AI Events in Edmonton | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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Wed 27th May
5:30 PM MT at Edmonton Unlimited
AI TINKERERS - EDMONTON
Suer Nintendo
Meetup
8 days ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton: May 2026 Meetup

Wednesday, May 27th 5:30PM to 8PM
Nathan Holt Janukan Sivajeyan Ali Rafiei Peter Friedrich Trevor Germain Kyle Bergum Sean DeWitt Rudiney Casali JUSTIN VUNG Matt Parker Shenyi Bao
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a hands-on, code-first meetup for generative AI builders, featuring live demos and technical deep dives. Edmonton Unlimited sponsored the event.

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An Upper Bound Community Event
Brought to you by AI Tinkerers & AltaML
Tuesday 19th May 2026, 3:00 PM to 6:15 PM (MT)
AltaML Office, 10130 103 St NW suite 2200, Edmonton, AB T5J 3N9, Canada
Meetup
16 days ago

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

Tuesday, May 19th 3PM to 7:30PM
Adam Delgado Sahar Tahir Nick Marchant Zack Storms Aarthi Velusamy Bhavithra Suruliyandi Selvakumar Usman Ava Niaki Mitchell McCaig Danyelle Bernier Ryan de Gans Pauline Allen Trevor Germain Hajar Ben dahou Elliot Arledge Jocelyn Morsky Brooks Tanner Kara Orr Jaeyeon Jo Sara Mohajerani
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AI Tinkerers and AltaML hosted an in-person event on Canadian AI venture capital, featuring insights from prominent investors and networking opportunities.

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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
22 days ago

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

Wednesday, May 13th 6PM to 7PM
Matt Cymerman Priyal doshi Shenyi Bao
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The AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club discussed TurboQuant, a Google Research breakthrough achieving extreme AI compression and speedup.

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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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AI TINKERERS - EDMONTON
Online Meetup
about 2 months ago

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

Wednesday, April 15th 6PM to 7:30PM
Nawshad Farruque Aarthi Velusamy Matt Cymerman Ken Bainey Yunus Said
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AI Tinkerers Alberta Paper Club held a technical deep dive on SAM 3, exploring its vision-language integration and video segmentation capabilities.

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

AI Tinkerers Edmonton: March 2026 Meetup

Wednesday, March 25th 5:30PM to 8PM
Siddhartha Chitrakar ISHIKA PATEL Ruban Gino Singh Arul Peppin Raj Aniket Sharma Kalyana Abenanth Gurunathan Janukan Sivajeyan Iseoluwatobi Agbola Afraz Khan Suwaid Khan Usman Amjad Sam Rawluk Madhav Gupta Favour Oyende Rob Kellington Steven Watkins Anurag Jain Aditya Shahi Mostafa Yadegari Thomas Fung MAYANK KHANDELWAL
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a code-first meetup for generative AI practitioners. Speakers explored LLMs as parsers and verifier-guided post-training.

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

AI Tinkerers Edmonton Meetup – February 25, 2026

Wednesday, February 25th 5:30PM to 8PM
Dorna Sabet Kevin Jing Ruth Orekogbe Anurag Jain Yuezhen Gao Kashish Gupta Rudiney Casali Jannatul Mourey Saumil Srivastava Aarthi Velusamy Vishal Sivakumar Mostafa Yadegari Thomas Fung Pallavi Srivastava Parthipan (Pat) Ganesan Yash Mouje Saahil Rachh Jainam shah Arsham Sarshogh Steven Watkins
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AI Tinkerers Edmonton hosted a code-first meetup with live generative AI project demos from Rumaiza Norova, Maryam Mirzaei, and Tanya Joon, supported by Edmonton Unlimited.

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Join the event in our discord server
Wed 18th Feb, 6pm-730pm MT
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AI TINKERERS - CALGARY
Online Meetup
4 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. The session focused on implementing foundation models and agentic systems, supported by Discord.

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Wed, 28th January
5:30PM MT @ Edmonton Unlimited
AI TINKERERS-EDMONTON
Meetup
4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Edmonton Meetup – January 28, 2026

Wednesday, January 28th 5:30PM to 8PM
Hadi Rouhani Grace Mullane Vishwajeet Ohal Anahita Sadeghian Tanya Joon Erturk Ocak Samar Abbas DING HUANG Sumrah fatima Koushik Sivarama Krishnan Misbah Ahmed Nauman Vishal Subramanian Balashankar Saumil Srivastava Eloise Zhao Karanjot Singh Mehrdad Essam Gouda Nafisa Sadaf Hriti Vinoth Babu Aarthi Velusamy
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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 a global, invite-only, code-first community for foundation models and generative AI. Join Edmonton mailing list for updates (time/date/location to be announced): https://example.com/ai-tinkerers-edmonton-mailing-list. Submit speaker proposals (include project, demos, learnings, contact details) at https://www.aitinkerers.org/submit-speaker-proposal; screening: What is your experience with AI tinkering or ML? Sponsors: https://www.aitinkerers.org/sponsors.

Meet the Organizers

Adam Delgado

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 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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.

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
8 recent events
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 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Edmonton

Python

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

Conformal Prediction

A rigorous framework for quantifying uncertainty in machine learning by producing prediction sets with guaranteed coverage.

Gemini

Google's natively multimodal AI model: understands and operates across text, code, audio, image, and video.

Jupyter

The open-source platform for interactive, multi-language computational notebooks, blending live code, data, and narrative text.

Large Language Model

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transformer-based neural networks, trained on massive text data, that predict and generate human-quality language and code.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL (Postgres): The world's most advanced, open-source object-relational database (ORDBMS), built for reliability and extensibility.

React

React is an open-source JavaScript library for building dynamic user interfaces (UIs).

Torch

The original open-source scientific computing framework and machine learning library (LuaJIT-based), directly preceding and influencing PyTorch.

TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.

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Last updated: June 2026