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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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

Oct

Fri

8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

AI Startup Rodeo: AI × Bitcoin Builder Event

Q Branch, The Texas Embassyby AI Startup Rodeo

A full day for Austin developers, founders, and operators building at the intersection of AI and Bitcoin, with technical talks, product demos, and hands-on discussion of agents, tooling, security, and production workflows.

ConferenceIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Thu

12:00 PM – 5:30 PM CST

Consciousness and Intelligence 2026

The University of Texas at Austinby Texas AI

UT Austin’s two-day interdisciplinary symposium examines artificial intelligence and consciousness through research sessions on language and thought, strong and weak AI, neuroscience, physics, and human awareness, with keynotes and a public evening panel.

ConferenceAll levelsResearchersStudentsGeneral

Nov

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST

2026 Conference on Robot Learning

JW Marriott Austinby Texas Robotics

An international Austin conference on robotics and machine learning, with a three-day main program followed by a workshop day and registration now open.

ConferenceAdvancedResearchersDevelopersStudents

Nov

Wed

7:30 AM – 6:00 PM CST

Future of Communications Conference

Hyatt Regency Austinby Ragan

A three-day Austin conference for communications leaders examining AI strategy, organizational change, security, and the practical demands of guiding teams through technological disruption.

ConferenceAll levelsBusinessGeneral

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