AI Events in Seattle

Data engineers and open source contributors will explore cutting-edge lakehouse and AI architectures through talks on GPU-accelerated analytics and unified delta/iceberg futures, featuring industry experts like NVIDIA's Felix Cheung.

AI Tinkerers Seattle’s GTM Track will feature live, code-first demos on AI-powered founder interviews, resilient voice APIs, and instant sign-up systems, plus technical Q&A and candid implementation notes. The curated gathering will bring together hands-on builders, founders, and growth professionals actively shipping AI systems for go-to-market.

AI Tinkerers Seattle will host a selective, hands-on session on using AI and automation to accelerate go-to-market and growth, featuring tool updates, code-first demos, and technical Q&A on agentic workflows and implementation. Attendees will include engineers, founders, researchers, and GTM leaders building and deploying real AI products.

The AI Builders Happy Hour will explore consciousness, neuroscience, free will, philosophy, and what AGI might reveal about intelligence and humanity through informal, open-ended conversation. Hosts Ari Peden-Asarch, a neuroscience Ph.D. graduate and biotech founder, and Ken Morimoto, an experienced tech operator, angel investor, and AI community builder, will bring scientific and industry perspectives.

Dr. Mathew Isaac, a marketing professor at Seattle University, will dig into how AI shapes the way we think and make decisions.

Active startup founders will have a dedicated workday to connect, build, and share short demos of the companies and products they’re developing. The program will include lunch and is limited to applicants approved in advance.

The first Grok Bot meetup will combine a hands-on workshop to explain and build bots with community demos of real setups, templates, and workflows. Engineers, product managers, designers, founders, educators, and other builders will get credits to follow along and time to network.

Tech product founders will explore the emotional toll of startup life on personal relationships in a confidential peer-led discussion facilitated by Brett Greene, an executive coach and mental health advocate. This intimate session offers a safe space to share struggles and gain support from fellow founders navigating similar pressures.

Sunil Nagaraj from Ubiquity Ventures will sit down for a founder-focused conversation about early-stage investing in deeptech and hardware-adjacent software, drawing on his track record of backing Seattle-based teams like Auth0 (acquired by Okta for $6.5B) and unicorns Halter and Loft Orbital. The discussion will dig into pre-incorporation conviction, unconventional founder profiles, and what it takes to build outside the typical SaaS playbook.

New Tech Seattle’s October meetup will bring together over 60,000 tech pros—from founders to developers and executives—for rapid-fire presentations on cutting-edge tech like AI, blockchain, and sustainability, alongside casual networking with industry leaders, recruiters, and innovators.

New Tech Northwest’s October meetup will bring together its 60,000+ member tech community for relaxed networking and short presentations from founders and leaders, including Jordan Friedman of Ambeince, startup platform president Dave Parker, and Seattle Interactive Conference cofounder Brian Raushenbach. Attendees will explore emerging technology, share ideas, and make professional connections.

Fred Patton, Senior Developer Advocate at Auth0 (Okta) and author of *Building Ambient AI Agents*, will present Living Norms, a model where autonomous agents act independently within established norms and seek human approval for meaningful deviations. The talk will show how approved exceptions can become bounded precedent, expanding autonomy while preserving auditability and hard safety boundaries.

New Tech Northwest’s October meetup will bring together its 60,000-plus-member tech community for relaxed networking and short talks from founders and industry leaders. Presenters will include Jordan Friedman, founder of indoor-environmental-quality company Ambeince; startup advisor Dave Parker; and Brian Raushenbach, cofounder and curator of the Seattle Interactive Conference.

The Software Factory Intensive will be a two-day, hands-on workshop led by the creators of Gas City (GasTown V2). Software engineers, engineering leaders, and founders will learn how to build their own Gas City instance.

SeattleJS is hosting a Hacktoberfest edition where developers will explore building web applications with open AI technologies, featuring lightning talks and a hands-on workshop led by experienced community members. Attendees will collaborate on pull requests throughout the evening while networking with fellow developers in the JavaScript community.

Seattle's tech community will gather to explore building AI-powered search applications through talks from Pulumi and Kapil Jadhav (Elastic engineering leader), covering everything from making internal documents searchable to leveraging Jina models for AI applications. The evening will feature live demos, networking, and pizza with fellow developers and Elastic enthusiasts.

The Cloud Native Seattle Meetup will explore live Kubernetes workload rightsizing and Terraform-powered Day-2 automation, including Azure Actions and AI-assisted discovery. Speakers Scott McAllister, an F5 Community Evangelist with over a decade in software, and Cody Gagnon, a Lead Cloud Engineer building Azure infrastructure for industrial IoT, will share practical insights.

This hackathon will bring together developers to build enterprise AI applications using Box and AWS, with judges from tech leadership and investment backgrounds evaluating submissions on technical execution, business impact, and presentation skills. Expect two days of hands-on building, mentorship from technical experts, food, and prizes for the most innovative solutions.

Nebius and Voxel51 will host a physical AI workshop on October 20th featuring hands-on robotics dataset curation and YOLO detector training, plus talks from Ark CV and Wherobots experts on deploying computer vision in real-world chaos—from monitoring salmon to mapping global agriculture. Attendees will work with DROID robotics data in FiftyOne and fine-tune models live using Nebius's serverless infrastructure.

Attendees will explore Expo’s platform-agnostic cloud simulators for mobile agentic-loop engineering, followed by Amazon Developers’ guidance on building TV apps with AI and Vega OS. The evening will feature live demos, Q&A, and networking for experienced developers and emerging builders.