AI Tinkerers Atlanta Meetup – August 28, 2025

Welcome

Hands-on, code-forward demos and live builds that you can replicate. This is a builder-first meetup focused on practical AI tinkering. The event runs Thursday, August 28th, 2025 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm. Location is Atlanta, GA (venue to be announced).

Event at a Glance

• Date: Thursday August 28th, 2025
• Time: 4:30 PM – 7:30 PM
• Capacity:50 attendees
• Location: Atlanta, GA (venue to be announced; exact address hidden until RSVP)
• Special guest: Chris Hawkins, GTM at CodeRabbit
• Audience: active builders shipping AI products; RSVP required

What to Expect

• 4:30 PM: Doors Open
• 5:00 PM - 5:10 PM: Welcoming speech from AI Tinkerers, Drive Capital
• 5:10 PM - 5:25 PM: Chris Hawkins - from Code Rabbit will present how CodeRabbit automates first‑pass code reviews, cutting merge times by half and reducing pre‑production bugs, with practical demos and integration tips.
• 5:25 PM - 5:40 PM: Adey Adiatu - from Bitebox will show how to build lightweight computer‑vision systems on Raspberry Pi or Jetson Nano that classify waste, create data pipelines, and transform surplus materials into reusable resources.
• 5:40 PM - 5:55 PM: Anil Babu Lalam- from Tech Mahindra. You will see how Java preprocessing, Google Cloud Vertex AI training, and serverless deployment create a custom object detection model for real-time accident detection.
• 5:55 PM - 6:10 PM: Juresse Mbambi’s talk, “AI/ML for SMBs,” shows practical methods SMBs can use to automate routine tasks (data entry, scheduling), generate marketing copy, and add chatbots and personalized recommendations, focusing on replicable workflows
• 6:10 PM - 7:30 PM:  Networking and Discussions

  Submit Your Talk Proposal

This is your chance to show a working system, “pop the hood,” and teach others how to replicate or adapt your work. Please include:

• Working title
• Short abstract (what you’ll cover and what attendees will learn)
• Estimated duration
• Required equipment
• Relevant links
• How your talk teaches others to tinker with AI and hardware

Submit Your Talk Proposal: https://atlanta.aitinkerers.org/meetup/mu_vX0OwhxGjls/speaking

Screening Question

Describe your proposed talk or demo for this meetup.

How to Apply

• Include detailed project information and a runnable demo when possible
• Be prepared to share code, data flows, and setup steps
• Organizers will select talks based on technical substance and reproducibility

Important Information

• Cap attendees: 50
• Attendee info required: email, LinkedIn, GitHub, or Twitter
• Hide location: true (venue details shared with accepted attendees)
• Speaker proposals: enabled
• Dress code: casual
• Food and beverages: provided

-Attendees must be 21+ y.o.

Sponsorship & Partnerships

Thank you to our sponsors Code Rabbit and Drive Capital for supporting and empowering our AI Tinkerers community!

CodeRabbit is the industry’s leading AI Code Review platform that helps software developers automate the first pass of code reviews and catch bugs that manual reviews miss. With CodeRabbit you can merge PRs in 50% less time, with 50% fewer bugs before they hit production.

Demos & Panels

We’ll feature a Speakers Panel and a Special Guests Panel with active builders sharing their latest work. Details will populate below and update as talks are approved.

SPEAKERS PANEL

SPECIAL GUESTS PANEL

📊 AI Tinkerers Atlanta Stats

• Attendees: This community of 1,533 technical professionals features a robust distribution of expertise, with 65% specializing in AI/ML engineering and 45% in full-stack development. Distinguished by a high density of C-suite leaders and Georgia Tech researchers, the group has successfully launched Y Combinator-backed startups and pioneered agentic AI workflows in fintech and healthcare, establishing a premier hub for high-signal technical collaboration.
• Companies Represented: Featuring tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon alongside industry leaders such as Salesforce, HubSpot, and Sourcegraph, plus emerging startups like Union.ai, AlphaWatch AI, DarkViolet.ai, and Flexbone.ai, and more.
• Demos: 88 demos have been submitted and 50 have been presented. The most exciting threads have centered on practical developer-facing AI engineering—especially agentic/multi-agent coding—plus low-latency real-time multimodal voice, structured output control for reliable integrations, and data-centric RAG/visualization. Standouts include A.D. Slaton’s “Tokens are cheap, your time is not,” Andrew Tabit’s AI coding multi-agent demo, Evan Marie Carr’s LumiForge UX, Stephen F. Johnston’s cross-org translation, and Sam Obukwelu’s agentic task marketplace.
• Testimonials:

  “Loved the opportunity to do some heads down building while chatting with others doing the same. More of them. Even if they're just these 5 hour events. These are great.”

  — Senior Software Engineer, supply

  “I really enjoyed the presentation about software factories. It was timely and well presented. I appreciated everyone’s point of view on this new pattern.”

  — Engineering director, CRM

  “Live demos were awesome!”

  — Postdoc, food tech digital

  “Having presentations from people that do the work and make it work. I want to hear from the people with their hands on the keyboard. Not the "AI Evangelist”

  — CTO, insurance tech

  “Bringing good thoughtful talks. The networking post talk were very valuable.”

  — Full-stack architect, AI enablement

  “Love it in general, keep it up!...”

  — Founder, AdTech & SaaS

  “Thank you for clearly presenting your product, process and tech stack. I enjoyed seeing the solution in action and the user experience.”

  — Founder, jewelry tech