AI Tinkerers San Diego 2026 Kickoff

Join the San Diego chapter for our first gathering of 2026 hosted by Clinically AI. This is the builders’ room: a space for active engineers, researchers, and founders to trade breakthroughs, debug production systems, and demonstrate working code. We are focused on the current frontier of agentic architectures, long-context reasoning, and the new standards shaping AI infrastructure.

Entry is selective by design. We prioritize those actively shipping AI applications and agents.

🚀 Agenda:

Our focus is on implementation, not pontification. Expect short, high-signal technical demos and deep peer-to-peer discussions.

• 5:30 PM – Check-in
• 5:45 PM – Lightning Demos (5–7 minutes each): See working systems covering topics like optimizing agentic execution using the new code-writing paradigm, deploying models with adaptive compute modes, and integrating the MCP Apps standard.
• 6:45 PM – Curated Networking: Connect with technical founders and engineers.

Tacos and drinks on us while they last—additional food available for purchase.

🚀 Submit Your Demo Proposal

This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries in action. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”

We welcome demos on:

• Lessons learned using models like Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3 Pro.
• Implementing long-horizon agent systems
• Efficiency hacks using the new code-writing paradigm for tool use.
• Debugging complex RAG pipelines or production latency issues.

Submit Your Demo Proposal Here

🤝 Sponsorship

AI Tinkerers San Diego is 100% volunteer-run. Huge thanks to our sponsors for making this possible!

Clinically AI is the intelligence platform for behavioral health, offering AI-powered solutions that help clinicians reclaim their day. Their flagship product, Clinical Notes AI, generates accurate, individualized clinical documentation in seconds—reducing documentation time by 60-80% while maintaining compliance with payer requirements and quality standards. Purpose-built for behavioral health workflows, the platform is EHR-agnostic, HIPAA-compliant, SOC 2 certified, and serves thousands of clinicians nationwide, from solo practitioners to multi-state enterprise networks.

Casper Studios maintains its mission to drive impact through AI by helping organizations make sense of their opportunities, apply thoughtful design, and develop solutions that scale. As an AI product studio with a team from industry leaders including LinkedIn, Accenture, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—and advisors from OpenAI and Google—Casper Studios has built AI agents and products for $1B hedge funds, $12B media brands, billion-dollar VC-backed startups, and additional companies integrating AI into their workflows. Casper Studios is hiring AI Product Engineers!