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

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A Sponsored by BinarioF
May 30, 5:30-8 PM CEST
AI TINKERERS ROME
Meetup
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Rome – May 30, 2025

Friday, May 30th, 2025 5:30PM to 8PM
Federico Califano Francesco Pappone Michele Pomposo Giulio Starace Ludovico Comito Simone Silvestri Dario Liscai Davide Ceriola Alessio Serra Donato Crisostomi Francesco Piccolo Andrea Serravezza Christopher Greco Christian Piermarini Carlo Francesco Porcelli Valerio Giannini Simone Facchiano Luca Corvitto Pierre-Carl Langlais Emanuele Musumeci
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Active LLM builders attended an in-person meetup featuring community demos and an expert talk by Giulio Starace of OpenAI on PaperBench, sponsored by BinarioF.

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Community Demos and Networking
March 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM CET
AI TINKERERS-ROME
Meetup
over 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Rome – March 3, 2025

Monday, March 3rd, 2025 4:30PM
Federico Califano Umberto Breglia Marco Cristofanilli Alex Fazio Tommaso Furlanello Pierre-Carl Langlais Rosa Altilio Eugenio Petullá Fiamma D'Avino Simone Conia Andrea Aguggia Francesca Zurzolo Francesco Capuano Arnaldo Morena Manuela Vaser Giuseppe Bruno Simone Hong Daniele Scasciafratte Gaia Virginia Dobici Ahmed ElSheikh
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The in-person meetup featured hands-on work-in-progress demos, a talk on small models and RL post-training, and high-signal networking for active builders. BinarioF from Facebook sponsored the event.

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Federico Califano Francesco Pappone

Best AI meetup in Rome for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Rome 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 Rome chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 112,000+ 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 Rome chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Rome 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 Rome chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
Recurring local AI meetups
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Rome for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Rome 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 Rome chapter is part of a 231-city network with 112,000+ members worldwide.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Rome

Giulio Starace
PaperBench: AI Research Replication
May 30
We introduce PaperBench, a benchmark evaluating the ability of AI agents to replicate state-of-the-art AI research. Agents must...
Giulio Starace Rome
GPT-4 LangChain
Michele Pomposo
Self-Training via Second-Level Support
May 30
In this 5-minute demo, I’ll show how I built a self-training mechanism for an AI Agent by leveraging second-level human replies...
Michele Pomposo Rome
OpenAI API Ollama
Luca martinelli
Dark Tales: AI Blockchain Literature
May 30
Presentato al politecnico di Milano, Università di Udine master di filosofia digitale e AI. Questo progetto è stato esposto all...
Luca martinelli Rome
GPT-4 LangChain
Pierre-Carl Langlais
Small reasoning model
Mar 3
The talk describe the new series of small reasoning model currently developed by Pleias based on the Pleias 1.0 series of base ...
Pierre-Carl Langlais Rome
Nanotron GRPO
Alex Fazio
Semantic Web Scraping
Mar 3
This talk provides practical examples of how scraping can be used to create notification systems and reports, making it highly ...
Alex Fazio Rome
GPT-4 LangChain
Marco Cristofanilli
regolo.ai: Scalable GPU Inference
Mar 3
Share our experience and our work to create an inference provider for open-source/free access models. The provider we would lik...
Marco Cristofanilli Rome
vLLM KubeAI
Tommaso Furlanello
Wrapperone
Mar 3
A technical library designed for power users who need: Parallel, rate-limited request processing to LLM providers (OpenAI, Anth...
Tommaso Furlanello Rome
OpenAI API Anthropic API
Umberto Breglia
vvvdeo: SAM2 Video Memes
Mar 3
I'll be presenting vvvdeo, an early in development video editor website focused on being easy to use, free of cluttering ads, a...
Umberto Breglia Rome
GPT-4 LangChain

What are people saying about AI Tinkerers Rome?

  • "I would love to have more of these events in Rome! Hope to hear from you guys soon"
    May 30, 2025 | Student and entrepreneur AI Tinkerers Rome – May 30, 2025
  • "More practical hands-on amd workshops. We can grow together in this way!"
    May 30, 2025 | PhD Student AI Tinkerers Rome – May 30, 2025
  • "The post evento dinner was really good, and the discussion of papers was also interesting"
    May 30, 2025 | Student and entrepreneur AI Tinkerers Rome – May 30, 2025
  • "I expected more innovation not just putting things together. And honestly I saw that the audience lost attention during this presentation, I enjoyed it, but overall I would not say that it was appealing for everyone"
    May 30, 2025 | Student and entrepreneur AI Tinkerers Rome – May 30, 2025
  • "I really enjoyed the event and look forward to the next one!!"
    March 3, 2025 | Research Engineer (Contract) AI Tinkerers Rome – March 3, 2025

Last updated: June 2026