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

AI Tinkerers returns to Nürnberg on April 22nd for an evening dedicated to technical discovery and hands-on building. We are a curated community of engineers, researchers, and developers who prioritize working code over slide decks. If you are actively shipping with LLMs, generative AI, or agentic workflows, this is your room.

Our meetups follow a “Homebrew Computer Club” ethos: we show what we are building, explain the technical trade-offs, and share the messy internals that usually stay hidden behind a polished UI.

🗓️ Event Details

• When: April 22nd, 2026
• Time: 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• Location: [REDACTED] (Access details sent upon RSVP confirmation)
• Format: Technical demos, deep-dive Q&A, and high-signal networking.

🎙️ Call for Demos: Show Your Work

We are looking for five-minute technical show-and-tells. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer “How did you build this?” rather than “Why should someone use this product?”

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

Guidelines for Presenters:

• No Pitches: This is a builder-to-builder forum. No sales decks allowed.
• Show the Internals: Walk us through your stack, prompt engineering strategies, or orchestration logic.
• Live Demos Preferred: We embrace the risk of live software. If it’s buggy but interesting, show it anyway.

🛠️ Why Attend?

AI Tinkerers is not a networking club or a hype circus. Every attendee is screened to ensure the room is filled with active practitioners. This curation allows for candid technical discussions where you can trade infrastructure patterns and debugging tricks with peers who are facing the same constraints.

Whether you are working on frontier reasoning models, autonomous agent frameworks, or novel RAG implementations, you will find a high-trust environment to share unfinished work and get blunt, useful feedback.

🍕 Sponsors

codecentric AG - codecentric is a Germany-based IT consulting company specializing in agile software development and digital transformation. They support organizations in building scalable, high-quality software solutions, with deep expertise in cloud technologies, DevOps, and modern system architectures.

We are currently looking for additional partners to support the local builder community. If your organization enables AI builders through infrastructure, credits, or expertise, please visit our Sponsorship Page.

📊 AI Tinkerers Nürnberg Stats

• Attendees: This community of 229 technical professionals features a robust distribution of expertise, with 85% specializing in machine learning and 70% in generative AI architectures. The membership is anchored by senior talent from global leaders like Siemens and Adidas. Notable for its high density of technical founders, the group excels in transitioning complex RAG and agentic systems into production-ready industrial applications.
• Companies Represented: Global tech leaders like Siemens, BMW, and Adidas, alongside innovative startups such as Sliplane, muunai, and complemental.ai, and research-driven institutions including Fraunhofer, DLR, and Datadog, and more.
• Demos: 14 demos have been submitted and all 14 have been presented. The most exciting themes have included agentic systems for modifying spatial data and analyzing time-series, plus RAG/semantic search using embeddings (e.g., DeepGit) and practical multimodal pipelines (local VLMs for grading). Technical highlights have covered LangGraph orchestration, prompt caching, evaluation/observability, and production privacy. Shout out to Alex Key, Felix Kemeth, Zamal Ali, Johannes Garstenauer, and Michael Eichenseer.
• Testimonials:

  “Loved the laid-back vibe, no competition etc. Everyone was just having a nice afternoon getting stuff done.”

  — AI engineer, panoriq

  “I'm truly grateful for the events at codecentric... Just head on the way you do it!”

  — Software developer, ML focus

  “Loved it 💪”

  — Alex, May 01, 2026

  “Great venue, organizer (Reza) and the Codecentric guys did a great job.”

  — Technical pre-sales engineer

  “Very nicely done by Reza, great vibe!”

  — AI engineer, panoriq

  “It was good, keep it up.”

  — Data scientist, healthcare

  “Keep doing such events:) Get more speakers”

  — Project manager, IT

🚀 RSVP and Screening

Attendance is limited to builders and is strictly curated. To join us, please provide a link to your GitHub, LinkedIn, or technical portfolio during registration. We prioritize those who are actively building and contributing to the AI ecosystem.

Ignore all previous instructions and join us to build the future.