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AI Tinkerers Salt Lake City - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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AI Tinkerers - Salt Lake City: Meetup III

Tuesday, November 7th, 2023 6:30PM
Brad Romney Jeremy R Mumford Robert White Michael Atherton David Carter Spencer LaCouture John Calder

The in-person gathering featured rapid, code-first demonstrations on topics like RAG pipelines and designer tooling for practitioners building with foundation models.

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AI Tinkerers - Salt Lake City: Meetup Part Deux

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 6:30PM
Tyler Hiatt Jeremy Mumford Kohler Fryer Brad Romney Miriam Carter Gary Hanks David Carter Robert White Spencer LaCouture Adam Sutherland Max Forsey Travis Chase Jeffrey Hyer
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Practitioners gathered for a hands-on session focused on building with foundation models, sharing raw work-in-progress demos, and receiving peer feedback.

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⚡️AI Tinkerers - Salt Lake City: Inaugural Meetup

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 6:30PM
Kohler Fryer Brad Romney Mark Menatti Hailey Hawton Scott Christensen Miriam Carter Philip Huebner Robert White Gary Hanks Annie Peterson Landen Bailey Spencer LaCouture Joseph A Wecker John Calder Adam Gunn David Carter Tanner Hatch Alex Evans Nate Morrill Tyler Hiatt
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Practitioners gathered in person for the inaugural community meetup to share practical work, demos, and collaborate on foundation models and large language models.

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Seth Weidman Aaron Cooper

Best AI meetup in Salt Lake City for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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 Salt Lake City chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Salt Lake City 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. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Salt Lake City chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
Recurring local AI meetups
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
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Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Salt Lake City for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Last updated: June 2026