AI Events in Hong Kong | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong - AI Meetups, Events, and Builder Demos 2026

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3 months ago

OpenClaw Global Unhackathon

Saturday, February 28th 1PM to 6PM
Timothy Chau William Gazeley Jiaxiang Wang Chelsea Queck Yanan Long Frederic Giron LingShan HUNG Louis Shi Victor Wong Marcus Leiwe Jon Ma Tony lau Calvin Chen Mohamed Sobhy Alex Lam
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AI Tinkerers hosted a global unhackathon where builders collaborated to improve OpenClaw and ClawdBot infrastructure, supported by several tech partners.

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3 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong & GBA: Using AI as a Superconductor for Learning

Thursday, February 26th 6PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Christopher Lee Alexander Carsten Uhlmann Shirley Lam Tony Tsoi MA Peiying Cynthia Han Zoe Zhong Angela Dai Zhouhangyu Zhou Eva swainston Nadeem Nabiha Jessie Baron Xueqing Zou Chelsea Queck Carina Tsang Stephen Choi Ruiyang Xie Ayeisha Shafana Yixia Fan
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AI Tinkerers Hong Kong & GBA explored AI as a learning superconductor, featuring technical applications and a builder demo showcase.

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4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: Hands-on Workshop: Deploying OpenClaw Agents with Alibaba Cloud

Friday, February 13th 7PM to 8:30PM
Timothy Chau Sabrina yang Marc Hua Carina Tsang Chak Chi WONG Jeremy Chow Martin Chan Natalie Tang Geoffrey Tipton Christine Deschemin Crystal Leung Frederic Giron Ka-Wai To Eunice Kiang Alexander Payne Karmen Yip Eranio Petruska Sophie Kim Ayeisha Shafana William Gazeley
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Builders attended a hands-on workshop deploying OpenClaw agents using Alibaba Cloud infrastructure and Model Studio integration.

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Virtual Meetup
4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong & GBA: Online Meetup — February — Self Intros & What Are You Building?

Tuesday, February 10th 8PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Alexander Payne Catherine Somi Hanley Leung Julia Fan Daniel Sarosi Kamting (KT) Tsoi Sarah T Iulian Arcus Chelsea Queck Amedeo Ercole Ali Farooqi Marcus Leiwe Augustin Chan Bundy Pun Matthias Heim
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Engineers, researchers, and founders connected virtually for round-table introductions and informal project sharing focused on foundation models and generative AI.

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4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: Coffee Conversations: OpenClaw

Saturday, February 7th 3PM to 5PM
Timothy Chau Aissultan Baktygali Alexander Carsten Uhlmann Polly Wong Anne Zhang Kamting (KT) Tsoi Emily Ho William Gazeley Way Fai Godfrey Cheng Jules LEIDELINGER Jason Xu Alberto Bettencourt Justin Wong Wilko Wielinga Michael Ruescher Ron Yu Gary Pratt Carl Fernando Iulian Arcus Gregg Chen
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AI Tinkerers Hong Kong held an in-person builder-to-builder discussion about the OpenClaw trend, featuring short share-outs among limited community members.

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4 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: Deep Dive Series - Deep Dive featuring Spatial Computing and Robotics

Thursday, February 5th 6:30PM to 9:15PM
Timothy Chau Marcus Leiwe Clay Wong Bugs Harpley Rhys Turner Carina Tsang Justin Wong Aissultan Baktygali Christine Deschemin Ronny Hu Jenny Wong Frankie Wong Janet Chan Annie Leung Shef Wang Alex Lam Kamting (KT) Tsoi Siddharth Jhanji Samuel Ng Jason Xu
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Active builders attended a curated technical exchange on AI systems interacting with the physical world, featuring a deep dive on spatial computing and robotics from Auki Labs.

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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong & GBA: Applied AI in Finance Demos

Tuesday, January 20th 6PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Alexander Payne Jeremy Chow Jules LEIDELINGER Guenther Lomas Victor Wong Abigail Koh Stanley Yeung Ronny Hu Laurie Poon Gerry Li Jovy Yu Simon Chelsea Queck Aman Rana Mohammed Naeem Qureshi Ivan Ko William Gazeley Amedeo Ercole Augustin Chan
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The in-person gathering featured technical demonstrations of applied artificial intelligence in finance, focusing on production systems and agentic workflows, hosted by Baidu AI.

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5 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong Networking Night (January) – Pure Networking Vibes!

Tuesday, January 13th 7PM
Julia Cheung Laurie Poon Ron Yu Claudia Wong Alberto Bettencourt Hanley Leung Max Mo Gerry Li Jason Xu Jonathan Mo Jeremy Chow Clay Wong William Guenther Lomas Lawrence Opferkuch Timothy Chau
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Active builders and AI practitioners gathered for a social circuit event focused on foundation models and generative AI. Attendees connected informally to share insights and discuss technical challenges.

