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AI Tinkerers – San Jose Inaugural Meetup · July 22, 2025

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025 7PM to 10PM
Valeriano Velasquez Ninad Divadkar Zach Walnock Jose Acevedo Rodrigo Herrera Gustavo Vinocour Walter Astua Manrique Feoli Erick Mora
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Engineers and developers gathered for a hands-on session featuring live demos and technical discussions, fostering a collaborative builder environment, sponsored by Telescoped.

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Valeriano Velasquez Carlos Vargas-Montero Manrique Feoli Paul Rios

Best AI meetup in San Jose for builders

AI Tinkerers San Jose is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers San Jose 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 San Jose 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 San Jose chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers San Jose 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 San Jose chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
1 recent event
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in San Jose for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers San Jose is the best AI meetup in San Jose for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The San Jose 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 San Jose different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers San Jose 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 San Jose chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Last updated: June 2026