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.

Meetups Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking

Sep

Mon

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

Austin Claude Code Meetup: Claude Design

Capital Factoryby Claude Community Events

The Austin Claude Code community meets at Capital Factory for an evening on Claude Design — how builders are using it, what time it actually saves, and where it fits in day-to-day work. Free, with food and networking.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Thu

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

Building Resilient Systems in the Age of Agentic Development

by Antithesis Events

AWS and Antithesis bring Austin engineers together to discuss reliability, verification, and testing as AI-assisted and agent-generated software accelerates development.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

5:30 PM – 9:00 PM CDT

AI Meetup (Austin) with Zello

Zelloby AICamp

AICamp's Austin chapter partners with voice-communications company Zello for a free evening of technical talks on generative AI, LLMs and agents at Zello's West Sixth Street office.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

6:00 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

ACM Austin Special Workshop: The A to Z of Building AI Agents with MongoDB

ACC Rio Grande Campusby ACM Austin | Enterprise AI & Engineering

A hands-on, instructor-led evening workshop where attendees build a working AI documentation assistant using LangGraph for orchestration and MongoDB as the agent's vector store, knowledge base, and memory layer.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Sat

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

Cursor Austin x AITX Hackathon

by Cursor Austin

A full-day Austin hackathon for solo builders and small teams using Cursor to turn an idea into working software, agents, developer tools, or automations.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersStudents

Sep

Tue

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup — September

701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

The September session of Austin's monthly meetup on how whole software teams coordinate planning, design, build, review, and shipping once AI agents are part of the process.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Tue

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

Austin Physical AI Workshop and Meetup

by Voxel51 Events

Voxel51 hosts an Austin hands-on workshop and meetup for practitioners exploring physical AI, with a laptop-based workshop followed by community discussion.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

Oct

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT

AIMUG Monthly Mixer & Showcase

ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin LangChain AI Group

Austin LangChain’s October occurrence features community demos, short technical deep dives, Q&A, and networking about agentic applications, LangChain and LangGraph workflows, and Claude Code.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Oct

Fri

5:30 PM CDT

Gavel & Gown: LLM Judge

Antler VCby Organized AI

An Organized AI session at Antler VC on the LLM-as-judge pattern — using language models to evaluate and score AI outputs — with practical guidance for builders and teams.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Wed

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT

Zombie Radio AI — The Austin Python Meetup

Brazos Placeby The Austin Python Meetup

The Austin Python Meetup's October talk: a Python CLI application that stages an audio-only radio play performed by improvising LLM voice actors with human-quality text-to-speech, built as a Halloween piece.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Oct

Tue

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup — October

701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

The October session of Austin's monthly meetup on how whole software teams coordinate planning, design, build, review, and shipping once AI agents are part of the process.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST

AIMUG Monthly Mixer & Showcase

ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin LangChain AI Group

The November meeting of the Austin LangChain + AI Middleware Users Group — community showcase demos, lightning talks on agent orchestration, and open networking at ACC Rio Grande.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Tue

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

The November edition of the monthly Austin meetup for engineers, PMs, designers, QA, and founders rethinking how whole teams — not just individual developers — build software when agents are part of the process.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Nov

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST

Austin Robotics & AI

HICAMby Austin Robotics & AI

The November meeting of Austin's robotics and AI community at HICAM — talks, project show-and-tell, and networking for engineers, researchers, and builders working on intelligent physical systems.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents

Dec

Wed

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

How to Build Voice AI Bots that Sound Human

Capital Factoryby AIAM — AI Automation & Marketing

An AIAM session on building conversational voice agents that avoid the stilted, obviously-synthetic feel — speaker presentation and Q&A at Capital Factory, with networking beforehand.

MeetupFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Dec

Tue

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

701 Brazos Stby Full Lifecycle AI Software Teams Meetup

The December edition of the monthly Austin meetup on how whole software teams — engineers, PMs, designers, QA, and founders — coordinate their work when AI agents are part of the build process.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Dec

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CST

Austin Robotics & AI

HICAMby Austin Robotics & AI

The December meeting of Austin's robotics and AI community at HICAM — talks and project show-and-tell for engineers, researchers, and builders working on robotics, perception, and embodied AI.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchersStudents