AI Events in Austin, TX
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Austin. Updated daily.
Sep
10
Thu
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT
Abstractions for Scalable Verification of AI-enabled Cyber-Physical Systems
Peter O'Donnell Jr. Buildingby Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
A Center for Autonomy seminar at UT's Oden Institute on formally verifying safety in systems that embed neural networks for perception and control — introducing interval abstractions that make verification of large networks and camera pipelines tractable. Free and open.
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond
Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders
A free late-afternoon meetup for people building autonomous air, sea and ground systems — covering drones, airspace management, maritime autonomy and the edge AI that runs on all of it.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin GILD AI Forum x Tecla: AI and Engineering Leaders Dinner — September
by GILD Events
The September edition of a closed-door Austin dinner series convening senior AI and engineering leaders for candid discussion of what is genuinely working inside their companies and what is not.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
ACE September Meetup: From Freelancer to Founder
701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs
AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs' September meetup at 701 Brazos on making the leap from freelancing to founding — using AI tools to build a real business, plus networking.
Sep
11
Fri
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
Build Your First AI Agent: Hands-On Weekend Workshop (No Coding Required)
Capital Factoryby Makersquare.ai
A three-day hands-on Austin workshop from Makersquare.ai on building a working AI agent from scratch, running 9am–4pm daily at Capital Factory for people who want to ship rather than watch demos.
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT
AI Show-and-Tell Breakfast (Founders)
The Red Fridge Societyby Red Fridge Society
A morning version of Red Fridge Society's AI show-and-tell: founders demo what they have built with AI — from companies to weekend projects — over coffee and tacos.
Sep
13
Sun
Sep
14
Mon
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
Forrester Technology & Innovation Forum Central 2026
by Forrester Research
Forrester's two-day Austin forum for technology leaders, themed "The IT Singularity" — how organizations align now-ubiquitous AI to business outcomes, with a dedicated Data and AI track and an AI-focused opening keynote.
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CDT
AI IRL Social — WilCo AI Lab
Red Horn Brewery & Roasteryby WilCo AI Lab
WilCo AI Lab's in-person AI social for the Williamson County side of the metro, this time at Red Horn Brewery in Leander — builders, business owners, operators and curious newcomers, no technical background assumed.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Austin Claude Code Meetup: Claude Design
Capital Factoryby Claude Community Events
The Austin Claude Code community meets at Capital Factory for an evening on Claude Design — how builders are using it, what time it actually saves, and where it fits in day-to-day work. Free, with food and networking.
Sep
16
Wed
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
CosmicAI Seminar: Surrogate Modeling — Omar Ghattas
The University of Texas at Austinby CosmicAI — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins
Omar Ghattas takes the September 16 slot in CosmicAI's fall hybrid seminar series at UT Austin, within the semester theme of AI surrogate models for physical systems.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
HOTA: Beyond the Prototype II — Self-Recursive Agents
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance
An Austin AI Alliance HOTA workshop for builders whose agent prototypes degrade in production. Instructor Mario Facussé walks through experience-learning, versioning, and human-in-the-loop reinforcement patterns with a live production stack.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
AI x Education Austin — September Meetup
701 Brazos Stby AI x Education Austin
The September gathering of Austin's AI-in-education community at STATION Austin — an evening for teachers, ed-tech builders, and technologists working through what AI actually changes about teaching and learning.
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
Admin Night: Create an AI Chief of Staff
Austin, TXby Planoly
An Austin evening session from Planoly focused on creating an AI chief-of-staff workflow, for professionals exploring practical agentic support for administrative work.
Sep
17
Thu
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Building Resilient Systems in the Age of Agentic Development
by Antithesis Events
AWS and Antithesis bring Austin engineers together to discuss reliability, verification, and testing as AI-assisted and agent-generated software accelerates development.
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
AI Meetup (Austin) with Zello
Zelloby AICamp
AICamp's Austin chapter partners with voice-communications company Zello for a free evening of technical talks on generative AI, LLMs and agents at Zello's West Sixth Street office.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
ACM Austin Special Workshop: The A to Z of Building AI Agents with MongoDB
ACC Rio Grande Campusby ACM Austin | Enterprise AI & Engineering
A hands-on, instructor-led evening workshop where attendees build a working AI documentation assistant using LangGraph for orchestration and MongoDB as the agent's vector store, knowledge base, and memory layer.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
The Korea Playbook for Austin Physical AI Founders
by Every great founder starts somewhere — start yours.
An approval-based Austin gathering for founders, investors, and operators to discuss physical AI, robotics, Korean industrial ecosystems, and routes to deployment and scale.
