What we’re about
I need your help in getting Portland tech folk informed about this event. Previously I ran the ThingPDX event locally and a ton of tech events in national tech media.
This meetup is your chance to:
- Showcase your latest AI projects: Share your work with the community during our demo session. Submit your proposal for a 5-minute presentation and inspire others with your innovative ideas.
- Network with fellow tinkerers: Meet and collaborate with other active builders, AI engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers who share your passion for building the future with AI.
- Learn from industry experts: Gain insights and inspiration from leading figures in the AI space.
I am so excited! :-) More geek on geek activities even in my "late" stage career!!! Keep Portland weird and wired I say. Anyway...
I've just scheduled Portlands first AI Tinkerers meetup - Tuesday July 23rd, very much like to get those hacking and bending AI to join, pitch deck slingers stay away.
No registration, NO ENTRY AT DOOR WITHOUT REGISTRATION. Sorry. Rules.
5pm-8pm, talks at 6pm.
Past Lives Maker Space
2808 SE 9th Ave, Portland, OR 97202
https://lnkd.in/eV_sQwD4
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Portland: Agentic Systems Deep Dive — Building the Next Generation of AGI
New NedSpace, 621 SW Morison St, Ste 800, 97209 Portland OR, Portland, OR, USThis edition is Sponsored by GEA (portland.agiglobalsummit.org)
We are kicking off 2026 by focusing on the frontier of AI: AGI and complex agentic systems. This is the builders’ room for engineers, researchers, and technical founders actively shipping code that orchestrates models, manages long-horizon tasks, and pushes the boundaries of autonomous systems.
Join the world’s most curated community of active AI builders on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM in Portland, OR. The specific venue address will be provided upon acceptance.
### The Signal: What We’re Building Now
The rapid advancement of frontier models like MiniMax M2, Kimi K2, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Max means the technical bottleneck has shifted to robust agent architecture and orchestration. This meetup is dedicated to builders actively solving that problem.
We are looking for demos that tackle the hard, practical challenges surfaced by recent innovations:
- Orchestration: Implementing Anthropic’s LLMs Write Code for Tool Use proposal for token efficiency and reliability.
- Embodiment: Practical applications and hacks using concepts from SIMA 2 in complex, commercial environments.
- Infrastructure: Real-world deployments of agent managers, coordination tools, or parallel task workflows, such as those found in the Antigravity IDE.
- Long-Horizon Tasks: Demonstrating success in long-context tasks using models like Gemini 3 Pro or GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for multi-day software engineering projects.
Attendance is highly curated and capped at 150 builders to ensure a high-signal environment. Entry is earned, not granted.
### Submit Your Agent/AGI Demo Proposal
The stage is reserved only for those actively building. We demand working code or nothing.
Speaker Form Title: Submit Your Agent/AGI Demo Proposal
Description: This is a technical show-and-tell for builders, by builders. We want to see your messy experiments, creative hacks, and technical discoveries focusing on AGI, agentic systems, or complex LLM builds. Your demo should answer: “How did you build this interesting thing?” not “Why should someone use this product?”
Submit Your Demo Proposal Here21 attendees
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