Thursday, August 13, 2026
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
Retell AI Austin Happy Hour
About this event
A free evening happy hour at Punch Bowl Social where the voice-AI company Retell brings its team to Austin — and puts its own phone agent to work handling part of the event.
A voice agent working its own party
Retell AI builds the platform companies use to create, test and deploy AI voice agents — the systems that place and answer real phone calls for customer support, scheduling and lead qualification, at conversational latency. The team is travelling to Austin for an evening with the local tech scene.
The format
There are no talks and no badges. The organizing conceit is that the product runs the event: attendees who hold a real conversation with Retell's voice agent get an arcade card loaded for the venue's games. Alongside that there is an open bar, a build-your-own cowboy hat station, swag, and the Retell engineering team on hand to talk shop.
Who it suits
The hosts name developers and ML engineers, founders and engineering leads, technical creators, and operations or support staff who spend their working day on the phones. If you are evaluating voice agents — or trying to work out why yours sounds wrong — the useful part is the unstructured time with people who build the stack.
Practical notes
Free to attend, but registration is approval-gated and capacity is explicitly capped, so register early. Plus-ones are welcome. Held at Punch Bowl Social on Congress Avenue downtown.
Organized by
A platform for building, testing and deploying AI voice agents that place and answer real phone calls for support, scheduling and lead qualification. It runs occasional city happy hours where its own voice agent handles part of the event.