🤖 🔥 Inaugural Lafayette meetup of AI Tinkerers - coming soon! 🔥 🤖

What is AI Tinkerers - Lafayette?

AI Tinkerers - Lafayette is a meetup designed to bring together practitioners with technical, entrepreneurial, and applied AI backgrounds who are actively building, experimenting with, or implementing AI systems. Whether you’re a hands-on developer, an agency innovator, or a small business owner exploring how AI can transform your operations, this group is for you.

We’re building a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment where ideas cross-pollinate, leading to truly groundbreaking innovation. Think of this as your sandbox to tinker, learn, and grow with fellow pioneers in Lafayette.

Who is this for?

👉 Developers & Builders: Tinkerers actively creating and optimizing foundation models, building applications, and advancing the boundaries of generative AI.

👉 Agency Innovators: Tinkerers bridging the gap between AI and business needs, integrating AI into products and services for clients, or scaling AI-driven operations.

👉 Small Business Owners: Tinkerers who are exploring practical ways to use AI to solve challenges, grow their businesses, and create a competitive edge.

🛠️ What makes someone a tinkerer?
This meetup is for active builders and doers—those who are experimenting, applying, and refining their skills in real-world scenarios. Whether you’re coding, integrating AI tools into workflows, or figuring out how AI can reshape your business, your hands-on involvement defines you as a tinkerer.

Enthusiasts Welcome to Observe: While the focus is on active participants, we welcome AI enthusiasts who aspire to become tinkerers. Our goal is to inspire and motivate everyone to move from interest to action, building the skills and confidence to join the tinkering community.

Why AI Tinkerers - Lafayette?

The goal is simple:
We’re creating a space for Lafayette’s builders, extenders, and end users to connect and collaborate. We can’t let Silicon Valley have all the fun! Together, we’ll explore how AI can shape not just the tech industry but every sector, from local businesses to global innovations.

AI Tinkerers - Lafayette is where ideas meet application, theory meets action, and practitioners of all disciplines converge to build a more connected, interdisciplinary future.

🕕 Tentative Schedule for future meetings…

Our event will be TBD at TBD (Lafayette, West Lafayette, Purdue Campus locations all in the running).

This meetup is organized into three parallel tracks, with plenty of opportunities for cross-pollination:

• 5:00 PM: Doors Open
• 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM: Parallel Tracks
  • Track 1: Developers & Builders – Share your technical demos, experiments, or tools in progress.
  • Track 2: Agency Innovators – Showcase client-facing tools, workflows, or products that use AI to deliver value.
  • Track 3: Small Business Owners – Learn from peers about how AI is being used in real businesses, with hands-on examples and ideas for your own implementation.
• 6:30 PM - Close: Full Group Convergence
  • Merge all tracks for open networking, discussions, and collaboration. Share insights from your sessions and spark new ideas!

🎙️ DEMO SIGNUPS 🎙️

We are actively looking for more demos for each of the three tracks!

A demo is about five minutes in length and demonstrates a work in progress. No pitch decks—this is your chance to show off your messy, raw, and exciting projects!

👉 Submit your demo here: [🚧Demo Submission Form Coming Soon]

🤝 Connect, Collaborate, and Create

This meetup is your chance to:

• Showcase Your Latest AI Projects: Submit a 5-minute demo to share your work with a focused, like-minded audience.
• Learn and Collaborate Across Disciplines: Whether you’re building models, integrating AI into workflows, or applying it to real-world problems, this is your platform to learn and grow.
• Meet Your Local AI Community: Network with developers, agency professionals, and small business owners passionate about the future of AI.

Sponsors

This event is sponsored by Prompted LLC, a leader in AI innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration.

RSVP Functionality Coming Soon!!

Space will be limited, so don’t miss out on this opportunity to be part of the inaugural Lafayette AI Tinkerers meetup. Use the contact AI Tinkerers - Lafayette buttom below to hop on the “interested” list.