Join us on July 1st, 2026, for an evening of hands-on generative AI and LLM building in Zürich. This is a technical show-and-tell designed for practitioners: engineers, researchers, and technical founders actively shipping code and developing foundation models.

Our focus remains on the “Homebrew Computer Club” spirit: raw demos, technical implementation details, and shared discoveries. We prioritize working systems over slide decks and technical depth over high-level pitches.

🎙️ Call for Demos

We are looking for 5-minute demos of messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” rather than “Why should someone use this product?” We want to see the internals: code, architecture, prompt engineering setups, and the challenges you faced during development.

👉 Submit Your Demo Proposal

🏢 Sponsor and Host

Swisscom Ventures

Swisscom Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Swisscom AG, Switzerland’s leading telecom and ICT provider. Backing high-potential startups globally, Swisscom Ventures targets deep tech, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, cloud, and IoT. For founders, they serve as a strategic gateway to leverage Swisscom’s extensive technical infrastructure, market channels, and enterprise client network across Switzerland and Italy.

🕕 Event Schedule

• 18:30: Doors open, pizza, and drinks
• 19:00: Technical Demos and Q&A
• 20:30: Networking and Science Fair
• 21:30: Event concludes

🛠️ What to Expect

AI Tinkerers events are highly technical. Presenters must showcase raw, working, or even buggy code and live deployments to demonstrate how they orchestrate models and data flows.

Beyond the main stage lightning talks, the event features interactive Science Fair exhibitions during the networking block, allowing for intimate, peer-to-peer technical walkthroughs.

Attendance is strictly limited to 50 builders to ensure high-signal conversations. Entry is granted based on the technical projects and challenges you share during registration.

👥 Organizers and Speakers

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AI Tinkerers - Zürich

AI Tinkerers - Zürich

AI Tinkerers - Zürich

AI Tinkerers - Zürich

AI Tinkerers - Zürich

AI Tinkerers - Zürich

📊 Zürich Community Stats

• Community Growth: This community of 730 technical professionals features a robust concentration in AI/ML (37%), Python (15%), and Data Science (13%). The membership is distinguished by high-caliber affiliations with ETH Zürich and Google, alongside a significant 6% entrepreneurial founder base. Notable achievements include a strong focus on agentic workflows and interdisciplinary applications across robotics, fintech, and healthcare sectors.
• Companies Represented: Featuring industry leaders like Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon, alongside AI innovators such as IBM Research, Lakera, Langfuse, and Jua, and emerging startups like Fore AI, Invariant Labs, and Nunu.ai, and more.
• Demo Activity: 44 demos have been submitted and 27 have been presented. The most exciting themes have spanned interactive multimodal/embedding demos (“Hotdogs”), practical GenAI-ready document tooling (“Docling”), agentic automation and infrastructure (“MoonAI”, “Clawloop”), and robotics/RL breakthroughs (“CyberRunner”). Technical focus has also covered evaluation and safety (“Trustworthy and Secure Agents”), plus data-context and interface generation (“Widgens”).
• Member Feedback:

  “Community presentations. It was amazing and inspiring to see what people are building”

  — Head of BIM, construction

  “Overall really enjoyed it, hopefully more ai tinkerers zurich to come!”

  — Founder, consumer health

  “Great pizza”

  — Eugene, , April 09, 2026

  “Impressive talk, my highlight of the evening. Thanks, Robert!”

  — Senior Data Scientist, ML

  “More ai tinkerers zurich to come!”

  — Founder, consumer health

  “Very well organised - kudos!”

  — Head of Analytics @

  “Short, non-salesy tinkerer style demos of real stuff!”

  — Founder, ML startup

Interested in supporting the local AI Tinkerers ecosystem? View sponsorship opportunities.