Events
First Monday of every month, 6 PM at ACC Rio Grande in Austin, or online. Free, and everyone is welcome.
NEXT MEETUP
Mon, Nov 2November Monthly Mixer & Showcase
Short talks, about 15 minutes each, from people building with AI, then the mixer. Free, in person at ACC Rio Grande or online.
- When
- Monday, Nov 2, 2026, 6 PM to 9 PM CT
- Where
- ACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, 1218 West Ave, Austin, TX, and on Zoom (the link comes with your RSVP on Luma or Meetup)
- After
- The Tavern, 922 W 12th St, Austin, TX
LINEUP
THE WEEK OF OCT 26Lineup announced the week of Oct 26. Pitches due Monday, Oct 26, 5 PM CT. Pitch a talk.
RUN OF SHOW
- 6:00 PMNetworking and welcome
- 6:20 PMIntroductions and kickoff
- 6:30 PMThunderstorm Talks, about 15 minutes each
- 7:40 PMOpen Q&A
- 8:00 PMWalk to The Tavern for the mixer (optional)
Talks are recorded and published on YouTube, social media, aimug.org and public-access TV. Photos may be taken.
Office Hours
2nd, 3rd and 4th Mondays, 5 PM CT, on Google Meet
Connect and collaborate with other builders, work through problems together, chat about tools and plan future events. No Office Hours on the 1st Monday: that's the meetup, at ACC or online.
Join Office HoursGetting to ACC
ACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, 1218 West Ave. It's the tan brick building on your left going north on West Avenue between 12th and 13th streets. Go up the stairs to RGC 3000.
The parking garage is free, but its metal doors lock at 9 PM. Staying later? Street parking is free after 6 PM.
Also coming up
- Mon, Dec 7, 2026December Monthly Mixer & Showcase6 PM to 9 PM CT · Venue to be announced
Past events
Each night has its own page with the talks, the recap and the notes, where we have them.
2026
- Mon, Oct 5October Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernFirst Monday-night AIMUG. Talks on semantic routing and mixture of models, Grokbot and the Jev decision model, Harbor evals for coding agents, a spec-driven coding factory, and Corvic AI graph dependency tracing.
- Harbor evals for coding agents · Jeff Linwood
- The coding factory: canonical specs and sequential agents · Jake Cukjati
- Wed, Sep 2September Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernPractical demos and short deep-dives on the agentic stack.
- Tue, Aug 11August Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernMoved from the usual first Wednesday. Thunderstorm-style talks on agentic middleware patterns.
- Wed, Jul 1July Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernCommunity demos and networking.
- Wed, Jun 3June Monthly Mixer & Showcase: Thunderstorm Talks EditionACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernThunderstorm Talks on agentic platforms and productivity: a LangChain interrupt update, agentic framework topology primitives with Pydantic and MLflow, and scaling management productivity with agents.
- Wed, May 6May Monthly Mixer & Showcase: Thunderstorm Talks EditionACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernRapid-fire 10-minute talks: highlights from ICLR 2026 on recursive self-improvement research, open source agentic security operations tooling, and auto-documentation pipelines on Cloudflare Workers and Assets.See the night
- Wed, Apr 1April Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
- Wed, Mar 4March Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
- Wed, Feb 4February Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseCloudflare Austin, then Zilker
- Wed, Jan 7January Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
2025
- Wed, Dec 3December Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
- Tue, Nov 18Hacky HourNovember Hacky HourCosmic Coffee Saltillo
- Wed, Nov 5November Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernLangGraph fundamentals, enterprise RAG failures, Deep Agents in production, and AI project management anti-patterns.
- AI Project Management: Shipping AI into Production (Paul Phelps) · Paul Phelps
- Austin AIMUG: LangGraph 101, RAG in Enterprise, Deep Agents & AI Project Management (Nov 2025)
- Deep Agents: Deep Research, Subagents & Middleware (Collier King) · Collier King
- Intro to LangGraph: Controllability, Persistence & Human-in-the-Loop · Colin McNamara
- RAG on LangGraph: Avoiding Silent Failures, State vs. Memory & a Travel-Agent Demo · Anupama Garani
- Wed, Oct 1October Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernLangGraph 1.0 middleware, A2A and AP2 protocols, cancer detection research, and inference providers.
