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AI Tinkerers Abu Dhabi - June 2026 Meetup
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🤖 🔥 Join us for the next Abu Dhabi meetup of AI Tinkerers! 🔥 🤖
We are gathering active builders, engineers, and researchers in the UAE to share raw code, dissect system architectures, and discuss technical challenges..
☝️☝️ Apply to attend above. We review and let in active builders. Once we hit capacity, the waitlist closes. ☝️☝️
What is AI Tinkerers?
AI Tinkerers is a premier global community of active builders, engineers, researchers, and creative technologists who are actively developing foundation models and generative AI applications. We prioritize hands-on technical depth and working code over high-level pitches.
Our meetups feature live, 20-minute technology demos, science fair exhibitions, and interactive discussions where presenters dive deep into their stacks, context-engineering setups, and agentic workflows. To maintain a high-signal, collaborative environment, we enforce a manual screening process for all attendees. Registration is based entirely on technical merit and active builder status aka active repos on Github.
Who is this for?
We screen attendance to active builders with a shared level of expertise to create a collaborative environment ideal for early-stage discovery and innovation.
| ✅ Welcome | 🚫 Not a fit |
|---|---|
| Engineers & researchers with live deployments | Investors scouting deals |
| Open-source contributors shipping agent stacks | Idea-stage founders hunting co-founders |
| Product teams debugging latency, evals, finetunes | Recruiters, marketers, consultants |
📅 Friday • June 19th, 2026 • 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Approved guests receive the exact venue and access details via email)
| Time | Program | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 6:30 PM | Doors Open | Settle in, set up your laptop, and connect with other builders. |
| 6:45 PM | Community Demos | Live, 20-minute technical show-and-tells. Strictly working code and demo, no slide decks. |
| 8:15 PM | Science Fair & Networking | Hands-on, decentralized technical walkthroughs and peer-to-peer discussions. |
| 9:00 PM | Doors Close | Wrap-up and departure. |
Demos, Not Decks: Submit Your Build
This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”
We are actively looking for presenters to cover what they built, how they built it, and what another builder can reuse or avoid. Think code, architecture, how one built what they built. Demos are strictly live code or deployments—no slide decks allowed, and no product pitches allowed for your company/startup.
Submit Your Demo Proposal Here
🥽 Speakers
Maestro: MCP Separation of Concerns
Ady Ngom
Founder @ Artist AI
Browser Agents for Data Entry
Yazan Risheh
AI Engineer @ AppliedAI
Simer: AI Developer Interviewing Platform
Simreen Siraj
Co-Founder @ Ampiere Labs
Obsidian Wiki Ingestion LLM Pipeline
Ashwin T
Senior Cloud Architect @ VentureOne
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🤝 Partner with the Builders
We maintain a selective sponsorship model: only brands that ship get in. If your company builds infrastructure, models, or tooling that accelerates the work of engineers and researchers, we should talk.
Learn more about partnership opportunities: Sponsor AI Tinkerers
AI Tinkerers Abu Dhabi Stats
- Attendees:
- Companies Represented: Regional AI powerhouses G42, TII, Presight AI, and M42, major platforms Noon and Yango, global players Amazon Web Services, Spotify, and Hugging Face, and specialized firms Innovaccer, Alef Education, Open Innovation AI, ScienceSoft, and Tahaluf, and more.
- Demos: A total of 17 demos have been submitted and 13 have been presented. The meetups have explored exciting themes and technical areas around AI-native products, agentic RAG, automation, data extraction, NL-to-data transformations, and real-time analytics, with shout-outs to Amir Houieh's AI-Native live coding, Enrico Rampazzo's PDF-automation, Yazan Risheh's AI WebScraper, Satyam Yadav's Copilots in UI Development, and Mohamed Yasser's BPMN diagram generator.
- Testimonials:
Fast FAQ
Why is there a screening process?
A builder-only room lets us share unpolished code, raw experiments, and candid failures. We screen for active technical involvement to keep the signal-to-noise ratio exceptionally high.
What are the requirements to get in?
You must provide proof of hands-on work with AI (such as an active GitHub profile with public repos, or Replit) showing projects where you work with foundation models or managed LLM services.
Are slides allowed during demos?
No. We have an absolute ban on slide decks. Presenters must showcase raw, working, or even buggy code and live deployments to demonstrate how they orchestrate models and data flows. Show architecture, sequence diagrams through markdown in your repo if needed to explain concepts.
Can I bring a non-technical guest?
No. Everyone in the room must apply and qualify on their own technical merits.