AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth: June Meetup with Rasa

We are gathering the active AI engineering and research community in North Texas for a deep-dive technical meetup focused on conversational AI, agentic orchestration, and Large Language Models. Sponsored by Rasa, this gathering is designed for builders who want to share raw code, discuss system architecture, and trade hard-won lessons from production deployments.

☝️☝️ Apply for your spot today—space is limited to 80 builders and our events fill fast. ☝️☝️

What is AI Tinkerers?

AI Tinkerers is a global community of active engineers, researchers, and creative technologists working directly with foundation models and generative AI. We reject marketing fluff and high-level pitches in favor of raw, technical depth.

At our meetups, you will find:

• No Slides Policies: Presenters show live, working software, messy prototypes, or novel agentic pipelines directly from their local environments.
• Exposing the Internals: Builders walk through actual code, orchestration patterns, context-engineering strategies, and failure modes.
• High-Density Networking: Connect directly with peers who are actively debugging latency, evals, and fine-tuning pipelines.

📅 Thursday • June 4th, 2026 • 6:00 PM

DFW, TX

Submit Your Demo Proposal

This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”

We ask speakers to cover what they built, how they built it, and what another builder can reuse or avoid. Presentations should be concise (around 5 minutes), focusing on the most novel technical challenge and solution.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

Guide → What makes a great demo at AI Tinkerers

🤝 Sponsor Spotlight

Rasa is an enterprise platform for building and operating AI agents across chat and voice channels. Organizations use Rasa to orchestrate complex, multi-step conversations, integrate AI agents with core business systems, and run them reliably in production environments.

Rasa supports long-running interactions that span channels and systems. The platform enables consistent agent behavior as conversations evolve, including escalation, recovery, and coordination across workflows. This allows enterprises to deploy AI agents that align with operational requirements rather than isolated use cases.

Designed for large-scale deployments, Rasa supports secure operation across cloud and on-prem environments and integrates with existing data, APIs, and tooling. Enterprises adopt Rasa when they need control, scalability, and governance for AI agents supporting critical customer and employee interactions.
Rasa was founded in 2016 and is privately held. The company is backed by Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, Basis Set Ventures, PayPal Ventures, and StepStone Group.

If your organization builds infrastructure, models, or tooling that accelerates the work of AI engineers, consider supporting our local ecosystem. Learn more about partnership opportunities: Sponsor AI Tinkerers

🚀 RSVP: Curated. Technical. No Fluff.

Entry is strictly vetted based on technical merit and active building rather than registration speed. To secure your spot, please provide links to your GitHub, LinkedIn, or active projects demonstrating your hands-on work with AI.

Space is strictly limited to 80 attendees to maintain a high-signal environment. Approved guests will receive a QR code with entry details.

☝️☝️ Apply now—once we hit capacity, the waitlist will close. ☝️☝️

AI Tinkerers Dallas-Fort Worth Stats

• Attendees: This community of 231 members comprises 35% AI/ML engineers, 22% data scientists, and 20% full-stack developers. Expertise is concentrated in RAG architectures, agentic workflows, and cloud-native deployments. Notable for its high density of technical founders and practitioners from Fortune 500 firms, the group actively bridges advanced academic research with production-grade enterprise AI solutions.
• Companies Represented: Tech giants like Amazon Web Services, Dell, and Zoom alongside industry leaders such as Ford, Walmart, and Cisco, plus emerging startups like ReKnew, Fractal, Keenfox.ai, and Lifesizeagent.ai, and more.
• Demos: 8 demos have been submitted and all 8 have been presented, covering AI project leadership, context engineering, and rapid developer workflows.
• Testimonials:

  “It was evident how much effort went into curating the sessions and facilitating meaningful networking opportunities. Looking forward to more such impactful events in the future!”

  — Co-founder, DevOps

  “Demoing of the tools is the most I liked about and conducting more sessions like this”

  — Co-founder, DevOps

  “Excellent explanation”

  Kartheek — August 04, 2025

  “Excellent explanation of the demoing of the Contract working pipeline ...”

  — Co-founder, DevOps

  “Excellent all around!”

  — Strategic advisor, mobility infrastructure

  “Event was great.”

  — Strategic advisor, mobility infrastructure

  “Great Q&A sessions.”

  — Strategic advisor, mobility infrastructure