AI Tinkerers Orange County: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at Centercode
Hands-On AI Implementation and Technical Show-and-Tell
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On Tuesday, July 21st, AI Tinkerers Orange County gathers at Centercode’s new HQ office in Orange County (new address to be provided) for an evening dedicated to the technical reality of building with foundation models and generative AI. This is a room for engineers, researchers, and technical founders who are moving beyond chat interfaces to deploy autonomous workflows, agentic systems, and custom LLM integrations.
🗓️ Event Details
Date: Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Centercode’s offices, Orange County, CA
Capacity: Limited to 50 practitioners
Agenda:
5:30 PM: Doors Open & Networking
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM: Community Demos & Q&A
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM: Networking, Science Fair & Technical Breakouts
8:00 PM: Wrap up, out
🛠 The Format: Demos, Not Decks
In keeping with the Homebrew Computer Club ethos, we prioritize live code and working systems over slide decks. We want to see the internals: your orchestration layers, prompt engineering strategies, and the hard-earned lessons from debugging agentic loops.
Demo Guidelines:
Show, Don’t Tell: Run your project live or walk through the implementation.
Expose the Internals: Share the configs, workflow graphs, and code.
Teach, Don’t Sell: Focus on the “how” behind the build, not a product pitch.
Venue Sponsor and Partner
Centercode - Centercode provides an end-to-end customer validation and user testing platform designed to help hardware, software, and IoT companies manage beta testing and dogfooding programs. Trusted by major global brands including Adobe, GoPro, Logitech, and Plantronics, Centercode leverages advanced testing tools, automated feedback triage, and proprietary AI User Testing Agents to help product managers, QA leads, and engineering teams resolve critical bugs and gather real-world insights before launching products.
Meetup Sponsors and Partners
Enterprise Technology Partners, a full service technology channel agency. Helping customers design, implement, and manage technology solutions in conjunction with our partners that include over 300 service providers. Thomas Spooner founded Enterprise Technology Partners in 2001. Since then, ETP has offered telecom and IT consulting to customers worldwide, helping customers realize benefits from the myriad of technologies available through our suppliers. ETP provides customers with a fast and cost effective way to engage experienced telecom industry professionals without requiring time consuming and expensive consulting arrangements.
Structured - Structured, a premier IT solutions provider, proudly sponsors the AI Tinkerers meetup. For over 30 years, they have excelled in bridging digital divides through secure, cloud-connected infrastructure and tailored IT strategies. Their unique blend of security expertise, cloud fluency, and digital infrastructure know-how positions them at the forefront of technological innovation. By supporting this meetup, they aim to foster the same spirit of creativity and problem-solving that drives their award-winning solutions, exploring AI’s potential in transforming businesses and tackling real-world challenges.
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