AI Tinkerers Calgary Meetup - Tuesday, June 23, 2026

AI Tinkerers is a hands-on, code-first community for active builders. We focus on the implementation details of foundation models, agentic workflows, and generative AI. Our meetups prioritize what is being built and how it works, moving past high-level slides to examine real architecture and technical trade-offs.

Attendance is curated to maintain a high-signal environment for engineers, researchers, and founders who are actively shipping. Space is limited and events are highly popular; please register early to be considered for the session.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM MT

Location: Platform Calgary

Address: 407 9 Ave SE, Calgary, AB T2G 2K7

Schedule

5:30 PM - Doors Open & Networking

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Demos & Technical Show-and-Tell

7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Peer-to-Peer Networking

8:00 PM - Doors Close

What to Expect

• Demos > Decks: We host live demonstrations of working code. Presenters skip the sales pitch to show how they solved specific technical challenges.
• Technical Depth: Sessions focus on practical takeaways, from optimizing inference speeds to orchestrating complex multi-agent systems.
• Curated Peers: Connect with a room of practitioners who are navigating the same frontier of reasoning models and autonomous frameworks.

Call for Demo Proposals

This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”

If you are ready to share what you built, how you built it, and what another builder can reuse or avoid, we want you on stage.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

Venue Sponsor

Big love ❤️ to our venue sponsor Platform Calgary. We literally couldn’t do this without you 😇

Join our AI research paper club on discord!

We meet once a month on Discord to dive into the latest breakthroughs, trends, and discussions in AI research. It’s a relaxed space to chat, share insights, and explore cutting-edge papers with fellow AI Tinkerers in Calgary.

Join our Discord channel here

AI Tinkerers is a premier global community exclusively for practitioners actively building and shipping AI systems. With a presence in 223 cities and over 105,000 members, the group hosts monthly meetups focused on technical depth and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing.

If your organization wants to support the local builder community and engage with technical talent, view our sponsorship opportunities here.

📊 AI Tinkerers Calgary Stats

• Attendees: AI Tinkerers Calgary connects 637 technical builders. The community is comprised of 45% machine learning and AI engineers, 35% full-stack developers, and 20% enterprise architects and data scientists. Members actively deploy production-grade agentic workflows, custom RAG pipelines, and high-performance GPU integrations. Notable achievements include pioneering on-premises LLM deployments in regulated industries and developing open-source AI developer tooling.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon Robotics, and Salesforce, alongside fast-growing platforms such as Vercel, PostHog, Inworld AI, and BrainBox AI, and emerging startups like Vanna AI, Shiftstack, and Transformer Lab, and more
• Demos: AI Tinkerers - Calgary has received 16 demos and presented 2 so far. The most exciting themes have included agentic evolution and applied AI system design, hands-on ways to fine-tune and evaluate modern language models locally, and tools that make experimentation accessible. Technical explorations have also covered local model development workflows and the use of diffusion models alongside LLM capabilities.
• Testimonials:

  “At the end of each presentation, include basic practical actionable facts like "cost of AI usage", "time taken to learn", "3 things that went wrong", "watch out for the following".”

  — CEO, AEC technology

  “More builders and demos. Talks about real use cases as well, with the research and technical discussions.”

  — AI product designer

  “After presentation discussion was really good today”

  — DevOps Engineer, HP

  “I really enjoyed the whole atmosphere and the section with 30 seconds intros at the end was very nice”

  — DevOps Engineer, HP

  “Venue space is great. Easy to get to and great parking nearby.”

  — Founder, energy AI

  “Lots of positive energy at the event. Keep up the good work!”

  — Founder, energy AI

  “Like the use of Discord, and the ability to share information. Like how you manage the Q&A.”

  — Founder, energy AI