Sep
19
Sat
Sep
20
Sun
Sep
21
Mon
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
TACCSTER 2026 — TACC Symposium for Texas Researchers
Advanced Computing Building, J.J. Pickle Research Campusby Texas Advanced Computing Center
The Texas Advanced Computing Center's annual two-day symposium for researchers using advanced computing, with invited talks on clinical AI and computational oncology, lightning talks, tutorials, posters, and tours of TACC's AI-focused systems.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Hack AI September
701 Brazos Stby Hack AI
Hack AI's monthly Austin build night moves to Station Austin: AI trivia, two short talks, then a 45-minute open hacking block where attendees work on their own projects. Free with pizza and drinks; both technical and non-technical builders welcome.
Sep
22
Tue
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CDT
The Austin AI Table
by GoML
A small Austin AI conversation for practitioners and leaders, hosted by GoML, with registration by request and an address shared through the organizer's flow.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup — September
701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup
The September session of Austin's monthly meetup on how whole software teams coordinate planning, design, build, review, and shipping once AI agents are part of the process.
Sep
23
Wed
Sep
24
Thu
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
Reuters Events: Momentum AI Austin 2026
by Reuters Events
A two-day invitation-only Reuters Events forum in Austin for senior enterprise AI leaders, capped at around 500 attendees and focused on practical AI deployment rather than theory. Venue not yet publicly announced.
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains
Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders
The September Texas Physical AI Builders meetup at Little Woodrow's Domain Northside — a happy hour and technical gathering on unmanned systems and physical autonomy, this month adding supply chains to the drone, surface-vessel, and subsea focus.
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
NachoThursday: SaaS & AI Founder + Investor Happy Hour
15 W 6th Stby NachoNacho
An application-screened rooftop happy hour in downtown Austin bringing together funded SaaS and AI founders, investors, and tech press for open networking over sponsored drinks and appetizers.
Sep
25
Fri
Sep
28
Mon
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
AI Assistants for Your Business — Meet Your First AI Team Members
701 Brazos Stby The Rising Trend of One-Person Businesses
A hands-on workshop for solopreneurs on structuring AI assistants as defined roles across research, content, operations, client onboarding, and communications. Includes brief-writing and prompt-flow exercises. Free, 25 seats.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
The Larger Half: AI at Work, Community Meetup
701 Brazos Stby The Larger Half
A September Austin meetup for working professionals who use AI in their jobs but do not write code, focused on practical use across common business tools and workflows.
Sep
29
Tue
Sep
30
Wed
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CDT
Navigating AI in Your Classroom
Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL)by UT Libraries
A free 90-minute UT workshop where instructors move from discussing responsible AI to actually drafting the artefact they need — a syllabus AI statement, an accommodation policy, or a redesigned assignment — with facilitators on hand.
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Gamma Workshop
Antler VCby Gamma
A hands-on Austin workshop for founders, builders, and operators using Gamma to improve a real pitch deck, proposal, product presentation, strategy, or one-pager.
Oct
1
Thu
Oct
6
Tue
7:00 AM – 7:00 PM CDT
CHAI Fall Symposium @ UT Health Austin
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Centerby Coalition for Health AI (CHAI)
A full-day executive convening on governing AI inside health systems — keynotes, workshops on foundation models and data infrastructure, and candid sessions on clinical safety and workforce readiness.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin Physical AI Workshop and Meetup
by Voxel51 Events
Voxel51 hosts an Austin hands-on workshop and meetup for practitioners exploring physical AI, with a laptop-based workshop followed by community discussion.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Austin Deep Learning Journal Club — October Session
701 Brazos Stby Austin Deep Learning
The October installment of Austin Deep Learning's first-Tuesday research journal club at STATION Austin — two talks on member-selected ML papers, read in advance, with room to present your own implementations.
Oct
7
Wed
7:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
2026 UT REAL Health AI Symposium
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Centerby The University of Texas System
A two-day University of Texas System symposium at the AT&T Conference Center convening researchers, clinicians, educators, and industry to accelerate responsible AI adoption in health care.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin AI Developers Group Meetup
701 Brazos Stby Austin AI Developers Group
An in-person Austin developer meetup for learning and practicing AI, generative AI, language models, agents, machine learning, deep learning, and data science with local peers.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
AIMUG Monthly Mixer & Showcase
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin LangChain AI Group
Austin LangChain’s October occurrence features community demos, short technical deep dives, Q&A, and networking about agentic applications, LangChain and LangGraph workflows, and Claude Code.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
How to Build and Use Custom GPTs for Real Business Tasks
Capital Factoryby AIAM — AI Automation & Marketing
An AIAM presentation and networking session on creating and applying custom GPTs to practical business work, designed for AI entrepreneurs, developers, founders, marketers, and digital specialists.
Oct
8
Thu
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond
Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders
A free late-afternoon meetup for people building autonomous air, sea and ground systems — covering drones, airspace management, maritime autonomy and the edge AI that runs on all of it.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
ACE October Meetup: Productizing Your Passion
701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs
An ACE session on turning creative services into scalable products — fonts, templates, kits, courses — using AI to speed development while keeping brand identity intact. Facilitated discussion, free and open to the public.
