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HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
9 months ago

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
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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.

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Nov 29, 2025, 11:00 AM
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9 months ago

AI Tinkerers - Bengaluru - November meetup

Saturday, November 29th, 2025 11AM
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Engineers and practitioners gathered for hands-on demos and lightning talks focused on foundation models and large language models, supported by sponsor Cashfree Payments.

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May 29, 6:30PM-9:30PM IST
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about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Bengaluru - May Meetup

Thursday, May 29th, 2025 6:30PM to 9:30PM
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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.

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over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Bengaluru - March Meetup

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025 6:30PM
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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.

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almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Bangalore - October - RSVP REQUIRED

Thursday, October 17th, 2024 6PM to 9PM
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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.

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about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Bangalore - August - RSVP REQUIRED

Thursday, August 8th, 2024 6PM
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Technical practitioners gathered for hands-on demonstrations and lightning talks focused on real Large Language Model work, with special guest appearances and sponsorship from Accel India.

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about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers - Bangalore Inaugural - RSVP REQUIRED

Sunday, June 2nd, 2024 12PM
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The inaugural gathering connected builders for hands-on demonstrations of large language model and generative artificial intelligence work, featuring peer feedback and special guest appearances, sponsored by Accel in India.

Meet the Organizers

Varun Aditi Dhiren PRATHAM

Best AI meetup in Bengaluru for builders

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

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 253-city global network with 124,000+ 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.

Local cadence
2 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Bengaluru for hands-on builders

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.

What makes AI Tinkerers Bengaluru different from other AI meetups?

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.

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 Bengaluru chapter is part of a 253-city network with 124,000+ members worldwide.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Bengaluru

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AI and DFD System Design
Nov 29
After nearly two decades of building systems, I can tell you that Data Flow Diagrams or Level 0 diagrams only look simple—until...
Priyanka Bengaluru
GPT-4 Llama-2
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Google ADK: Debugging to PR
Nov 29
At Oodle AI, we are reimagining Observability with the help of Agentic AI workflows. In this talk, I will go over: 1. Our appro...
Gaurav Bengaluru
GPT-4 Claude-3
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Open GraphReader
Nov 29
This session presents a practical and production-focused implementation of a GraphRAG architecture that transforms long, comple...
Soumya Ranjan Bengaluru
GPT-4 LangChain
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Temporal DeepRAG Conversational Workflows
Nov 29
We built a long running Temporal workflow based solution to build conversational agents, that allows you to have multi turn con...
Dushyant Bengaluru
Temporal Python
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Diwadi: Smart Folders and Offline AI
Nov 29
Diwadi.com is a desktop app. You can have smart triggers for your folder. One can create files like pptx, csv, etc using AI. It...
Vysakh Bengaluru
Rust React
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Cashfree: Deterministic AI Payments
Nov 29
We’ll present how Cashfree is using AI to automate complex payment flows, and the technical systems that make these AI-driven a...
Mayank Bengaluru
OpenAI LiteLLM
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Composio MCP: Tools for Agents
Mar 4
A new addition to Composio - an MCP server that packages any number of tools and apps regardless of their MCP servers being ava...
Siddharth Bengaluru
Composio MCP
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Bodhi App: Local LLMs
Mar 4
Bodhi App allows you to run LLMs locally, saving you cost and giving you complete privacy for your data. Whereas ollama gives y...
Amir Bengaluru
Bodhi App Ollama
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Hitchcock Multi-Agent System
Mar 4
I'll walk through my design process, architecture, best practices and how I built the multi agent system powering Hitchcock.
Jayesh Bengaluru
Mahilo Python
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Oodle AI: Alert Creation & Debugging
Mar 4
At Oodle AI, we have been tinkering with AI in the space of Observability. I would like to present our recent work of using LLM...
Gaurav Bengaluru
LangChain Python
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Open Source Multi-Agent Testing
Mar 4
Modern test automation tools face two key challenges: Complexity: Non-technical teams struggle with existing tools. Maintenance...
Robin Bengaluru
AG2 Python
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Odin: Reproducible AI Execution
Jan 23
Imagine a world where AI agents can execute code without fighting dependency hell or system configurations. At Valkyrie, we're ...
Deepak Bengaluru
Nix Odin

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Last updated: August 2026