AI Events in Manizales | AI Tinkerers Meetups 2026

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

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Así Fué el Tercer AI Tinkerers Manizales

May 07, 2025 · 4 minutes

30 de abril de 2025, Tercer AI Thinkers Manizales mostró SpectroCVT-Net para Alzheimer con 96% precisión en 70 pacientes, Grad-CAM y 1M parámetros; IA en hacking ético como copiloto de Montaño; Manus.ai de Restrepo, un agente que ejecuta tareas desde lenguaje natural, con DVVCA y Excel; beta en manus.im/app.

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MANIZALES.AITINKERERS.ORG
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about 1 year ago

Tercer Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales

Wednesday, April 30th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo James Montaño Ernesto Guevara Navarro PAULA CARDONA Juan Diego Castaño Luisa Rincon Jorge Agudelo Orozco Keyla Daniela Cartagena Díaz Victor Quitnero Javier Mauricio Cardona Osias Henry Velasquez Milton Mendoza Emanuel Jacob Mejia Buritica Sebastián Moreno Santiago Aristizabal Alejandro Patiño Cardona Weimar Cortes Luis Velez Juan Diego Quintero Andres Castaño
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The technical, in-person gathering provided AI creators a collaborative space to share projects, solve challenges, and exchange know-how regarding large language models and foundational models.

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Así Fué el Segundo AI Tinkerers Manizales

April 06, 2025 · 4 minutes · 6 photos

El 2do encuentro IA Tinkerers Manizales reunió a expertos y estudiantes: se presentó Sofia, IA modular de código abierto; se discutió IA para los ODS; avances en salud; asistencia legal con AWS y Pinecone; y análisis de InfoStealers con IA. Invitación a jóvenes <30 y mentores >30; WhatsApp.

A man wearing glasses appears in a selfie-style video, with overlaid text promoting Manizales and a website.. Text: Al Tinkerers llega a Manizales
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about 1 year ago

Segundo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Natalia Betancur Juan Camilo Ossa Giraldo Cristian Tangarife Daniela Patiño Victor Quitnero Luisa Rincon Andres Castaño Andres Esteban Perez Laura Victoria Blanco Olmos Miguel Rios Marcela Parga Prieto Cocu Alejandro Iglesias Osorio ANDRES FELIPE TABORDA DANIEL ACOSTA Gustavo Gonzalez Laura Perez Gallego Leonar Santiago Castro Vizcaya Viviana Racero Lopez Juan Manuel Toro Castro
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Technical colleagues gathered for project sharing and collaboration focused on real-world applications of large language models and machine learning pipelines.

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Así Fué el Primer AI Tinkerers Manizales

March 02, 2025 · 3 minutes · 8 photos

El 26 de febrero de 2025 inauguramos AI Tinkerers Manizales: charlas sobre Real Extreme Programming, Sofia: Your AI, Your Data, Your Rules, IRIS Inteligente, Generación de contenido 2D con IA y RAG con 0 pesos; demos y herramientas open source. Únete al grupo de WhatsApp.

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over 1 year ago

Primera reunion AITinkerers Manizales

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025 6:30PM
Jaime Restrepo Daniel Felipe Guarín Victor Quitnero Miguel Rios Cristian Tangarife Jasmin Eliana Osorio Nicolás restrepo Lina Rojas Cardona Mateo Quintero Castaño Ana Milena Alonso Jhon Jairo Moreno Trujillo WILMER ANDRES ESCOBAR NARANJO Luz Franco María Paula Castañeda Betancur Martha Liliana Castaño S Sebastian Florez Diego Fernando Delgado Ana Maria Alzate Torres Milton Mendoza Jose Ubaldo Carvajal
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The first AI Tinkerers Manizales meetup served as a practical space for experienced developers to share technical knowledge, discuss real AI projects, and foster collaboration.

🏔️ ¡Décimo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales!
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over 1 year ago

🏔️ ¡Décimo Encuentro de AI Tinkerers Manizales!

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 3PM
Jaime Restrepo Victor Quitnero Cristian Tangarife Julieth Tatiana Morales Rincón Ivan Castaño Nelson Gallego Juan Jhon Alexander Valencia Jeirson salazar Farid Gonzalez Walter Garcia Salazar Julián Galeano
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The in-person dinner gathered experienced AI builders for short technical talks on projects and challenges, fostering collaboration among developers. Brasas de Milán sponsored the gathering.

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