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AI Tinkerers Wellington hosted a demo night focused on LLMs and generative AI. Engineers, researchers, and founders shared practical implementations and code discussions, with support from Hnry.
AI Tinkerers Wellington held its inaugural technical meetup, featuring engineer-focused demos and networking. Creative HQ and OSS Group sponsored the event.
Best AI meetup in Wellington for builders
AI Tinkerers Wellington 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 Wellington chapter is part of a 268-city global network with 140,000+ 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 Wellington 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 Wellington 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 Wellington chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Wellington is the best AI meetup in Wellington for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Wellington 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 Wellington 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 Wellington chapter is part of a 268-city network with 140,000+ members worldwide.
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"Great event. Arrived late due to commitments but enjoyed it!"
"I really enjoyed participating; looking forward to another event in the future. I'm already thinking about more things that I'd like to share!"
"Really enjoyed this talk; not sure if you're just planning on doing this for your own kindy, but I think you probably have a viable business here if you wanted to scale this out."
"Clear and interesting. Very good talk, thank you!"
"I think it was a pretty good event, don't have any suggestions to improve."
Last updated: October 2026
