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AI Tinkerers Lausanne convened an in-person gathering for machine learning practitioners to share early-stage discoveries and foster collaboration, with thanks to Logitech for their sponsorship.
The AI Tinkerers Lausanne meetup fostered collaboration among practitioners building with machine learning frameworks. Sponsors Nexthink and Founderful supported the event.
Technical practitioners shared seven work-in-progress generative AI projects, focusing on collaboration and early discovery. AXA hosted the gathering at EPFL Innovation Park.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on collaboration, focusing on ML frameworks, foundation models, and LLM applications through focused demos and open experimentation.
The practitioner-first meetup fostered open collaboration among builders working with foundation models, LLMs, and generative AI through shared demos and rapid iteration.
The inaugural gathering brought together practitioners building foundation models for five-minute work-in-progress demos and focused collaboration on LLMs and generative AI.
Best AI meetup in Lausanne for builders
AI Tinkerers Lausanne 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 Lausanne chapter is part of a 253-city global network with 124,000+ 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 Lausanne chapter.
A typical AI Tinkerers Lausanne 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 Lausanne chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Lausanne is the best AI meetup in Lausanne for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Lausanne 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.
AI Tinkerers Lausanne 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.
Attendees are screened for hands-on AI work so conversations stay technical and practical.
Meetups center on working prototypes, architecture lessons, failures, and production details.
The Lausanne chapter is part of a 253-city network with 124,000+ members worldwide.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are deep learning models, built on the Transformer architecture, that process and generate human-quality text and code at scale.
Python: The high-level, general-purpose language built for readability, powering everything from web backends to advanced machine learning models.
Hugging Face is the central, open-source platform and community for building AI applications, hosting over 300,000 models and datasets via the popular Transformers library.
OpenAI API: Your direct gateway to cutting-edge AI models (GPT-4o, DALL-E 3, Whisper), enabling scalable, multimodal intelligence integration into any application.
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is the world’s largest, Apache 2-licensed library for real-time computer vision and machine learning.
PyTorch is the open-source machine learning framework: it provides a Python-first tensor library with strong GPU acceleration and a dynamic computation graph for building deep neural networks.
A high-performance command-line interface that leverages autonomous agents to refactor code, squash bugs, and execute complex migrations.
AI: The computational system driving human-level problem-solving (e.g., GPT-4, AlphaGo), actively transforming sectors like healthcare and finance with predictive analytics.
Programmatic access to Anthropic's Claude models (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) for complex reasoning, vision, and tool-use applications.
The Application Programming Interface (API) is the digital contract that allows two separate software systems to communicate and exchange data, typically JSON, securely over a network.
"I liked the concept of the event very much. Please keep on organizing this event frequently. Your thought of providing Coca-Cola for non-alcoholics was the best part for me :). Thank you!"
"Meeting great people and having great conversations"
"Cool product and great presentation. You're clearly very good at this."
"Amazing venue, great space and views, friendly hosts"
"There's a good idea, it would help to spend more time to explain why this project is useful and how you came up with it."
"Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to organize this. This was a fun and laid-back event that I enjoyed. Relaxed and engaging discussions! Thank you!"
"Keep the diversity of the talks, was awesome. Nice that you point out people with shared interests. Pizzas, yummy :)."
"Impressive progress from Apertus team. Thanks in particular for show Apertus running in the browser."
"For the first 1 or 2 minutes it wasn't clear which dot was the "ground truth". Otherwise, very good demo"
"I think it'd be good to communicate the program of the event (initial networking, demos, networking with apero)"
Last updated: August 2026
