Upcoming Events
Build Your Business with Mama (Session 1)
This hands-on program empowers families to create stronger financial futures by working as partners in entrepreneurship. Participants can attend one, two, or all three one-day workshops and will receive a certificate for each session completed or a full series certificate.
Build Your Business Plan with Mama – Develop a clear and strategic business plan tailored to your goals.
Manage Your Business with Mama – Learn essential tools and systems to run a successful Main Street business.
Better Marketing for Your Business – Boost your visibility and growth with proven marketing strategies from local experts.
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Ask Me Anything with Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette
Join The New Philanthropists, in collaboration with the African-American Leadership Institute and Black Professional Alliance for a powerful “Ask Me Anything” conversation with Dr. Colette Pierce Burnette focused on leadership, board service, and creating meaningful community impact. As a nationally respected leader who has championed equity and access throughout her career, Dr. Burnette brings invaluable insight into what it means to lead with purpose while opening doors for others.
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Build Your Business with Mama (Session 2)
This hands-on program empowers families to create stronger financial futures by working as partners in entrepreneurship. Participants will receive a certificate for each session (this is the second session) completed or a full series certificate.
Build Your Business Plan with Mama – Develop a clear and strategic business plan tailored to your goals.
Manage Your Business with Mama – Learn essential tools and systems to run a successful Main Street business.
Better Marketing for Your Business – Boost your visibility and growth with proven marketing strategies from local experts.
Click here to learn more and to register.
Build Your Business with Mama (Session 3)
This hands-on program empowers families to create stronger financial futures by working as partners in entrepreneurship. Participants will receive a certificate for each session (this is the third session) completed or a full series certificate.
Build Your Business Plan with Mama – Develop a clear and strategic business plan tailored to your goals.
Manage Your Business with Mama – Learn essential tools and systems to run a successful Main Street business.
Better Marketing for Your Business – Boost your visibility and growth with proven marketing strategies from local experts.
Click here to learn more and to register.
UTM Client Day
A day for UTM clients to connect with each other, celebrate their milestones, share their wins, review resumes, and get help with job placement.
UTM Horizons with MOUHSINE EL QESRY
For our May edition of UTM Horizons, we’re featuring MOUHSINE EL QESRY, a safety agent at X and an aspiring machine learning engineer. Mouhsine will share his personal journey into tech, the obstacles he’s faced along the way, and the lessons that helped him arrive to where he is today—offering perspective and guidance for those looking to build their own path in the industry.
How to join: This is a live, virtual event designed to be accessible to everyone anywhere. On the day of the event, you can tune in directly through UTM’s LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube channels. To join, simply visit UTM’s LinkedIn, Facebook, or YouTube page at the scheduled time of the event. Once the event begins, the live stream will appear on the page—just click to watch and be part of the conversation in real time.
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AITX Monthly Meetup
AITX is a monthly meetup for AI entrepreneurs, engineers, and explorers in Austin, Texas. At AITX, they are passionate about fostering a diverse and thriving AI community in Austin where like-minded individuals can connect with each other, share ideas, and inspire innovation.
Each month, AITX features demoes from local startups and big companies showcasing what they're building with AI. Coupled with the demoes are a dynamic mix of people coming together to explore the latest advancements in AI technology, real-world applications, and the future of this rapidly growing field. Whether you're an AI veteran or a curious newcomer, AITX offers something for everyone.
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Winning Contracts with Government and Primes
For all our entrepreneurs out there, this one is for you. Looking to secure contracts with government agencies and prime contractors? Join EGBI for an in-depth session designed to help you understand the contracting process and submit winning bids. The event will be facilitated in English with simultaneous Spanish interpretation available!
This workshop is perfect for businesses in industries such as food, events, construction, translation, photography, cleaning, and more. If you’re new to contracting or looking to improve your success rate, this session will provide actionable strategies to help you win more bids and grow your business.
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Discussion of "Apple in China" & "Apple: The First 50 Years"
For the May 2026 edition of the Austin Forum book discussion series, they will cover one of the most impactful technology companies in history by discussing two recent books released about Apple. The first of these is "Apple: The First 50 Years," which is the new book by New York Times technology writer David Pogue. They will also discuss the 2025 best-seller "Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company" by Patrick McGee. Through reading and discussing these two books on Apple’s history, evolution, products, and impacts (technological, cultural, business, and more), they will explore how great companies are made, create massive success and delight customers, scale, learn from mistakes and adapt, and position themselves for the future.
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AI in Professional Education
The Austin AI Alliance is an AI consortium dedicated to advancing the capabilities, usage & impact, social responsibility, and inclusiveness of AI technologies and applications by leveraging the unique resources, talent base, and culture of creative innovation in Austin. The Austin AI Alliance is welcoming of all companies and organizations and will help to connect professionals from companies (from startups to global technology leaders), universities, government agencies, professional associations, non-profits, and interest groups—and to elevate all of their respective activities as well as creative collaborative opportunities.
Network with entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, academics, students, innovators, and subject matter experts building AI in Austin and find future collaborations.
Agenda:
5:30 – 6:00 PM | Check-in and Networking
6:00 – 7:00 PM | Innovation Spotlights and Reverse Pitches
7:00 – 8:00 PM | Projects, Collaboration, and Networking
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2026 Austin Tech Hall of Fame and First Time Founder Awards
The 3rd annual “Austin Tech Hall of Fame” and “First Time Founder Award” reception will be held on May 19th. This is part of an “eight year launch” to be able to add to the Hall of Fame all of the people who have contributed to Austin over many decades.
The Hall of Fame is not just for entrepreneurs who founded companies that had success… but also the investors, advisors, mentors, and solution providers who allowed our tech scene in Central Texas to flourish.
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The Austin Python Meetup
Talk: Alex Merced - Python Meets Apache Iceberg: Exploring Different Ways to Work with Iceberg Tables with Python
Discover how Python is becoming a powerful interface for working with Apache Iceberg tables. In this session, they will dive into the capabilities of the PyIceberg library for directly interacting with Iceberg metadata, demonstrate how to query Iceberg data using the `dremio-simple-query` client, and explore how Dremio’s Polaris catalog enables a fully managed REST-based Iceberg experience. They will also preview how the upcoming Pandas v3 release enhances native support for Apache Arrow and unlocks new performance and interoperability possibilities with the Iceberg ecosystem. Whether you’re building data pipelines, exploring data science workflows, or managing a lakehouse, this talk will show how Python fits naturally into the Apache Iceberg journey.
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AI That Works: Codex + Apify
Most AI events talk about what's coming. This one's about what's already working.
AI That Works is a monthly meetup for anyone building with AI in Austin: developers, founders, operators, GTM teams, and the AI-curious.
Every session: live demos from people shipping real things, a hands-on build, and honest conversation about what's actually producing results.
Whether you're deep in code or mostly prompting, if you're putting AI to work on something real, you belong here.
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InnoTech Austin
InnoTech will feature a full day of incredible networking opportunities, important professional development presentations, tech demos, and more!
InnoTech Austin 2026 Preview:
AI, Data & Analytics Track – AI.InnoTech
Austin Security Summit & Luncheon hosted by ISSA – Austin Chapter
Austin Women in Tech Summit hosted by Austin Women in Tech
CIO Led Thought Leadership Panels
Austin CIO Gala Luncheon & Austin IT Awards hosted by SIM Austin
Texas Cyber Breakfast Club - Live Event
Data Defense Partners Security Pavilion
and more to be announced soon!
Reasons to Attend:
Gain professional & educational development with 20+ educational seminars from industry professionals
Explore the exhibit hall's latest & greatest including LIVE demos with LIVE people
Attend the InnoTech Happy 45-Minute Reception, where you can win some amazing prizes
Obtain up to 7 continuing education hours and credits
Use Code: ATW6VIP for 20% Off Registration!
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Claude Code Community Meetup
Join a Claude Code community-led meetup focused on the latest AI skills, prompt engineering, and workflow optimization. Through demos, skill shares, and networking, this will be bringing people together to explore practical ways to adopt these tools and make them a real asset in everyday workflows.
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Byte Club Meetup
Byte Club is where devs come to get things done. Bring your laptop and whatever you’re working on—a side project, an open source contribution, a framework you’ve been meaning to learn. Junior or senior, AI-assisted or not, all welcome. This isn’t a networking event. It’s a doing event. Networking just happens to be a side effect of showing up consistently and making things. Progress, one byte at a time.
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Hack Fair - AITX<>Codex Community Hackathon
AITX is excited to present Hack Fair: where creativity, innovation, and collaboration take center stage.
As the grand finale of the AITX<>Codex Community Hackathon, this science-fair style showcase is your chance to see what happens when Austin’s brightest engineers and AI enthusiasts come together to build amazing things in just 36 hours.
Hack Fair offers you a front-row seat to view cutting-edge AI prototypes to creative solutions to everyday problems. You'll wander through rows of demo tables, chat with the builders, and cast your vote for the Community Choice Award. This is the place to meet your next hire, co-founder, or collaborator.
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AITX Community x Codex Hackathon
AITX Community is teaming up with Codex for a 48 hour hackathon in Austin. If you're an engineer, systems builder, or founder who likes building things with AI, this one's for you.
What to expect
You'll get a full weekend to build with Codex alongside other builders in the Texas AI community.
There will be tracks to compete in, prizes to win, and mentors on-site to help you ship something real.
Meals are covered all three days, and the venue is open overnight for anyone who wants to keep hacking.
Friday evening kicks off with check-in, a walkthrough of the hackathon, dinner, and building.
Saturday is a full build day with 3 full meals, networking, and progress check-ins.
Sunday wraps with a code freeze & submissions in the morning, culminating in Hack Fair, where teams get to demo their submissions to the broader Austin community.
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Beyond Chatbots—The Rise of the AI Agent
Chatbots are powerful, but we are not moving past the era of simply “chatting” with Generative AI models to create, analyze, summarize, and transform content. The next frontier has arrived: AI agents, and agentic systems. AI Agents are taking these models to the next level by moving from conversation and generation to action and autonomy. This presentation will explore how agents leverage the reasoning power of LLMs to independently plan, use tools, and execute complex workflows. We are transitioning from AI as a digital assistant to AI as a digital colleague—capable of driving massive leaps in productivity, scientific research, and business innovation.
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UTM Horizons
UTM is back with another signature event, UTM Horizons. We will speak with Demarkus Pruitt who will share his tech career journey.
AI Video Production and Digital Twins
Video production used to mean equipment, editing software with a learning curve, and the uncomfortable reality of being on camera. AI has changed all three. This 3.5 hour class shows you exactly how, and gives you hands-on time with the tools that are making it happen.
Using NotebookLM, Riverside, Descript, and HeyGen, you’ll move through a complete production workflow live in class: turning research into a script, recording and editing footage, and generating finished video with an AI avatar you build yourself. You’ll leave understanding not just what these tools do, but how they connect and why that matters for anyone who creates content.
What You’ll Be Able to Do
Transform documents, research, or rough notes into a ready-to-record video script using NotebookLM
Record clean, professional footage from any location using Riverside. No studio required.
Edit video in Descript by editing text. Cut filler, remove stumbles, and tighten your message without touching a timeline.
Produce faceless explainer-style video without ever appearing on camera
Build your own AI avatar in HeyGen and generate a finished video with it, live, in class
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Building Real Software with AI: A Hands-On Workshop
Building Real Software with AI: A Hands-On Workshop
State of the Girl: Engineering Opportunity—Building the Ecosystem Girls Deserve
Engineering Opportunity: Building the Ecosystem Girls Deserve
AI for Operations and Cybersecurity (Online)
This workshop is designed to help small business owners strengthen Cybersecurity practices and use AI to improve daily operations.
The Business Technology Training Program offers a series of hands-on workshops designed to help small business owners and entrepreneurs strengthen cybersecurity practices and use artificial intelligence to improve daily operations, marketing, and customer service.
Class 1: AI for Sales & Marketing February 23, 2026
Class 2: AI for Sales & Marketing March 2, 2026
Class 3: AI for Operations and Cybersecurity, March 23, 2026
Class 4: AI for Operations and Cybersecurity, March 30, 2026
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Classes will be held every Monday from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. This is a free, virtual training.
Tech Bytes
Tech Bytes is back with another conversation at the intersection of technology 👩💻 , innovation 💡, and community 🤝. This edition of Tech Bytes focuses on the shift toward community-first AI infrastructure — a growing movement where technology companies, advocacy groups, and local communities collaborate to shape how AI systems and data centers are built and deployed.
🤖 As artificial intelligence continues to expand, questions around ethics, local impact, governance, and community involvement are becoming central to how infrastructure is designed. From regional data centers to responsible AI frameworks, the next generation of technology is increasingly being developed with community partnership at its core. 🤝
Whether you’re entering the tech industry, building your career, or simply curious about where AI is headed,
expect thoughtful dialogue, practical insight, and the chance to connect with our growing tech ecosystem. Click here to RSVP.
