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AI Tinkerers will host a hackathon for engineers and designers to build agent prototypes, supported by OpenAI, CopilotKit, and OpenRouter.
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AI Tinkerers Ottawa hosted an in-person meetup featuring AI news, a PostHog demo, and community demos. The event offered networking opportunities and concluded with sponsor acknowledgment.
Come out to AI Tinkerers tomorrow at 2 PM at the Glebe Community Centre, sponsored by PostHog. RSVP for details here: https://ottawa.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-ottawa-meetup-june-20th-2026
The AI Tinkerers Ottawa meetup featured networking, AI project demos, and discussions. Vennify sponsored the event, highlighting open-source AI models.
Community members gathered for an in-person hackathon focused on building Conversational Agents, featuring a significant prize pool and supported by AGI Ventures Canada and ElevenLabs.
Join AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.10.0 (last of 2024) on Nov 12, 2024 for hands-on AI tinkering with the community. Register via the Luma event embed link: https://lu.ma/embed/event/evt-prWQSBWxKZzGFSl/simple
AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.9.0 is hosting a community event—join via the Luma RSVP embed: https://lu.ma/embed/event/evt-scyDa9gRPsQg0YD/simple (600×450). Catch the discussion and build alongside local AI tinkerers—thanks for showing up, and hope to see you there!
AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.8.0 is sharing the Statistics Canada Hackathon winners announcement—check the event page to see who won and join the community discussion via the livestream/RSVP embed.
Join AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.7.0 in the summer with robots serving in C—an event hosted via Lu.ma (evt-OhpjGr59ADcmeKX). Save your seat and come build and share with the community.
Join AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.6.0: an event hosted via the Lu.ma embed (evt-ozmf6JMQuBoL775) with a 600×900 registration/details frame—perfect for hands-on community AI tinkering.
AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.5.0 is happening in Ottawa—get involved and RSVP here: https://lu.ma/embed/event/evt-ynjhlVzkKmFCIqx/simple. Join the community via the embedded event page (600×950) for the latest update and participation details.
AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.4.0 is happening—join the checkout event to connect with local AI tinkerers. Register here: https://lu.ma/embed-checkout/evt-K5Az8NCOxCy8flX (600×450 embed).
Join AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.3.0! Secure your spot via this Luma checkout embed: https://lu.ma/embed-checkout/evt-ukdtElRTvpviiOT (600×1000). Bring your curiosity and build with the Ottawa AI community—thanks for tinkering together!
AI Tinkerers Ottawa v2.2.0 brings Demos & more demos—join for hands-on sharing and practical AI building energy. Reserve your spot via the Luma checkout iframe (evt-9N48AY1oF10jXBn); the event embed is set for 600×900 with a bordered, rounded layout. Thanks for contributing!
The meetup featured talks on GPU access via RunPod and neurosymbolic AI inspired by AlphaGeometry, including demos and an AI challenge announcement, with thanks to sponsors.
Practitioners gathered for an in-person forum featuring talks on client-side ML inference and ethical LLM risks, with food and drinks provided by sponsors.
The in-person gathering featured demos of generative artificial intelligence hackathon projects, followed by networking and prize announcements. Invest Ottawa hosted and sponsored refreshments.
The in-person technical meetup featured hands-on LLM building demonstrations and a panel discussion with industry practitioners, sponsored by Invest Ottawa.
Builders explored open-source LLMs and RAG chatbots through hands-on coding, prioritizing working demos over presentations, with support from Invest Ottawa.
Best AI meetup in Ottawa for builders
AI Tinkerers Ottawa 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 Ottawa chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 124,000+ 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 Ottawa chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Ottawa 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. The next event is Agents, Everywhere: Bots, Channels, & More — Global Hackathon on September 12, 2026. Subscribe to the Ottawa chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Ottawa is the best AI meetup in Ottawa for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Ottawa 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 Ottawa 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 Ottawa chapter is part of a 253-city network with 124,000+ members worldwide.
The Python package for efficient text generation and fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs) directly on Apple silicon via the MLX framework.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
AI: The computational system driving human-level problem-solving (e.g., GPT-4, AlphaGo), actively transforming sectors like healthcare and finance with predictive analytics.
Apple Silicon is the custom, ARM-based System on a Chip (SoC) architecture powering the Mac, delivering industry-leading performance per watt.
Argus is a real-time AI security layer that enforces adaptive guardrails and governance policies during model inference.
A high-efficiency transformer architecture optimized for real-time edge inference and reduced memory overhead.
Flash was a dominant multimedia software platform (Macromedia, then Adobe) used for creating vector graphics, animation, and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), officially discontinued on December 31, 2020.
Autonomous software systems that use reinforcement learning and natural language to navigate, strategize, and master complex virtual environments.
Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.
Gemma is Google DeepMind's family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models, built on the same core technology as the Gemini series.
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Last updated: August 2026
