AI Tinkerers โ€“ San Lorenzo Inaugural Meetup ยท 18 February 2026 [AI Tinkerers - San Lorenzo]

AI Tinkerers โ€“ San Lorenzo Inaugural Meetup ยท 18 February 2026

Feb
18
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Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 โ€ข 6PM to 8PM (GMT-3)
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Attendees 15+ registered
Most common skills are full-stack engineering and project management, followed by data science, featuring CCNA-certified technology heads and AI engineers from Paracan Limited and Intree.

๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ”ฅ AI Tinkerers San Lorenzo: 1er Capitulo ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿค–

Weโ€™re gathering active builders who ship AI in production to trade code, war-stories, and fresh ideas in San Lorenzo.
โ˜๏ธโ˜๏ธ Register todayโ€”space is limited and our events fill fast. โ˜๏ธโ˜๏ธ

(Illustration) A digital illustration in a pixel art style depicting a technical presentation event (AI Tinkerers San Lorenzo) taking place indoors, featuring a speaker pointing at a large screen displaying colorful code, with an audience seated below and a city skyline visible through large windows. Text: AI Tinkerers San Lorenzo Inaugural Vetted Builder Demos March 5, 2026 6:00 PM AI TINKERERS-SAN LORENZO Flat, pixelated | Colors: #8B4513 Note: The image is a digitally created scene rendered in a distinct, blocky, low-resolution style (pixel art), which classifies it as an illustration rather than a photograph.


What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a vibrant, global community for AI engineers, founders, and researchers focused on hands-on building, sharing messy side projects, and innovating with Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI. We are often described as the โ€œHomebrew Computer Club for AI,โ€ known for fostering open collaboration, early-stage discovery, and pushing boundaries.

We are builders. No futurist panels, no vague disruption talk. Code, demos, and working systems first.


Q: Who is AI Tinkerers for and who is it not for?

We curate for people rolling up their sleeves. Whether you are debugging latency spikes or shipping breakthroughs through agentic workflows, you must pop the hood, debug in public, and help others do the same.

โœ… Welcome โ›”๏ธ Not a fit
Engineers & researchers with live deployments Investors scouting deals
Open-source contributors shipping agent stacks Idea-stage founders hunting co-founders
Product teams debugging latency, evals, finetunes Recruiters, marketers, consultants

Full FAQ โ†’ https://aitinkerers.org/p/faq


๐Ÿ“… Thursday โ€ข 5 March 2026

San Lorenzo, Paraguay

Time Program
6 : 00 PM Doors Open & Check-in
6 : 15 PM Welcome & Community Pulse
6 : 30 PM โ€“ 7 : 30 PM Builder Demos & Technical Deep Dives
7 : 30 PM โ€“ 8 : 00 PM Builder-to-builder Networking

Confirmed attendees receive the exact location and access details.


๐ŸŽค Confirmed Demos: Architecture, Trade-offs, and What Broke

This inaugural chapter features four technical deep dives from active builders in the San Lorenzo community. AI Tinkerers is where demos beat decks. Expect short, high-signal presentations focused on implementation details, not product pitches.

Demos are concise, work-in-progress showcases focused entirely on the build itself:

  • No pitches. Share a challenge, discovery, or lessonโ€”not a startup promo.
  • Demos > Decks. Jump straight into code, serverless graph, or workflow.
  • Show & tell. Highlight architecture, tricky bits, and one hard lesson.
  • Enable peers. Unblock or inspire another tinkerer with something concrete.


๐Ÿค– Submit Your Demo Proposal

The stage is reserved for those actively building. If you have a project, a messy side hack, or a breakthrough you want to share, submit your proposal now. We welcome novel, rough, or even buggy projects, provided you expose the technical internals and answer: โ€œHow did you build this interesting thing?โ€

We are particularly interested in builders leveraging 2026 primitives, such as agentic loop techniques, VLMs, or generative 3D models.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

Guide โ†’ https://aitinkerers.org/p/what-makes-a-great-demo-at-ai-tinkerers


๐Ÿค Partner with Builders

We thank the Facultad de Ingenieria UNA for hosting our inaugural chapter and providing the space for this builder-focused event.

We maintain a selective sponsorship model: only brands that ship get in. If your company builds infrastructure, models, or tooling that accelerates the work of engineers and researchers, we should talk.

Explore Partnership Opportunities


๐Ÿš€ RSVP: Selective by Design

Entry is strictly curated to maintain a high signal room of active builders. We require demonstrable proof of hands-on work with AI for entry. Space is limited to 150 vetted builders.

โ˜๏ธโ˜๏ธ Apply nowโ€”once we hit capacity, the wait-list closes. โ˜๏ธโ˜๏ธ


Fast FAQ

Why so selective?
A builder-only room lets us share unpolished code and candid failures.

Didnโ€™t get in?
Boost your profileโ€”GitHub activity, live project linksโ€”and re-apply. Demand exceeds capacity.

Bringing a non-technical partner?
They must apply and qualify on their own technical merits.

Slides allowed?
No. One architecture diagram max, then straight to the demo.

Investor or vendor?
See sponsorship options โ†’ https://aitinkerers.org/sponsors

Need more answers? Full FAQ โ†’ https://aitinkerers.org/p/faq


๐Ÿ“ธ Scenes from other cities

AI Tinkerers is a global network of builders accelerating their roadmaps.

AI Tinkerers โ€“ San Francisco
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AI Tinkerers โ€“ Seattle
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AI Tinkerers โ€“ NYC
(Photo) A group of people are sitting in chairs facing a presentation screen and two presenters. Text: How Open Source Projects Grow from 0 to 1 Million Downloads people | indoor | presentation, audience, presenters | candid Note: The image is a real-life capture of an event, depicting a presentation and an audience.  This clearly falls under the category of a photograph.

AI Tinkerers โ€“ London
(Photo) A person stands at the front of a room, speaking into a microphone to a seated audience.  A screen behind the speaker displays lines of code. people | indoor | presentation, audience, screen with code | candid Note: This is a real-life captured image of a presentation, depicting people and a setting, making it a photograph.

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