AI Events in Manizales | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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9 days ago

🚀 ¡16vo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Wednesday, May 27th 6:30PM
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AI Tinkerers Manizales hosted its 16th in-person meetup. Developers discussed LLMs and machine learning projects, sharing technical challenges and solutions.

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about 1 month ago

🚀 ¡15vo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Wednesday, April 29th 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Santiago Aristizabal Jose Narvaez Andres Lopez EFREN SANCHEZ Juan Camilo Villa Agudelo Miguel Angel Gómez

AI Tinkerers Manizales held its 15th in-person meetup. Developers and AI professionals shared real projects and engineering challenges, focusing on LLM and machine learning construction. Brasas de Milán supported the event.

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Event
2 months ago

🚀 ¡14vo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Wednesday, March 25th 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Leonardo González Victor Quitnero Cristian Tangarife Martha Liliana Castaño S Jose Narvaez Jeronimo Mayorca Yorgs Kennedy Duque Tangarife Juan Manuel Ivan Castaño Willington Fernando Alcala Vizcaino Nicolás Navarro Rincón Ferney Augusto Gomez Botero Sebastian Arango Miguel Angel Gómez Julián Galeano
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AI Tinkerers Manizales hosted its 14th meetup for technical builders and AI professionals. The event featured lightning talks on real-world projects and LLM implementations, fostering peer-to-peer knowledge exchange, with support from Brasas de Milán.

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3 months ago

🚀 ¡13vo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Thursday, February 26th 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Victor Quitnero Cristian Tangarife Juan Diego Felipe Callejas Santiago Aristizabal Juan Sebastián Gomez Giraldo Sebastian Arango Juan Pablo Montero Berrio Julián Andrés Castro Pulgarin

The 13th AI Tinkerers Manizales meeting fostered technical demonstrations and project showcases on artificial intelligence, with Brasas de Milán providing venue support.

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Manizales #11
Event
3 months ago

Cierre 2025 de AI Tinkerers: 11.º meetup del capítulo Manizales

Thursday, February 26th 6:30PM
Leonardo González Cristian Tangarife Iván David Buitrago Torres Juan Diego Castaño Luz Franco Oscar Julian Betancur Victor Quitnero EFREN SANCHEZ Juan Manuel Juan Ricardo Molina Gomez JUAN FEDERICO SIERRA CARVAJAL
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The AI Tinkerers Manizales chapter held its final 2025 technical meetup for experienced builders to share complex projects and challenges in LLMs and foundational models.

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Así fue la 12va edición del AI Tinkerers Manizales

February 12, 2026 · 4 minutes · 2 photos

La 12va AI Tinkerers Manizales fue 100% práctico: dos talleres clave, n8n para orquestación visual con un flujo de 11 nodos, y LangChain+Anthropic para reducir latencia con Prompt Caching (de 8.6 a 3.6 s; 45k tokens en caché; thread_id). Invitación a la 13va edición en 2026, grupo de WhatsApp.

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Event
5 months ago

Un año de AI Tinkerers Manizales

Wednesday, January 21st 3PM
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The technical gathering convened AI creators and professionals to build and share innovation focused on large language models and foundational models.

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Así fue la 11va edición del AI Tinkerers Manizales

December 18, 2025 · 4 minutes · 2 photos

Así fue la 11va edición AI Tinkerers Manizales cambia el paradigma hacia 2026 con Performance, Costo y Seguridad. Prototipado No-Code y Google AI Studio para automatizar YouTube (Nano-App). Spec-DD: para robots con user stories, Mermaid y endpoints. Seguridad con MCP y Docker; proxies (Ollama) vs nube; ToDo CLI.

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Así fue la 10ma edición del AI Tinkerers Manizales

December 10, 2025 · 4 minutes · 5 photos

La 10ma edición de AI Tinkerers Manizales avanzó hacia la ingeniería de software moderna: gobernanza con Vibecoding y Dockerización segura, IA Segura para empresas con AnythingLLM y, en el borde, Iris-Tinder y la inferencia de estado de ánimo en MaixCAM, mostrando soluciones biométricas eficientes.

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Así fué la 9na edición del AI Tinkereres Manizales

November 01, 2025 · 4 minutes · 3 photos

La 9na AI Tinkerers Manizales presentó tres charlas sobre IA y automatización: optimización de contenidos para YouTube (TimeBolt, GPTs, Transcript.lol, 1min.ai); automatización de imágenes, migraciones Drupal; restauración de fotos históricas de Manizales. 62.5% menos edición (4h→1.5h), 177 imágenes en minutos y migraciones de semanas a minutos, ~$24 USD.

