AI Tinkerers Paris held a technical deep dive on local AI development and deployment, featuring the ThinkStation PGX, with support from Lenovo and NVIDIA.
The OpenClaw Sprint fostered collaboration among elite builders creating autonomous agents, with sponsors Aleph Studios and Schoolab supporting the initiative.
The global unhackathon focused on building OpenClaw and ClawdBot projects, prioritizing code shipping over presentations. It was supported by AI heavyweights.
Builders convened for an in-person, one-night sprint focused on advancing Conversational Agents. Participants prototyped agents and tooling with a large prize pool, supported by sponsors like Stripe.
AI Tinkerers - Paris hosted a meetup on turning knowledge into LLM APIs. Neo4j presented, and lightning talks showcased MCP integrations. Sponsors included Neo4j and Generation AI.
AI Tinkerers - Paris hosted a hackathon focused on building LLM-ready APIs with GraphRAG, supported by Speechmatics, Apidays, Neo4j, and Scalingo.
AI Tinkerers hosted a hackathon at Station F, challenging participants to build "one-person unicorns" using AI agents. Sponsors included Google and Mistral AI.
AI Tinkerers hosted an exclusive VIP dinner for founders and engineers to foster technical exchange and networking around Cloud AI, with support from Accel.
AI Tinkerers hosted a hackathon where participants built multimodal AI agents, leveraging Google Cloud Run and NVIDIA GPUs, with support from Google, Raise, and Mistral AI.
AI builders participated in a hybrid hackathon focused on multimodal search AI, developing prototypes with support from SerpApi, Algolia, and Scalingo.
Best AI meetup in Paris for builders
AI Tinkerers Paris 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 Paris 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 Paris chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Paris 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. The next event is Hackathon IA Agentique : (GDG + Alumni) x EPITA on June 17, 2026. Subscribe to the Paris chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Paris is the best AI meetup in Paris for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Paris 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.
AI Tinkerers Paris 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.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Paris chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.
Docker is the open-source platform that packages applications and dependencies into standardized, portable containers for consistent execution across any environment.
MCP is the open-source standard for securely connecting AI agents (like LLMs) to external tools, data, and enterprise workflows.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the application-layer protocol driving all web data exchange: It dictates the client-server request-response cycle using specific methods (e.g., GET, POST) and status codes (e.g., 200, 404).
Neo4j is the world's leading native graph database, purpose-built for high-performance management and traversal of connected data.
Autonomous software systems that leverage LLMs to reason, plan, and execute complex, multi-step goals across external tools and data sources.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are deep learning models, built on the Transformer architecture, that process and generate human-quality text and code at scale.
YAML (YAML Ain't Markup Language) is a human-friendly data serialization language prioritizing readability and ease of use.
OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) model: a conversational AI chatbot for instant text generation, coding assistance, and complex problem-solving.
Docker Agents execute containerized workloads across CI/CD pipelines to ensure environment parity from dev to production.
"It was very engaging and I loved the Maths being the floating points explanations and it's impact on choosing hardware"
"The size of the room was perfect for our unhackathon format with the possibility to use the rest of floor for group sessions"
"Thank you for keeping it short and focused. The international community will love it. It's great reducing the delay from 4 to 1 minute."
"The people and the energy. Loved how open and curious everyone was. The theme around decentralized AI was super inspiring too."
"Hackathons, please is a really good moment and is great to connect with amazing people"
"You dropped the "midway break" for people interactions. In most meetups, many people leave at the end. It was a great asset. You've been doing it for a while. Why did it stop ?"
"Tease the crowd up (even more). I love the intro of Jo the founder, I had the feeling that something was happening with the community of AI you are building"
"Thanks to the organizers as they did their best and things were not easy to handle"
"It would be great to be able to record from the google meet link automatically generated"
"Having different type of mentors represented during the whole process is really great!"
Last updated: June 2026
