AI Events in Austin, TX

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Sep

Wed

Today

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

Austin Chief of Staff Meetup: AI Demo Night

Capital Factoryby Chief of Staff Network

A capped Austin peer meetup for chiefs of staff, founders' associates and operations leaders, built around short demos and discussion of practical AI workflows, prompts and tools.

MeetupFreeAll levelsBusiness

Sep

Thu

Tomorrow

4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond

Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders

A free late-afternoon meetup for people building autonomous air, sea and ground systems — covering drones, airspace management, maritime autonomy and the edge AI that runs on all of it.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

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

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

ACE September Meetup: From Freelancer to Founder

701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs

AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs' September meetup at 701 Brazos on making the leap from freelancing to founding — using AI tools to build a real business, plus networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsBusinessGeneral

Sep

Fri

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM CDT

AI Show-and-Tell Breakfast (Founders)

The Red Fridge Societyby Red Fridge Society

A morning version of Red Fridge Society's AI show-and-tell: founders demo what they have built with AI — from companies to weekend projects — over coffee and tacos.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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

Mon

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CDT

AI IRL Social — WilCo AI Lab

Red Horn Brewery & Roasteryby WilCo AI Lab

WilCo AI Lab's in-person AI social for the Williamson County side of the metro, this time at Red Horn Brewery in Leander — builders, business owners, operators and curious newcomers, no technical background assumed.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

Sep

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CDT

AI x Education Austin — September Meetup

701 Brazos Stby AI x Education Austin

The September gathering of Austin's AI-in-education community at STATION Austin — an evening for teachers, ed-tech builders, and technologists working through what AI actually changes about teaching and learning.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

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

The Korea Playbook for Austin Physical AI Founders

by Every great founder starts somewhere — start yours.

An approval-based Austin gathering for founders, investors, and operators to discuss physical AI, robotics, Korean industrial ecosystems, and routes to deployment and scale.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

Sep

Tue

11:30 AM – 1:30 PM CDT

The Austin AI Table

by GoML

A small Austin AI conversation for practitioners and leaders, hosted by GoML, with registration by request and an address shared through the organizer's flow.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

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

Sep

Thu

4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT

Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains

Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders

The September Texas Physical AI Builders meetup at Little Woodrow's Domain Northside — a happy hour and technical gathering on unmanned systems and physical autonomy, this month adding supply chains to the drone, surface-vessel, and subsea focus.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Fri

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT

AI Community Coworking

by Entre

A full-day Austin coworking and networking session for people in the AI community, with structured time for collaboration and a closing tour of Pershing House.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

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

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

The Larger Half: AI at Work, Community Meetup

701 Brazos Stby The Larger Half

A September Austin meetup for working professionals who use AI in their jobs but do not write code, focused on practical use across common business tools and workflows.

MeetupFreeBeginnerBusinessGeneral

Sep

Tue

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour

Central Machine Worksby 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.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusiness

Sep

Wed

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

Wed

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

How to Build and Use Custom GPTs for Real Business Tasks

Capital Factoryby AIAM — AI Automation & Marketing

An AIAM presentation and networking session on creating and applying custom GPTs to practical business work, designed for AI entrepreneurs, developers, founders, marketers, and digital specialists.

MeetupFreeBeginnerBusinessDevelopersGeneral

Oct

Thu

4:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond

Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders

A free late-afternoon meetup for people building autonomous air, sea and ground systems — covering drones, airspace management, maritime autonomy and the edge AI that runs on all of it.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

ACE October Meetup: Productizing Your Passion

701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs

An ACE session on turning creative services into scalable products — fonts, templates, kits, courses — using AI to speed development while keeping brand identity intact. Facilitated discussion, free and open to the public.

MeetupFreeAll levelsBusinessGeneral

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

Thu

4:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT

Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Supply Chains

Little Woodrow's Domain Northsideby Texas Physical AI Builders

A free happy-hour meetup for builders working on autonomous air, sea and ground systems — drones, uncrewed vessels, edge AI and robotics — with a 60-second open pitch round to the room. Rescheduled from 22 October.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusiness

Oct

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.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessResearchersDevelopers

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.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Thu

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT

ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour

Vacancy Brewingby Wishbone Advisory

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusiness

Oct

Mon

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

Tech Talks | AI Leaders — Austin Tech Week

by Entre

Silverton and Entre convene Austin founders, investors, and operators for a State of AI & VC talk and a fireside with an AI-native company CEO, followed by extended networking, during Austin Tech Week.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessDevelopers

Oct

Tue

5:30 PM – 7:15 PM CDT

GSLI Impact Chat: Sustainability & AI

Robert B. Rowling Hallby Global Sustainability Leadership Institute

McCombs' Global Sustainability Leadership Institute devotes its fall Impact Chat to the intersection of sustainability and artificial intelligence, with dinner and networking followed by a moderated conversation and Q&A. Free, in Crum Auditorium at Rowling Hall.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusinessStudentsGeneral

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

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

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

Kleo AI Live: Turning LinkedIn Performance Data into Content That Lands

Capital Factoryby AIAM — AI Automation & Marketing

An AIAM evening session on using AI tooling to read LinkedIn performance data and turn it into content that actually performs, with a speaker presentation, Q&A, and networking at Capital Factory.

MeetupFreeBeginnerBusinessGeneral

Nov

Thu

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

ACE November Meetup: Data, Analytics & the Creative Pivot

701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs

AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs takes on data and analytics in November — how creative professionals read the numbers behind their work and use them to steer a pivot, with peer discussion and networking.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusiness

Nov

Tue

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST

ATX Marketing Innovators Happy Hour

Pinthouse Brewing — Ben Whiteby Wishbone Advisory

NetworkingFreeAll levelsBusiness

Nov

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST

AI x Education Austin — November Meetup

by AI x Education Austin

The November session of Austin's monthly AI-in-education meetup, bringing together educators, ed-tech builders and technologists working on what artificial intelligence changes about teaching and learning.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

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

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

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

6:30 PM – 8:30 PM CST

ACE December Meetup: Annual Review & Future Proofing for 2027

701 Brazos Stby AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs

AI for Creatives & Entrepreneurs closes the year with a look back at how AI reshaped creative practice in 2026 and what independent creatives should prepare for heading into 2027.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusiness

Dec

Wed

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CST

AI x Education Austin — December Meetup

by AI x Education Austin

The December session of Austin's monthly AI-in-education meetup — an evening for educators, instructional designers, ed-tech builders and researchers working on what AI changes about teaching and learning.

MeetupFreeAll levelsGeneralBusinessDevelopers

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

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