AI Tinkerers Edmonton - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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AI Tinkerers Edmonton, September
Code-First, Live Demos @ AltaML
Wed 30th Sept, 530pm-8pm MT
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton (September)

Wednesday, September 30th 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a hands-on meetup focused on foundation models and generative AI, featuring technical demos and presentations on Postgres and data privacy, sponsored by altaml.

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Onsite at AltaML
Wed 29th July @ 5:30PM MT
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3 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton (July)

Wednesday, July 29th 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton held a hands-on meetup focused on foundation models and generative AI. The event featured live code demos and technical presentations.

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Onsite at AltaML
Wed 24th June, 5:30PM-8PM MT
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4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton (June)

Wednesday, June 24th 5:30PM to 8PM
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The AI Tinkerers group held an in-person meetup focused on foundation models and generative AI, featuring live demos and technical discussions.

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Wed 27th May
5:30 PM MT at Edmonton Unlimited
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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton: May 2026 Meetup

Wednesday, May 27th 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a hands-on meetup for builders, featuring demos and discussions on foundation models. Rob Kellington, Rudiney Casali, and Thomas Fung presented. Edmonton Unlimited sponsored the event.

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“AI Capital: Insights and Opinions from Canadian VCs”
Tue 19th May 2026
3:00 PM - 6:30PM MT
10130 103 St NW suite 2200, Edmonton, AB T5J 3N9, Canada
FEATURING INSIGHTS FROM LEADING CANADIAN VCS
Jesse Wiebe Founder & Executive Director at Canadian Startup Capital Association
Tim Lynn Co founder at Startup TNT
Jacques LaPointe Co-founder & Director at Metiquity Ventures
Marco Donadeo General Partner at Weave VC
Mark Mitchell General Partner & Co-founder at Weave VC
Yasmine Al-Hussein Investment Manager at Yaletown Partners
Join us for an engaging panel discussion with leading Canadian VCs on the future of AI, investing, and innovation.
Connect. Learn. Grow.
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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers x AltaML @ Upper Bound // AI Capital: Insights and Opinions from Canadian VCs

Tuesday, May 19th 3PM to 7:30PM
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AI Tinkerers and AltaML partnered for an in-person event exploring AI capital insights from Canadian VCs, featuring prominent industry speakers.

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TurboQuant, Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
Wed May 13th, 6PM- 7PM MT- Live in our discord channel
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AI TINKERERS - CALGARY
Online Meetup
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club: TurboQuant - Redefining AI Efficiency with Extreme Compression

Wednesday, May 13th 6PM to 7PM
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AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club discussed TurboQuant, a technique that achieved 6x KV cache compression and 8x speedup for AI models.

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Join the event in our discord server
Wed 15th April, 6:00 PM- 7:30 PM MT
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Online Meetup
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club: SAM 3 - Segment Anything with Concepts

Wednesday, April 15th 6PM to 7:30PM
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AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club explored SAM 3, focusing on concept-driven segmentation and temporal stability in video.

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Wed 25th March
5:30PM MT @ Edmonton Unlimited
AI TINKERERS EDMONTON
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7 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton: March 2026 Meetup

Wednesday, March 25th 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton held a hands-on meetup for builders, featuring talks on LLMs and AI, with demos and networking, sponsored by Edmonton Unlimited.

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Wed 25th Feb
5:30PM MT @ Edmonton Unlimited
AI TINKERERS-EDMONTON
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8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton Meetup – February 25, 2026

Wednesday, February 25th 5:30PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a hands-on, code-first meetup featuring live demos, networking, and technical discussions. The event highlighted speakers on synthetic data, surgical autonomy, and clinical AI, with support from Edmonton Unlimited.

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Wed 18th Feb, 6pm-730pm MT
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8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Alberta: Paper Club & Research Deep Dive (February 2026)

Wednesday, February 18th 6PM to 7:30PM
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AI Tinkerers Alberta hosted a virtual paper club for builders and researchers to discuss AI breakthroughs, focusing on implementation and architecture.

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Wed, 28th January
5:30PM MT @ Edmonton Unlimited
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9 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton Meetup – January 28, 2026

Wednesday, January 28th 5:30PM to 8PM
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Builders gathered for hands-on AI discussions featuring demos on social media search and multi-agent systems, supported by Edmonton Unlimited.

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Welcome to AI Tinkerers Edmonton!

October 13, 2025 · 2 minutes

AI Tinkerers Edmonton is an invite-only, code-first meetup series for builders working with foundation models and generative AI—expect live demos and deep-dive discussions. Join the Edmonton mailing list for event updates: https://example.com/ai-tinkerers-edmonton-mailing-list. Submit a speaker proposal: https://www.aitinkerers.org/submit-speaker-proposal.

Meet the Organizers

Adam D.

Best AI meetup in Edmonton for builders

AI Tinkerers Edmonton is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Edmonton 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 Edmonton chapter is part of a 271-city global network with 141,000+ 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 Edmonton chapter.

Be ambitious. Start with an idea. Bring a prototype. Work through the hard parts with builders in your city and around the world.

A typical AI Tinkerers Edmonton 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. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Edmonton chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
11 events in the last 12 months
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Edmonton for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Edmonton is the best AI meetup in Edmonton for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Edmonton 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.

What makes AI Tinkerers Edmonton different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Edmonton 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.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Edmonton chapter is part of a 271-city network with 141,000+ members worldwide.

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Last updated: October 2026