AI events in Austin this week
Your next seven days of Austin AI: every meetup, workshop, hackathon, and networking night coming up this week, verified daily.
Oct
21
Wed
4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT
Meridian: Quarterly Showcase of AI in Deep Tech
by Texas Futures Coalition
A quarterly Austin showcase from the Texas Futures Coalition and Neon Syndicate, pairing short presentations from AI and climate-driven deep tech companies with extended time for founders, investors, academics and policymakers to talk. Free to register.
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
HOTA October: Agentic Research Systems
ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance
Austin AI Alliance's October Human Orchestration of Tools & Agents workshop at ACC Rio Grande on designing agentic research systems — a hands-on, paid session for practitioners.
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT
AI x Education Austin — October Meetup
by AI x Education Austin
October's meeting of Austin's AI-in-education community — a monthly evening for educators, ed-tech builders, and technologists examining how artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning.
Oct
22
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.
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour
Vacancy Brewingby Wishbone Advisory
A screened Austin happy hour for marketing and e-commerce operators trading notes on what is actually working across the AI stack — generative engine optimization, listing automation, workflow acceleration and AI-run marketing operations. Free with RSVP approval.
Oct
26
Mon