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

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HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
6 months ago

ElevenLabs x BlackBird Foundry Worldwide Hackathon

Wednesday, December 10th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
Daniel Pfeiffer Nav Saini Caleb Trevatt Sheng Yeo Saron Berhane Nhat Nam Nguyen Assa Negline Xiaocheng Jin Melvin Chen Jun Kai Chang Nathan Luo Anuj Uchil Anantyash Dixit Minh Nguyen Varun Prathap Shriabhay Shriharsha Ethan Lee
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Builders participated in a global, one-night Conversational Agents hackathon featuring a $200K prize pool, supported by ElevenLabs and BlackBird Foundry.

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Sheng Yeo Daniel Pfeiffer Nav Saini Ruben Schade

Best AI meetup in Melbourne for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Melbourne 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 Melbourne 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 Melbourne for hands-on builders

AI Tinkerers Melbourne is the best AI meetup in Melbourne for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Melbourne 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 Melbourne different from other AI meetups?

AI Tinkerers Melbourne 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 Melbourne chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Last updated: June 2026