AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne: July 2026 Meetup
Meetup
2 months ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne: July 2026 Meetup

Saturday, July 25th 10AM
+8

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne hosted a meetup for local AI builders to share technical demos and messy experiments. Sponsors were sought to accelerate builders' work.

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Meetup - May 16
May 16 10:00 AM
Meetup
5 months ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne: May 2026 Meetup

Saturday, May 16th 10AM
+9

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne held a code-first meetup for AI builders to share technical demos and messy experiments. Sponsors were sought to accelerate builders.

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7 months ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne: February 2026 Meetup

Saturday, February 21st 10AM to 12PM
+149

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne hosted an in-person meetup for local AI builders to share technical breakthroughs and code-first demos, valuing messy experiments and creative hacks.

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11 months ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne November 2025 Meetup

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 6:30PM
+15

Practitioners gathered for an in-person evening of collaboration, troubleshooting, and demos focused on active building with large language models and machine learning.

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about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne August 2025 Meetup

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025 6:30PM
+13

Technical practitioners gathered for an in-person meetup focused on practical advice for AI policies, machine learning data, and generative systems. The structured evening included Q&A, short presentations, and a featured speaker.

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Hands-On Al Projects
May 19, 6:30PM-8:30PM EDT
AI TINKERERS FORT WAYNE
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne May 2025 Meetup

Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 6:30PM to 8:30PM
+6

The practitioner-led forum focused on LLMs and generative AI brought together technical builders to share work, seek concrete help, and discuss engineering challenges.

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Fort Wayne April Meet-up
At the Forum on the Electric Works Campus
April 15th 2025 (Tax Day)
6:30-8:30 pm
Come Learn • Teach • Present
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne Tax Day Meetup

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025 6:30PM to 8:30PM
+14

Attendees gathered for an in-person community event focused on sharing AI projects, troubleshooting, and networking among local builders and researchers.

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11/19/2024 MEETUP
6:30-8:30 PM
THE FORUM AT ELECTRIC WORKS
LEARN, TEACH, PRESENT
Meetup
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne November 19th 2024 Meetup

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024 6:30PM to 8:30PM
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The in-person gathering focused on sharing practical applications and troubleshooting for Google's Notebook LM among artificial intelligence and machine learning practitioners.

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10/15/2024 MEETUP
THE FORUM AT ELECTRIC WORKS
LEARN, TEACH, PRESENT
Meetup
almost 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne October 15th 2024 Meetup

Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 6:30PM to 8:30PM
+13

Practitioners gathered for hands-on AI collaboration, trading technical advice, sharing projects, and engaging in group problem-solving and presentations.

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FORT WAYNE
9/17/2024 MEETUP
THE FORUM AT ELECTRIC WORKS
6:30 - 8:30 PM
LEARN, TEACH, PRESENT
Meetup
about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne September 17th 2024 Meetup

Tuesday, September 17th, 2024 6:30PM to 8:30PM
+11

Practitioners gathered for hands-on collaboration, troubleshooting, and demo-driven learning focused on building machine learning systems. The event featured an open floor for problems, demonstrations, and a featured speaker.

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8/20/2024 MEETUP
SWIZZLE MARKET 6:30 - 8:00 PM
LEARN, TEACH, PRESENT
Meetup
about 2 years ago

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne August 20th 2024 Meet up

Tuesday, August 20th, 2024 6:30PM
+16

The AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne community met for technical discussion, project demonstrations, and peer networking focused on artificial intelligence and machine learning advancements. Sponsor support was appreciated for the event.

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7/16/2024 Meetup
It's Time To Get To Work
Meetup
about 2 years ago

"AI Fort Wayne July Meetup: Embrace the Future of AI Together at Swizzle Market!"

Tuesday, July 16th, 2024 6:30PM to 9PM
+9

Attendees gathered for an in-person AI meetup focused on sharing hands-on work, trading lessons, and troubleshooting real problems in a peer review setting at Swizzle Market.

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Meetup
over 2 years ago

Fort Wayne AI Tinkerers: June Meetup

Thursday, June 13th, 2024 7PM
+10

The AI Tinkerers gathered to reconnect, share progress on projects, and plan concrete next steps for the growing Fort Wayne AI community.

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Meetup
over 2 years ago

FW AI Tinkerers: April Meetup (New Location!)

Thursday, April 25th, 2024 5:30PM to 7:30PM
+5

The AI Tinkerers gathered for an in-person meetup featuring peer-driven connection for builders utilizing LLMs and generative AI through short, work-in-progress demos.

