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.

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5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

Daytona AI Builders NYC: September 2026

New York City, citywideby Daytona

An evening for AI engineers featuring short technical talks on long-running agents, software sandboxes, realistic service environments, and production verification.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Aerospike New York Mixer: Powering High-Performance Data

New York City, citywideby Aerospike

A technical mixer on real-time data infrastructure for predictive, generative, and agentic AI, with Aerospike engineers available for discussion.

NetworkingFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Thu

Tomorrow

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT

ClickHouse Open House New York

The Times Centerby ClickHouse Events

A free database and AI conference with hands-on agent-building training, technical deep dives, product sessions, and practitioner networking.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Wed

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT

Postgres Tuning in the Age of AI: Context Is Everything

7 West 34th Streetby NYC Postgres

A technical NYC Postgres meetup on giving AI the operational context and safeguards needed to diagnose and tune real database workloads.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopers

Sep

Thu

10:30 AM – 6:00 PM EDT

AI Practitioner Summit

Convene at 810 Seventh Avenueby AI Practitioner Summit

A one-day gathering for engineering, product, operations, and business leaders comparing practical approaches to enterprise AI transformation.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

12:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT

Agentic Defense Workshop: Scaling Security for Lean Teams

Google NYC at 75 Ninth Avenueby Google Cloud

A half-day Google Cloud security workshop on using agentic workflows and managed expertise to strengthen lean security operations.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT

AI Meetup NYC: GenAI, LLMs and Agents

New York City, citywideby AICamp New York

A developer-focused New York meetup with technical talks on generative AI, language models, agents, production practices, and Snowflake semantic views.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersResearchers

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM EDT

Superplane & Elastic: AI Agents That Build & Ship Code

Elastic NYC Officeby Elastic New York City User Group

An unconference for engineering and platform teams discussing AI agents that write, deploy, observe, and repair software with operational guardrails.

MeetupFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Tue

11:30 AM – 5:30 PM EDT

Build with Gemini New York

Convene Brookfield Placeby Google Cloud

A complimentary hands-on Google Cloud workshop on building, scaling, deploying, and governing secure autonomous AI agents.

WorkshopFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Sep

Mon

2:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT

Miro × n8n Hackathon: From Diagram to Automation

OASIS by Workvilleby n8n Community Events

A five-hour team hackathon where participants map a workflow in Miro, build an AI-assisted n8n automation, and demonstrate results written back to the board.

HackathonFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

Oct

Tue

9:00 AM – 6:00 PM EDT

Inform New York 2026

New York City, citywideby Sinequa by ChapsVision

A free one-day enterprise conference on operational, governed agentic AI, trusted data, production deployments, cognitive search, and AI orchestration.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

Collibra AI Summit: New York City

Convene at 117 West 46th Streetby Collibra

A hands-on enterprise AI summit for data, governance, and technical teams building agents and preparing governed unstructured data for production use.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateDevelopersBusiness

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT

AI Trust Forum New York

Microsoft Times Squareby Center for Trustworthy AI

A collaborative forum for senior technology, governance, legal, policy, and business leaders working on trustworthy AI and production agent systems.

ConferenceFreeIntermediateBusinessDevelopersResearchers