Events

The largest Black tech conference in the U.S. — a high-density hiring floor where top tech and consulting firms recruit, plus talks on careers, entrepreneurship, and AI. (Nov 2–6, Houston)

Boston Startup Founder 101 What does it take to raise for an AI-native company right now? Join FI Boston for a candid panel with early-stage investors on how they evaluate agentic and AI-native startups: what excites them, what raises flags, and what they want to see before writing a check. We'll get into valuations, traction signals for agentic products, team, and the questions founders should be ready to answer. Part of FI Boston's AI-Native Series. Bring your fundraising questions. ❯ Guest Speakers include: * Kristen Craft (Head of Partnerships, Fidelity Private Shares) * Abhi Yadav (CEO, iCustomer) * Ignacio Castro (Managing Partner, 128vc) * Rob May (CEO, Neurometric) * John Harthorne (Founder & Managing Director, Two Lanterns Venture Capital). ❯❯ This is an in-person event, so be sure to RSVP at https://fi.co/e/406816/meetup to secure your spot and receive further details.

Oakland Startup Founder 101 No filters. No pitch decks. Just real talk about fundraising. Join us for a candid, live Q&A where you can ask a top startup investor anything about raising capital. What do investors look for, especially in AI startups? What kills a deal? How do you get a meeting? Get the answers you've always wanted in a friendly, open environment, and walk away with the knowledge and connections to take your fundraising to the next level. ❯ Guest Speakers include: * Brian Bell (Founder and Managing Partner, Team Ignite Ventures) * Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CIO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital) ❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/405860/meetup to get your link and join us live! ❯ What You’ll Learn: * What investors look for when evaluating early-stage startups * How investors are evaluating AI startups right now * The signals that make founders stand out to investors * Different sources of startup funding and when to pursue them * How to prepare your startup before approaching investors * Common mistakes that cause founders to lose investor interest ❯ Who Should Attend: * Idea-stage founders exploring future fundraising * Startup teams preparing for their first funding round * Founders building AI-powered startups who want to know what investors expect * Professionals considering starting a venture-backed startup * Entrepreneurs curious about how investors make decisions. ❯❯ Don’t miss this live, interactive online event packed with valuable insights! RSVP

SF AI Important Note: register on the external event website is required for admission Join us for an evening of deep technical dives and networking! This developer night explores the critical path of taking AI agents from concept to production on Azure. We will go beyond basic AI demos to tackle the real-world challenges of identity, strict data authorization, and observability using the combined power of Microsoft and Elastic. Who Should Attend: Software Developers, AI/ML Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Security Professionals interested in building secure, production-ready Generative AI applications on Azure. Agenda: \* 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and Networking \* 6:00pm\~8:00pm: Tech talks, workshop and Q&A \* 8:00pm: Open discussion and Mixer Workshop: Ship Agents, Pass Risk Review: Microsoft Foundry + Elastic on Azure Speaker: Peter Laudati, Principal Partner Solution Architect at Microsoft Abstract: In this session, I’ll share how I built ELK Burgers, an agent-governance demo using Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents and Elastic on Azure, and the lessons learned moving toward production readiness. Using synthetic contracts and operating manuals for a fictional restaurant chain, we’ll ask the same question of an intentionally over-permissioned assistant and four agents scoped for different jobs. Speakers/Topics: Stay tuned as we are updating more speakers and topics. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideratio

DFW Pythoneers Join us for our monthly meetup! The meetup will take place in the PyTexas Discord server, so be sure to join! This month we are excited to be joined by *Chakra Pavan Kumar Kota* Speaker: *Chakra Pavan Kumar Kota* Topic: *Security Is a Design Habit: Threat Modeling Python AI Applications Before They Ship* Security problems rarely begin as security problems. They often begin as unclear assumptions, missing boundaries, rushed integrations, or decisions made before risks are visible. As Python becomes a common foundation for AI-enabled applications, teams need practical ways to bring security thinking earlier into design conversations. This talk introduces threat modeling as a lightweight habit for Python teams building AI, data, and cloud-connected systems, focused on collaboration patterns that help developers, security teams, and product stakeholders reason together.

DFW Pythoneers Welcome. We're a friendly group for those who program using the Python language as well as those wanting to learn it. We try hard to be beginner friendly as well as cover advanced material. Social hour starting at 6pm. Our normal meeting and talk will start at 7pm. This be an in-person event

San Diego Python Users Group We are continuing our Study group online for the time being. We are now meeting online in the San Diego Python Discord server! Here is the link to join: https://discord.gg/8GpWuVvdbQ There is a "meetup" voice/video channel that we will be using! We may start meeting in person soon! This will be discussed at the meetup. We are considering having some online, some in-person. Decisions, decisions! Every Saturday we meet up with the larger Python community (including San Diego PyLadies (http://www.meetup.com/sd-pyladies), Open BioInformatics San Diego (https://www.meetup.com/Open-Bioinformatics-SanDiego/) and San Diego Artificial Intelligence (https://www.meetup.com/SanDiegoAI/)) to chat, learn, and hang out. Our study group is for everyone on their Python journey, whether you're just starting out, an experienced pro, or anywhere in between. There's no formal instruction, just a bunch of folks who like to code. Sometimes we talk about a specific subject, sometimes answer questions, whatever! Python Community Code of Conduct (http://www.pythonsd.org/coc): Python is much more than a software language. Python is a vibrant community made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. Overall, we're good to each other. We contribute to this community not because we have to, but because we want to.

Denver Python Users Group FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED AGENDA We will be doing 5-7 minute lightning talks. If you are interested in giving a talk at this or a future Monthly Meetup, please message an organizer. CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TALKS Python Community Code of Conduct: Python is much more than a software language. Python is a vibrant community made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. Overall, we're good to each other. We contribute to this community not because we have to, but because we want to. Library code of conduct: https://jeffcolibrary.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

Denver Python Users Group FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED AGENDA We will be doing 5-7 minute lightning talks. If you are interested in giving a talk at this or a future Monthly Meetup, please message an organizer. CURRENTLY SCHEDULED TALKS Python Community Code of Conduct: Python is much more than a software language. Python is a vibrant community made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. Overall, we're good to each other. We contribute to this community not because we have to, but because we want to. Library code of conduct: https://jeffcolibrary.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

The Boston Python User Group From absolute beginners to industry experts, all are welcome! Whether you're coding, networking, or just hanging out, this is the perfect time to collaborate and learn.

One of the largest tech conferences in the world — 70,000+ founders, investors, and enterprise leaders across every sector. A global stage for tech, startups, and future-of-work trends. (Nov 9–12, Lisbon)

The Boston Python User Group Thank you to Maven AGI for hosting Project & Collaboration Night! 🗓️ Monday, November 9th at 6:00 - 8:30 PM. Doors open at 6:00 PM. 📍 Maven AGI at 399 Boylston Street in Boston ✏️ RSVP by Sunday, November 8th with your full name for check-in. About Project & Collaboration Night Bring a laptop. Bring ideas. Bring questions. Bring enthusiasm. Bring friends. The Boston Python Project & Collaboration Night is a time to find others with compatible interests. Code, hack, teach, learn, meet, laugh, talk: anything goes at Project Night. This event is co-organized by PyLadies Boston. You don't need to have a project, and you don't have to show anything to anyone! This is an opportunity to work together with like-minded people. There's no presentation, there are no pre-set projects, just people working on whatever they want to work on. That's it! All skill levels are welcome. Some table topics in the past have been AI, Machine Learning, Web dev, Data, Web Scraping, Hardware, Puzzles, Science, Art. Maybe you have another idea? Bring it with you! Thanks to our sponsor Maven AGI for hosting! Please register for the event and RSVP by Sunday evening, November 8th. Use your full name, as this will be required for check-in at Maven AGI. Feel free to discuss ideas beforehand on our Slack: https://about.bostonpython.com/slack Pizza will be provided. Maven AGI is at 399 Boylston St, 8th floor, a half-block from the Arlington T stop. Parking garages are at 115 Provi

