AI Events in Dallas Fort Worth | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Dallas Fort Worth - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

Upcoming

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Monthly Meetup AI Tinkerers
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June 4, 6:00 PM
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Meetup

AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth: June Meetup with Rasa

Thursday, June 4th 6PM
Leo Semenenko Solomon Tsao Courtney Caldwell Tania Millan Mark Skaggs Jon Lamb Josh Chung Meghanath Reddy Junnutula Pierre Ingram Mayank Kinger Michael Marshall Casey Russell Madhusoodanan K Madhavan Jonathan Hancock Vincent Button LeAndrew Gordon Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja Josh Bolding Ankit Agrawal
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AI Tinkerers will host a technical meetup focused on conversational AI, agentic orchestration, and LLMs, featuring live prototypes and demos, sponsored by Rasa.

Past

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AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth: Build and Deploy with the Replit Agent

Saturday, May 2nd 12PM to 5PM
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AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth held a hackathon focused on building and deploying applications with the Replit Agent, sponsored by Replit and Askraa.

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October Meetup
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AI Tinkerers October Meetup – Dallas-Fort Worth

Thursday, October 9th, 2025 6PM to 8:30PM
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The hands-on, code-first meetup focused on foundation models and generative AI. Builders shared reproducible live demos and troubleshooting. ReKnew sponsored the event.

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With HEXA, ReKnew
Jul 31, 6:00 PM CDT
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AI Tinkerers – Dallas-Fort Worth Inaugural Meetup Recap

August 01, 2025 · 3 minutes · 4 photos

AI Tinkerers DFW held its inaugural meetup on July 31, 2025 at HEXA Coworking, Richardson, TX, with 33 attendees from 2 companies and 4 live demos. Doors 6:00, welcome 6:15, lightning demos 6:30–7:30, networking 7:30–8:00. Thanks to HEXA and ReKnew.ai; sponsorships and speaker proposals open at aitinkerers.org.

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July 31, 2025, 6 PM CDT
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10 months ago

AI Tinkerers – Dallas-Fort Worth Inaugural Meetup · 31 July 2025

Thursday, July 31st, 2025 6PM
Paul Johnson Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja Gowsiya Syednoor Shek Solomon Tsao Ogechi Ugwulebo Satyam pathak Meenalika Singh Aaron Newcomer Julia Lio Arukakkal Evelyn Ajayi Nandika DSouza Srinivas Polina Chittal Karuppiah Jakhongir Masaidov Ying-Tzu Chen Sridurga Linga Kriti Madhusoodanan K Madhavan Sai Mounika Yedlapalli Bryan plaster
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Builders connected to trade code and war stories at the inaugural AI Tinkerers meetup. The event featured demo-first talks and networking, sponsored by ReKnew and HEXA Coworking.

Meet the Organizers

Anmolika Singh Dwayne Joseph

Best AI meetup in Dallas Fort Worth for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Dallas Fort Worth 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 Dallas Fort Worth 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 Dallas Fort Worth chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Dallas Fort Worth 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 AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth: June Meetup with Rasa on June 4, 2026. Subscribe to the Dallas Fort Worth chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
June 4, 2026
Local cadence
3 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Dallas Fort Worth for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Dallas Fort Worth 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.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Dallas Fort Worth chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Dallas Fort Worth

Kiran Kumar Batchu
Spec-Kit: Idea to Structured Spec
Oct 9
Spec-Kit is an open-source framework that helps makers, developers, and AI enthusiasts take ideas from “spark” to structured, c...
Kiran Kumar Batchu Dallas Fort Worth
Python FastAPI
Erkin Kholmatov
Ranom: Templates for Live Voice Agents
Oct 9
I’ll demo how we built Ranom’s internal voice agent system that generates live, tunable agents from structured prompts. Using a...
Erkin Kholmatov Dallas Fort Worth
FastAPI Next
Dwayne Joseph
Spearfish AI: AI Job Strategy
Oct 9
Spearfish AI flips job searching upside down: instead of sending 100 applications, you pick a high-potential AI startup, use AI...
Dwayne Joseph Dallas Fort Worth
OpenAI GPT-4 Next
Paul Johnson
HEXA Innovation: Host Welcome
Jul 31
Current CEO of HEXA Innovation Center 15 years as an Entrepreneur 25 years with a Fortune 100 Company
Paul Johnson Dallas Fort Worth
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Lestan D'Souza
Context Engineering
Jul 31
ReKnew pioneered Context Engineering to bring Dara to knowledge to Enterprise AI to unlock agentic and generative AI use cases.
Lestan D'Souza Dallas Fort Worth
Reknew Agents & LLMs
Gowsiya Syednoor Shek
Legal Contract Analysis Pipeline
Jul 31
I will demo a working Contract Analysis Pipeline that ingests sample legal contracts and automatically extracts key terms (e.g....
Gowsiya Syednoor Shek Dallas Fort Worth
LangChain Streamlit
Solomon Tsao
Gemini/Bolt: Hacking Personal Sites
Jul 31
In this talk, I’ll walk through how I used modern vibe coding tools—like Gemini CLI, and Bolt/Lovable—to rapidly build a smart,...
Solomon Tsao Dallas Fort Worth
Gemini CLI Bolt
Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja
AI Project Management Playbook
Jul 31
AI is no longer just a buzzword in project charters — it’s reshaping the way we plan, lead, and deliver outcomes. In this talk,...
Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja Dallas Fort Worth
GPT-4 LangChain

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Last updated: June 2026