AI Events in Hong Kong | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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Recruiting Event
6 months ago

AITHKGBA 1 Year Anniversary Celebration and 2026 Team Recruitment Event

Monday, December 15th, 2025 7PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Marcus Leiwe Iulian Arcus William Gazeley Ivan Ko Way Fai Godfrey Cheng John NG Alexander Payne Dominik Keller Jeremy Chow Daniel Sarosi Clay Wong Guenther Lomas Gerry Li Kamting (KT) Tsoi Carl Fernando

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong and GBA celebrated their first anniversary with a special recruitment drive for 2026 team roles.

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Meetup
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers – Hong Kong Online Meetup (December) - Benchmarking LLMs (AA TechTalk)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 8PM to 9PM
Clay Wong Stephanie Nhi Le Augustin Chan Timothy Chau William Gazeley Martin Chan Wilko Wielinga Abbey Wong Way Fai Godfrey Cheng Peter Ma Hill Chu Ken Huang Alexander Payne Ilyas Yeskenov

The community held a technical roundtable discussing practical benchmarking of Large Language Models for real-world application use. Participants traded concrete evaluation techniques and production validation criteria.

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Meetup
6 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong Meetup - November 27th

Thursday, November 27th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Iulian Arcus Marcus Leiwe Daniel Sarosi Carina Tsang Srasti Sethi Ernest Yuen Zhilin Huang Siu King Hang Ilyas Yeskenov Jennie Ng TONG MAN KIT Karl Uy Mavis Tan Nicole Chan Vivienne Lam Daniel Ng Peony Ngai Ivan Ko Jessica Fong
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AI Tinkerers Hong Kong hosted a technical meetup for practitioners building with foundation models and generative AI, featuring AWS keynote and demos, supported by AWS.

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Meetup
7 months ago

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

Tuesday, November 11th, 2025 7PM to 9PM
Catherine Somi Ronald Yu QI LI Zhilin Huang Stanley Yeung Wu Ruibing Cameron Ho Way Fai Godfrey Cheng

AI Tinkerers hosted an in-person networking night for builders and practitioners in Hong Kong to foster informal technical conversations and collaborations around foundation models.

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Meetup (Virtual)
7 months ago

AI Tinkerers – Hong Kong Online Meetup (November) - Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK Festival 2025 Community Event (AA TechTalk)

Tuesday, November 4th, 2025 8PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Jocelyn Wenfeng Wang Shelley Su Zhilin Huang Carina Tsang Alexandre IB Alexander Payne Nicole Chan Kamting (KT) Tsoi Simon Prakash Verma Luiz Carlos Megda Batista Joe Kim Gregg Chen Ronald Yu Way Fai Godfrey Cheng Augustin Chan Ken Huang Kai Zhang
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The virtual meetup focused on practical LLM application building, featuring live demos, builder stories, and technical troubleshooting sessions for engineers and entrepreneurs.

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Meetup
8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong Meetup - October 22nd

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025 6:30PM to 10:30PM
William Gazeley HOK CHI AU Kamting (KT) Tsoi Pei Wang Will Tang Alexander Payne Daniel Ng Felix Iulian Arcus Ivan Ko John NG Ali Farooqi Ronald Yu Louis Cheung Stanley Yeung
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Technical practitioners gathered for a Level 3 session featuring presentations and project showcases, concluding with extended networking, supported by a keynote from a Clean Beauty sponsor.

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Meetup
8 months ago

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

Tuesday, October 14th, 2025 7PM to 9PM
Nikhil Sharma Martin Seng Stanley Yeung Alexander Payne Michael Lin William Gazeley Daniel Sarosi Yuan Liu Marcus Leiwe

Active AI builders in Hong Kong gathered for an informal networking night to share ideas, discuss real projects involving foundation models, and spark collaborations.

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Meetup
8 months ago

AI Tinkerers – Hong Kong Online Meetup (October) - Project Updates: What are you building (AA TechTalk)

Wednesday, October 8th, 2025 8PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau Wilko Wielinga Guenther Lomas Marcus Leiwe Yuan Liu Michael Lin Yanan Long Alexander Payne

Practitioners joined the virtual meetup for interactive project updates, troubleshooting, and rapid collaboration on foundation model building. Attendees shared progress and prototypes for technical exchange.

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Meetup
8 months ago

AI Tinkerers Hong Kong with AWS Meetup — September 29, 2025

Monday, September 29th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Timothy Chau John NG Wilko Wielinga Sonia Martin Seng Carina Tsang Sun Yat Lee Ivan Legostaev Ronald Yu Yanan Long Guenther Lomas Ambrose Lee Daniel Sarosi Ivan Ko Frankie Wu Stanley Yeung Shahman Ali Iulian Arcus Alexander Payne HOK CHI AU
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AI Tinkerers Hong Kong hosted a technical meetup for machine learning engineers and entrepreneurs, featuring demos and networking, supported by AWS and Peterson Group.

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
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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
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Long Hui
Long
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With spec-driven AI development going mainstream and even Garry Tan making his own coding framework, I decided to build a frame...
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I have experimented with Remotion for Video Generation By Claude Code and would be pleased to share this in a 10 - 15 mins live...
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Tamir
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Iulian Arcus
Nixus: Orchestrating Agentic Infrastructure
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Nixus is a set of recipes for orchestrating the building blocks of modern agentic tasks. The talk shows a quick overview of how...
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EvoFit: Building a Cross-Cultural AI Fitness Coach That Bridges Easte…
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Learnings of integrating OpenClaw & Local LLM into my Home Assistant …
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Does OpenClaw elevate my smart home experience on top of the already powerful Home Assistant? By leveraging the OpenClaw add-on...
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Kazel Lau
Bugtrace AI: Building the First Deterministic Agentic Framework for R…
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Bugtrace AI is the first deterministic Agentic AI framework specifically engineered for automated web pentesting.
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Jenny Wong
The first cantonese lyrics ai in HK https://cantolyricsai.com/
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Jenny Wong Hong Kong
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David MC
From Abacus to AI: Small Potatoes, Big Results
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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
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Last updated: June 2026