AI conferences in Austin

The big rooms: AI conferences and multi-day summits in Austin, with keynote speakers, focused tracks, and the kind of hallway networking that fills a calendar for months. Every upcoming AI conference in the city, tracked and verified daily.

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Sep

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.

ConferenceAdvancedBusinessDevelopers

Sep

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.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersStudentsDevelopers

Sep

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.

ConferenceAdvancedBusiness

Oct

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.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersDevelopers

Oct

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.

ConferenceAll levelsResearchersBusinessGeneral

Oct

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.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersResearchersBusiness

Oct

Fri

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.

ConferenceAll levelsGeneralBusiness

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.

ConferenceFreeBeginnerGeneralStudentsResearchers

Oct

Tue

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM CDT

Oden Institute Seminar: A Riemannian Geometry Perspective on Foundation Models

Peter O'Donnell Jr. Buildingby Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences

Yale's Rex Ying argues at UT Austin that Euclidean space is the wrong geometry for large foundation models, and shows how hyperbolic embeddings improve Transformers, LLM training, and multimodal systems.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersDevelopersStudents

Oct

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.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

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.

ConferenceAdvancedResearchersDevelopers

Nov

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST

CoRL 2026 — Conference on Robot Learning

JW Marriott Austinby Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)

The international conference at the intersection of robotics and machine learning comes to Austin for four days — three days of peer-reviewed research and keynotes plus a full workshop day, across three downtown and campus venues.

ConferenceAdvancedResearchersDevelopersStudents

Nov

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.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusinessResearchers

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.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessResearchersGeneral

Dec

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.

ConferenceAll levelsDevelopersBusinessResearchers

Dec

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.

ConferenceAdvancedResearchersBusinessDevelopers