Free AI events in Dallas–Fort Worth

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into Dallas–Fort Worth'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.

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4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

Vibes, Flows, Code: Agentic AI Social

8000 Dallas Pkwyby easiest.ai Frisco & DFW Meetup

A weekly Frisco working social for people exploring applied AI, local models, agentic workflows and AI-assisted software development.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneralStudents

Oct

Tue

Tomorrow

8:00 AM – 3:30 PM CDT

Bentley Illuminate Dallas 2026

Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centreby Bentley Systems

A free two-day Dallas conference for infrastructure professionals exploring AI-enabled design, digital twins, intelligent automation and practical infrastructure technology workflows.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT

Exploring Search, AI & Observability with Elastic

Improving Dallasby Elastic

A Plano technical meetup for Dallas-area developers and Elastic users, covering search, artificial-intelligence applications and observability, with time for peer conversation over refreshments.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneral

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT

FaithTech Dallas: AI Hack Night

710 Presidential Drby FaithTech Dallas

A Richardson AI hack night for builders at every level to bring a project, trade feedback and learn alongside local FaithTech AI architects.

WorkshopFreeAll levelsDevelopersStudentsGeneral

Oct

Wed

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM CDT

Cocktails and Cybersecurity: The Rise of Non-Human Identities

by Dallas IAM Group

A Dallas IAM Group discussion and networking event on securing AI agents, machine identities and autonomous systems as organizations adopt agentic AI.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM CDT

Google Agentic AI Builder Lab - Dallas

Improving Planoby Dallas AI Developers Group

A hands-on Plano workshop for developers and AI practitioners building resilient multi-step agent systems with Google Cloud, tools, state and live data.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopersStudents

Oct

Thu

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CDT

Situational AI Open Research & Technology Forum

Crow Museum of Asian Art at UT Dallasby Prasad Pillai

An open Richardson forum on situational AI, featuring UT Dallas student research, early experiments, live demonstrations and discussion for researchers and practitioners.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersResearchersStudentsBusiness

Oct

Mon

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CDT

Vibes, Flows, Code: Agentic AI Social

8000 Dallas Pkwyby easiest.ai Frisco & DFW Meetup

A weekly Frisco working social for people exploring applied AI, local models, agentic workflows and AI-assisted software development.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneralStudents

Oct

Wed

5:30 PM – 7:30 PM CDT

Testing for Secure and Responsible AI | 7th In Person Dallas Meetup

25N Coworking Friscoby The Test Tribe

A Frisco meetup for software test engineers and developers on security, reliability, privacy and human oversight in generative-AI systems.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Nov

Mon

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST

Vibes, Flows, Code: Agentic AI Social

8000 Dallas Pkwyby easiest.ai Frisco & DFW Meetup

A weekly Frisco working social for people exploring applied AI, local models, agentic workflows and AI-assisted software development.

MeetupFreeAll levelsDevelopersGeneralStudents

Nov

Fri

4:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST

UTD's Biggest No Code Hackathon

The University of Texas at Dallasby AI Biz Club at UT Dallas

A 24-hour UT Dallas AI product hackathon for students to use Lovable and other AI tools to build, launch and pitch a working product without coding experience.

HackathonFreeBeginnerStudentsDevelopers

Nov

Mon

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CST

DataSecAI 2026

Hyatt Regency Dallasby Cyera

A three-day Dallas conference for security, data, governance and AI leaders building trustworthy AI systems and stronger protection for data and agents.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedBusinessDevelopersResearchers

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM CST