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AI Tinkerers Tokyo hosted an in-person technical show-and-tell for AI builders, featuring live demos of AI systems, supported by Twilio and SHISA.AI.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo hosted a technical show-and-tell for AI builders, featuring live demos and networking, sponsored by Perxona.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo hosted a technical show-and-tell for builders to share generative AI insights, sponsored by PostHog.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo held a technical show-and-tell in Shinagawa. Engineers shared generative AI architectures and implementations through eight-minute demos.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo hosted a curated meetup for 50 builders to share technical work on AI systems. Sakana AI sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person meetup in Ginza. The event focused on artificial intelligence.
Builders focused on Conversational Agents participated in an intense, product-focused hackathon featuring expert judging and over $200K in prizes, supported by ElevenLabs and local sponsors.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo kicked off with an in-person meetup. The event fostered community and explored AI topics.
Best AI meetup in Tokyo for builders
AI Tinkerers Tokyo 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 Tokyo chapter is part of a 268-city global network with 140,000+ 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 Tokyo chapter.
Be ambitious. Start with an idea. Bring a prototype. Work through the hard parts with builders in your city and around the world.
A typical AI Tinkerers Tokyo 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 Tokyo chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo is the best AI meetup in Tokyo for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Tokyo 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.
AI Tinkerers Tokyo 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.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Tokyo chapter is part of a 268-city network with 140,000+ members worldwide.
Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic's flagship model for complex agentic coding and enterprise workflows, offering near-frontier intelligence at a competitive price point. Recent talks: FORGE: From AI 3D Design to a Webcam-Native Science Lab (October 5, 2026)
Astro is a web framework engineered for content-driven websites, utilizing a unique islands architecture to deliver zero-client-side JavaScript by default. Recent talks: I made my own slide deck engine (October 5, 2026)
Avatar technology uses AI to generate high-fidelity, customizable 3D digital human models (avatars) from a single 2D source, like a user's selfie. Recent talks: Michi — giving a face to a conversational AI model (September 1, 2026)
A high-precision personal writing and drawing robot that uses real pens to produce authentic, handmade-quality vector art and handwriting. Recent talks: Fugu Model in the Physical World: Multi-Agent AI with Reachy Mini and AxiDraw (June 18, 2026)
Deploy OpenAI's leading models (GPT-4, GPT-4o) with Azure's enterprise-grade security, compliance, and scalable infrastructure. Recent talks: I Let an AI Avatar Introduce Me On Stage. (September 1, 2026)
Beta access bridges the gap between pre-release software and real-world validation by putting unfinished products into the hands of early adopters. Recent talks: Fugu Model in the Physical World: Multi-Agent AI with Reachy Mini and AxiDraw (June 18, 2026)
Body motion capture precisely tracks and analyzes human movement, offering critical data for diverse applications. Recent talks: Michi — giving a face to a conversational AI model (September 1, 2026)
Camera SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) enables robots and autonomous systems to build a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously tracking their own position within that map, using camera data. Recent talks: From Rehabilitation to Flapping Wings: Real-Time Perception Driving Physical Systems (September 1, 2026)
Claude is Anthropic's flagship family of large language models (LLMs): a high-performance, Constitutional AI system built for safety, complex reasoning, and expert-level collaboration. Recent talks: Building an AI publishing platform with an AI dev squad (May 26, 2026)
Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command. Recent talks: Build a dark factory that’s right for you (June 18, 2026)
"Great event! Well done :) Made a good connection (Ivan) and we actually met today and will help him set up a community like this in Kyoto."
"Great people and great speakers! More time for networking!"
"It was pretty much perfect. All of my other notes are minor niggles rather than criticism. The diverse range of speakers and attendees gave a really fresh and upbeat image."
"I was looking forward to hearing about the books! lol. The content was great. I'd like to see a blog article on the results."
"Really excellent communications and organization. It was obvious the event was well planned and implemented."
"Presentations, judging and feedback, build time, the mentors checking in, Snacks and drinks (caffeinated, non caffeinated, alcohol, non alcoholic were all great!)"
"I enjoyed pre-meetup networking. Although we were running behind schedule, it was a great opportunity to introduce ourselves."
"Amazing! Just the demo had issues, wifi issues i think"
"Network isolation and credential proxies address the actual security gaps in agentic workflows. The cycle from Linear tickets to code was a practical takeaway."
"Afterparty was great for deeper discussions, tech or otherwise."
Last updated: October 2026
