Summer Networking Meetup at Ground Control

Date & Time: Thursday, July 17, 2025 – 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Location: The event will be held in an inviting outdoor area at a popular venue in Paris.

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.

Event Details at a Glance

• When: Thursday, July 17, 2025, from 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM

• Cost: Pay for your own drinks and food at the venue

Why You Shouldn’t Miss This

Before the summer break, take advantage of this unique opportunity to unwind and network with professionals who are shaping AI through real-world projects. Your ideas and experience are exactly what we need to drive inspiring conversations.

We look forward to seeing you there—grab your spot quickly before it fills up!

📊 AI Tinkerers 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”

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  — AI engineer, finance

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  — AI consultant, NLP

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  — Full-stack web developer

  “Great event, thank you very much!”

  — AI engineer, finance

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