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

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Event
3 months ago

AI Tinkerers Milan - February 24, 2026 - Agentic Orchestration in Financial Services: Architectures & Demos

Tuesday, February 24th 4:30PM to 8PM
Alex Fazio Michele Alletto Niall Bellabarba Luca Borella Costantino Cavallo Nemo Godebski-Pedersen Ivan Alessandro Ongaro Marco Pagani Simon Redfern William Rizzo Daniele Zonca Ali Emre Senel Vania Ferrari Nurperi Bazlakunova Mihail Mario Ciardulli Paolo Ferretti Gabriele Corato Dario Cerea Harpal Singh
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AI Tinkerers Milan hosted a technical deep dive on agentic orchestration in financial services, featuring demos and insights from industry leaders, with support from FINOS.

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Community Demos & Networking
June 10, 2025, 5-9 PM CEST
AI TINKERERS-MILAN
Event
12 months ago

AI Tinkerers Milan - June 10, 2025 - Community Demos & Networking

Tuesday, June 10th, 2025 5PM to 8:30PM
Andrea Gentile Tommaso Furlanello Francesco Marinoni Moretto Francesco Pappone Mirco Bonomo Ilaria Lauriola Tamponi Roberto Giulia Brizzi Valeria Zuccoli Cristian Tironi Chiara Pupillo Giacomo Randazzo Ettore COnte Francesco Bruno Andrea Tangredi Matteo Muffo Riccardo Menabelli Antonio Bruno Emanuele Fabbiani Niccolo’ Gentile
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Active Milan practitioners gathered for community demos and networking focused on practical large language model work, featuring technical presentations and sponsored by Adecco.

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Community Demos and Networking
May 8, 2025, 6PM CEST
AI TINKERERS - MILAN
Event
about 1 year ago

AI Tinkerers Milan - May 8, 2025

Thursday, May 8th, 2025 6PM to 9PM
Alex Fazio Ling Xuan Chen Mazeyar Moeini Feizabadi Tommaso Furlanello Francesco Pappone Giacomo Randazzo Aurora Rossini Raul Singh Giulio Starace Leonardo Rocca Enrico Giuliani Vania Ferrari Raul Singh Riccardo Isola Ilaria Lauriola Giovanni Piva Niccolo’ Gentile Simone Allegri Giulio Lecci Roberto Ceraolo
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The inaugural practitioner-only meetup featured LLM and generative-AI project demos, engineering tips, and collaborations, sponsored by Talent Garden.

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Alex Fazio Luca Borella

Best AI meetup in Milan for builders

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

AI Tinkerers Milan 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 Milan chapter is part of a 231-city global network with 110,000+ 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 Milan chapter.

A typical AI Tinkerers Milan 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 Milan chapter to get notified.

Local cadence
2 recent events
Format
Live demos, technical Q&A, no sales pitches
Audience
Screened AI builders, founders, researchers, and engineers

Best AI meetup in Milan for hands-on builders

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

AI Tinkerers Milan 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 Milan chapter is part of a 231-city network with 110,000+ members worldwide.

Topics at AI Tinkerers Milan

AI models

Trained algorithms (e.g., deep neural networks) that process massive data sets to autonomously execute tasks: prediction, classification, or content generation (like GPT-4).

APIs

The software intermediary: APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) define the rules for two applications to communicate, enabling secure data exchange and functionality access.

arXiv

arXiv (pronounced 'archive') is the premier, open-access repository for e-prints in physics, mathematics, and computer science, facilitating rapid, pre-peer-review scholarly communication.

Autonomous agents

Self-directed software systems that leverage LLMs to plan, execute, and iterate on complex workflows (like software engineering or market research) without manual prompting.

Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool: Unleash Claude's raw power directly in your terminal or IDE to turn complex, hours-long workflows into a single command.

Cloud computing

Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources—compute, storage, and applications—over the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing.

CUDA

CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing platform: it unlocks the massive core count of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) for accelerated general-purpose processing.

FINOS AI Governance Framework

An open, machine-readable standard (AIGF) providing a comprehensive, risk-based governance model for Generative AI adoption across financial services.

Fluxnova

Fluxnova is the open-source BPMN orchestration engine (Apache 2.0 license) providing audit-ready, vendor-independent workflow automation for the financial services industry.

Gravity

Gravity packages Kubernetes clusters into portable, versioned images for consistent deployment across air-gapped and on-premises environments.

Recent talks at AI Tinkerers Milan

Costantino Cavallo
Scaling AI with Governance
Feb 24
Scaling AI isn’t about adding more models but it’s about adding governance. This talk explains why AI only scales in production...
Costantino Cavallo Milan
Gravity
Daniele Zonca
Guardrailed AI for Constrained Environments
Feb 24
In the era of agentic AI, speed must not come at the cost of operational safety. This session explores how platform engineers c...
Daniele Zonca Milan
Kubernetes TrustyAI
William Rizzo
Hyprstream: Secure Versioned AI Models
Feb 24
Regulated industries face a fundamental tension: AI systems need to adapt and improve, yet compliance requires reproducibility,...
William Rizzo Milan
Hyprstream LoRA
Niall Bellabarba
Asset Management & AI: tech enablers, pre-requisites and examples of …
Feb 24
In Generali Asset Management we have a series of live AI models in Asset management that are generating Alpha (investment retur...
Niall Bellabarba Milan
Neural networks APIs
Simon Redfern
Opey: Agentic Payments via Consent
Feb 24
Opey is an AI agent built for banking APIs that can move from “guidance” to “execution”. With delegated permissions via granula...
Simon Redfern Milan
Open Bank Project API OBP Opey II
Nemo Godebski-Pedersen
Agent discovery and signals in OBP
Feb 24
Agent discovery and signals in OBP
Nemo Godebski-Pedersen Milan
Open Bank Project
Michele Alletto
Agentic Prompt Optimization
Feb 24
What if you could optimize your prompts the way you optimize model weights — with a loss function, an optimizer, and an iterati...
Michele Alletto Milan
LLM Python
Marco Pagani
Nerovynn: Paper to Strategy
Feb 24
Nerovynn is my own tool to trade, and i have built on top of it an agent that, among other things, downloads financial papers f...
Marco Pagani Milan
Claude Code arXiv
Ivan Alessandro Ongaro
AI Market Neutral: Deterministic Control
Feb 24
This talk presents a production multi-agent system designed for regulated financial environments, where AI models generate sign...
Ivan Alessandro Ongaro Milan
TypeScript Node
Luca Borella
FINOS AI Governance Framework Operationalised
Feb 24
In this session, Luca Borella demonstrates how to bridge the gap between abstract AI policy and production-ready implementation...
Luca Borella Milan
FINOS AI Governance Framework Fluxnova
Fabrizio Milo
Realtime Speech-to-Speech Forms
Jun 10
I will present a functioning example of form filling using modern speech to speech models that will enable to automate the cler...
Fabrizio Milo Milan
OpenAI API Python
Luciano Somoza
Backtesting AI Portfolios
Jun 10
In the paper I want to present, we address look-ahead bias in financial analysis using LLMs. We propose a straightforward metho...
Luciano Somoza Milan
ChatGPT OpenAI API

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Last updated: June 2026