AI Tinkerers Louisville: Inaugural Meetup [AI Tinkerers - Louisville]
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AI Tinkerers Louisville: Inaugural Meetup

Jun
11
Thursday
Thursday, June 11th, 2026 • 6PM to 8PM (EDT)
FirstBuild
333 E Brandeis Ave, Louisville, KY
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Attendees include GE Appliances and LDG leaders, such as a Chief Digital Officer, a cloud director, and an AI solutions architect, with expertise spanning Oracle ERP, program management, cloud infrastructure, and multimodal AI platforms.

🤖🔥 Louisville’s first AI Tinkerers meetup 🔥🤖

We are bringing together the local community of builders who are actively shipping code and experimenting with foundation models. Join us to trade technical discoveries, share messy prototypes, and connect with peers who are deep in the stack.

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☝️☝️ Register today—space is limited and our events fill fast. ☝️☝️

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a global network for engineers, researchers, and developers—the “Homebrew Computer Club for AI.” We prioritize hands-on enablement and technical deep dives over high-level talks or product pitches. At our meetups, we:
  • Demo working code and live implementations.
  • Dissect technical decisions and architectural trade-offs.
  • Swap hard-won lessons regarding evals, latency, and agentic workflows.

If you are actively building with LLMs and generative AI, we want you in the room.

Q: Who is AI Tinkerers for?

We curate for practitioners who are rolling up their sleeves. Whether you are an engineer at a scale-up or a researcher working on open-source models, you must be able to pop the hood and discuss the implementation details.
✅ Welcome 🚫 Not a fit
Engineers & researchers shipping code Investors scouting deals
Open-source contributors Idea-stage founders hunting co-founders
Product teams debugging RAG/Agents Recruiters, marketers, or consultants

Full FAQ → https://aitinkerers.org/p/faq

📅 Thursday • June 11, 2026

FirstBuild: 333 E Brandeis Ave, Louisville, KY 40208
Time Program
6 : 00 PM Doors & check-in
6 : 15 PM Technical Demos
7 : 15 PM Builder-to-builder networking
8 : 00 PM Event concludes

🎙️ Call for Demos: Show Your Work

We are looking for 5-minute technical demos. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action.
  • No slides. Jump straight into code, a terminal, or a workflow graph.
  • No pitches. Focus on “How I built this,” not “Why you should buy this.”
  • Imperfection is welcome. We value raw, early-stage builds that teach us something new.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

🤖 Connect, Collaborate, and Create

This inaugural meetup is your chance to:
  • Showcase a project that sparks new ideas among peers.
  • Meet and collaborate with screened builders—every conversation starts at technical depth.
  • Learn fast from others wrestling with the same context-engineering or orchestration challenges.

🤝 Support the Community

We are looking for local partners to help grow the Louisville AI ecosystem. If your organization wants to support the local builder community and engage with technical talent, view our sponsorship opportunities here.

🚀 RSVP

Space is limited to 150 participants. We confirm applications based on technical context (GitHub, LinkedIn, or project descriptions) to maintain a high-trust, builder-only environment.

☝️☝️ Apply now—once we hit capacity, the wait-list closes. ☝️☝️

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