SF AI Important Note: register on the AICamp event website is required for admission. RSVP on meetup is turned off. The AWS Partner Showcase (11th Edition) features experts from AWS, Anthropic, Temporal, Launchpad, caylent, who will demonstrate how to build production-ready agentic AI systems from code to deployment. This focused session presents a complete development stack through live demonstrations, technical deep dives, and interactive discussions. What You Will Expect: ✔ Production-Ready Agentic AI – See live demonstrations of the complete development stack for building agentic AI systems, from coding environments through deployment and monitoring. ✔ Technical Implementation Strategies – Gain insights from AWS and partner experts on deploying agentic AI solutions with real-world use cases and AWS integration patterns. ✔ Expert Q&A & Networking – Engage directly with technical leaders from AWS and partner companies at dedicated booth stations, plus connect with fellow developers and practitioners building agentic AI applications. Who Should Attend: * Developers, engineers and builders building agentic ai workflow in production. * Engineering leaders and Decision makers seeking solutions * Working professionals who are interested in learning agentic AI technologies * Agenda: * 4:30PM - 5:30PM: Check-In, Food and Booth Visiting * 5:30PM - 7:45PM: Kick-off, Tech talks, Live Demo * 7:45PM - 8:30PM: Lucky draw, Networking, Q&A over Booths

Chicago Startup Founder 101 If you have a startup idea or a growing company and you want to expand your network in Chicago, then join us for the in-person 'Founder Night Out' event. At this informal networking event, you can connect with other early-stage entrepreneurs, startup mentors, and advisors from the Founder Institute network. With AI reshaping how founders build, launch, and scale, it's the perfect moment to swap notes on the tools and tactics working right now — whether you're a technical builder or just getting started. Socialize over drinks with potential co-founders, advisors, mentors, and partners, trade ideas on building smarter with the latest tools, and most of all, get away from the computer and have fun! What You'll Learn: * Who is building what in Midwest right now, from the people building it; * Which local investors are active and what they are looking at; * What the operators in the room can help with; * Where the local ecosystem is strong and where it is thin; * How to keep the conversations going after the night ends. Who Should Attend: * Founders at any stage building in or near Midwest; * Professionals considering starting something who want to meet people who did; * Local investors and operators looking for early deal flow and talent; * Anyone who prefers a conversation to a webinar. ❯❯ This is an in-person event, so be sure to RSVP at https://FI.co/e/407088 to secure your spot and receive further details.

Seattle Enterprise AI Important: Register on the event website to receive the joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive anything). This is virtual event for our AI global community, please double-check your local time. Can't make it live? Register anyway to receive the webinar recording. The AI Deep Dive Series is a hands-on virtual initiative designed to empower developers to architect the next generation of Agentic AI. Moving beyond basic prompting, this series guides you through the complete engineering lifecycle using Google’s advanced stack. You will master the transition from local Gemini CLI environments to building intelligent agents with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), culminating in the deployment of secure, collaborative Agent-to-Agent (A2A) ecosystems on Google Cloud Run. Join us to build AI systems that can truly reason, act, and scale. Workshop: Getting started with Discriminative (Jev/DiffusionGemma) models Speaker: Christina Lin (Google) Venue: Virtual, join from anywhere More virtual sessions: * Dec 4th: AI Deep Dive with Google Ep 6. RSVP

