AI Tinkerers Quito - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

Best AI meetup in Quito for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Quito 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 Quito 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 Quito chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Quito 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 Quito chapter to get notified.

Local cadence

Recurring local AI meetups

Format

Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches

Audience

Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Quito for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Quito 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.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Quito

llama-cpp Agents: Local Search

Apr 24

Demostraré cómo crear agentes de búsqueda de alto rendimiento con inferencia LLM local usando llama-cpp-agents. Esta sesión de ...

Pablo Carrera Estrada Quito

llama llama-cpp-agents

Dolphin MCP: Cross-Provider Tools

Apr 24

This technical deep-dive demonstrates how Dolphin MCP enables seamless interaction with multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthrop...

Eric Hartford Quito

OpenAI API Anthropic API

SomosNPL

Apr 24

Professor and Researcher - Representante en Ecuador de SomosNPL

Speaker Quito

Python Jupyter notebook

Q-Learning for Inventory Optimization

Apr 24

This hands-on technical session demonstrates the implementation and practical application of Q-Learning in solving real-world i...

Sebastian Sarasti Quito

GPT-4 Llama-2

Scaling LLM Inference for Reasoning

Apr 24

implementations of how to go from LLMs to reasoning models, by scaling inference time compute on open source models. Implementi...

Jose Ignacio Naranjo Quito

PyTorch unsloth

QLoRA Fine-tuning AI Vtuber Identity

Apr 24

Can Identity be fine-tuned with QLoRA for an AI Vtuber? In this technical demonstration, I'll walk you through the step-by-step...

Danny Diaz Quito

Llama 3 QLoRA

Transformers para Daño Sísmico

Apr 24

Fue mi tema de tesis consistió en comparar arquitecturas tradicionales de redes neuronales convolucionales (CNN) con modelos ba...

Johana Belén Duchi Tipán Quito

PyTorch Python

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