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Builders gathered for an in-person hackathon focused on Conversational Agents. Teams collaborated on projects, presenting finalists for substantial prizes supported by ElevenLabs.
Engineers and practitioners gathered for hands-on demos and lightning talks focused on foundation models and large language models, supported by sponsor Cashfree Payments.
Builders focused on foundation models and LLM apps demoed work, shared learnings, and networked with peers and guests. E2ECloud sponsored GPU infrastructure support for the gathering.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on exchange, sharing work-in-progress demos and lightning talks. The event featured peer networking and support from sponsors VersionOne and E2ECloud.
Join a worldwide hackathon February 22–23 hosted by AI Tinkerers, ElevenLabs, and a16z. Apply at hackathon.elevenlabs.io. Compete in 7 hackathons across San Francisco, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Seoul, and Online with sponsors Lovable, Clerk, AI Tinkerers and prizes from Mistral, Vercel, Windsurf. Spaces are limited.
Practitioners shared messy demos and rapid learnings about foundation models in an in-person evening focused on collaboration, sponsored by Lightspeed India.
Practitioners building with LLMs shared work and demos at this focused, in-person meetup, which featured special guest drop-ins and was sponsored by Lightspeed India.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on sharing of foundation model and large language model work, including demos and engineering learnings, supported by Accel India.
Hands-on builders shared practical AI model experiments and received rapid feedback during the in-person gathering, which included expected special guest drop-ins and was sponsored by Accel in India.
Hands-on machine learning practitioners gathered to demo work in progress, share insights, and build collaborations, supported by Accel's sponsorship.
Best AI meetup in Bengaluru for builders
AI Tinkerers Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 112,000+ 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 Bengaluru chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Bengaluru is the best AI meetup in Bengaluru for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru chapter is part of a 231-city network with 112,000+ members worldwide.
"Keep organising such meet ups, it was great learning and networking with similar domain individuals"
"It was great, nothing to complain about. Please accommodate more demos so we can also participate."
"Demos. Loved the demos, and the Q&A based on those demos. Also the attendee registry, and match-ups. Loved that platform touchpoint."
"I am not a technical founder, so could not make sense of a lot of stuff. But I loved how Agam presented. Felt in control."
"Venue was amazing ~ finding the venue was a task"
"Ample time to network, good number of demos. Liked that it was 5 mins and MC held people to the time limit. Thanks for serving a delicious dinner"
"1. Go back to keeping separate sections for demo and networking with some partition (like done previously at accel and lightspeed ventures venues). 2. Morning on a weekend was awesome. Made it easier to attend."
"Demos were interesting, good setup overall with networking before and after the event."
"In general the format was good. Networking, demos and networking is a very good format"
"so far good, don't think any changes required yet"
Last updated: June 2026