Oakland Startup Founder 101 Building a product is easier than ever, but knowing what to change as you grow is still one of the hardest parts of finding product-market fit. In this session, we'll walk through three layers founders need to get right: reading market signals to decide who you serve and when to pivot, using product analytics to understand how customers actually use what you've built, and making infrastructure decisions that support growth without adding complexity you don't need yet. You'll leave with practical frameworks for each layer and a simple diagnostic for figuring out where your biggest problem really lives. ❯ Guest Speakers include: * Jonathan Greechan (Co-Founder & CIO, Founder Institute, GP Founder Capital) * Carlos Ignacio Sanabria (Partnerships Manager, Designli) ❯❯ RSVP now at https://fi.co/e/406838/meetup to get your link and join us live! ❯ What You'll Learn: * Which market signals show who your best customers are, and when it's time to pivot * How to use product analytics to see how customers actually use what you've built * Which metrics matter at your stage, and which ones can wait * How to make infrastructure decisions that support growth without adding complexity you don't need yet * A simple diagnostic to find out whether your biggest problem is the market, the product or the tech ❯ Featured Speaker: * Carlos Ignacio Sanabria \- Partnership Manager @ Designli: Carlos is the Partnerships Manager at Designli, where he helps SaaS founders turn

Austin Enterprise AI Important: Register on the event website to receive the joining link. (rsvp on meetup will NOT receive anything). This is virtual event for our AI global community, please double-check your local time. Can't make it live? Register anyway to receive the webinar recording. The AI Deep Dive Series is a hands-on virtual initiative designed to empower developers to architect the next generation of Agentic AI. Moving beyond basic prompting, this series guides you through the complete engineering lifecycle using Google’s advanced stack. You will master the transition from local Gemini CLI environments to building intelligent agents with the Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Model Context Protocol (MCP), culminating in the deployment of secure, collaborative Agent-to-Agent (A2A) ecosystems on Google Cloud Run. Join us to build AI systems that can truly reason, act, and scale. Workshop: Getting started with Discriminative (Jev/DiffusionGemma) models Speaker: Christina Lin (Google) Venue: Virtual, join from anywhere More virtual sessions: * Dec 4th: AI Deep Dive with Google Ep 6. RSVP

The Austin Python Meetup New location at Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st. us the entrance on brazos street not 8th. This is a Hybrid event both in-person and virtual. The in-person event is hosted at Antler downtown Austin. Address: Brazos Place @ 800 Brazos st, The entrance is off of Brazos st. Talks: TBD Antler Antler works with founders through our signature founder residency, adding value immediately, and taking no equity up front. We receive over 160,000 applications each year to build companies with us, and have grown to 18 funds with residencies in 30 cities around the globe. Founders also have the opportunity to pitch our Investment Committee to receive an up to $500K investment, allowing them to build for 12-18 months rather than attempting to raise before they have real traction.

A free, fully virtual career fair connecting students and job-seekers with firms hiring for financial planning and wealth-management careers. Join from anywhere. (Nov 13)

Oakland Startup Founder 101 When you are the whole team, every lead you don't qualify and every customer email you answer at 11pm comes out of the hours you should spend building. You can't hire yet. An AI agent can take one of those jobs now. In this live session, Seth Ward, Founder & CEO of 4142, builds an AI agent from start to finish: connected to a real model, doing a single real job like qualifying a lead or drafting a follow-up, and deployed where it actually runs. No slides, and questions are open throughout. Register now and leave with a clear plan for your first AI hire. ❯ What You'll Learn: * How to pick the one job in your company an AI agent should take on first; * How to turn that job into instructions an agent can actually follow; * How to connect the agent to a real AI model and give it the information it needs; * How to deploy it somewhere it runs on its own, beyond a demo; * How to repeat the same build for sales, support and follow-ups as your company grows. ❯ Featured Speaker: * Seth Ward \- Founder & CEO @ 4142, an AI foundry behind Squidgy, Handled, YEAA and FanatIQ. Through Squidgy, his team lets entrepreneurs and small businesses describe a task in plain English and turn it into an AI agent with no code. In 1995 he co-founded i, one of the first web marketing agencies, and went on to work with Vodafone, AOL and News International before serving as CEO of Pynk. Based in London, he runs live AI agent build sessions for founders, including at Nomad Cruise

