AI Tinkerers Paris Meetup: Back2school Apéro — Friday, September 5, 2025 #anniversaryFest

This month marks the 1st anniversary of AI Tinkerers Paris, and we wanted to take a moment to thank you for being part of this journey. Your support, from engaging locally to showcasing your code, has been essential in building this community.

To celebrate, we’d love to meet you for an informal drink.

This is a casual, networking for AI builders. We want to hear about experiments, prototypes, and ideas you’ve been working on through group discussions. There are no formal talks; the focus is discussion, hands-on sharing, and networking over drinks. The apéro runs from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Drinks and food are pay-your-own-way.

What’s in it for you?

Join us for a relaxed evening designed exclusively for builders actively working with GenAI. With no formal talks on the agenda, this is your chance to spark engaging discussions, form new connections, and share ideas that help shape the future of AI. Here’s what you can expect:

• Meaningful Conversations: Share your conversation topic or burning question and help us kickstart discussions that matter.
• Diverse Networking: Mingle with professionals from communities such as Generative AI Paris, Comptoir IA, Langchain Paris, Paris AI Club, AI Tinkerers, and The AI Collective.
• Casual & Interactive: Enjoy an informal setting that is all about connecting over innovative ideas—just remember, drinks and food are pay-your-own-way.

Looking ahead, we already have several exciting events planned — including meetups, hackathons, workshops and more community-building opportunities. We’d be happy to share the details and explore how you could be involved at an even greater level in the year ahead.

Thank you once again for believing in us from the start. Here’s to another year of growth and collaboration!

Event Details

• When: Friday, September 5, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Where: Paris, France (Ground Control)
• Registration / Info Required: RSVP information requested includes email, LinkedIn, Twitter, or GitHub. Registration is open now.
• Notes: This is a casual, discussion-focused meet-up with an apéro. Co-organizers include Generative AI France and The Al Collective. We may share venue ideas for future hackathons; please suggest locations if you have leads.

How to Participate

• Register now to secure a spot.
• After acceptance, you’ll receive entry instructions and the venue details. Please plan to arrive a bit early and use the message board to locate us.
• For those who can contribute to future events, we’re collecting venue suggestions and looking for partners to power hackathons and hands-on workshops.

Venue & Access

• Ground Control is the place we’re meeting. The event is in Paris, France.
• The format is casual and discussion-driven. Networking time is built into the event, enabling peer feedback and collaboration.

📊 AI Tinkerers Paris Stats

• Attendees: This community of 3,867 technical professionals features a high concentration of Machine Learning (85%) and NLP/LLM (65%) expertise. The membership includes elite engineers from Hugging Face and Google, alongside founders from Station F. Notable for its "builder" ethos, the group leads in agentic workflow development and open-source contributions, bridging the gap between theoretical research and production-grade AI.
• Companies Represented: Featuring industry leaders like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon, alongside AI pioneers Hugging Face, Mistral AI, ElevenLabs, and Black Forest Labs, plus emerging startups such as Photoroom, Giskard, Lighton, and more.
• Demos: 112 demos were submitted and 67 were presented. The most compelling themes have combined agentic production workflows, GraphRAG/knowledge graphs, and scalable deployment (including Knative/Kubernetes). Exciting
• Testimonials:

  “I really appreciated the support of the partners and provided facilitation. Having a gcp environment with limitless credits helped feel less restricted when implementing the solution. Presence of the domain experts in the room and their support throughout the event were priceless. We got a lot of support from the Neo4J team.”

  — ML engineer, happtiq

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

  — Ai builder, paris

  “Great event”

  Paul-Louis — — March 16, 2026

  “Thank you for the organization of this event. I learned many things.”

  — Applied Computational Linguist

  “Thanks first and foremost to the mentors and volunteers!”

  — AI consultant, NLP

  “Thank you it was great”

  — ML engineer, happtiq

  “Lightning demos were great, the networking session with demos was even better.”

  — Lead ML Engineer