ElevenLabs x BlackBird Foundry Worldwide Hackathon
The in-person hackathon focused on Conversational Agents, featuring community energy and over $200K in prizes, was supported by ElevenLabs and Blackbird.
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The in-person hackathon focused on Conversational Agents, featuring community energy and over $200K in prizes, was supported by ElevenLabs and Blackbird.
AI Tinkerers Sydney hosted a demo night focused on AI trust and security, featuring talks, demos, and a panel discussion, with support from OrionVM and Auth0 by Okta.
The AI Tinkerers Sydney inaugural meetup brought together practitioners building with foundation models. Speakers shared insights on practical applications and agent-driven workflows, with support from sponsors OrionVM, Polaris Data Centre, and Blaize AI.
Best AI meetup in Sydney for builders
AI Tinkerers Sydney 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 Sydney chapter is part of a 261-city global network with 128,000+ 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 Sydney chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Sydney 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 Sydney chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Sydney is the best AI meetup in Sydney for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Sydney 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 Sydney 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 Sydney chapter is part of a 261-city network with 128,000+ members worldwide.
"Organisation was really great, the venue was great, the Blackbird team were awesome."
"Great work by Sheng and team, and, thanks to the Sponsors for their generous support."
"Would love to have seen more on how you built it than what you built with it."
"Love the process walkthrough, I wondered if you can make it shorter?"
"A call for volunteers to help out will be nice too. The organisation was perfectly fine and flawless but getting a few extra pair of hands would be helpful I reckon"
"This was an awesome, interactive and very nice presentation."
Last updated: September 2026