One-liner: The Valencia chapter of AI Tinkerers — the world's largest hands-on AI-builder community (245 cities, 117,000+ members) — a screened, demo-first, no-pitch monthly meetup for engineers and founders actually building AI systems, with the explicit mission of advancing Valencia as Spain's AI capital.
What a founder gets
- Monthly Demo Nights (~3 hours): local builders show working prototypes, architecture lessons and failures — real systems and code, not sales decks — followed by technical Q&A and no-pitch networking.
- "La Sobremesa" — intimate private builder dinners; and "Push to Prod Day" — a ship-it-by-5pm hackathon.
- A screened, builder-only room (attendees vetted for hands-on AI work) plus access to the global 245-city AI Tinkerers network. Topics span AI agents, RAG/knowledge systems, voice/multimodal, AI coding tools, evals, observability and production AI infra.
Who it's for
- AI engineers, ML researchers, developers, and technical founders in Valencia building applied AI — all
sectors, all stages (idea → scaling). Note: sector-agnostic but AI-focused. Tagged
niche:[any]by design — per Oki (2026-07-15), AI is now horizontal (nearly every startup has an AI base), so it's not treated as a differentiating niche in this vault; the AI focus is captured in prose rather than a vocabulary term.
How to engage
- Free, but apply to attend (screened) via valencia.aitinkerers.org. Cadence: 11 events in the last 12 months. Next: La Sobremesa — July (24 Jul 2026) and July Demo Night (28 Jul 2026, at Base 2).
Key facts
- Organizer/Director: Gerard Fernandez (founder/Director at Zensei); co-organizers include Julian, Miriam and Pierre.
- Launched early 2026 (first regular meetup 29 Jan 2026; opening event ran alongside VDS, 22 Oct 2025).
- Venues/sponsors: Base 2 and GoHub Ventures (venues); sponsors incl. Zensei, Startup Valencia, GoHub Ventures, PostHog, Innsomnia Group, kai.
- Cost: free to attend.
Relations
- Partners with: GoHub Ventures
- Partners with: Startup Valencia
- See also: VDS
- See also: Startup Grind Valencia
- See also: Deeptech (niche)