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Meetup
over 2 years ago

Fort Wayne AI Tinkerers: March Meetup

Thursday, March 28th, 2024 5:30PM to 7:30PM
+15

The practitioner-focused group met for hands-on connection among builders experimenting with foundation models and large language models.

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over 2 years ago

Fort Wayne AI Tinkerers: February Meetup

Thursday, February 29th, 2024 5:30PM to 7:30PM
+16

The practitioner-focused meetup brought together builders experimenting with large language models and generative artificial intelligence for honest, collaborative work.

Fort Wayne AI Tinkerers: The Inaugural Meetup
Meetup
over 2 years ago

Fort Wayne AI Tinkerers: The Inaugural Meetup

Thursday, January 25th, 2024 5:30PM to 7:30PM
+22

The inaugural practitioner-focused meetup gathered builders working on foundation models for candid collaboration, experimentation, and sharing early-stage discoveries.

Meet the Organizers

Nathan Chuck

Best AI meetup in Fort Wayne for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne chapter is part of a 264-city global network with 135,000+ 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 Fort Wayne chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne 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. Check the upcoming events listed above for the next scheduled meetup. Most AI Tinkerers chapters run monthly, but frequency varies by city. Subscribe to the Fort Wayne chapter to get notified.

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

Best AI meetup in Fort Wayne for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne 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 Fort Wayne chapter is part of a 264-city network with 135,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne

Grok

Grok is the generative AI chatbot from xAI (Elon Musk's company), delivering real-time, unfiltered information with a distinctively witty and rebellious personality.

LLM

Large Language Models (LLMs) are deep learning models, built on the Transformer architecture, that process and generate human-quality text and code at scale.

Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language that converts plain text into structured HTML using simple punctuation.

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is the definitive word processing application (first released in 1983) for creating, editing, and sharing professional text documents with a standard .docx file format.

Python

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne

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AI as a Citizen's Governance Sidekick: Building a Practical Accountab…
Jul 25
The Citizen Accountability Toolkit is a practical, citizen-led, AI-assisted guide that helps Indiana residents evaluate and str...
Chuck Fort Wayne
Grok Python
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Building the AI pipeline for predictionarchive.com
Jul 25
Predictionarchive.com is an early stage live website that aggregates predictions from across the internet to drive accountabili...
Brian Michael Fort Wayne
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Notebook LM: AI Slide Decks
Feb 21
Creating a slide Deck in Power Point has always taken a large amount of time. Using Word as the basis for a talk, Grok to add d...
Chuck Fort Wayne
Microsoft Word Grok3
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Google Earth Engine: Downloading LiDAR
Aug 19
I will be presenting a plugin for Google Earth Engine that automatically downloads lidar data and creates a digital elevation m...
Chuck Fort Wayne
Google Earth Engine Claude
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OpenAI Real-Time Voice Agents
Aug 19
Live coding demonstration showing how to build real-time voice conversations with AI using LiveKit's WebRTC infrastructure and ...
Nate A Fort Wayne
GPT-4 OpenAI Realtime API
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ChatGPT Feasibility for Financial Modeling
May 20
Is it feasible to replace current financial models used in the insurance industry with a ChatGPT style chat that takes insuranc...
Igor Fort Wayne
ChatGPT
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ML Finds Stable CO₂ Injection Sites
Apr 15
Many ethanol plants are struggling with complex subsurface conditions when evaluating sites for the injection of carbon dioxide...
Chuck Fort Wayne
Google Earth Engine Sentinel-2
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Lidar Processing for Machine Learning
Oct 15
Lidar is a pulsed laser scan of the surface of the Earth. Billions of points contain accurate X,Y and Z coordinates. This dense...
Chuck Fort Wayne
LiDAR Point Cloud
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MITRE ATLAS Local LLM Security
Oct 15
Security resources will be shared and attendees will gain insights into the MITRE ATLAS™ AI security framework and explore prac...
Rob Fort Wayne
LangChain Ollama
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Aider: AI Pair Programming
Aug 20
Meet Aider —an open-source tool that's redefining how developers work with large codebases. Aider seamlessly integrates with Gi...
JOSHUA Fort Wayne
GPT-4o Claude
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Don't Generate, Renovate
Jul 16
The real cost of software engineering is not creating new code, but changing existing code. It's right there in the name—softwa...
Jon Fort Wayne
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WGPT
Feb 29
The goal is to create a completely AI-generated radio station, where the metadata, album art, and music are all generated from ...
Eli T. Fort Wayne

Last updated: September 2026