AI Tinkerers - AI Builder Meetup & Live Demos with Dropbox
Curious what other AI Tinkerers have been shipping? Come to the next AI Tinkerers LA meetup on October 1st, by the beach in Venice. This is a high-trust room where active engineers, founders, and researchers share working code, architecture deep-dives, and hard-won lessons from the frontier of generative AI.
What to Expect: Real Builds. Real Constraints.
AI Tinkerers is selective by design. We filter the hype to protect builders, focusing only on signal.
Demos > Decks: Presentations are short (~5 minutes) and must focus on implementation details, architecture, workflow graphs, and context engineering setups. No product pitches or slideware handwaving.
Technical, Not Theoretical: Show us what broke, what trade-offs you made (e.g., MoE vs. dense models, inference speed vs. cost), and how you debugged your agentic workflows.
A High-Trust Room: We encourage early-stage hacks, messy experiments, and novel approaches. The value is in the candid technical lesson learned, not production readiness.
Submit Your Demo Proposal
We are actively seeking builders to share their work. Priority will be given to demos showing working demos, and have some sort of take away insight that you learned along the way!
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?”
Submit Your Demo Proposal Here
Logistics and Curation
Space is highly selective and limited to 50 active builders to ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio. Every attendee is screened to maintain a builder-to-builder environment.
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Venice, Los Angeles (specific venue address provided upon acceptance)
Registration: Requires providing an email and links to your GitHub, LinkedIn, or Twitter profile for technical verification.
Sponsors
Dropbox is one place to keep life organized and keep work moving. With more than 700 million registered users across 180 countries, we’re on a mission to design a more enlightened way of working.
Dropboxers are curious, resourceful, and driven to shape the future of work through experimentation, craft, and community. We invest in employee development, well-being, and potential so they can do their best work and thrive personally and professionally. Together, we’re building tools and experiences that make work simpler, more joyful, and more human for millions of people worldwide.
For more information on our mission and products, visit dropbox.com. To learn more about our career opportunities, visit dropbox.jobs.
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Partnership Opportunities
We are currently seeking technical partners who want to support the LA builder community. Sponsors participate by enabling builders (credits, access, experts), not by marketing. If your brand ships technology that accelerates builders, we invite you to partner with us.
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