​age:AI Kitchener - 2026 Q3

​Part of Waterloo Tech Week

​📍 Builders Club, 165 King St W, Kitchener, ON

​🗓️ Monday, September 14, 2026

​⏰ Main event 5:30-8:30 PM + Networking

​AI Stations and networking to follow

​age:AI returns to Kitchener as part of Waterloo Tech Week. We make AI awareness accessible to everyone - no jargon, no hype, just the real shifts shaping the next five years, explored through hands-on demos, live debate, and a room full of people figuring it out together.

​The Automation of Automation. The tools we built to automate our work can now be built by AI itself. Rather than talk about that, we are going to do it live on stage - a zero-shot MCP build, start to finish, in front of the room.

​🧠 Discussion Topics

​We go deep on the stories most people missed:

​The Lost Generations • what the test scores and projections actually say about the multiple learning disruptions of the 2020s

​Talking with Animals • animal noises have vowels, and AI is decoding them. Do they have nice things to say about us?

​Birth of Wetware • you can now buy a computer made of living human neurons, and we can already reverse engineer insect brains.

​Running Out of Reality • the internet is a finite resource, and models are nearly through it

​The Faceless Kitchen • fully automated kitchens already cook better food at lower cost in humanless containers. The delivery apps are where you will meet them first.

​The Automation of Automation • the tools we built to automate our work can now be run by AI themselves. Let's speed run a zero-shot MCP together live.

​🎙️ Temp Check: The Whole Room Votes

​Four questions, two sides each, settled live on the night. There is no panel this time - everyone in the room votes from their own phone, and the results go up on the screen as they land.

​Most wasteful: Compute vs. Labor

​AI as friend: Good vs. Bad

​AI will: Save us vs. Kill us

​AI is a bubble? Yes vs. No

​Optimist, skeptic, or somewhere in between, you answer for yourself and you see where the room lands. Have a look at the questions 👉 ageai.io/vote/kitchener-2026-q3

​Plus interactive AI Stations and plenty of time to network with founders, builders, and the curious.

​Come for the ideas. Stay for the demos. Leave knowing what AI can actually do today.

​👉 Reserve your spot and explore everything at ageai.io/events/kitchener-2026-q3

​🤝 A Delegation from France

​We are joined this quarter by an international delegation, here with Waterloo EDC and Business France for Waterloo Tech Week. Sean Smith of Waterloo EDC opens, and Jean-Paul Mulot, Special Advisor to the Hauts-de-France Region, gives the address.

​🤖 Special Performance: Meet a Unitree Go2 Pro

​We've secured a live performance act featuring the Unitree Go2 Pro - an agile quadruped robot that walks, dances, and moves with startling precision. It's one thing to debate where robotics is headed; it's another to watch it trot across the room. Come see the future on four legs, up close.