AI Tinkerers Ottawa Meetup — April 25th, 2026 [AI Tinkerers - Ottawa]
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AI Tinkerers Ottawa Meetup — April 25th, 2026

Apr
25
Saturday
Saturday, April 25th, 2026 • 2PM to 5PM (EDT)
1860 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
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Agenda
Time Activity
2:00 PM Doors open and networking
2:30 PM Welcome & orientation
2:35 PM Eric Chat demo
2:45 PM Networking
3:30 PM Demos
3:50 PM Networking
5:00 PM End

Call for demos

Submit a proposal. We welcome messy and unfinished projects. We want to hear about your technical insights and code.

Sponsor

Vennify is a consulting and development company owned by Eric Fillion. It specializes in helping companies leverage open-source AI models and also produces educational content on YouTube.

Organizer

Eric Fillion:
Eric is the lead maintainer of Happy Transformer which is a Python package for fine-tuning LLMs. He’s an active open-source AI developer and recently published three new Python packages related to LLMs. He enjoys sharing educational content about AI on his YouTube and Instagram accounts.

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