- A2A & AP2: Agent Commerce Arrives · Ryan Booth
- AI Detecting Cancer with Graph Neural Networks: Stanford Internship by Venika Kakarla · Venika Kakarla
- AIMUG October 2025 Meeting: A2A & AP2 Agents, Middleware & Inference Frameworks
- LangChain Middleware 1.0 Alpha: Human-in-the-Loop AI, Observability & Deep Agents · Colin McNamara
- Running LLMs Locally: Ollama, vLLM & Transformers · Dmitri Iourovitski
- Wed, Sep 10September Thunderstorm TalksACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernFive rapid-fire Thunderstorm Talks: LangChain and LangGraph 1.0 alpha, Claude Code and custom agents, Deep Agents, Rosie the Robot, and Streamlit for AI dashboards.
- Austin AI MUG: September Showcase | Thunderstorm Talks (LangChain, Claude Code, Deep Agents & More)
- Claude Code & Custom Agents · Sal Castoro
- Deep Agents Architecture · Collier King
- LangChain & LangGraph 1.0 Alpha Update · Colin McNamara
- Rosie the Robot: Desktop Automation with Agents · James Coffey
- Streamlit for AI Dashboards · Jeff Linwood
- Wed, Aug 27Hacky HourAugust Hacky HourCosmic Coffee Saltillo
- Thu, Aug 14August Monthly ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocols, with lightning talks and implementation guides.
- Austin AI MUG 2025 08 14 full meeting
- Claude Code - Nate · Nate Little
- Enabling A2A on Astro Blogs: Results · Colin McNamara
- Tue, Jul 22Hacky HourJuly Hacky HourCosmic Coffee Saltillo
- Wed, Jul 2July Monthly Mixer & ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernLightning talks on AI development workflows, Cloudflare containers, Slack-Cursor integration, and lessons learned from building Emojourn.
- 2025 07 03 Austin AI MUG meeting full recording
- AI Development: Advanced Workflow Lessons Learned · Ryan Booth
- CloudFlare Containers · Collier King
- Cursor tips and tricks · Joseph Fluckiger
- LangChain based mental health - Robert Davis - Sir Muzz · Robert Davis
- Fri, Jun 27Field tripField Trip: Your Startup Sucks Comedy ShowTequila 512We left the terminal for Your Startup Sucks, Austin's only pitch-roast comedy show. Founders braved the stage and VCs fired back.
- Wed, Jun 4June Monthly Showcase: Multimodal AI & AgentsACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernMultimodal AI applications and agent architectures, with demos of vision-enabled agents, audio processing pipelines and cross-modal reasoning systems.
- AG-UI: The Agent-User Interaction Protocol · Riccardo Pirruccio
- AIMUG June 2025 | AI Ecosystem Matures: LangChain, AG-UI, Nuclear AI & More
- Fine-Tuning Embeddings for Nuclear Regulatory Work · Rob Whelan
- Interrupt 2025 Conference Panel · Colin McNamara, Collier King, Riccardo Pirruccio, Karim Lalani, Cameron Rohn, Paul Phelps
- The AI Ecosystem Landscape in 2025 · Colin McNamara
- Wed, May 7Lightning Talks, LangChain Voice-Agent Lab & MixerACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernCommunity lightning talks, a hands-on LangChain voice agent lab with FastRTC, and a mixer at The Tavern.See the night
- Wed, Apr 2April Monthly ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
- Wed, Mar 12Special editionSXSW Lightning Talk PartyCloudflare AustinAn off-SXSW evening of lightning talks, hosted by Cloudflare.
