Free AI events in Atlanta

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Atlanta's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.

Meetups Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking

Sep

Thu

Today

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

AI Builders Meetup: September 2026

Tech North Atlantaby AI Builders Meetup

An Alpharetta show-and-tell for people building with AI, featuring six rapid product demos, technical lessons, discussion, and local networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessStudentsGeneral

Sep

Fri

Tomorrow

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDT

Women Applying AI Live: Atlanta Happy Hour

Mutation Brewing and Distilling Companyby WAAI Programs

A Sandy Springs community happy hour for women who are curious about AI or already applying it, focused on peer connections and learning about Women Applying AI.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

Sep

Tue

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

So, you can use a chatbot... now what?

Atlanta-Fulton Public Library Kirkwood Branchby Artificial Intelligence Learning

A hands-on Kirkwood workshop for people who already use AI chatbots and want to apply them more productively and safely through practical exercises and discussion.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerGeneralStudentsBusiness

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Near Real-Time RAG Pipelines at Scale in Java

Roam Dunwoodyby Atlanta Java Users Group

An Atlanta Java technical meetup on designing low-latency retrieval-augmented generation systems with streaming ingestion, embedding inference, vector search, and Java.

MeetupFreeAdvancedDevelopersResearchers

Sep

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, September 16, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, September 23, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

12:30 PM – 3:00 PM EDT

IBM Meetup 2026-2: Unstructured Data, OpenRAG & Context Engineering

by IBM Data and AI Atlanta meetup

An in-person Atlanta community meetup on preparing unstructured enterprise data for AI, context engineering, agent telemetry, and practical OpenRAG approaches.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusinessResearchers

Sep

Thu

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Building Agentic Workflows in Production

Improvingby AICamp Atlanta

An Alpharetta technical meetup for developers and platform teams building reliable, secure, production-scale AI agents and workflows.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

AI Meetup: Building Agentic Workflows in Production

Improvingby Coder

An Alpharetta meetup for developers and platform teams on moving AI agents from experiments into reliable, scalable production workflows.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Sat

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT

Monthly Meetup + Demo Night: September 2026

South Park Loftsby Dirty South AI

A monthly Atlanta AI community meetup featuring project demos, practical tool discussions, food, and informal networking for local builders and practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Sep

Mon

9:45 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

Tech AI Symposium and AI Career Fair

Georgia Tech Exhibition Hallby Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech's premier event connecting students, researchers, faculty, industry leaders, and employers to explore the future of artificial intelligence with career opportunities.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateStudentsDevelopersResearchers

Sep

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, September 30, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Wed

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, October 7, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, October 14, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Mon

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

FUTURE HACKATHON: AI Immersive

Microsoft Atlantic Yardsby FUTURE HACKATHON

A two-day Atlanta AI learning and hackathon experience for students, recent graduates, creatives, and emerging professionals, with hands-on challenges, demos, career connections, and no coding prerequisite.

HackathonFreeAll levelsStudentsDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Tue

8:30 AM – 4:00 PM EDT

Snowday 2026: Accelerating Georgia's Data-Driven Future

Georgia Building Authorityby Georgia Office of Artificial Intelligence

A free Downtown Atlanta public-sector learning day on data modernization, analytics, AI, live demonstrations, a hands-on lab, and peer networking.

ConferenceFreeBeginnerDevelopersBusinessResearchers

Oct

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, October 21, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Thu

4:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Tricentis AI Tour: Atlanta

F1 Arcade Atlantaby Tricentis

An in-person West Midtown gathering for technology and business leaders on enterprise AI adoption, agentic workflows, software quality, and the future of AI-driven work.

NetworkingFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Sat

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EDT

Monthly Meetup + Demo Night: October 2026

South Park Loftsby Dirty South AI

A monthly Atlanta AI community meetup featuring project demos, practical tool discussions, food, and informal networking for local builders and practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EDT

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, October 28, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, November 4, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, November 11, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Thu

8:00 AM – 4:00 PM EST

2026 Georgia Emerging Technology Summit: Data & AI

Courtland Grand Hotelby Georgia Office of Artificial Intelligence

A free Downtown Atlanta summit for public-sector participants exploring practical AI, automation, data, governance, cybersecurity, workforce development, and emerging technology.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopersGeneral

Nov

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, November 18, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Sat

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST

Monthly Meetup + Demo Night: November 2026

South Park Loftsby Dirty South AI

A monthly Atlanta AI community meetup featuring project demos, practical tool discussions, food, and informal networking for local builders and practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Wed

8:30 AM – 10:30 AM EST

Wednesd.AI: Your Weekly Download, November 25, 2026

Atlanta Tech Villageby Atlanta Tech Village

A free Buckhead weekly gathering where Atlanta founders, operators, and builders share practical AI tools and workflows, then continue with peer co-working.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral