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AI Tinkerers Auckland - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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A digital banner featuring three retro-style CRT monitors, where the central screen displays promotional text for a hackathon in glowing green on a dark background.. Text: WORLDWIDE HACKATHON ElevenLabs
HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
6 months ago

ElevenLabs x BlackBird Foundry Worldwide Hackathon

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
Sheng Yeo Tristan Mona Rachel Monks Sam Sajch Saron Berhane Eaden McKee Ian Gallagher Ron Bansal Abdullah Raza Richard Fontein John Graves Jason Xavier Juan Morais Will Baker Neil Blake Yousong Sun Walter Lim JP Gillespie William Seagar Todd Mansill
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Teams gathered globally for a one-night hackathon focused on Conversational Agents, building projects with support from ElevenLabs and Blackbird VC, competing for significant prizes.

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Sheng Yeo

Best AI meetup in Auckland for builders

AI Tinkerers Auckland is a hands-on AI builder meetup with live demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking.

AI Tinkerers Auckland 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 Auckland chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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 Auckland chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Auckland 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 Auckland chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
1 recent event
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Auckland for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Auckland is the best AI meetup in Auckland for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Auckland 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.

What makes AI Tinkerers Auckland different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Auckland 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.

Builder-only room

Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.

Live technical demos

Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.

Global builder network

The Auckland chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

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Last updated: June 2026