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AI Tinkerers London - 2nd March featuring AMA with Tom Occhino, CPO at Vercel

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Monday, March 2nd, 2026 • 6:15PM (BST)
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AI Tinkerers London - 2nd March featuring AMA with Tom Occhino, CPO at Vercel

Join us for our monthly meet up including a special AMA with Tom Occhino, Chief Product Officer at Vercel alongside talks from leading startups and scale ups.

Interested in speaking? Submit Your Speaker Proposal and share cool projects you’ve built and new concepts you’ve learned!

Why You Should Attend
  • Cutting-Edge Content: Hear from peers who are pushing the limits of open-source models and AI innovation with real-world case studies and technical demonstrations.
  • Networking with Leaders: Share experiences, discuss challenges, and foster new collaborations with experts who are as passionate about building groundbreaking AI solutions as you are.

Event Details
  • Date: 2nd March 2026
  • Time: 6:15pm – 8:30pm
  • Venue: Phoenix Court

Space is limited for this special event, so register as soon as possible to secure your spot.

Supporters

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Phoenix Court is the trusted long-term partner for founders. Their early-stage fund LocalGlobe invests in pre-seed and seed with previous investments including Wise, Cleo, Figma and many more.

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Vercel provides the developer experience and infrastructure to build, scale, and secure a faster, more personalized web. Vercel’s AI Cloud unlocks developer potential and allows you to go from idea to global application in seconds. Vercel enables customers like Under Armour, The Washington Post, Johnson & Johnson, and Zapier to build dynamic user experiences on the web.

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Dex is the AI Talent Agent for Engineers, backed by a16z, Dex helps ambitious engineers to match with the world’s most sought after AI start ups, Labs and hedgefunds. If you’re thinking about your career and want to know whats out there, head to www.meetdex.ai to find the perfect match.

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If you or your organization are interested in partnering with us, check out our Sponsor Opportunities to help power the full AI-builder stack and support community growth.

📊 AI Tinkerers London Stats
  • Attendees: This elite community of 5,656 technical professionals comprises 45% machine learning and software engineers alongside 38% technical founders and CTOs. Key capabilities span Python (85%), cloud-native infrastructure (65%), and autonomous agentic workflows (48%). Distinguished by members from Google DeepMind, Meta, and Oxford, this high-signal network actively bridges advanced research with production-grade, real-world AI applications.
  • Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Meta, Amazon, and Apple, alongside AI pioneers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, and Wayve, and fast-growing startups like ElevenLabs, Vercel, Wordware, and incident.io, and more
  • Demos: 249 demos have been submitted and 89 have been presented, with an emphasis on agentic software development, reliable evaluation and observability, and production-oriented architecture. Participants have built and integrated LLM toolchains (often via standardized interfaces), improved context and token efficiency, and demonstrated automation across coding, analytics, and multimedia pipelines. Technical highlights also frequently included security hardening, cost/latency optimization, and structured generation techniques.
  • Testimonials:
    “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.”
    — Founder, AI agents

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