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AI Tinkerers x Softengi - DC Metro Meetup - April 9th, 2026
AI Tinkerers DC: April 9, 2026
Join us for the April session of AI Tinkerers in Washington, DC sponsored by Softengi. We are gathering a curated group of engineers, researchers, and technical founders for an evening of live demos and deep-dive technical discussions. This is a code-first environment where the focus remains on building and shipping.
AI Tinkerers is a community for practitioners. We prioritize working systems over slide decks and technical discoveries over product pitches. This is a high-trust room designed for sharing messy experiments, architectural trade-offs, and the reality of what breaks during development.
What to Expect
- Live Demos: 5-minute technical show-and-tells focusing on implementation details rather than marketing.
- Technical Depth: Discussions covering LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and the integration of Computer Vision into production pipelines.
- Curated Networking: Connect with active builders who are popping the hood on generative AI. Attendance is limited and screened to ensure high-signal conversations.
Event Details
- Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026
- Time: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- Location: Washington, DC (Full address provided to approved attendees)
- Capacity: 150 participants
Sponsored By
Softengi is an international software technology company with over a decade of experience in AI, specializing in Generative AI and Computer Vision. Recognized 11 times on the IAOP Global 100 list for consistent technological leadership, mature delivery practices, and long-term client trust,
Softengi applies an AI-driven approach to streamline the SDLC. Softengi also leverages its proprietary AI platform to simplify and accelerate AI development, delivering flexible and scalable solutions.
Call for Demos
We are actively seeking presenters for this session. AI Tinkerers is about showing, not telling. We want to see your technical demos, raw code, and generative AI experiments. No pitch decks—just builders sharing how they solved complex problems with AI.
Demos are strictly 5 minutes. We encourage showing raw, unfinished, or fragile builds that demonstrate a unique technical insight. Whether you are optimizing inference or building complex agentic stacks, the stage is for those who ship.
📊 AI Tinkerers DC Stats
- Attendees: This community comprises 522 technical professionals. Expertise is concentrated in AI/ML (27.5%), Python (17.1%), and Full-Stack Engineering (12.0%), with additional depth in Data Science and Product Management. Notable for its high density of senior technical leaders and founders, the group bridges the gap between theoretical research and production-grade deployment, particularly within the highly regulated GovTech and Fintech sectors.
- Companies Represented: Including tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta alongside industry leaders such as LinkedIn, Salesforce, and Databricks, plus innovative startups like Scale AI, Anthropic, Vannevar Labs, and Answer.AI, and more.
- Demos: 31 demos were submitted and 30 were presented, with standout sessions spanning agentic workflows, traceable/document-driven RAG, and evaluation/reliability techniques. Highly engaging demos included Dylan Hawley’s diffusion-based Minecraft skin generation, Julie Saltman’s Standd deal-diligence visualizations, Andrew Sheves’ low/no-trainable-data decision method, Ricky Singh’s non-technical builder prototype approach, and William Zhu’s MoltComics interoperable agent architectures.
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