recap · jul 23, 2026

Waterloo | Claude for Everyone #05

what to do next

If you were in the room.

  1. Post about your experience on LinkedIn. Tag Artem Zhutov and Babajide Okusanya .
  2. Join the next event. Follow the Luma calendar to know when the next one drops.
  3. Want to demo or volunteer? Pitch a workflow or help run the next one.
  4. Want to sponsor? Feed the room and meet the builders.
  5. Stay in the loop. Bookmark the site for future meetups, recaps, and demos.
the lineup

7 demos, all production.

Each speaker had 10 to 15 minutes plus Q&A. No prerecorded clips, no theory, no slides for slides' sake. Just real workflows on real screens.

  • Kay Kim
    Kay Kim on using Claude for design work, end to end.
  • Heather Gawel
    Heather Gawel on a job-search agent she built with Claude Cowork.
  • Eric Zou
    Eric Zou on filing a GitHub issue and watching an agent pick it up.
  • Ali Shaverdi
    Ali Shaverdi on setting up Cowork to take over real work.
  • Rebecca Swabey
    Rebecca Swabey on how non-developers use Claude Code and a BI database to build Metabase dashboards.
  • Omer Abdulkareem
    Omer Abdulkareem on how he starts every repo: the superpowers skill, specs, and a memory-bank across sessions.
  • Majid Fekri
    Majid Fekri on closing out the night with an open source memory agent that makes your agents' accumulated context something you own, not scattered files.
scenes

Snapshots from the night.

organizers

Claude Waterloo is co-organized by Artem Zhutov (Substack, YouTube) and Babajide Okusanya . Hosted at Builders Club in downtown Kitchener. Sponsored by MindModel AI and Builders Club.