Code-first AI meetups & demos for builders (AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne)

AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne is convening the city’s active AI builders for a deep dive into working systems and technical breakthroughs. 

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, February 21th, 2026
• Time: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
• Location: Electric Works at The Forum within The Hines Room.

Show Your Work: Submit a Demo Proposal

We are actively seeking short, technical demos (5-7 minutes) that expose the internals of your AI projects. 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.

Share your architecture, trade-offs, and what broke. We prioritize live code, workflow graphs, and deep implementation notes over polished slides. Novel, rough, or even buggy projects are highly encouraged.

Submit your proposal here: https://fort-wayne.aitinkerers.org/meetup/mu_bRDlbP-4iIo/speaking

Sponsors Enable Builders

We partner with brands that ship and actively accelerate our builders. If your company provides tooling, compute, or access that helps engineers build faster, we invite you to support the Fort Wayne chapter.

Learn about partnership opportunities: https://fort-wayne.aitinkerers.org/sponsors

📊 AI Tinkerers Fort Wayne Stats

• Attendees: This community of 133 subscribers comprises a high-density cohort of senior technical talent. Approximately 85% are expert software architects, with 48% specializing in advanced AI/ML implementations and 42% in cloud infrastructure. Notable for its interdisciplinary depth, the group includes PhD-level researchers and engineers from Meta and Raytheon, driving sophisticated local LLM and agentic workflow innovation.
• Companies Represented: Tech giants like Meta, Microsoft, and Yahoo! alongside industry leaders Eli Lilly, Raytheon, and Motorola Solutions, regional anchors Purdue University and Brotherhood Mutual, and emerging startups PatentDrawAI, RadicalX, and Interplay AI, and more.
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