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Meetup
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong: Deep Dive Series — Technical Lessons from Shipping AI/ML/CV

Thursday, December 18th, 2025 7PM to 9PM
Iulian Arcus William Gazeley Way Fai Godfrey Cheng Devansh Gandhi Ivan Ko Simon Guenther Lomas Ronald Yu Yuan Liu Rhys Turner Geoffrey Tipton
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Engineers and researchers gathered for a technical exchange focused on production AI, machine learning, and computer vision systems, concluding with peer critique. Dim Sum Labs hosted the event.

Best AI meetup in Hong Kong for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong & GBA at Dialogue in the Dark (June) on June 24, 2026. Subscribe to the Hong Kong chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
June 24, 2026
Local cadence
39 events in the last 12 months
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Hong Kong for hands-on builders

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

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

Topics at AI Tinkerers Hong Kong

Python

Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.

LLM

Large Language Models (LLMs) are deep learning models, built on the Transformer architecture, that process and generate human-quality text and code at scale.

AI

AI: The computational system driving human-level problem-solving (e.g., GPT-4, AlphaGo), actively transforming sectors like healthcare and finance with predictive analytics.

OpenRouter

OpenRouter: The unified API gateway for hundreds of LLMs, providing single-endpoint access, automatic fallbacks, and cost-optimized routing across all major providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google).

TypeScript

TypeScript is an open-source superset of JavaScript: it adds static typing and compiles to clean, standards-based JavaScript.

Docker

Docker is the open-source platform that packages applications and dependencies into standardized, portable containers for consistent execution across any environment.

Flash

Flash was a dominant multimedia software platform (Macromedia, then Adobe) used for creating vector graphics, animation, and Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), officially discontinued on December 31, 2020.

Machine Learning

Compute dense vector representations for sentences and paragraphs using a Python framework that optimizes transformer models for semantic similarity.

ML

ML is the AI subset where algorithms automatically learn patterns from data to make predictions or decisions, replacing explicit, hard-coded instructions.

Next

Next.js is the full-stack React framework: it delivers high-performance web applications via hybrid rendering and powerful, Rust-based tooling.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Hong Kong

Jason Xu
Founder
May 7
Jason is the founder of Prep Pal. He's an ex-Google, ex-Alibaba Product Manager focusing on AI and ML products. Prep Pal: Helpi...
Jason Xu Hong Kong
AI ML
Long Hui
Long
May 7
With spec-driven AI development going mainstream and even Garry Tan making his own coding framework, I decided to build a frame...
Long Hui Hong Kong
AI ML
Gregg Chen
Remotion Your Videos
May 7
I have experimented with Remotion for Video Generation By Claude Code and would be pleased to share this in a 10 - 15 mins live...
Gregg Chen Hong Kong
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Tamir
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AI Demo by Tamir
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Iulian Arcus
Nixus: Orchestrating Agentic Infrastructure
Apr 29
Nixus is a set of recipes for orchestrating the building blocks of modern agentic tasks. The talk shows a quick overview of how...
Iulian Arcus Hong Kong
Nix NixOS
Li Jiaye
EvoFit: Building a Cross-Cultural AI Fitness Coach That Bridges Easte…
Apr 29
EvoFit is an AI-powered fitness system that acts as a personalized coach — combining Eastern wellness traditions like Tai Chi w...
Li Jiaye Hong Kong
MediaPipe Dynamic Time Warping
Amanda Lam
Learnings of integrating OpenClaw & Local LLM into my Home Assistant …
Apr 29
Does OpenClaw elevate my smart home experience on top of the already powerful Home Assistant? By leveraging the OpenClaw add-on...
Amanda Lam Hong Kong
Home Assistant OpenClaw
Kazel Lau
Bugtrace AI: Building the First Deterministic Agentic Framework for R…
Apr 29
Bugtrace AI is the first deterministic Agentic AI framework specifically engineered for automated web pentesting.
Kazel Lau Hong Kong
Python TypeScript
Jenny Wong
The first cantonese lyrics ai in HK https://cantolyricsai.com/
Mar 26
I am working on an independent AI project that automates Cantonese songwriting through a custom machine learning workflow.
Jenny Wong Hong Kong
LLM Machine Learning
David MC
From Abacus to AI: Small Potatoes, Big Results
Mar 26
I'll share my real, month-long journey as a complete non-coder who used today's AI tools (like Grok, Copilot, Claude Haiku, and...
David MC Hong Kong
Claude Sonnet Claude Haiku
Gerald OConnor
How I Built a Presentation Coaching App in 4 days — With AI as My Eng…
Mar 26
After Chinese New Year this year, I was preparing to teach two modules in the Masters of Economics programme at The University ...
Gerald OConnor Hong Kong
Next React
Gerry Li
Reconstructing Memories with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Mar 26
The Foundation: Using 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to recreate real-world environments with hyper-realistic fidelity with PostS...
Gerry Li Hong Kong
3D Gaussian Splatting Meta SAM 3D

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Last updated: June 2026