AI Events in Austin, TX
Every upcoming AI meetup, workshop, hackathon, and conference in Austin. Updated daily.
Sep
10
Thu
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sep
11
Fri
Sep
13
Sun
Sep
14
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.
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.
Sep
16
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.
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.
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.
Sep
17
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sep
19
Sat
Sep
21
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.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Hack AI September
701 Brazos Stby Hack AI
Hack AI's monthly Austin build night moves to Station Austin: AI trivia, two short talks, then a 45-minute open hacking block where attendees work on their own projects. Free with pizza and drinks; both technical and non-technical builders welcome.
Sep
22
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.
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.
Sep
23
Wed
Sep
24
Thu
Sep
25
Fri
Sep
28
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.
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.
Sep
29
Tue
Sep
30
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.
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.
Oct
1
Thu
Oct
6
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.
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.
Oct
7
Wed
5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT
Austin AI Developers Group Meetup
701 Brazos Stby Austin AI Developers Group
An in-person Austin developer meetup for learning and practicing AI, generative AI, language models, agents, machine learning, deep learning, and data science with local peers.
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.
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.
Oct
8
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.
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.
Oct
9
Fri
Oct
14
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.
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.
Oct
15
Thu
Oct
16
Fri
Oct
20
Tue
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.
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
Oct
26
Mon
Oct
27
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.
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.
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.
Oct
28
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.
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT
Austin Robotics & AI
HICAMby Austin Robotics & AI
The fourth-Wednesday Austin Robotics & AI meetup at HICAM — a talk on recent robotics and AI developments plus time to connect with other builders in the local community.
Nov
3
Tue
Nov
4
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.
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.
Nov
10
Tue
Nov
11
Wed
Nov
12
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Nov
17
Tue
Nov
18
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Nov
24
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Nov
25
Wed
Dec
2
Wed
Dec
3
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Dec
10
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.
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.
Dec
16
Wed
Dec
22
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Dec
23
Wed
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