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

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AI Tinkerers Nashville — November Builders Meetup

Thursday, November 19th 5PM to 8PM

AI Tinkerers Nashville will host a technical show-and-tell featuring AI demos and Q&A. Vaco will sponsor the venue and refreshments.

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20 days ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville: Skills, Memory, and AI "Second Brains"

Tuesday, September 29th 5PM to 8PM
+35

AI Tinkerers Nashville explored skills, memory, and AI "second brains" with technical talks and demos, sponsored by Vaco.

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A futuristic promotional banner featuring a smiling white humanoid robot giving a thumbs-up in an office, accompanied by holographic code displays and event details.. Text: AI TINKERERS July 21 SYSTEM OVERVIEW PROJECT OUTPUT BUILDING: FOLLOWING VIBE: STARSHIP import random def vibe_code(): ideas = ["ship", "forest", "robot", "sunset"] vibe = random.choice(ideas) return f"Building {vibe}..." while True: code = vibe_code() print(code) if 'ship' in code: break TINKER-01
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3 months ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville: Building AI Products that Matter

Tuesday, July 21st 5PM to 8PM
+45

AI Tinkerers Nashville gathered AI practitioners for a "demos first" event focused on building production-ready AI products. Attendees shared technical insights and received peer feedback.

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A promotional image for an event called 'AI Tinkerers' featuring a smiling man integrated with futuristic cybernetic machinery giving a thumbs-up.. Text: AI TINKERERS May 21 import random def vibe_code(): ideas = ["ship", "forest", "robot", "sunset"] vibe = random.choice(ideas) return f"Building {vibe}..." while True: code = vibe_code() print(code) # Ship it if "ship" in code: break SYSTEM OVERRIDE CODE OUTPUT BUILDING POO11MAX51 VIBE... VIBE.CODE()
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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville: OpenClaw, Hermes, and Personal Assistants

Thursday, May 21st 5PM to 8PM
+45

AI Tinkerers Nashville hosted a technical deep dive on OpenClaw, Hermes, and personal assistants, featuring demos and code walkthroughs. Vaco sponsored the event.

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7 months ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville – Software Development in the Age of AI

Wednesday, March 25th 5PM to 8PM
+78

AI Tinkerers Nashville explored advanced AI coding, agentic frameworks, and spec-driven development. The event featured technical demos and networking, with sponsorship from the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and Qyoob.

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9 months ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville – January 29th, 2026: Live Demos, Code, and Architecture

Thursday, January 29th 5PM to 8PM
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AI Tinkerers Nashville hosted an in-person event featuring live AI demos, code, and architecture discussions. The gathering emphasized practical implementation and builder networking, sponsored by The Lighthouse.

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12 months ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville – October 28th, 2025

Tuesday, October 28th, 2025 5:30PM
+47

Experienced builders demoed LLM and generative AI work, shared learnings, and networked. Food and drinks were provided.

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HACKATHON
about 1 year ago

LIGHTSPEED: A startup hackathon (powered by AI Tinkerers & the Lighthouse)

Friday, September 5th, 2025 5PM
+148

Teams sprinted for 48 hours to launch working prototypes for startup challenges, receiving mentorship and competing for $5,000 in prizes, supported by sponsors.

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over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville – June 23rd, 2025

Monday, June 23rd, 2025 5PM
+64

The practitioner-only meetup focused on LLMs and generative AI featured hands-on demos and candid collaboration, sponsored by Memex.

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AI Tinkerers Nashville – April 9th, 2025
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over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Nashville – April 9th, 2025

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 5PM
+78

The inaugural technical meetup offered live demonstrations and short talks for builders focused on foundation models and large language model applications, supported by Vaco.

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Meet the Organizers

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Best AI meetup in Nashville for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Nashville 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 Nashville chapter is part of a 268-city global network with 139,000+ 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 Nashville chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Nashville 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. The next event is AI Tinkerers Nashville — November Builders Meetup on November 19, 2026. Subscribe to the Nashville chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
November 19, 2026
Local cadence
6 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Nashville for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Nashville is the best AI meetup in Nashville for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Nashville 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 Nashville different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Nashville 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 Nashville chapter is part of a 268-city network with 139,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Nashville

DeepSeek API

Access DeepSeek's high-performance LLMs, including the DeepSeek-V3 (deepseek-chat) and DeepSeek-R1 (deepseek-reasoner) models, via a robust, OpenAI-compatible RESTful API. Recent talks: An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent] (May 21, 2026)

Hermes

Hermes is an open-source JavaScript engine optimized for fast-start React Native applications on mobile platforms. Recent talks: An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent] (May 21, 2026)

opengrep

An ultra-fast, community-governed static analysis engine for finding security issues and code patterns without vendor lock-in. Recent talks: An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent] (May 21, 2026)

TrueNAS

TrueNAS is an open-source, enterprise-grade data storage platform powered by OpenZFS that delivers self-healing file, block, and object services. Recent talks: An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent] (May 21, 2026)

TruffleHog

TruffleHog is an open-source secrets scanner that hunts down and automatically verifies leaked credentials across your entire development lifecycle. Recent talks: An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent] (May 21, 2026)

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Nashville

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What Would (A)I Have to Lose? Finally Building Johnny 5
Sep 29
John I. Nashville
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Jason's Brain in an AI
Sep 29
Matt E. Nashville
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Linting an AI Second Brain Built from Markdown Folders
Sep 29
Ian T. Nashville
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World's Shortest AI Unconference?
Sep 29
John B. Nashville
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The version of your product I wish I had
Jul 21
Hunter P. Nashville
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One Record, Many Bells: durable, injection-resistant agent-to-agent c…
Jul 21
Ethan P. Nashville
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Empathetic Appointment Scheduling Assistant
Jul 21
Abhishek S. Nashville
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Endexia Local AI Edge Device
Jul 21
Bryant W. Nashville
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Personal projects with OpenClaw
May 21
Dan D. Nashville
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Building a System That Knows Why It Changed
May 21
Sean C. Nashville
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Introduction of Lumio
May 21
Hem T. Nashville
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An AI Roomba to Keep Your Homelab Tidy [Hermes Agent]
May 21
Michael P. Nashville
Hermes DeepSeek API

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Last updated: October 2026

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