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AI Tinkerers Singapore will host a workshop with ElevenLabs, focusing on building voice AI and creative agents. Participants will learn practical skills.
Past
AI Tinkerers Singapore hosted a demo meetup featuring founder Joe Heitzeberg, live AI builder demos, and Google Cloud credits, sponsored by Singtel and Bluehost.
The hackathon challenged participants to build agents integrating into daily tools, with prizes including tech gadgets and OpenAI credits, supported by various sponsors.
AI Tinkerers and Redis hosted a Demo Night exploring Redis Iris for enterprise AI agents, focusing on real-time context and high-performance memory.
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AI Tinkerers and Tencent Cloud hosted a hackathon where participants developed AI agents. Top teams won cash prizes and a trip to Shenzhen.
AI Tinkerers and ElevenLabs hosted a demo night for builders showcasing experimental voice AI and prototypes.
AI Tinkerers Singapore explored agentic futures and Dev/Eng workflows, featuring live code demos and technical discussions on autonomous agents and LLM integration.
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AI Tinkerers Singapore hosted a meetup on AI infrastructure, featuring discussions on GPU deployment and LLM scaling, supported by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and NVIDIA.
Experienced builders convened for an in-person hackathon focused on creating advanced Conversational Agents. Teams competed for a substantial prize pool supported by ElevenLabs.
AI Tinkerers hosted a mini-hackathon where teams built agent demos using Redis and Cloudflare tools, with sponsor support.
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AIT Singapore hosted an AI Agents Showcase for builders, featuring technical demos and discussions on foundation models and generative AI, supported by AWS and Smithery.
AI Tinkerers Singapore hosted a meetup on scalable agentic workflows, featuring lightning talks and demos. Sponsors AWS and Bhindi supported the event.
AI Tinkerers Singapore hosted its 8th meetup for active AI practitioners, featuring lightning talks, demos, and networking, sponsored by SambaNova.
AI Tinkerers Singapore hosted an in-person meetup for foundation model practitioners. Attendees shared lightning talks and demos, fostering technical collaboration. Hawkr provided food, sponsored by ElevenLabs.
AI Tinkerers Singapore held its sixth in-person meetup. The event focused on artificial intelligence and was organized by Jake Laes.
Practitioners teamed up for a full-day hackathon to build competitive language agents for text game battles, supported by sponsors.
AI Tinkerers Singapore held their fifth in-person meetup. The event focused on artificial intelligence and provided a platform for community engagement.
AI Tinkerers Singapore held their fourth in-person meetup. The event fostered community and explored AI themes.
AI Tinkerers Singapore held its third in-person meetup, fostering community engagement and knowledge sharing within the artificial intelligence field.
AI Tinkerers Singapore held an in-person meetup. The event was organized by Henry Mao.
The AI Tinkerers Singapore held its inaugural in-person meetup, fostering community engagement and exploring AI topics.
Best AI meetup in Singapore for builders
AI Tinkerers Singapore 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 Singapore 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 Singapore 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 Singapore 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. The next event is AI Tinkerers Singapore x ElevenLabs: Build Voice AI & Creative Agents on November 10, 2026. Subscribe to the Singapore chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Singapore is the best AI meetup in Singapore for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Singapore 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 Singapore 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 Singapore chapter is part of a 268-city network with 140,000+ members worldwide.
Programmatic access to Anthropic's Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) for complex reasoning, vision, and tool-use applications. Recent talks: Evolutionary Harness: A Coding Agent That Breeds, Judges, and Promotes Its Own Promptsz (August 5, 2026)
GPT-5.6 Sol: OpenAI's flagship model for advanced coding, complex software engineering, and multi-step agentic workflows, setting new benchmarks in intelligence and efficiency. Recent talks: room: a shared space for coding agents, and how we used it to build itself (October 10, 2026)
Flutter delivers native mobile apps with a single codebase, eliminating third-party dependencies. Recent talks: Dealing cards nobody has to trust: a mental-poker protocol in production, and where it falls back (October 10, 2026)
Hidoba TTS is an OpenAI-compatible text-to-speech API that converts text into natural-sounding speech audio, supporting multiple formats and languages. Recent talks: Meet Captcha. A Humanoid Robot That Sees You, Hears You and Remembers You. (October 10, 2026)
IronHeart.AI builds cognitive runtime infrastructure, enabling robot OEMs and integrators to coordinate voice, memory, knowledge, and behavior for physical AI. Recent talks: Meet Captcha. A Humanoid Robot That Sees You, Hears You and Remembers You. (October 10, 2026)
Multi-dimensional Archive of Phenotypic Elites (MAP-Elites) is a Quality-Diversity (QD) algorithm: it illuminates a search space by building an archive of the best-performing solution for every defined behavioral characteristic. Recent talks: Evolutionary Harness: A Coding Agent That Breeds, Judges, and Promotes Its Own Promptsz (August 5, 2026)
Deploy a single plugin: simultaneously extend functionality across two distinct plugin architectures. Recent talks: room: a shared space for coding agents, and how we used it to build itself (October 10, 2026)
OpenAI API: Your direct gateway to cutting-edge AI models (GPT-4o, DALL-E 3, Whisper), enabling scalable, multimodal intelligence integration into any application. Recent talks: Evolutionary Harness: A Coding Agent That Breeds, Judges, and Promotes Its Own Promptsz (August 5, 2026)
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is the vendor-agnostic, open-source standard (CNCF) for instrumenting, generating, collecting, and exporting the three pillars of telemetry: traces, metrics, and logs. Recent talks: Evolutionary Harness: A Coding Agent That Breeds, Judges, and Promotes Its Own Promptsz (August 5, 2026)
RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) is the GenAI framework that grounds LLMs (like GPT-4) on external, verified data, drastically reducing model hallucinations and providing verifiable sources. Recent talks: Meet Captcha. A Humanoid Robot That Sees You, Hears You and Remembers You. (October 10, 2026)
"Loved the macaroon analogy for handling secrets and auth tokens for AI agents, really important work given the climate these days with people exposing their keys everywhere."
"Great demos, opportunity for community members to participate. Good that attendees are screened for relevance. Nice office, mindful of time. Good communication on how to get to venue."
"Thank you for organising these! Great opportunity for community to share, learn and create opportunities together."
"Great attendees and demos! Inspiring and helpful to meet."
"Intriguing concept. Was at last hackathon where Rohan and his team conceived this, great to see that it's progressed."
"Awesome events, the demos were all very very cool and I love all the technical and infra discussions."
"i understand due to time constraints, we restrict the demo to about 5 minutes. i wouldn't say to stop doing, may be based on complexity flexibility on this area would be great."
"Personally interested in System 1 AI, great to hear his sharing."
"The theme really helped ground. Great organizers."
"Excellent event with a lot of amazing insights"
Last updated: October 2026