- Wed, Mar 5Special editionMarch Mixer: Off SXSW EditionACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The Tavern
- AI Cancer Research · Venika Kakarla
- AI Image Generation with LangGraph and MCP · Karim Lalani
- Wed, Feb 26Hacky HourFebruary Hacky HourCosmic Coffee Saltillo
- Wed, Feb 5February Showcase and MixerACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000See the night
- Wed, Jan 22Hacky HourJanuary Hacky HourKinda TropicalSee the night
- Wed, Jan 8January Monthly ShowcaseACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernSee the night
2024
- Thu, Dec 19December Showcase and MixerACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernYear-end hybrid night with a lab on edge computing with Gradio and Cloudflare, a full-stack app built in five days and community updates.
- Building a Full-Stack App in Five Days: A Marina Management System · Riccardo Pirruccio
- December Showcase and Mixer Austin LangChain AIMUG
- Edge Computing with LangChain, Gradio, and Cloudflare · Karim Lalani
- Wed, Dec 4Hacky HourHacky HourKinda TropicalHoliday hacky hour for experiments, brainstorming and networking.
- Wed, Nov 20Hacky HourHacky HourKinda TropicalCasual hacky hour for experiments, brainstorming and networking.
- Wed, Nov 13November Showcase and 2025 PlanningACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000, then The TavernHybrid night with showcases on Open WebUI to LangGraph pipelines and Claude computer use, plus a group workshop on 2025 topics.See the night
- Thu, Nov 7Special editionMLOps World Community CornerRenaissance Austin HotelCommunity members presented projects in the AIMUG Community Corner at the MLOps World and Generative AI World conference.Slides and notes
- Wed, Oct 16Hacky HourHacky HourSkinny's Off Track BarCasual hacky hour for open lab time and networking.
- Wed, Oct 2October Showcase and PanelACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000Hybrid night with a 101 quickstart, showcases of a search clone and email RAG, and a panel on AI-accelerated software development.
- Expert Panel: AI-Accelerated Software Development · Karim Lalani, Robert Kessler, Jackson Arnold, Ryan Booth, Colin McNamara
- OutlookRAG: Email Categorization and Summarization · Jackson Arnold, Cameron Rohn
- Building a Perplexity Clone with LangChain · Saurabh Lal Saxena
- October 2024 Austin LangChain - Full meeting OutlookRAG Perplexity Clone Expert Panel
- Wed, Sep 25Hacky HourHacky Hour: Claude-DevSkinny's Off Track BarHacky hour focused on AI-assisted coding with Claude-Dev.
- Wed, Sep 11September Showcase and MixerACC Rio Grande, RGC 3000Hybrid showcase night with a 101 quickstart and member demos on API automation, sales call analytics and agents on Cloudflare.See the night
- Wed, Aug 21Hacky HourHacky HourSkinny's Off Track BarCasual hacky hour for networking and project collaboration.
- Wed, Aug 7August Showcase1204 San Antonio StHybrid night with a quickstart and member showcases on GitHub code generation, Python tool calling and a financial analysis experiment.
- Austin LangChain Users Group - August 2024 Meeting
- The AI Software Development Lifecycle: LangChain and GitHub Code Generation · Ryan Booth
- Tool Calling with Python: LLMs and Tool Use · Karim Lalani
- Wed, Jul 24Hacky HourHacky HourLustre Pearl EastCasual hacky hour for networking and project collaboration.
- Wed, Jul 10July Showcase: NVIDIA Contest Entries1204 San Antonio StHybrid night with a quickstart and showcases of NVIDIA and LangChain contest entries, then a mixer.
- Wed, Jun 19Hacky HourHacky HourLustre Pearl EastCasual hacky hour with open lab time and networking.
- Wed, May 29May 29 Showcase: LangGraph Reporting and WebRTC1204 San Antonio StHybrid night with a mixer exercise, a LangGraph data scientist report writer and a voice-enabled WebRTC agent.Slides and notes
- Wed, May 15Hacky HourHacky HourLustre Pearl EastCasual hacky hour for networking and project collaboration.
