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AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur hosted a firechat with Joe Heitzeberg and Jake Laes on building a global builder community, with support from 500 Global.
The AI Tinkerers community explored Kiro, an agentic IDE, through talks and demos. Arvato sponsored the event.
The AI Tinkerers - Kuala Lumpur community held a global hackathon focused on agents, bots, and channels, supported by sponsors including OpenAI.
AI Tinkerers hosted a hackathon focused on prototyping AI agents and tools, supported by Nebius and Tavily.
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur and Terminal 3 hosted an Agent Dev Kit Build Night. Participants built agents demonstrating verifiable identity and privacy, with Xendit sponsoring.
The Codex Community Meetup x AITKL focused on building and deploying a SaaS application using Codex Sites, with hands-on guidance and dinner provided.
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur and AWS User Groups Malaysia held a technical meetup focused on responsible generative AI and enterprise gateways.
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AI Tinkerers and Byteplus hosted an Arkclaw workshop.
AI Tinkerers and Kiro collaborated for an Agentic IDE Demo Day. Attendees explored innovative agentic development tools and showcased their projects.
The OpenClaw Global Unhackathon Kuala Lumpur brought together the AI Tinkerers community for a collaborative event.
Builders participated in a 12-hour hackathon focused on achieving first online revenue, requiring participants to collect at least one dollar from a public user.
The AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur community celebrated project innovations with insightful discussions and impressive demonstrations. The event acknowledged the persistence of community members and featured sponsorship from Grab.
Participants engaged in a voice-driven AI video remix hackathon, dubbing footage and trading votes with chips to win prizes, supported by ElevenLabs and The Access Group.
Technical builders attended an intimate, invite-only dinner for candid conversations with an investor and founders, sponsored by Antler and Cradle Fund.
Teams built AI prototypes addressing Ministry of Health friction points in a hackathon for cash prizes and government exposure, supported by sponsors like Groq.
Zachary Lee led a virtual workshop focused on configuring an MCP client and server integrated with Google Workplace for active builders. Participants engaged in live collaboration and Q&A.
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The community celebrated a year of building with technical demos and networking. Sponsors TTRacing and 500 Global supported the knowledge circuit event.
Founders collaborated during a hands-on AI co-working session for building and demonstrating projects. The event fostered community networking and expert feedback among attendees.
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur celebrated their first anniversary with a casual, community-focused quiz night featuring trivia and networking. MoneyLion sponsored the event.
Build wrong, solve real at Loophole Hackathon (June 14–15, 2025) in-person, code-first at Sunway City, Bandar Sunway. Register (limited seats) by June 13: https://lu.ma/umx3eadl?tk=rWoNkt. Saturday 10:00 AM start; Sunday 5:00 PM demos + judging, 6:00 PM awards.
AI Tinkerers KL and Asia School of Business hosted a full-day hackathon where builders prototyped solutions for real ASB problems, competing for a RM4,000 prize pool.
Build Together @ BuildClub (24 May, 1:00–6:00 PM) at Sunway FutureX, Duplex, Jalan PJS 11/26, Bandar Sunway. RSVP (limited seats): https://lu.ma/6kqyuaki?tk=jun6E8. Come prepared to build 1:30–5:00 PM, then do 5:00 PM speed demos; apply to the AI Builder Slack first: https://airtable.com/app8eQNdrRqlHBvSi/shr8C5KGPvBqPWkL2.
Community coders participated in a hands-on mini-hackathon, converting UI designs to code using natural language prompts and AI assistants, with prizes awarded for best projects.
Join Build Together @ BuildClub on 26th April, 1:00–6:00 PM at Sunway FutureX (Duplex, Jalan PJS 11/26). RSVP: https://lu.ma/l1yhoqnx?tk=7Wf8oB (limited seats). Build 1:30–5:00 PM, then speed demos (5:00 PM) + feedback. Apply to the AI Builder Slack first: https://airtable.com/app8eQNdrRqlHBvSi/shr8C5KGPvBqPWkL2. Hosted by Build Club Malaysia.
AI Tinkerers KL hosted a hands-on session demonstrating three AI tools for boosting productivity, offering attendees guided setup assistance for their own systems.
AI Tinkerers KL hosted founders who shared case studies on AI-assisted development, detailing productivity gains and strategies for shipping apps faster.
Join AI Tinkerers KL + Build Club Malaysia for a co-working build session on 22 March, 1:00–6:00 PM at Sunway FutureX, Duplex (Jalan PJS 11/26). 1:30 PM build time, 5:00 PM speed demos + feedback. Limited seats—RSVP: https://lu.ma/sabauqh5?tk=wFEfqp. Apply to the AI Builder Slack first: https://airtable.com/app8eQNdrRqlHBvSi/shr8C5KGPvBqPWkL2.
The AITKL Builder Circuit RAG Workshop provided attendees with a hands-on session to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation pipeline, covering document processing, vector storage, and LLM integration.
Practitioners and leaders attended an in-person session featuring four rapid impact talks on deploying AI, combining ML with GenAI, AI for business development, and GenAI toolkits for product launch success.
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur held its first Builder's Saturday, a relaxed gathering for AI builders to progress on projects, share knowledge, and network casually.
Developers and enthusiasts attended a hands-on session on streaming AI responses and real-time web application development, featuring a deep-dive presentation.
The community gathered for project showcases and received expert feedback from industry judges, concluding with an awards ceremony recognizing innovation and teamwork.
The gathering kicked off an October Hackathon featuring networking, exclusive announcements, and sponsor challenges with a substantial prize pool.
The competitive meetup featured prompt engineering challenges like LLM Lockpicking and AI Olympic Coaching, offering prizes backed by AWS and MoneyLion support.
Technical practitioners gathered for a hands-on night featuring rapid-fire lightning talks, live demos, and peer knowledge exchange, supported by MoneyLion sponsorship.
Practitioners gathered for hands-on demonstrations, short talks, and networking focused on building foundation models, supported by Agmo Group.
Best AI meetup in Kuala Lumpur for builders
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur 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 Kuala Lumpur chapter is part of a 268-city global network with 140,000+ 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 Kuala Lumpur chapter.
Be ambitious. Start with an idea. Bring a prototype. Work through the hard parts with builders in your city and around the world.
A typical AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur 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 Kuala Lumpur chapter to get notified.
AI Tinkerers Kuala Lumpur is the best AI meetup in Kuala Lumpur for hands-on builders who want live code demos, technical discussion, and no-pitch networking. The Kuala Lumpur 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 Kuala Lumpur 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 Kuala Lumpur chapter is part of a 268-city network with 140,000+ members worldwide.
"I love Joseph's sharing. It is relevant and useful to me. I love that it is not commercial, he is not here to sell/promote services/products, just free apps online."
"The interactive season with attendees vibe coding was one of the best I attended. More of those, it is inspiring and let's people try things out and compare results."
"The place was great! I think more tables and plug points would've helped people"
"Great initiative by the movement to encourage AI builders"
"Great MC and photographer. Match people up to teams, it's a good idea actually"
"Would be great if can stay on and hack overnight. Can be a very interesting dynamics."
"pace of the workshop, i don't know, lets have a pace that best suits the majority"
"Would be great to hear about what the winning teams get up to in a month or two. give them an interview or something."
"Keep me posted for future events, would love to join again!"
"you guys did a really great job, salute !!!!!!!!!"
Last updated: October 2026
