AI Tinkerers hosted a screening of the *General Magic* documentary, exploring early smartphone pioneers and lessons for the AI revolution.
Cerebral Valley AI Summit 2026 comes to London June 24, and there’s still room for a few top founders, investors, and builders—apply here: https://reg.newcomer.events/cvl2/start. Featured speakers include Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and Index Ventures’ Danny Rimer; curated small-group discussions are led by Plural’s Ian Hogarth and others.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a meetup featuring a fireside chat with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg, alongside technical demonstrations and networking opportunities, supported by Attio, Dex, and ACI.dev.
Poolside’s 29th May two-day in-person research hackathon in London invites researchers/builders to improve Laguna XS.2 33B-A3B (agentic coding/long-horizon) on NVIDIA DGX SparkTM—fine-tuning, post-training, RL envs, eval design, quantization, and inference optimization. Winning team gets a DGX Spark; apply via https://luma.com/poolsidehackathon and join up to 4 people.
AI Tinkerers London hosted a meetup featuring a fireside chat with Nad Chishtie, Head of Design at Lovable, alongside technical demonstrations. The event was supported by LocalGlobe, Dex, and ACI.dev.
AI Tinkerers hosted a VIP dinner with Kiro, focusing on building software factories. The event provided an opportunity for in-person networking and discussion.
AI Tinkerers London featured a fireside chat with Sequoia Partner Julien Bek, exploring AI's evolving landscape, alongside startup demonstrations. Dex and ACI.dev supported the event.
AI Tinkerers - London hosted an in-person demo night at Attio.
AI Tinkerers London featured an AMA with Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel, and showcased technical demonstrations. The event was supported by Phoenix Court, Vercel, Dex, and ACI.dev.
Builders participated in an intense, in-person global hackathon focused on Conversational Agents, involving team collaboration and vying for prizes exceeding $200K, supported by ElevenLabs.
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 231-city global network with 112,000+ 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. 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 London chapter to get notified.
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 231-city network with 112,000+ members worldwide.
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"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."
"The quality of the talks was excellent, I really enjoyed them. The quality of the attendees was really high as well, every conversation I had was useful and interesting. This made it worth the trip much more than other meetups that I've done in the past."
Last updated: June 2026
