AI Friends Meetup
Join us for an exciting evening where innovation meets community at the AI Friends Meetup: Startup Projects Demo & Networking Night! This event brings together Toronto’s AI builders, startup founders, and tech enthusiasts for a night of live demos, collaborative conversations, and authentic connections.
Demos:
Nisten - Fullstack opensource LLM development workflows
Zlad & Ayesha - planmyfun.app, a smart social planner
Ezra Dey - emote.ai - Augmented self awareness
Joshua - A RAG app with voice input, hybrid retrieval, and LLM responses
Marc - Digital Discoverability in the Post-Blue Link Era
OGAGA - Layra-your personal figma agent
Curtis Collicutt - Raillock - Security for MCPs
Evan Simpson - LEO, a realtime AI-enabled character who is aware of the voice, image, emotion and content of the audience and built with a distinctive personality, converses with audiences about topics around art and creativity.
Samit Khalsa - Agentic Learning in Penseum with a multimodal, bite‑sized flow that turns any material into short videos, text snippets, 3D models, and voice‑led sessions.
Meysam - Data engineering AI native app
If you are interested in demoing an interesting AI project, feel free to email with your Name + 1 liner about your demo: me@damidina.com
We are also looking for sponsors interested in helping with the event.
What to Expect:
Get a front-row look at cutting-edge AI applications in variety of areas. Each startup will showcase their solution and share the story behind their build — from the tech stack to the impact they hope to make.
Why Attend?
Whether you're an investor, founder, engineer, or curious about AI, this is your chance to:
Discover emerging AI startups
Engage directly with the teams building them
Explore collaboration or investment opportunities
Expand your network with fellow AI enthusiasts
🌐 Let’s Build the AI Community Together
This event is more than a demo night — it’s a hub for building meaningful relationships and sparking new ideas. Be part of Toronto’s growing AI ecosystem and continue the conversation through the AI Friends Slack Community after the event.
Join the AI Friends slack: https://join.slack.com/t/ai-friendsworkspace/shared_invite/zt-2yidhr4c3-NS0tvkBcBoOJ7ahacJuTYA
Sincere thank you to our sponsor partners supporting with food on site! Their contribution means hugely for what we are building for the community.
Ada
Ada is an AI customer service company on a mission to make customer service extraordinary for everyone. Its AI platform helps enterprise brands deliver experiences people love - while reducing costs and driving ancillary revenue. Since 2016, Ada has powered over 5.5 billion interactions for companies like Square, YETI, and Monday.com, saving millions of hours.
ShadeSec
ShadeSec is proud to support tonight’s meetup and engage with Toronto’s vibrant AI community. Represented by Anouar Mansour, they’re here with two goals: to connect with builders working on cybersecurity solutions, and to better understand the security challenges that local startups are currently facing.
If you’re developing in the cybersecurity space or tackling security issues within your startup, Anouar would love to connect and chat.
Contact Anouar:
• anouar@shadesec.com
• Twitter/X
Big thanks to ShadeSec for their support in helping grow this community!
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