Georgian · Transferred Learnings

See what's working in AI

Transferred Learnings is Georgian's technical community of AI researchers, engineers and founders. Members share the methods, mistakes and breakthroughs that don't make it into papers.

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  • 1000+Practitioners and counting
  • 100+Virtual and in-person events
  • 7+Years running

Who is it for?

TL is for people who are actually building with AI

Members

  • EngineersDeploying models at scale
  • ResearchersPushing the frontier
  • FoundersBuilding AI-native products from the ground up

The bar

Sessions are designed for people who already have a solid foundation in AI. We build on top of what you already know, covering the tradeoffs and hard-won lessons that come from real experience.

The forums

  • Dinners
  • Technical Sessions
  • Roundtables
  • Hackathons
  • Networking

Small, curated rooms where the conversation can go places a conference panel never could.

What we do

Four ways we gather

  1. TL/IRL — Technical Sessions

    Focused sessions on a single technical topic. No slides for show: just the people who've actually shipped it, walking through what happened.

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    Cadence
    Every 4–6 weeks
    Format
    In-person, practitioner‑led

    Topics include

    • LLM Evals
    • Reinforcement Learning
    • Agentic Systems
    • Loop Engineering

  2. Networking Events

    A few times a year

    Larger gatherings timed around moments that matter, like TMLS, where TL members connect with the broader Canadian AI ecosystem. High signal, low noise.

  3. AI Thought Leader Dinners & Roundtables

    Toronto · San Francisco · New York

    Intimate dinners and closed-door roundtables in major tech hubs. Candid conversations between researchers, founders, and investors that don't end up in press releases.

  4. Builder Events

    Seasonal

    Bootcamps, hackathons, and hands-on build sessions for practitioners who learn best by doing. Structured around real problems, with real tools and real collaborators.

Community highlights

A glimpse of what we've been up to

Best Overall Winners - RiskGraph

Recent · Hackathon

Build North Hackathon

· Toronto, Canada

Build North was a ten-day virtual AI hackathon hosted by Georgian Transferred Learnings and partners that ended with an in-person Demo Day at Georgian's Toronto office on October 29, 2026. More than 300 builders from 5 provinces took part. Teams submitted 56 projects.

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AI Tinkerers Hackathon Georgian | OpenAI

Hackathon

OpenAI × AI Tinkerers Global Agentic AI Hackathon

· Toronto

~100 hackers across 20+ teams of AI builders building and demoing throughout the day.

Poster for the TMLS Kickoff Social at Boxcar Social Harbourfront, from Google Cloud for Startups and Georgian Transferred Learnings

Networking

TMLS Kickoff Social

· Toronto

Co-hosted with Google Cloud for Startups. 150+ ML engineers and researchers kicking off Toronto Machine Learning Summit week.

Keep up with the latest

Watch the sessions. Read the write-ups.

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From the AI Lab on Substack

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How to get involved

Ready to transfer some learnings?

  1. Join the community

    TL is application-only and kept small on purpose. We prioritize practitioners doing substantive work: researchers, engineers, and founders.

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  2. See what's coming up

    Browse our full event calendar, with TL/IRL sessions, dinners, networking events, and builder events all in one place.

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