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AI Tinkerers Medellín will feature live AI demos and applied architecture discussions. Builders will showcase their work and network. Creative Innovation Company will sponsor the event.
Past
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted a Voice AI Agents Challenge for senior engineers, offering a $1,000 prize. The event featured a virtual kickoff, development phase, and an in-person awards ceremony.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #23 featured live robotics, voice, and WhatsApp AI agent demos. Builders shared code and challenges, prioritizing working prototypes over presentations.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #21 brought together AI builders for talks on AI agents, coding frameworks, and workflows, fostering collaboration and experimentation, supported by Source Meridian.
The Generative UI Global Hackathon brought together engineers to build agentic interfaces. Sponsors like Google DeepMind and CopilotKit supported this intensive build session.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #20 featured talks on AI agents, spec-driven development, and Claude Code plugin reverse engineering, fostering community innovation with sponsor SaleADS.ai.
The OpenClaw Global Unhackathon fostered a worldwide community of builders focused on shipping code and debugging. Sponsors supported this hands-on development session.
Builders gathered for an in-person code hackathon focused on using Claude Code for system development, featuring a Q&A with the Anthropic team and sponsored by Anthropic.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted a builders-only gathering for AI enthusiasts to share technical demonstrations and network. Source Meridian sponsored the event.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted its sixteenth in-person meetup for AI builders. The event focused on LLMs and generative AI, fostering collaboration and sharing practical experiences. Lean Solutions Group sponsored the meetup.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted an in-person meetup for AI builders. The event featured technical presentations and networking, supported by sponsors Telescoped and NODO EAFIT.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #14 brought together AI "builders" for demonstrations and networking. The community fostered collaboration and shared learnings, with thanks to sponsors Wizeline and Nodo EAFIT.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted a builders-only gathering for AI practitioners. The event featured technical presentations and networking, supported by SoftServe and Nodo EAFIT.
Active AI builders gathered for focused experimentation with deep dives on conversational experiences, the Miia multi-LLM platform, and multi-agent systems, sponsored by Ceiba Software.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted a science fair where developers showcased AI agent applications. MindTech sponsored a bonus for the winning agent, recognizing innovation and effectiveness.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #10 fostered technical demonstrations and networking. The community shared practical AI applications, with sponsors Guane and Universidad de Medellín supporting the event.
AI Tinkerers Medellín #9 fostered technical demonstrations and networking for active AI practitioners. Attendees shared work and connected with fellow AI builders.
AI Tinkerers Medellín hosted an in-person gathering for AI enthusiasts to share technical demonstrations and network, supported by SUMMAN SAS and NODO EAFIT.
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from evalml.datasets import load_diabetes
from evalml.preprocessing import split_data
from evalml.model_selection import train_test_split
from evalml.metrics import accuracy_score
from evalml.automl import AutoMLSearch
from evalml.genetic_opt import load_continuous,
load_categorical, load_integer
from evalml.genetic_opt import Algorithms
from evalml.genetic_opt.plots import plot_fitness_evolution, plot_search_space
from skopt import Space
from skopt.space import Real, Categorical as SkoptCategorical, Integer as SkoptInteger
# warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=FutureWarning)
X, y = load_diabetes(return_X_y=True)
X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, random_state=0)
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AI Tinkerers Medellín #7 featured AI-builders demonstrating projects and networking. The community explored LLMs and generative AI, with support from sponsor SoftServe.
The gathering explored AI revolutionizing education, featuring demonstrations of generative AI mentors and learning processes from speakers representing Cosmo Schools, Nodo EAFIT, and Qualia, supported by sponsors.
Builders and developers met for practical application sharing focused on Large Language Models and Generative AI projects. The gathering fostered peer collaboration and included technical demos. DataKnow sponsored the meeting.
Industry leaders discussed Large Language Models and business realities during a panel focused on early-stage innovation and collaboration. Vozy and Co-Work LatAm sponsored the gathering.
The AI Tinkerers Medellín community held its third in-person meetup focused on technical demonstrations and high-level collaboration among active AI builders, hosted at Microsoft.
The AI Tinkerers Medellín community hosted its second in-person meetup focused on technical demonstrations and networking for active builders exploring LLMs and generative AI, supported by EPAM and Microsoft.
The inaugural gathering connected AI professionals actively building solutions, encouraging sharing of technical demonstrations focused on LLMs and generative AI, supported by Vozy.
Best AI meetup in Medellín for builders
AI Tinkerers Medellín 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 Medellín chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 123,000+ 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 Medellín chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Medellín 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 Medellín #24 — Creative Innovation Company —27 de Agosto on August 27, 2026. Subscribe to the Medellín chapter to get notified about future events.
AI Tinkerers Medellín is the best AI meetup in Medellín for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Medellín 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 Medellín 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 Medellín chapter is part of a 253-city network with 123,000+ members worldwide.
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Last updated: August 2026