🛠️ Containerized Intelligence: A Lightning Talk Evening

On April 21, 2026, AI Tinkerers Paris is teaming up with Docker to kick off the Devoxx week with a high-density evening of technical demonstrations. We are moving past the hype of autonomous agents and focusing on the infrastructure, orchestration, and local execution patterns that make them reliable.

This session, powered by GitGuardian, follows a fast-paced lightning talk format: 10-minute deep dives followed by 5 minutes of technical Q&A. We are prioritizing code, architecture diagrams, and live terminal sessions over slide decks.

🎙️ Featured Technical Sessions

We have curated three exclusive deep dives from the teams behind the upcoming Docker talks at Devoxx.

• Docker Agent: Simplifying AI Agent Creation
  David Gageot and Djordje Lukic will demonstrate how to streamline the lifecycle of an AI agent using Docker-native patterns.

• Docker Sandboxes
  Guillaume Lours will show how to use Docker Sandboxes to run agents freely and safely.

• Compose & Dragons: Tiny Language Models in Action
  Philippe Charrière explores agentic role-play powered by local, high-efficiency tiny language models.

⚡ Submit Your Lightning Talk Proposal

Do you have a working experiment involving Docker, AI agents, or containerized developer tools? We are looking for a few additional high-signal lightning talks.

The bar is simple: Show, Don’t Tell. Skip the product pitch and show us the code, the prompt engineering strategies, or the orchestration logic you are currently using to solve technical challenges.

Submit Your Talk Proposal Here

🕕 Schedule

• 6:30 PM: Doors Open & Initial Networking
• 7:00 PM: Lightning Talks & Q&A (3 x 15-minute blocks)
• 7:45 PM: Science Fair & Deep-Dive Networking
• 9:00 PM: Event Wrap-up

🥽 Who Should Attend

This event is strictly for active engineers, researchers, and technical founders. Attendance is limited to practitioners who can contribute to deep-dive discussions on model inference, tool-calling, and agentic loops. Because our events are popular and space is limited, all applicants are screened to ensure a high signal-to-noise ratio for the community.

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AI Tinkerers - Paris

AI Tinkerers - Paris

AI Tinkerers - Paris

AI Tinkerers - Paris

AI Tinkerers - Paris

AI Tinkerers - Paris

Sponsor

Docker helps developers conquer the complexity of app development by providing an open platform to develop, ship, and run applications anywhere. With a focus on agentic AI, Docker is the easiest way to build, run, and secure agents, allowing you to run agents freely and safely.

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AI Tinkerers Paris Stats

• Attendees: This exclusive community of 4,082 subscribers comprises elite technical professionals, with 42% specializing in AI/ML research, 31% in full-stack software engineering, and 27% in technical leadership. Members possess deep expertise in PyTorch, LLMs, and agentic architectures. Notably, the group features prominent open-source maintainers from Hugging Face and graduates from top-tier institutions like École Polytechnique.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Meta, and Microsoft, alongside open-source and AI leaders such as Hugging Face, Mistral AI, LangWatch, and Black Forest Labs, and innovative startups like ElevenLabs, Docker, Datadog, Algolia, and Zoom, and more
• Demos: Across 130 submissions, 83 demos have been presented at AI Tinkerers - Paris. The most exciting themes have focused on agentic production workflows, knowledge-graph-driven reasoning (GraphRAG/context graphs), and system architectures for scalable, reliable deployments. Technically, structured outputs and tool/function calling, cost/latency reductions, eval/benchmarking, and multimodal/local execution have been repeatedly explored.
• Testimonials:

  “Overall, it was high-quality content and it made me want to come back for the next ones!”

  — Product manager, AI community

  “Great organization, partners and food! Lovely folks and good industry insights”

  — ML engineer, happtiq

  “It was all really good...”

  — AI engineer, finance

  “Having so many volunteers involved from the community was exceptional...”

  — AI consultant, NLP

  “Engaging, open to further discuss experiences.”

  — Full-stack web developer

  “Great event, thank you very much!”

  — AI engineer, finance

  “Having 7 demos in 6 hours or of such a small group semt exceptional...”

  — AI consultant, NLP

Access & Logistics

Registration is open now. Accepted attendees will receive a confirmation email with the exact venue details in Paris. Please ensure your profile includes links to your GitHub, LinkedIn, or technical portfolio for the screening process.