AI workshops in Austin

Roll up your sleeves: hands-on AI workshops and training across Austin, from prompt-engineering intensives to fine-tuning labs and beginner-friendly no-code classes. Come with a laptop, leave having actually built something. Every upcoming session, verified daily.

Meetups Hackathons Conferences Networking Free events

Sep

Fri

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT

Build Your First AI Agent: Hands-On Weekend Workshop (No Coding Required)

Capital Factoryby Makersquare.ai

A three-day hands-on Austin workshop from Makersquare.ai on building a working AI agent from scratch, running 9am–4pm daily at Capital Factory for people who want to ship rather than watch demos.

WorkshopBeginnerDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Sun

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT

The AI Implementation Club

Antler VCby The AI Implementation Club

A focused Austin build session for founders, operators, and builders who want to implement one concrete AI project, then share progress and get feedback from peers.

WorkshopFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Wed

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

HOTA: Beyond the Prototype II — Self-Recursive Agents

ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance

An Austin AI Alliance HOTA workshop for builders whose agent prototypes degrade in production. Instructor Mario Facussé walks through experience-learning, versioning, and human-in-the-loop reinforcement patterns with a live production stack.

WorkshopIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM CDT

Admin Night: Create an AI Chief of Staff

Austin, TXby Planoly

An Austin evening session from Planoly focused on creating an AI chief-of-staff workflow, for professionals exploring practical agentic support for administrative work.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerBusinessGeneral

Sep

Thu

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

Sun

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT

AI Masterclass: From Chatbot to Agentic Workflows with Hermes Agent

Antler VCby The AI Implementation Club

A paid, hands-on Austin masterclass for founders, operators, and builders moving from one-off chatbot prompts to persistent, scheduled AI workflows. Participants build with Hermes Agent, covering memory, reusable skills, recurring tasks, and specialized agents.

WorkshopIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Mon

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

AI Assistants for Your Business — Meet Your First AI Team Members

701 Brazos Stby The Rising Trend of One-Person Businesses

A hands-on workshop for solopreneurs on structuring AI assistants as defined roles across research, content, operations, client onboarding, and communications. Includes brief-writing and prompt-flow exercises. Free, 25 seats.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerBusiness

Sep

Wed

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM CDT

Navigating AI in Your Classroom

Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL)by UT Libraries

A free 90-minute UT workshop where instructors move from discussing responsible AI to actually drafting the artefact they need — a syllabus AI statement, an accommodation policy, or a redesigned assignment — with facilitators on hand.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerResearchersStudents

5:30 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

Gamma Workshop

Antler VCby Gamma

A hands-on Austin workshop for founders, builders, and operators using Gamma to improve a real pitch deck, proposal, product presentation, strategy, or one-pager.

WorkshopFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Thu

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

Understanding AI — Austin Public Library (October)

Austin Central Libraryby Austin Public Library

A free beginner-friendly hour at the Central Library's Innovation Lab covering what AI actually is, how large language models work, common myths, environmental impacts, and hands-on prompt writing.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerGeneral

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

Fri

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CDT

Automate Your Ops with AI — 3-Day Workshop

Capital Factoryby Makersquare.ai

Makersquare.ai's three-day Austin intensive on applying AI to operational work — mapping real business processes and building automations for them, 9am–4pm daily at Capital Factory.

WorkshopIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Wed

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.

WorkshopIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Wed

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

AI Drop By

Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL)by UT Libraries

A free, no-registration drop-in table in the PCL lobby where UT Libraries staff run activities, games and conversations about using generative AI responsibly — come for five minutes or stay for the full two hours.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerStudentsGeneral

Nov

Fri

9:00 AM – 4:00 PM CST

Build Your First App with AI — 3-Day Workshop

Capital Factoryby Makersquare.ai

The third in Makersquare.ai's Austin workshop series: three full days building a working application with AI assistance, 9am–4pm daily at Capital Factory, aimed at people who have ideas but not a development background.

WorkshopBeginnerDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Nov

Wed

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST

AI Drop By

Perry-Castañeda Library (PCL)by UT Libraries

WorkshopFreeBeginnerStudentsGeneral

Nov

Wed

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

HOTA November: A Studio of One

ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance

The November session of the Austin AI Alliance's paid, hands-on HOTA series: build a one-person media studio out of AI agents and finish a real video, podcast, or infographic on your own topic in a single evening.

WorkshopIntermediateBusinessDevelopers

Dec

Thu

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST

Understanding AI — Austin Public Library (December)

Austin Central Libraryby Austin Public Library

A free beginner session at the Central Library's Innovation Lab covering how AI actually works, where it is already part of daily life, and a hands-on exercise in writing better prompts.

WorkshopFreeBeginnerGeneral

Dec

Wed

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

HOTA December: Human Orchestration of Tools and Agents

ACC Rio Grande Campusby Austin AI Alliance

The December session of the Austin AI Alliance's paid, small-format HOTA training series — a hands-on evening on a single AI tool, skill, or agent workflow, with room to practice and ask questions.

WorkshopIntermediateBusinessDevelopers