AI Tinkerers - Presenters - June 17, 2026 Meetup

Björn Plüster

Co-Founder/CTO at ellamind

The Quest for Tasks Frontier Models don't one-shot.

Creating complex terminal environments to test frontier AI models.

Tilmann Böhme

Founder at teaching robots

Teaching a robot to always win connect four via LeRobot

Training a Connect Four robot using imitation learning.

Max Meuer

Co-Founder at Construct Labs

RL Finetuning for Retrieval Agents

Efficiently training custom retrieval agents using GRPO and production-feedback distillation.

Annabell Schaefer

Growth Engineer at Langfuse

Automating my way out of Dad's IT questions

Building and monitoring a self-hosted AI IT support agent.