Denver Python Users Group Come out and meet up with people in the broader Python community, including the Denver Data Science and Machine Learning Group, and the Denver Biology & Bioinformatics Group. Our study group is for everyone on their Python journey, whether you're just starting out, an experienced pro, or anywhere in between. There's no formal instruction, just a bunch of folks who like to code. Sometimes we talk about a specific subject, sometimes answer questions, whatever! Python Community Code of Conduct: Python is much more than a software language. Python is a vibrant community made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. Overall, we're good to each other. We contribute to this community not because we have to, but because we want to. Library code of conduct: https://jeffcolibrary.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

Denver Python Users Group Come out and meet up with people in the broader Python community, including the Denver Data Science and Machine Learning Group, and the Denver Biology & Bioinformatics Group. Our study group is for everyone on their Python journey, whether you're just starting out, an experienced pro, or anywhere in between. There's no formal instruction, just a bunch of folks who like to code. Sometimes we talk about a specific subject, sometimes answer questions, whatever! Python Community Code of Conduct: Python is much more than a software language. Python is a vibrant community made up of members from around the globe with a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences. It is through these differences that our community experiences great successes and continued growth. Overall, we're good to each other. We contribute to this community not because we have to, but because we want to. Library code of conduct: https://jeffcolibrary.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

IndyPy Join us either in person or remotely for our hybrid event! * IN PERSON: TBD * REMOTE: Zoom AGENDA 7 - 7:15pm: Announcements and Introductions 7:15 - 8:15pm: Pro Talk 8:15 - 8:30pm: Door Prizes 8:30 - 9pm: Networking & General Discussion Guests are welcome to attend, but please have each person RSVP on their own Meetup account.

DFW Pythoneers Come socialize with other AI enthusiasts over dinner. No presentations or demos, just hanging out and chatting. Please note that there is no meeting held on Thanksgiving Day.

SF AI Agenda 9:00 am -- 9:05 am PT -- door open 9:05 am -- 9:15 am PT -- Talk 1: NVIDIA FLARE lighting talk 9:15 am -- 10:00 am PT -- Talk 2: Apheris AISB Talk + QA 10:00 am -- 10:45 am PT -- Talk 3: Lilly TuneLab Talk + QA 10:50 am -- Closing Meeting Link: Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2770939233648874?p=eZnvXZb31xc861VGzU Meeting ID: 277 093 923 364 887 4 Passcode: Ls3mH2h3 Talk 1: Federated Confidential Computing with NVIDIA FLARE Lightning Talk, introducing the on-prem Federated Confidential Computing Speaker: Chester Chen, Senior Product Manager & Engineering Manager, NVIDIA Talk 2: What Federated Training Delivered: Co-Folding and ADMET Results from Apheris Pharma Networks, Apheris Apheris builds superior drug discovery models through federated data, powered by NVIDIA FLARE. In this talk, we go through our co-folding and ADMET results. For co-folding, we show how we designed the benchmarks for the federated model and how OpenFold3 was trained on five pharma companies’ proprietary structural data, inside their security boundaries, in under ten weeks. For ADMET, we show how the network is set up and how it learns across pharma partners’ private measurements. We also cover how the resulting models compare with public baselines, how purpose-built data generation extends the networks, and how Apheris Foundry lets teams run, customize, and integrate the models in their own environment. Speakers: Robin Röhm is the CEO and Co-Founder of Apheris,

The world's most powerful tech event — 4,000+ exhibitors unveiling the year's biggest innovations in AI, mobility, and consumer tech, plus a major business-development and hiring floor. (Jan 6–9, Las Vegas)

South by Southwest — Austin's sprawling conference at the intersection of tech, startups, media, and culture. A magnet for founders, investors, and creatives, with deep programming on the future of business and innovation. (Mar 15–21, Austin)