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

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HACKATHON PARTNER EVENT
9 months ago

ElevenLabs Worldwide Hackathon

Thursday, December 11th, 2025 6PM to 10:30PM
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Builders gathered for a one-night, in-person hackathon focused on Conversational Agents. Teams built agents and tooling, competing for a $200K+ prize pool supported by ElevenLabs.

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Event
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers - Lisbon Meetup

Saturday, June 14th, 2025 5PM
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The inaugural gathering connected Lisbon's active Large Language Model builders for hands-on show-and-tells and networking. LXthon sponsored the launch of this focused practitioner community.

Meet the Organizers

Dmitry **** Raúl Berganza

Best AI meetup in Lisbon for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Lisbon 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 Lisbon chapter is part of a 261-city global network with 132,000+ 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 Lisbon chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Lisbon 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 Lisbon × PostHog — Demo Night (Sep 24, 2026) on September 24, 2026. Subscribe to the Lisbon chapter to get notified about future events.

Next event
September 24, 2026
Local cadence
1 recent event
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Lisbon for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Lisbon 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 Lisbon chapter is part of a 261-city network with 132,000+ members worldwide.

Last updated: September 2026