AI Events in Manizales | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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VIP Dinner
7 months ago

🏔️ ¡Noveno Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales!

Wednesday, October 29th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Cristian Tangarife Diana Patricia Marin Torres David Bulla Juan Walter Garcia Salazar Luz Franco Gabriel Eduardo Ramirez Giraldo Marcela Parga Prieto Carlos Mario Losada Plaza Julieth Tatiana Morales Rincón Brandon Cortes Grajales Ivan Castaño Santiago Aristizabal Julián Galeano Diego Castro Sergio Londoño López Yorgs Kennedy Duque Tangarife Jorge Agudelo Orozco JUAN FEDERICO SIERRA CARVAJAL
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The technical, in-person dinner gathered AI practitioners for short talks, peer feedback, and networking on building real AI solutions, sponsored by Brasas de Milan.

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Event
8 months ago

🚀 ¡Octavo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales!

Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Leonardo González Marcela Parga Prieto Walter Garcia Salazar Cristian Tangarife Luz Franco EFREN SANCHEZ Catheryne Patiño Cardona Diego Castro Juan Fernando Grisales Sanchez Santiago Aristizabal John Alexander Galvis Ramirez Alejandro Patiño Cardona Felipe Callejas Oscar Julian Betancur
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The technical, in-person meetup gathered AI builders to share projects and challenges related to Large Language Models and foundational models.

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Recursos AI Tinkereres Manizales

August 29, 2025 · 7 minutes

Recopilación de recursos de AI Tinkerers Manizales y DragonJAR: comunidades y eventos, herramientas de automatización (n8n, Activepieces), desarrollo y modelos (Hugging Face, LM Studio, Google AI Studio), cursos (Guías oficiales de OpenAI y Google), y herramientas de audio/voz (ElevenLabs, transcribe.lol), más noticias y podcasts del grupo.

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Event
9 months ago

🚀 ¡Septimo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Nicolás Navarro Rincón Keyla Daniela Cartagena Díaz Juan Carlos Jeorge Gonzalez Valencia Claudia Marcela Hernandez Giraldo Luis Carlos Correa-Ortiz Victor Quitnero Nicolás Murcia Muñoz Oscar Julian Betancur Juan Sebastián Gomez Giraldo Cristian Piedrahita Karol Rojas EFREN SANCHEZ Victor Morales Nilton Zuluaga Jeronimo Mayorca Santiago Aristizabal Diego Fernando Cantillo Diaz Diego Fernando Delgado
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The technical dinner meeting focused on creators building with AI and LLMs, featuring short presentations and peer problem-solving, sponsored by Brasas de Milán.

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Así Fué el Quinto AI Tinkerers Manizales

June 26, 2025 · 5 minutes

El 25 de junio, IA Tinkerers celebró su quinto encuentro, con PentestIA de Cristian Tangarife (sistema multiagente MCP y tres reportes), Conti de Marcela Betancourt; OpenManus, Asuna y LemonAI; y La Fábrica de Victor Quintero, que crea una empresa con IA en solo dos semanas.

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Así Fué el Cuarto AI Tinkerers Manizales

June 05, 2025 · 8 minutes

El 4 de IA Tinkerers Manizales mostró: 1) Prospección escalable con n8n, 11Labs y Twilio para mensajes de voz personalizados; 2) Generación de video coherente mediante segmentación y keyframes (VEO3/Minimax/Runway; VAN 2.1); 3) Poseído, un agente multi‑propósito en Windows con Recorder, destacando latencia y el papel de LAMs.

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Repositorio más grande de workflows de n8n en español

June 04, 2025 · 4 minutes

Descubre el repositorio más grande de workflows de n8n en español: n8n Workflows en Español (https://github.com/DragonJAR/n8n-workflows-esp/). Trae JSON renombrados, descripciones en español generadas por IA, PDFs y enlaces a la documentación oficial; además, un Custom GPT para flujos n8n (https://chatgpt.com/g/g-6840a79abd348191966dd06abd7236c8-asistente-de-flujos-n8n).

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Meetup
about 1 year ago

🚀 ¡Cuarto Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales! 🤖

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Leonardo González Victor Quitnero Nicolás Navarro Rincón Diego Armando Giraldo Quintero Santiago Juan David Urrea Daniela Ibarra Juan Sebastian Salgado Carvajal Catheryne Patiño Cardona James Montaño Manuela Vásquez John Montenegro Mateo Gomez Alvarado Duvan García Javier Mauricio Cardona Osias Weimar Cortes Héctor Rafael Rodríguez García Andrew Ocampo Nicolás Murcia Muñoz
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The technical gathering brought together AI model engineers to share projects, challenges, and solutions in a collaborative, non-commercial setting.

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