What AI Tinkering Reveals About the Future of Tech Innovation

As 2025 draws to a close, this month’s session invites you to explore how innovation increasingly starts at the edges – in community meetups, hackathons, and rapid experimentation, not just in boardrooms, research labs or large enterprises.

Join Hai Nghiem, CEO & Co-founder of AGI Ventures Canada (formerly AI Tinkerers Ottawa), for an inspiring look at how a grassroots community of more than 1,550 builders is influencing the trajectory of AI in Ottawa and across Canada.

AGI Ventures Canada focuses on three initiatives:

• Monthly AI hackathons where builders test ideas, break things, and rapidly prototype.
• AI solution development for clients ranging from Fortune 50 companies to fast-growing startups.
• A 6-week AI Accelerator, delivered in partnership with Mistral VC, which brings founders to San Francisco to connect with YC alumni, top investors, and emerging AI ecosystems.

Hai will share how small-scale experimentation, collaboration across disciplines and a “let’s-try-it” mindset are producing real-world breakthroughs – and what these lessons mean for leaders, educators, employers and policymakers navigating the next wave of digital transformation.

We’ll conclude with a fireside chat with our moderator, Veronica Farmer, Hai as well as Rami Alhamad, Co-Founder and CEO of Alma and an investor in the AGI Ventures Canada AI Accelerator.

The future of AI includes hands-on, human and community-powered innovation as well as investment. When people come together to tinker, test, connect, collaborate and share innovation happens.

Thank you, 

The TechTuesday Team