Meet the Organizers

Jaime Restrepo

Best AI meetup in Manizales for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Manizales 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 Manizales 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 Manizales chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Manizales 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 Manizales chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
11 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 Manizales for hands-on builders

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

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

Topics at AI Tinkerers Manizales

Python

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

Docker

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

FastAPI

FastAPI is a modern, high-performance Python web framework for building APIs with automatic OpenAPI documentation.

OpenClaw

OpenClaw is the viral, open-source, autonomous AI agent: a self-hosted 'digital employee' that executes real-world tasks across your local machine and messaging platforms 24/7.

OpenHands

OpenHands is the open-source, model-agnostic AI agent platform that executes end-to-end software development tasks.

AGENTS

Autonomous software entities using large language models to reason, select tools, and execute complex workflows independently.

Android

The Google-developed, Linux-based, open-source mobile operating system powering billions of devices globally.

Cursor

The AI-native code editor designed for high-velocity development through deep LLM integration.

Embedded C/C++

Embedded C/C++ is the low-level powerhouse for microcontrollers (like ARM Cortex-M), delivering direct hardware control and real-time performance on resource-constrained systems.

Factory Droid

Factory Droids are autonomous AI agents that handle the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), from ticket creation to production-ready code.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Manizales

Cristian Tangarife
PentIA
May 27
Pentia is an autonomous pentesting platform that orchestrates 56 security tools across a 6-phase methodology (recon, enumeratio...
Cristian Tangarife Manizales
Marcela Parga Prieto
Del texto al hecho: Cómo la IA se convirtió en el storyboard de las p…
May 27
La brecha entre lo que un redactor imagina y lo que el cliente visualiza suele ser el mayor desafío en la aprobación de proyect...
Marcela Parga Prieto Manizales
Jaime Restrepo
LiteLLM: Un proxy unificado para gestionar múltiples LLMs en equipo
Apr 29
Configuré LiteLLM como un proxy centralizado que permite a todo el equipo acceder a más de 100 modelos de LLMs (OpenAI, Anthrop...
Jaime Restrepo Manizales
Jaime Restrepo
Prediciendo el futuro con inteligencia de enjambre
Mar 25
MiroFish es un motor de predicción con IA de nueva generación basado en tecnología multi-agente. La inteligencia de enjambre ll...
Jaime Restrepo Manizales
GraphRAG Docker
Victor Quitnero
Miró: Synthetic Audience Analysis using LLM Agents and Graph Database
Mar 25
In this demo, I will do a code deep-dive into "Miró", an engine I built to forecast the social and critical reception of upcomi...
Victor Quitnero Manizales
Python Neo4j
Leonardo González
OpenSymphony: Orquestación de Trabajo para Ingeniería Agencial
Mar 25
Se implementó el diseño de OpenAI Symphony, hecho en Rust y usando OpenHands agent-server. Se compartirán recursos de aprendiza...
Leonardo González Manizales
OpenAI Symphony OpenHands
Cristian Tangarife
LogAnalyzer: Cuando el llm no solo analiza sino que explica
Mar 25
Es una herramienta open source que detecta anomalías en logs y además enseña a interpretarlas usando un LLM. No solo alerta, si...
Cristian Tangarife Manizales
FastAPI Vue 3
Cristian Tangarife
HQ: Construyendo un sistema multiagente con openclaw
Feb 26
¿Qué pasa cuando un "squal lead" IA gestiona su propio equipo de agentes especializados? En esta charla exploraremos HQ, un sis...
Cristian Tangarife Manizales
Docker OpenClaw
Leonardo González
Especificaciones y Agentes para Ejecución Ágil
Feb 26
Principios de documentación, guías, y especificaciones, y cómo aprovecharlos con agentes especializados para ejecución a largo ...
Leonardo González Manizales
OpenHands Factory Droid
Victor Quitnero
PicoClaw on MaixCam and OpenClaw on Android: Making a Claw Machine
Feb 26
This is a technical teardown of how I got PicoClaw running on a MaixCam (K210-based) board and OpenClaw on Android client, turn...
Victor Quitnero Manizales
MaixCam K210
Cristian Tangarife
AI Tinkerers: Idea a Implementación
Feb 26
En esta charla voy a profundizar en cómo ha sido el proceso detrás de los diferentes proyectos que hemos mostrado a lo largo de...
Cristian Tangarife Manizales
Python Docker
Ivan Castaño
LangChain Agents with Middleware
Jan 21
La idea del taller es presentar la forma en la que se pueden utilizar las diferentes herramientas del ecosistema LangChain (Lan...
Ivan Castaño Manizales
LangChain LangGraph

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Last updated: June 2026