AI Events in Durango | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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1 day ago

AI Tinkerers Durango: June Builder Meetup

Wednesday, June 10th 5:30PM to 7:30PM
Diane Howe Terry Howe Natambu Obleton Blake Mister Justin Poehnelt Tommi Virtanen Adam Roessler

AI Tinkerers Durango held a technical meetup for developers to share AI projects, code, and architecture, featuring curated demos and networking, supported by local sponsors.

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about 1 month ago

AI Tinkerers Durango: May the 4th be with you!

Monday, May 4th 5PM to 7:30PM
Tommi Virtanen Diane Howe Bobby Bonestell Terry Howe Justin Poehnelt Adam Roessler

AI Tinkerers Durango explored autonomous agentic workflows with technical demos and a Science Fair. Sponsors King Energy and Howdy.vc supported the event.

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HACKATHON - MARCH 23
05:00 PM
NATIONAL PARK
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Hackathon
3 months ago

Durango Mini-Hackfest: 3 hour quick fire challenge!

Monday, March 23rd 5PM to 8PM
Jesse White Elliot Hutchins Bobby Bonestell Gibran Visram Braden Sanders Justin Poehnelt Nick Collins Adam Roessler
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Engineers and researchers gathered for a 3-hour hackfest focused on shipping code. Teams tackled AI challenges, culminating in a technical show-and-tell, with support from King Energy, SCAPE, and Backlit.

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4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Durango: Code and Show'n'tell

Monday, February 23rd 5PM to 7PM
Bobby Bonestell Justin Poehnelt Diane Howe Matt Brandt Joe Schrag Bill Harrison Matthew Taylor Elliot Hutchins Blake Mister Tim Pletcher Kevin Oliver Phil McGuire Paul Spitzer Adam Markham Nick Collins Terry Howe
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AI Tinkerers Durango held a technical meetup focused on live code demos and practical implementation notes for frontier AI topics, followed by builder-to-builder networking.

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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers – Durango Inaugural Meetup

Monday, January 12th 5PM
Phil McGuire Diane Howe Kevin Oliver Christopher Ducker Adam Roessler Colin Roy-Ehri Dale Shumate Joe Schrag admin'-- Test Gordon So Bobby Bonestell Justin Poehnelt Nick Collins Terry Howe Nate Aune Blake Mister Bill Harrison Adam Markham Elliot Hutchins Matt Brandt
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Builders met for technical discussions on agent loops and 3D printing demos, sharing hard-won lessons. Pennyworth Technologies sponsored the gathering.

Meet the Organizers

Nicholas Goodman

Best AI meetup in Durango for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Durango 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 Durango chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 112,000+ 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 Durango chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Durango 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 Durango chapter to get notified.

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

Best AI meetup in Durango for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Durango 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 Durango chapter is part of a 231-city network with 112,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Durango

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

custom slash commands

Trigger server-side scripts and external API workflows directly from a chat interface using simple /command syntax.

git

Git is the distributed version control system (DVCS) that tracks source code changes, ensuring data integrity and enabling non-linear development workflows.

GitHub

Host Git repositories and enable massive-scale collaboration (pull requests, issue tracking) for over 100 million developers.

Linear

Linear is the blazing-fast issue tracking platform purpose-built for modern software teams: manage bugs, sprints, and roadmaps with speed and clarity.

Shell scripting

Automate Unix-like systems by chaining command-line utilities into powerful, repeatable execution sequences.

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Last updated: June 2026