Free AI events in Austin

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Austin's AI scene. Every free AI event in the city, gathered in one place and verified daily: meetups, workshops, hackathons, and talks with no ticket price.

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Sep

Thu

Today

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.

MeetupFreeAdvancedResearchersDevelopersStudents

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.

NetworkingFreeAdvancedBusinessDevelopers

Sep

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.

MeetupFreeAdvancedResearchersStudentsDevelopers

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

Oct

Tue

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.

MeetupFreeAdvancedResearchersDevelopers

Oct

Wed

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.

MeetupFreeAdvancedResearchersStudentsDevelopers

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

Tue

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.

NetworkingFreeAdvancedDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Tue

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST

Austin Deep Learning Journal Club — November

701 Brazos Stby Austin Deep Learning

The monthly journal club where Austin machine learning practitioners present and dissect recent papers, with two talks per session followed by open technical discussion.

MeetupFreeAdvancedDevelopersResearchers

Nov

Tue

5:30 PM – 9:00 PM CST

The Future of Robot Learning

111 Congress Aveby PyTorch ATX

PyTorch ATX convenes an Austin evening on robot learning timed to coincide with CoRL, the Conference on Robot Learning — technical talks on how machine learning is reshaping robotics and embodied systems.

MeetupFreeAdvancedDevelopersResearchersStudents

Dec

Thu

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.

NetworkingFreeAdvancedDevelopersBusiness