- Wed, May 1May Showcase: AI Data Scientist and Panel1204 San Antonio StHybrid night with a quickstart, an AI data scientist demo and lab, a lessons-learned panel and voice-controlled crypto agents.See the night
- Wed, Apr 17Hacky HourHacky HourCentral Machine WorksCasual hacky hour with open lab time and networking.Slides and notes
- Wed, Apr 3Hosted GPUs, AI Imagery and AI Gaming1204 San Antonio StHybrid night with a 101 quickstart and talks on hosted GPU access, AI image generation and LLM-driven NPCs in games.
- AI Image Generation with Automatic1111 and LangChain · Karim Lalani
- Austin LangChain: Hosted GPU Access, AI Image Generation, LLM Driven NPC's in Games, and More!
- Integrating AI into Web Apps with Paperspace by DigitalOcean · James Skelton
- LLM-Driven NPCs in Games · Dan Manning
- Thu, Mar 7LangGraph Virtual MeetupOnlineVirtual session on LangGraph cyclical graphs with labs on a local RAG agent and a manufacturing parts-list analyzer.
- A LangGraph RAG Agent with Ollama and SurrealDB · Karim Lalani
- Exploring LangGraph
- LangGraph Labs: Agent Supervisor and Multi-Agent Collaboration · Colin McNamara
- Manufacturing BOM Analysis with LangGraph · Riccardo Pirruccio
- Wed, Feb 28Hacky HourHacky HourCentral Machine WorksCasual hacky hour for networking and working on LangChain projects together.
- Wed, Feb 21Exploring LangGraph1204 San Antonio StMixer on the patio, then LangGraph theory and labs on agent supervisors, multi-agent work, a local RAG agent and a parts-list analyzer.Slides and notes
- Wed, Feb 7Turbocharging RAG with Google Drive (Virtual)OnlineVirtual workshop with four labs on RAG over Google Drive data, from Colab to Docker, multimodal Ollama and Pandas.
- RAG Lab 1: A Basic RAG Pipeline · Colin McNamara
- RAG Lab 2: Microservices with Docker and a Google Drive Loader · Riccardo Pirruccio
- RAG Lab 3: Multimodal RAG with Ollama · Karim Lalani
- RAG Lab 4: Pandas DataFrame Agents · Scott Askinosie
- Turbocharging Your RAG with Data in Google Drive and LangChain: Virtual Workshop
- Wed, Jan 17Turbocharge Your AI with RAG1204 San Antonio StIn-person evening with a mixer, news and labs on retrieval augmented generation, including a LangServe and Docker deployment.See the night
- Wed, Jan 10LangChain 101 Virtual EditionOnlineVirtual kickoff for 2024 with the LangChain basics and hands-on labs from a first agent to a local-LLM chatbot.
- LangChain 101: Austin LangChain Virtual Edition Kickoff 2024
- LangChain 101, Lab 1: Introduction to LangChain · Colin McNamara
- LangChain 101, Lab 4: A Local LLM with Mistral and Streamlit · Karim Lalani
- LangChain 101, Labs 2 and 3: Chat Models and Streamlit Interfaces · Riccardo Pirruccio
2023
- Thu, Dec 14LangChain 103: AI Web Architecture1204 San Antonio StNews, two member showcases and a lab on building a multi-tier AI web app with Streamlit, LangServe and Docker.See the night
- Thu, Nov 30Hacky HourMixer at Central Machine WorksCentral Machine WorksCasual end-of-year mixer for AI and LLM enthusiasts to network and swap project ideas.
- Tue, Nov 14LangChain 102: LangServe and LangSmith1204 San Antonio StMixer, a community showcase of a local Mistral 7b model, and a lecture and lab on LangServe and LangSmith.See the night
- Wed, Nov 1LangChain 101 Live Remote RecapOnlineLive remote recap of the LangChain 101 lecture and lab for people who could not attend in person.Slides and notes
- Thu, Oct 12LangChain 1011204 San Antonio StFirst in-person LangChain 101 meetup, with a mixer, news and a hands-on lab using the ChatGPT API and a custom web interface.See the night