Free AI events in New York

You don't have to spend a dollar to plug into New York'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.

Meetups Workshops Hackathons Conferences Networking

Oct

Thu

1:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Tech:NYC Decoded Futures Build Day

Pier 57by Tech:NYC

A collaborative afternoon where nonprofit leaders and technologists use AI to strengthen organizational capacity and expand social impact.

WorkshopFreeAll levelsDevelopersBusinessGeneral

Oct

Mon

4:30 PM – 6:30 PM EDT

Building a Model Evaluation Practice for Production AI

7 West 34th Streetby AWS New York Official Meetup

A hands-on AWS community session on golden datasets, production evaluation metrics, scalable model comparisons, and release gates for AI systems.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Wed

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Daytona AI Builders NYC: October 2026

New York City, citywideby Daytona

A practitioner meetup for New York AI builders focused on secure cloud infrastructure and development environments for autonomous agents.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

Oct

Fri

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

Inaugural Artificial Intelligence and Data Law Summit

New York Law Schoolby New York Law School Innovation Center for Law and Technology

A New York Law School summit examining legal and policy questions raised by AI and data across commerce, government, and daily life.

ConferenceFreeAll levelsBusinessResearchersStudentsGeneral

Nov

Mon

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EST

MLCB 2026: Machine Learning in Computational Biology

New York Genome Centerby Machine Learning in Computational Biology

A two-day hybrid research conference on machine learning methods and applications in computational biology, hosted in Lower Manhattan.

ConferenceFreeAdvancedResearchersDevelopersStudents

Nov

Thu

5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST

Agents & APIs NYC Developer Meetup

113 West 38th Streetby Postman Developer Events

A Postman developer meetup featuring live demos, practical discussion, food, and networking for builders working with AI agents and production APIs.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EST

November AI Engineers: Devs & Drinks

Sugar Mouse NYCby Fonzi, NYC AI Engineers

A casual monthly gathering for New York AI and product engineers to meet peers over drinks, arcade games, pool, ping-pong, and conversation.

NetworkingFreeAll levelsDevelopers

Dec

Tue

5:00 PM – 9:30 PM EST

Twilio Assemble NYC: The Future of Comms + AI

New York City, citywideby Twilio NYC

An evening for developers exploring AI-native communications, conversational intelligence, coding skills, and an interactive IVR build challenge.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness