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A free-to-view CISA livestream in which CISA senior leaders talk through the cyber threats facing U.S. critical infrastructure (water, energy, public health, emergency systems) and how organizations can get ready for dis
A one-hour Hiring Our Heroes Zoom webinar with tips for getting ready before you log in to a HOH virtual hiring fair (e.g., the Oct 28 Logistics, Skilled Trades & Transportation fair). For transitioning service members,
A small weekly online session from the NextWork Build and Brew (San Antonio) Meetup group. This week the host will discuss and demo how AI can supplement education and training; later sessions build AI-assisted projects
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Texas Baptist volunteer missions: disaster-relief teams (feeding, chainsaw, mud-out, chaplains) and church/camp builders. Church Builders: San Antonio runs Oct 19–29 (framing/electrical).
Christian business/professional fellowship: Coffee & Connections mixer and monthly luncheons.
Leidos recruiting information session for veterans and military spouses.
Texas Veterans Commission outreach breakfast for transitioning service members and veterans (resources/networking).
Veteran services fair; college page says employers will be on site hiring.
Global AI security / AI-for-security community; Oct 24 talk 'Rearchitecting Enterprise Security for Probabilistic & Agentic AI' (speaker based in Aubrey, TX).
Easy, family-friendly ~1-mile nature walks with a naturalist topic, plus a monthly chapter meeting.
Peak-bagging/mountaineering club that trains locally and travels to real mountains. Weekly Saturday conditioning hikes at River Place ('Nature's Stairmaster': 2,763 steps, 1,800 ft each way). Nov 12–15 Davis Mountains tr
Large outings group (~20,000 members): hikes of all paces, service trips, talks. Oct 31 Kreische Brewery & Monument Hill hike (easy, 2+ mi); Nov 7 It's My Park Day volunteering.
Hands-on session using AI to write firmware for a Raspberry Pi Pico that drives a shared robot, ending in a robot-motion challenge. Also on the Edge AI page.
Hands-on: use AI to write firmware for a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller that drives a shared robot (embedded robotics), with a robot-motion challenge.
Adults can judge/volunteer at robotics events or mentor teams (no robotics experience required). October calendar shows an Austin Volunteer Rodeo and Scrimmage on Sat Oct 24.
A live robot-combat exhibition: 20–25 battle bots (2.2 lb max), built almost entirely from 3D-printed plastic, fight head-to-head. Free to watch and free to compete, all ages, with makerspace tours and kids’ activities.
A social sunset walk of about 3 miles on the Leon Creek Greenway.
An all-day hike covering the full Barton Creek Greenbelt (rescheduled to Oct 25).
A volunteer trash pickup on Lady Bird Lake by kayak. Arrive 8:45 AM and bring a government ID and a card for incidentals.
A 4-mile Lady Bird Lake loop followed by brunch at Lou's.
An easy night loop along Shoal Creek under the Hunter's Moon. Bring a light.
A 3–4 mile hike at about 3 mph through Prospect Park and Lower Purgatory Creek, held jointly with San Marcos Take a Hike.
Active hiking group: weekday/weekend park hikes and Hill Country trips. Oct 25 Government Canyon full-moon hike; Nov 1 Hardberger 5-miler (~3 mph, mostly flat); Nov 21 Lost Maples.
A biweekly online build session: hack for an hour, then show what you made.
A Samsung product manager on memory architectures for AI inference. Hybrid, with an online option.
A volunteer-led rocks and minerals station at the Summit Trailhead. No registration needed.
An easy 2-mile birding walk for ages 10 and up, limited to 15 people.
A ranger-style interpretive walk of about 2 miles (moderate) through Honey Creek State Natural Area, for ages 7 and up. Register by email at .
A discussion group covering technology, AI, crypto and the economy.
A hands-on online study session on building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for agentic AI.
A free, application-only, week-long hackathon during Austin Tech Week: Monday kickoff at Antler (team formation, sponsor quick-starts), remote build days Tue–Thu (submit online by Thu Oct 29, 5:00 PM), and a science-fair
A free-to-view CISA livestream in which CISA senior leaders talk through the cyber threats facing U.S. critical infrastructure (water, energy, public health, emergency systems) and how organizations can get ready for dis
A one-hour Hiring Our Heroes Zoom webinar with tips for getting ready before you log in to a HOH virtual hiring fair (e.g., the Oct 28 Logistics, Skilled Trades & Transportation fair). For transitioning service members,
Oct 26 Preparing for a Virtual Hiring Event; Oct 27 Employer Spotlight: Nucor; Oct 27 SkillBridge Fellowships Info Session 6:00–6:30 PM CT (7–7:30 PM ET); Nov 3 Preparing for a Virtual Hiring Fair; Nov 5 Interview Prep E
Small weekly online session on AI-assisted training and project building. Low priority (41 members).
A small weekly online session from the NextWork Build and Brew (San Antonio) Meetup group. This week the host will discuss and demo how AI can supplement education and training; later sessions build AI-assisted projects
Walk-in technology help (devices, apps, digital tasks) — basic, not a professional tech meetup.
15-lesson missions course (biblical, historical, cultural, strategic). Fall 2026 class is under way.
Monthly networking luncheon of the local defense communications/cyber association (the chapter that runs ACE).
Halloween game night with the AWS strategy card game instead of the usual hands-on lab.
Monthly meetup for the AI-curious: talks, demos and practical AI case studies.
Founder of 5 Talents AI builds a business workflow live with AI agents across sales/marketing/ops.
Compilers and model architecture for efficient embedded models; using AI coding agents to adapt, optimize and deploy models to specific hardware.
Chapter lunch meeting: "AI Risk Registers Won't Save You."
Regional virtual veteran career fair.
Local chapters of the Control System Cyber Security Association International; weekly online ICS/OT/SCADA seminars. Next: Oct 28 Smart Building Cybersecurity symposium.
Joint ACM Austin + IEEE monthly tech night with talks on AI, cloud-native systems, security, identity and infrastructure.
A quilting-bee-style evening: bring a sewing or textiles project and work alongside other makers, with help on hand if you get stuck.
Free monthly tech talks plus programs (Oct 28 AI Doc, Nov 5 AI bootcamp, Nov 10 quantum; Nov 18 online book discussion 7:15 PM).
Austin Forum on Technology & Society screening of an AI documentary followed by a panel.
Austin robotics community meetup; talk on agentic robotics (AI agents controlling robots).
Talks on spatial memory and continual adaptation for field robot deployments (Percept), plus agents vs. policies for robots with a live robot-arm demo (tatbot).
Evening of talks/demos on agentic AI and AI coding agents, hosted at Coder's Austin office.
Weekly local AI meetup in Dripping Springs.
Three-day peer-reviewed IEEE conference at UT Austin on generative-AI security: red/blue-team automation, adversarial robustness, agentic secure AI, DevSecOps, governance.
HOH virtual hiring fair for the military community.
Oct 28 Salary Negotiation, FSH 1–3 PM (hybrid); Nov 3 Navigating the Federal Hiring System & Resume, Lackland 1–3:30 PM; Nov 4 USAJOBS & Federal Resume, Lackland 9–11 AM (hybrid); Nov 10 Acing the Interview, Randolph 10–
Monthly meetup for people trying to break into cybersecurity. The organizer also promotes its own certification-training program.
Small cybersecurity event listed by WSA as a job fair/hiring event at its Port San Antonio career center.
Virtual recruiting event for cleared professionals; San Antonio is among listed job locations.
Social event of the San Antonio ISSA security chapter.
Casual data/AI social; bring your scariest dataset. Mentor matching offered.
AI-matched tech job fair; employers interview by video, phone or in person.
OWASP-affiliated AppSec conference; training includes attacking/defending AI applications.
Physical-AI meetup on autonomous air, land, sea and space systems, for builders, engineers and investors.
Happy-hour meetup on unmanned systems and physical autonomy (aerial, maritime, underwater, logistics), billed for robotics, hardware and edge AI builders; 60-second pitch slot.
Online workshop on production AI agents over visual data using tools, skills and the Model Context Protocol.
Hiring event with Texas state agencies.
Online talk on 'Career OS', an LLM-agnostic, open-source system for running a job search (context engineering in practice).
Monthly FPV drone flying meetup; beginners and the curious welcome. Also Nov 28 and Dec 26.
Biweekly lockpicking practice (locksport); no tools needed, all skill levels.
Monthly design-status meeting for a high-altitude balloon flight project, with Austin Physics for Fun members. In person and online.
The monthly design review for a citizen-science high-altitude balloon flight, joined by Austin Physics for Fun. Attend in person or online.
Monthly CNC interest group for every experience level, with show-and-tell welcome. Open to non-members, with a Zoom option.
Monthly laser-cutter interest group with how-tos, live demos, Q&A and show-and-tell. Open to non-members; join on Zoom if you cannot attend.
LLM/agents builders group; monthly mixer & showcase.
Austin's DEF CON group: monthly hacker/security talks and hangout.
AI security practitioners; Nov session is an 'AI Security Essentials' working session (Snyk).
Systems engineering for running ML on small, resource-constrained devices: execution dependencies, memory pressure, distributed and edge AI.
Regional automation expo: robots, machine vision, AI components, controls and IIoT, with live demos from Texas providers.
Hands-on workshop building a personal AI assistant workflow.
Austin's main ham radio club; monthly meeting with a technical program.
Case study: cameras, thermal imaging and on-device AI processing in cooking appliances that adjust in real time.
Downtown tech/startup club and coworking; hosts many SA meetups. Open Coffee Club is a weekly founders/builders coffee listed publicly on Luma.
Monthly developer social (3,300+ members); also a Geeks&&Tech Tuesdays daytime session (Nov 17, 9 AM).
Long-running Austin robotics/maker club monthly meeting, held in person and on Google Meet.
Long-running Austin hobby-robotics club meeting; members show builds. No agenda is posted.
Austin’s long-running robotics nonprofit (since the late 1980s) meets in person and online to share builds and projects. Newcomers welcome.
Self-led, Slack-style virtual networking and job space for developers, AI engineers, data scientists and DevOps.
A monthly social evening at Austin’s largest nonprofit makerspace, a relaxed way to meet members and see the shops.
HOH virtual hiring fair for operations/management roles.
Statewide veteran hiring fair, Central Texas edition, hosted with Fort Hood TAP.
IT audit/governance/cyber chapter: Nov 4 Shadow AI webinar, Nov 18 TechNexus, Dec 10 virtual.
ISACA Austin virtual lunch session on Shadow AI risk.
IT audit/risk/security chapter with frequent AI-governance webinars.
Two concurrent AI-governance webinars (Compass IT Compliance; Info Security Insights).
Employer event at the JBSA-FSH Transition Assistance Center (listed on a Texas DPS recruiter calendar).
Recruiter tabling by a firm focused on data centers and the workforce that builds/operates them.
Day of hands-on AI building sessions for small businesses.
Full-day hands-on AI bootcamp from the Austin Forum on Technology & Society.
Cleared-only hiring event with defense/intel contractors (sponsor Amentum).
Online cybersecurity networking and hiring session (SOC, red team, threat intel, career-changers) from Analytics.Club.
1,784-member grassroots data science/engineering/AI group. Next: "The Drop: Claude Code + Agents Primer" (two beginner-friendly talks).
Edge AI processor forecast to 2031, teardowns of edge AI devices, NPU architecture and the cost of on-device inference across MCU/SoC vendors (incl. defense uses).
Kerrville ham radio club with members from Fredericksburg, Boerne, Bandera; monthly meeting plus a Saturday shack social/training.
National virtual fair with one-on-one chats with military-friendly employers.
Statewide veteran hiring fair series (TWC/TVC), Arlington site.
Austin's largest veteran hiring event; employers include CyberTex, Samsung Austin Semiconductor, Spectrum, Austin Energy, Dept. of the Interior, state agencies.
Coastal Bend edition of the statewide veteran hiring fair.
Online talks on computer vision and AI in agriculture, posted by the Austin AI, ML & Computer Vision Meetup.
WVSA staffs an indoor table handing out hygiene products and supplies at the annual Veterans Stand Down, hosted by the American GI Forum (a veterans' civil-rights organization). Setup day is Thu Nov 5.
Monthly 2600-magazine hacker meetup: informal hacking talk, CTF interest, show-and-tell.
Generic monthly virtual job expo run by an events network; low priority.
AI-matched entry-level fair; video, phone or in-person interviews.
Houston’s nonprofit hackerspace opens its doors to tour the fabrication lab, electronics lab, wood and machine shops and meet members.
Texas's community Linux/open-source conference.
UT's robotics hub. Public: 4th Annual Robot Parade on Speedway + robot showcase at Gregory Gym Plaza (Nov 6). Its Portfolio Seminar Series is for grad students only.
Lockpicking/locksport social with puzzles and tools (dimple picks, bypass tools, Flipper Zero).
Ranger/volunteer-led hike up the 0.8-mile Summit Trail, climbing 425 ft on granite. There is also a ranger night hike to the summit on Nov 14.
WVSA marches in the City of Converse Veterans Day Parade. Friends and family are welcome.
A Sunday service honoring veterans. Wall of Honor entries are due Thu Nov 5 at 2 PM.
Long-running local hacker group; Discord and mailing list.
Austin ACM chapter tech talks.
International research conference on robotics and machine learning. Main conference Nov 9–11; workshops Nov 12.
Top research conference on robot learning (learned control, robot foundation models). The Nov 12 workshops include "The Science of Physical AI Safety" (spais-ws.org).
San Antonio area's largest veteran hiring event, at the Port San Antonio cyber/aerospace campus.
AI-matched veteran fair; video/phone/in-person interviews. Past employers include PAE/Amentum and CBP.
Generic virtual job fair.
Online talk: when prompting beats training, agentic labeling for niche visual data.
Paid AI/tech startup networking mixer. Meetup RSVP does not guarantee entry; a ticket from the Eventbrite link is required.
Vendor-neutral AI + cybersecurity practitioner meetup (2–3 technical talks, Q&A, networking). Oct 13 session was 'Hardening & Red-Teaming Autonomous AI' (prompt injection, agent permissions, AI identities).
Builder-focused AI meetups (demos, code). Next: Nov 10 x OpenRouter.
Build night with live demos and running code (no slides); capped at 50 approved builders.
Monthly Austin Forum talk on quantum computing.
Regional general job fair; listed employers include the US Army, Hexcel and LCPtracker.
Second Rural Capital Area HRWY site, same day as San Marcos.
Rural Capital Area edition of the statewide veteran hiring fair.
PyTorch Austin evening on robot learning, timed to CoRL (Conference on Robot Learning).
Two tracks: General Professionals (open to all) and Engineering, Tech & Security Clearance.
Relaunch of the VetsinTech Austin chapter: networking for veterans and military spouses in tech; meet chapter leaders, learn about VIT programs.
Professional computing community; Nov 11 talk on confidential computing.
General meeting talk on confidential computing using bootable containers.
Austin's main Python user group (9,000+ members).
Recruiter panel on cleared hiring.
Veterans Day camaraderie hike for past and present military members, families and friends. 3–5 miles of uneven terrain with moderate elevation change.
A retired Army veteran and Texas Master Naturalist leads a moderate 1.2-mile hike (about 90 min) through granite outcrops to Valley Springs Waterfall.
Open meeting of the OWASP Top 10 for LLM / GenAI Security Project (agentic security, AI red teaming, governance initiatives). Open to members and non-members; recordings on YouTube.
Port, profile and optimize a modern LLM (Qwen 3.5) on edge GPUs: bottlenecks, kernel libraries, profiling tools.
Online multi-talk meetup (includes 'Agentic RAG: Beyond Retrieve-and-Generate').
Defense IT/communications/cyber association; runs ACE (Dec 7–10, free for .edu students and government).
Informal tech talk/networking for emerging leaders.
Robotics/physical AI meetup; Nov 12 topic 'Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV/USV/UUV'. Also Oct 29, 4 PM.
Same series as Oct 29: unmanned-systems and physical-autonomy meetup (air, sea, undersea, logistics, defense), with edge AI builders, investors and pitches. Falls during CoRL week.
Community-run hands-on workshop for people building with Claude Code.
Day on data-center careers: Learning Lab tour, networking, roundtables.
Full-day seminar on security, risk, identity and AI governance.
Amateur radio club; technical programs most months (RF, antennas, digital modes) — relevant to RF/SDR/signals interest.
Resource fair for military-connected students; careers among the topics.
Casual practitioner cybersecurity lunch with no slides or sales pitches: AppSec, cloud, detection, governance, AI.
Informal kickoff for a new Texas security-practitioner community: no talks or vendor pitches, family-friendly. Sponsored by JetStream Security.
Visiting-speaker AI talks (video understanding, 3D vision, multimodal/embodied AI). Next: Nov 13.
Buy handmade goods from local makers right next to the CNC mills, lathes, pottery wheels and sewing machines they were made on. Free and all ages, with music, raffles, giveaways and an electronics activity.
Climbing access/stewardship nonprofit (Access Fund affiliate). Hosts the Limestoner climbing competition on Sat Nov 14 at Reimers Ranch.
Peer-support and service group for women veterans (228 members): coffee meetups, member lunches, service projects, parades and outreach to homeless/at-risk women vets.
Public-sector cloud security/compliance summit (FedRAMP/StateRAMP/GovRAMP).
SA's long-running security-leader chapter (since 2000).
San Antonio's main security-leader chapter meeting (half-day program).
A monthly meetup for home-automation and home-project tinkerers to swap ideas and show what they’ve built.
Annual Austin AI Alliance conference on the Texas AI ecosystem.
Practitioner talks on GenAI, LLMs, agents, ML/DL and data science.
Casual data/analytics/ML meetup. Also Oct 29, 6:30 PM.
Live code: memory and retrieval for a fully local robot and for many agents, including what changes when memory runs fully on-device.
Austin cloud/DevOps user group; monthly beers-and-pizza networking.
Taking a working edge model to a product on a power-constrained device: compilation, testing, integration, agentic dev tools; physical AI use cases.
Transition workshop for military spouses. Low priority.
Practitioner conference on MLOps, LLMOps, agents and GenAI in production. Free virtual day Nov 16.
Free live webinar by Qdrant engineers on vector memory for a fully local robot and a 1,000-agent swarm.
Virtual fair for cleared candidates with defense/intel employers.
Evening session on running a one-person studio/business with AI.
New informal AI + cybersecurity group (18 members; kicked off Oct 14 at Celis Brewery). Next: 'Smart Tech, Dumb Mistakes: An Evening of AI Bloopers and Digital Self-Defense' — no coding background needed.
Monthly in-person robotics meetup (3,500+ members): talks, demos and networking for engineers, founders and builders.
Monthly robotics meetup; the talk is "TBD" on the page.
Virtual fair limited to poly-cleared candidates; Leidos lists itself as attending.
ISACA Austin chapter's one-day tech/cyber/audit conference.
Responsible hybrid intelligence in practice.
Academic vision-language conference; one listed area is "Tiny VLMs: Efficient Multimodal AI at the Edge" (plus parameter-efficient adaptation).
General job fair from the Rural Capital Area workforce board (Hays/Caldwell side of the region).
A monthly session for makers who want to turn projects into products or a small business.
Mostly online talks/workshops. Nov 19: hands-on Visualizing & Debugging Hugging Face LeRobot (robot-learning) data. Also Nov 11 talks.
Local DEF CON group: talks on hacking, malware, ethical hacking.
Monthly hacker/cyber meetup, holiday lightning-talk format.
Monthly developer social for New Braunfels and the surrounding area; no agenda.
HRWY with named Oracle Data Center Technician and AFL fiber Splicer II openings.
Running local GenAI with OpenVINO via ExecuTorch, llama.cpp and more on AI PCs and edge hardware.
Spanish-language virtual hands-on session run jointly by five AWS User Groups in the Americas (including San Antonio) on building secure generative-AI apps.
SwRI (large SA R&D/defense employer) on how to get connected with them.
Hands-on: catch broken robot-learning datasets (LeRobot format): episodes, schema, time-aligned camera and proprioception streams, in FiftyOne.
The second November open house at Houston’s nonprofit hackerspace: a tour of the shops and a chance to meet members and ask about classes.
Ranger-led 5-mile round trip over rough, rocky ground to sauropod and theropod tracks. The page says it "is not an easy hike".
Autonomous rovers navigate GPS-marked cones on an outdoor course (layered objectives). Open to the public to compete or watch; remote entries by video allowed.
National virtual veteran career fair.
Bring a sewing or textiles project and work alongside other makers in a relaxed, social setting.
Information security association; quarterly chapter events (Oct 21 meeting was free).
San Antonio's community security conference (talks, villages, CTF). 2026 edition was June 13.
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