AI Tinkerers Portland: Go-to-Market AI Toolkits - RSVP IN DETAILS!
Friday, May 15, 2026, 11:00 AM PDT – 3:00 PM PDT
Portland, Oregon
Hosted by Portland Startup Week
Please RSVP here, not on this page! https://portland.aitinkerers.org/p/ai-tinkerers-portland-go-to-market-ai-toolkits 🤖 Practical Innovation in GTM. Join AI Tinkerers Portland on Friday, May 15, 2026, for an evening dedicated to the technical implementation of AI in go-to-market (GTM) strategies. We are moving past the hype of “AI-powered marketing” to look at the actual code, prompt chains, and agentic workflows driving lead generation, customer segmentation, and sales automation. This is a builder-only environment. We prioritize hands-on enablement and the Homebrew Computer Club ethos: demos first, code deep-dives, and zero fluff. Whether you are optimizing a 1M token context window in Claude Opus for long-running research tasks or utilizing GPT-5.4 Mini for high-efficiency lead scoring, this is the room to share your stack. 🕕 Schedule 11:00 PM: Doors Open & Technical Networking 11:15 PM: Live Demos: AI GTM Toolkits (5 min demo + Q&A) 12:00 PM: Science Fair & Implementation Deep Dives 1:00 PM: Event Concludes 🎙️ Submit Your Demo Proposal The stage is reserved for those actively shipping. We are looking for live, technical demos of AI-powered GTM tools. Show us the architecture behind your growth hacks—no slide decks allowed. Submit Your Demo Proposal Here We encourage half-baked, experimental, or even buggy builds that demonstrate a novel technical approach. We want to see how you solved the “Instant Legacy” codebase problem or how you are leveraging OpenClaw for persistent GTM agents. 🥽 What to Expect AI Tinkerers is a curated community. Attendance is capped at 150 practitioners to ensure high-signal interactions. You will be in the room with engineers, researchers, and founders who are popping the hood on generative AI. 🔍 The Science Fair During our networking block, we feature a “Science Fair” format. This allows for decentralized, hands-on technical exchange. If you have a side project or a specific workflow that isn’t ready for the main stage, bring your laptop and share it with fellow builders in an informal, deep-dive setting. 📊 AI Tinkerers Portland Stats Attendees: This community of 277 members is led by AI/ML specialists (28%) and full-stack engineers (14%). Expertise spans Python, Data Science, and DevOps, with members hailing from Intel, Amazon, and Nike. Notable for its high concentration of PhD researchers and startup founders, the group is currently pioneering advancements in agentic workflows, robotics, and secure enterprise AI implementations. Companies Represented: Tech giants like Amazon, Microsoft, and Intel, alongside industry leaders NVIDIA, Akamai, and Lyft, plus innovative startups including PostgresML, Digits, Hinge Health, and Barstool Sports, and more. Demos: 20 demos have been submitted and 18 have been presented at AI Tinkerers - Portland. Exciting highlights have included end-to-end RAG/system integration (Korvus), bootstrapping AI products from messy data (Bootstrapping products that create order from chaos), and practical reliability/performance engineering (UnaMentis, LiteLLM multi-cloud deployments). Technical threads have also spanned edge execution, context-limit workarounds, and multimodal agent design.