation and offloading."
"I loved the engaging presentations and the opportunity for hands-on tinkering with AI projects."
Last updated: August 2026