Oct
9
Fri
Oct
14
Wed
9:00 AM – 6:00 PM CDT
LLMday Austin 2026 Q4
The Sunset Roomby SREday + LLMday + PLATFORMday
A full-day Austin conference on large language models, AI and machine learning, with technical sessions, hands-on workshops and networking for people building and operating AI systems.
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
CosmicAI Seminar: Accelerated Universe
The University of Texas at Austinby CosmicAI — NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins
CosmicAI's Accelerated Universe research group presents its progress update at UT Austin — the first of the institute's pillar sessions in the second half of the fall seminar series.
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT
Zombie Radio AI — The Austin Python Meetup
Brazos Placeby The Austin Python Meetup
The Austin Python Meetup's October talk: a Python CLI application that stages an audio-only radio play performed by improvising LLM voice actors with human-quality text-to-speech, built as a Halloween piece.
Oct
15
Thu
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains
Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders
A free happy-hour meetup for builders working on autonomous air, sea and ground systems — drones, uncrewed vessels, edge AI and robotics — with a 60-second open pitch round to the room. Rescheduled from 22 October.
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Revenue & Risk: A Night of AI Excellence (Austin)
Eberlyby Kamp Events
An application-only executive dinner at Eberly convening senior leaders who own enterprise AI strategy, with a panel on AI governance, automation and infrastructure followed by a three-course dinner and open networking.
Oct
16
Fri
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
Automate Your Ops with AI — 3-Day Workshop
Capital Factoryby Makersquare.ai
Makersquare.ai's three-day Austin intensive on applying AI to operational work — mapping real business processes and building automations for them, 9am–4pm daily at Capital Factory.
9:00 AM – 9:00 PM CDT
Austin AI Film Festival 2026
Zach Theatreby Austin AI Film Festival
The second annual two-day festival for AI-assisted cinema at Zach Theatre — craft talks and platform demos on day one, juried finalist screenings and awards on day two, with a creator hackathon running throughout.
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
AI and Your Best Self — Hot Science, Cool Talks
Robert A. Welch Hallby UT Austin Environmental Science Institute
A free public lecture by UT computer vision researcher Kristen Grauman on AI that steps off the screen — systems that watch, understand, and coach you through real tasks — preceded by a hands-on activities hour.
Oct
20
Tue
Oct
21
Wed
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Meridian: Quarterly Showcase of AI in Deep Tech
by Texas Futures Coalition
A quarterly Austin showcase from the Texas Futures Coalition and Neon Syndicate, pairing short presentations from AI and climate-driven deep tech companies with extended time for founders, investors, academics and policymakers to talk. Free to register.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
HOTA October: Agentic Research Systems
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance
Austin AI Alliance's October Human Orchestration of Tools & Agents workshop at ACC Rio Grande on designing agentic research systems — a hands-on, paid session for practitioners.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
AI x Education Austin — October Meetup
by AI x Education Austin
October's meeting of Austin's AI-in-education community — a monthly evening for educators, ed-tech builders, and technologists examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning.
Oct
22
Thu
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
AI Engineering Summit | Austin | 2026
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Centerby TESTINGMIND
A one-day, single-track summit for engineers running AI in production — agentic development, deployment, responsible AI and data infrastructure — with an explicit no-vendor-pitch policy.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour
Vacancy Brewingby Wishbone Advisory
A screened Austin happy hour for marketing and e-commerce operators trading notes on what is actually working across the AI stack — generative engine optimization, listing automation, workflow acceleration and AI-run marketing operations. Free with RSVP approval.
Oct
26
Mon
Oct
27
Tue
5:30 PM – 7:15 PM CDT
GSLI Impact Chat: Sustainability & AI
Robert B. Rowling Hallby Global Sustainability Leadership Institute
McCombs' Global Sustainability Leadership Institute devotes its fall Impact Chat to the intersection of sustainability and artificial intelligence, with dinner and networking followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A. Free, in Crum Auditorium at Rowling Hall.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin GILD AI Forum x Tecla: AI and Engineering Leaders Dinner — October
by GILD Events
A Chatham House Rules dinner for 20–25 CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of AI in downtown Austin — no panels or pitches, just senior technical leaders interrogating each other's live AI projects.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup — October
701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup
The October session of Austin's monthly meetup on how whole software teams coordinate planning, design, build, review, and shipping once AI agents are part of the process.
Oct
28
Wed
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
GAISS 2026 — IEEE Conference on Generative AI for Secure Systems
The University of Texas at Austinby IEEE
A three-day peer-reviewed IEEE conference at UT Austin on the security of generative AI, spanning adversarial robustness, agentic autonomy, red-team automation, and AI governance, with papers indexed in IEEE Xplore.
