AI events in Austin: July 2026
The AI meetups, workshops, hackathons, and conferences that happened in Austin in July 2026. Each event keeps its page. Follow through for details and the organizer's next event.
Jul
19
Sun
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT
Rooftop Clubhouse Edition + Potluck
Sienna at the Thompsonby The AI Implementation Club
A casual rooftop social hosted by The AI Implementation Club — networking and a potluck meal in an informal setting for members to connect over AI implementation topics.
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM CDT
Hack Fair — AITX × NVIDIA Claw Agent Hackathon
Capital Factoryby AITX
Build applications with AITX and NVIDIA Claw Agent technologies. Develop AI-powered solutions and compete to showcase your implementation in front of the community.
Jul
20
Mon
Jul
21
Tue
8:00 AM – 9:30 AM CDT
Agent Builders Breakfast
Antler VCby Antler
Meet other agent builders over coffee and breakfast tacos. A recurring morning gathering for founders and engineers shipping agentic products.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Hands-On Claude Skill Mini-Workshop & Networking Cocktails for CyberMarketers & GTM Pros
Private North Austin Venueby Cybersecurity Marketing Society Calendar
Cybersecurity marketing and GTM professionals build a reusable Claude Skill, learn techniques for more efficient Claude workflows, and connect over drinks and bites.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
AI Workflow Night | AustinJS Meetup
Cloudflareby Austin JS
Austin JS hosts an open-mic evening for developers to demonstrate AI-powered products, autonomous agents, coding workflows, prompts, and customized development tools.
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Where is AI in 2026 and Where is it Going?
Yarborough Branch, Austin Public Libraryby AI Safety Awareness Group Austin
A free, beginner-friendly public workshop examining recent AI progress and what near-term changes could mean for work, crime, relationships, and everyday life.
Jul
22
Wed
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
AI Community Coworking at Antler
Antler VCby AITX
AITX and Antler open a downtown coworking day for Austin AI engineers, founders, researchers, and operators to work alongside one another and connect informally.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin Robotics Paper Club
Vintage Bookstore and Wine Barby PyTorch ATX
PyTorch ATX convenes a guided reading and technical discussion of AlexNet, the influential neural-network paper that helped reshape modern computer vision.
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
What's in a Name?
Epoch Coffee — North Loopby Claude & Coffee Austin
Claude & Coffee Austin leads a campfire-style discussion about the names people give themselves and their AI models, and how that language shapes collaboration.
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Austin AI Safety Casual Meetup
Meanwhile Brewing Companyby Austin AI Safety Casual Meetup
An informal table conversation for Austinites interested in AI safety, alignment, existential risk, and ways to improve the social outcomes of advanced AI.
Jul
24
Fri
Jul
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Jul
26
Sun
Jul
27
Mon
Jul
28
Tue
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM CDT
Agentic AI Show-and-Tell (Founders)
The Red Fridge Societyby Red Fridge Society
A small morning gathering where founders demonstrate recent agentic AI work, exchange practical ideas, and learn from longer presentations and short open-mic shares.
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
AITX Community Monthly Meetup
Antler VCby AITX
AITX’s monthly Austin gathering brings AI engineers, founders, and curious newcomers together for local product demos, conversation about current AI applications, and community networking at Antler VC.
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Agentic AI Night: MCP Release Party
Coderby AAIF Community Austin
An evening for Austin's agentic-AI builders to mark a Model Context Protocol release with live demos, short talks, and hands-on conversation about connecting tools and agents.
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup
701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup
A technical session on moving software teams beyond ad hoc prompting toward reusable commands, skills, agents, hooks, and automated engineering workflows.
Jul
29
Wed
Jul
30
Thu
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
AI Against Trafficking: Awards & Networking
Capital Factoryby Austin AI Hub
An Austin gathering recognizing projects from the Call for Code AI anti-trafficking initiative. The program combines a finalist showcase, awards, a panel on responsible technology, and networking for AI builders, nonprofit leaders, advocates, and creatives.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Governing AI Agent Traffic, Multi-Cloud Airflow & AI Privacy
Capital Factoryby Kubernetes Austin
Kubernetes Austin presents a three-topic technical evening on controlling AI-agent traffic, operating Apache Airflow across clouds, and privacy considerations for AI.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
Austin | Claude Workshop for Beginners
Antler VCby Claude Community Events
A hands-on beginner workshop for getting productive with Claude — practical prompting, everyday workflows, and first steps toward agents — hosted at Antler in downtown Austin.
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
How to Build AI Agents For Your Business
Workshop Roomby AI Made Simple
A practical evening workshop from AI Made Simple on designing and deploying AI agents to automate real business tasks — aimed at non-technical founders and operators.
Jul
31
Fri
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
Claude Workshop · Austin
Gevity: Social Wellness Clubby The Longevity Social Club
A full-day workshop for female founders on using Claude for marketing work — turning one idea into a week of social content, writing on-voice emails, generating visuals, and building simple sites or apps.
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT
AI Powered Opportunities — Networking Event (Friday, July 31)
Barton Springs Poolby AI Powered Opportunities
A casual midday networking hour at Barton Springs Pool for people who want to trade ideas about putting AI to practical use. Informal, free, and organizer-run; it recurs on most weekdays.
5:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
The Great Austin AI Agent Roundup: Elastic + Apify Hack Night
Elasticsearch, Incby You Know, for Search
A hands-on Austin hack night for building context-rich AI agents with scraped live data, Elasticsearch, Elastic’s agent tooling, Apify, and Claude, followed by lightning demos and judging.
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