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AI Tinkerers will host a global hackathon focused on building integrated agents, supported by sponsors including OpenAI.
AI Tinkerers Dublin will explore agentic workflows with Notion, discussing how humans, agents, and systems of record will rebuild products. Notion sponsors this event.
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AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a technical demo night showcasing practical LLM, agent, and generative AI builds. Kiro sponsored the event for active practitioners.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a technical demo night where practitioners showcased generative AI projects. Toast sponsored the event, which focused on hands-on enablement and technical deep dives.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a deep dive demo night featuring a talk on reinforcement learning in LLMs and community showcases, sponsored by Fin.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a deep dive on research agents with Exa, fostering collaboration among AI practitioners and showcasing community projects, supported by Exa and Baseline.
AI Tinkerers Dublin held an Agentic Architect Hackathon. Participants learned to build autonomous agentic workflows using Lyzr AI's low-code framework, sponsored by Lyzr AI and Baseline.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a technical demo night where practitioners shared generative AI and foundation model builds. Intercom sponsored the event, showcasing their AI Agent, Fin.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for active LLM and generative AI builders. The event featured community demos and networking, with sponsor support from LangChain.
The AI Tinkerers - Dublin hosted an in-person hackathon focused on OpenClaw. Alessandro Cuppari organized the event.
AI Tinkerers – 26 January Demo Recordings: five talks from Kevin Callan, Tiernan Haugh, Volodymyr Rosinskyi, Ivo Garais, and Andriy Babiy; each talk is recorded (YouTube embeds) for easy viewing and discussion.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted builders of foundation models and generative AI. The event fostered community connections and showcased in-progress work, supported by Supabase.
Builders convened for an in-person sprint to prototype conversational agents, competing for a significant prize pool with support from sponsors like Stripe.
AI Tinkerers hosted a builder day for AI professionals. Participants engaged in hands-on building and experimentation, with support from Windsurf and Give(a)Go.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted a rapid hackathon where participants built AI tools using V0 and Vercel, with winners receiving V0 credits and Vercel Pro, sponsored by Vercel.
The AI Tinkerers Dublin celebrated its anniversary with a hands-on, builder-focused meetup featuring live demos and peer learning, sponsored by Coso.ai and Baseline.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for AI builders. The event featured community demos and a technical dive by ElevenLabs, supported by ElevenLabs and Supabase.
AgentForge Hackathon (Dublin, 7 June 2025) ran 12 hours with 23 people across 8 teams, shipping 6 live agentic assistants by 19:00—no pitch decks, just demos. Winners: Aldan Creo, Redactyls, Yappers. Full demo videos are linked; thanks to LangChain, Couchbase, Nebius, and Baseline.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for AI builders. The event featured community demos and networking, with food and drinks provided by sponsors ElevenLabs and Supabase.
The AI Tinkerers community hosted a hackathon focused on crafting intelligent assistants.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for active builders in foundation models and generative AI. Community demos and networking were featured, with sponsor Intercom providing food and drinks.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for builders of foundation models and generative AI, featuring community demos and networking, sponsored by Groq.
AI Tinkerers Dublin hosted an in-person meetup for LLM and generative AI builders. The event featured community demos and networking, supported by AI Crush conference.
The in-person gathering connected Dublin's generative-AI builders for short work-in-progress demonstrations and technical conversation, supported by Nebius showcasing GPU infrastructure.
The inaugural practitioner-focused meetup gathered builders of large language models and generative AI for hands-on demos and networking, supported by Broadridge Ireland.
Best AI meetup in Dublin for builders
AI Tinkerers Dublin 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 Dublin chapter is part of a 260-city global network with 127,000+ 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 Dublin chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Dublin 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 Dublin chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Dublin is the best AI meetup in Dublin for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Dublin 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 Dublin 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 Dublin chapter is part of a 260-city network with 127,000+ members worldwide.
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"Atmosphere and vibe were great. Would be happy to come again and see more demos. My personal preference is (much) shorter presentations and/or specific 'workshop' style engagements."
"Angelo's opening talk was highly insightful, and it's great to have representatives from companies like Eleven Labs sharing the development of their products"
"It would be more great if the presenters could provide a lil bit background about any topic rather than directly addressing the findings"
"Knowledge sharing, when possible, is always great. Would be awesome to have folks share their in-depth research insights - again, within limitations."
"Fireside format is good with high quality speakers and a great MC, which we had tonight."
"Keep up the excellent work. You are helping to remove the divide between technology and art which will help all of us."
"Spent too much time side tracking on chitchat could focus more would have loved to see more of the tool in action"
"Keep organizing those events and don't lower the barrier for the entry. That's one of the most valuable things. The people that I've met were actually builders and they were serious."
"welcomeing friendly space and i loved the ambient music. nice chilled vibe with friendly & open participants."
"interactive coding events are great. I learned a lot about what could be done in a short period and some new tips and tricks."
Last updated: September 2026