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
AI Drop By
Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL)by UT Libraries
A free, no-registration drop-in table in the PCL lobby where UT Libraries staff run activities, games and conversations about using generative AI responsibly — come for five minutes or stay for the full two hours.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Austin Robotics & AI
HICAMby Austin Robotics & AI
The fourth-Wednesday Austin Robotics & AI meetup at HICAM — a talk on recent robotics and AI developments plus time to connect with other builders in the local community.
Nov
3
Tue
Nov
4
Wed
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
AIMUG Monthly Mixer & Showcase
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin LangChain AI Group
The November meeting of the Austin LangChain + AI Middleware Users Group — community showcase demos, lightning talks on agent orchestration, and open networking at ACC Rio Grande.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
Kleo AI Live: Turning LinkedIn Performance Data into Content That Lands
Capital Factoryby AIAM — AI Automation & Marketing
An AIAM evening session on using AI tooling to read LinkedIn performance data and turn it into content that actually performs, with a speaker presentation, Q&A, and networking at Capital Factory.
Nov
6
Fri
Nov
9
Mon
Nov
10
Tue
Nov
11
Wed
Nov
12
Thu
Nov
17
Tue
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CST
MLOps World | GenAI Summit 2026
Etter-Harbin Alumni Centerby MLOps World
The seventh annual MLOps World conference lands in Austin for two days on agentic AI in production — case studies, architecture talks, workshops and an expo for AI engineers and platform teams.
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST
TomorrowX Summit 2026
Moody Centerby iConnections
A two-day Moody Center summit on the capital and infrastructure behind frontier AI — breakout tracks on frontier models, AI silicon, and the grid and data centers that power them, plus main-stage CEO keynotes.
1:30 PM – 6:30 PM CST
State of AI in Texas 2026
Texas Capitolby Texas AI Alliance
A half-day Texas Capitol summit for workforce, industry, government, and AI-community leaders on the state's AI adoption, policy, economic development, and social impact.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST
ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour
Pinthouse Brewing — Ben Whiteby Wishbone Advisory
A screened Austin happy hour for marketing and e-commerce operators trading notes on what is actually working across the AI stack — generative engine optimization, listing automation, workflow acceleration and AI-run marketing operations. Free with RSVP approval.
Nov
18
Wed
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
HOTA November: A Studio of One
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance
The November session of the Austin AI Alliance's paid, hands-on HOTA series: build a one-person media studio out of AI agents and finish a real video, podcast, or infographic on your own topic in a single evening.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
AI x Education Austin — November Meetup
by AI x Education Austin
The November session of Austin's monthly AI-in-education meetup, bringing together educators, ed-tech builders and technologists working on what artificial intelligence changes about teaching and learning.
Nov
24
Tue
Nov
25
Wed
Dec
2
Wed
Dec
3
Thu
9:00 AM – 6:30 PM CST
Autonomy Supplychain — Air, Land, Sea: F50 Physical AI Summit Austin 2026
Commons Conference Centerby F50 & Physical AI Builders
A full-day paid summit at UT Austin's Commons Conference Center convening investors, founders, and industrial leaders around the supply chain for autonomous air, land, sea, and subsea systems — drones, UxVs, and robots.
6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST
Understanding AI — Austin Public Library (December)
Austin Central Libraryby Austin Public Library
A free beginner session at the Central Library's Innovation Lab covering how AI actually works, where it is already part of daily life, and a hands-on exercise in writing better prompts.
Dec
10
Thu
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Pediatric to Adult Cardio A.I. Conference: Digital Twins
AT&T Executive Education and Conference Centerby Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
A three-day Austin conference on AI, machine learning and digital-twin modelling in cardiovascular care, convened by UT's Oden Institute with Dell Medical School and Dell Children's Ascension.
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CST
Austin GILD AI Forum x Tecla: AI and Engineering Leaders Dinner — December
by GILD Events
The December sitting of GILD's Chatham House Rules dinner for 20–25 CTOs, VPs of Engineering and Heads of AI in downtown Austin — no panels or pitches, just senior leaders working through each other's live AI projects.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
ACE December Meetup: Annual Review & Future Proofing for 2027
701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs
AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs closes the year with a look back at how AI reshaped creative practice in 2026 and what independent creatives should prepare for heading into 2027.
Dec
16
Wed
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST
HOTA December: Human Orchestration of Tools and Agents
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance
The December session of the Austin AI Alliance's paid, small-format HOTA training series — a hands-on evening on a single AI tool, skill, or agent workflow, with room to practice and ask questions.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST
AI x Education Austin — December Meetup
by AI x Education Austin
The December session of Austin's monthly AI-in-education meetup — an evening for educators, instructional designers, ed-tech builders and researchers working on what AI changes about teaching and learning.
Dec
22
Tue
Dec
23
Wed
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