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October 2026

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29 Fridge Lab: Busting Through the Founder Ceiling (founders) 15:00 · Workshop Austin | Female Founders Meet Up 13:00 Founder Edge: What Gives a Founder Real Leverage Early? 18:00
30 STATION Social: Startup & Stretch 09:00 · Meetup Fridgeside! The 7-Step AI Marketing Blueprint (founders) 17:00 GAMMA WORKSHOP 17:30
1 OpenCoffee Club Austin - Downtown 08:30 · Meetup
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3 OpenCoffee Club Austin - Downtown 08:30 · Meetup
4 The AI Implementation Club 🤖 🎓 GROK BOT MASTERCLASS: Build a Mini Company with Grok Bot 🤖🚀 13:00 · Workshop
Austin Builder House
5 Austin Startup Meetup ATX Ecosystem Resources, Updates, Networking, Lightning Pitches, Raffle & More 18:00 · Meetup AIMUG Monthly Mixer & Showcase 18:00 Austin HealthTech Startups, Investors, Innovators Networking Event 19:00
6 Austin AI, Machine Learning and Computer Vision Meetup Oct 6 - Austin Physical AI Workshop and Meetup 17:30 · Workshop Founder-Led Sales for Startups 18:30
7 AIAM See Grok Bot in Action: Get Better AI Output - Instructions vs. Objectives 18:30 · Meetup
8 Tea Society (founders) 09:00 · Dinner Bagels & Building: Co-working with Antler 09:30 Entrepreneur Happy Hour with Mighty Capital's SC Moatti 16:00 Austin Deep Tech Dinner 18:00 Clawstin - October Meetup 18:00 ACE October Meetup: Productizing Your Passion 18:30
9 ATX Frontier Hackathon: Build your Autonomous Code Factory 10:00 · Hackathon
10 Fridge Football: TX vs OU (Invite Only) 14:30 · Meetup
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13 Nucleate Austin Activator 2027 - Coffee Hour 11:00 · Meetup Austin | Claude for Revenue & GTM | October 13 18:00
14 Austin Startup Connections 18:00 · Meetup LLMday: In-Person Event on LLMs, AI & ML | AUSTIN 2026 Q4 11:00 Making Better Bets: A Field Guide to Product Strategy with Andrew Skotzko 18:00
15 OpenCoffee Club Austin - Northside 08:30 · Meetup AI Show-and-Tell Breakfast (founders) 09:00 Texas Venture Fest - Austin 14:00 Powering The Agentic Economy With 1Claw 18:00 Austin Game Marketing Night (Pre-next fest) 18:30
16 Pitch and Run ATX 08:00 · Meetup
17 Founders Running Club 08:00 · Meetup
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19 Grok Bot Hackathon in Austin, TX 17:00 · Hackathon AI That Works: Lovable & GTM 17:30
20 Fridge Fire! Sauna Happy Hour (founders) 16:30 · Dinner
21 Founder Coffee Hour · Networking for Female Founders in Austin 10:00 · Dinner Meridian October: Quarterly Showcase of AI in Deep Tech - Health 17:00 Sovereign AI Club Austin: Local AI & Open Models 17:30 Meet Manus 2.0 | After Hours 🍺👻 18:00 Founder Dinner · Female Founders in Austin 19:00
22 Wine & Chocolate: the Art and Business of Sweets (founders) 17:00 · Dinner Austin International Founders Meetup (Vol. 10) 18:00 Builder → Backer: When Founders Become Investors 18:00
23 Integrate AI into your business · Female founders in Austin 09:00 · Workshop AI Workshop · Claude and ChatGPT Training for Female Founders in Austin 09:00
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26 Tech Talks | Austin Tech Week 18:00 · Meetup
27 Founder Coffee Tasting (founders) 09:30 · Dinner AITX Community Monthly Meetup at Austin Tech Week 17:30
28 Founder & VC Brunch | Austin Tech Week 11:30 · Dinner Fridgeside! Bootstrap vs VC w/ Rob & Chris Taylor (founders) 17:00 Coder Agentic AI Meetup 17:30
29 Casa TechMex 2026 10:00 · Conference Austin | Female Founders Meet Up 13:00 Autonomy in Motion: Drones, UAV, USV, UUV & Beyond - Austin Physical AI Meetup 16:00 Female Founders Night: ATX Tech Week 17:00 AI DevDinner @ Austin Tech Week with AITX Community & Rho 18:00
30 AI Startup Rodeo: Austin Tech Week 08:00 · Conference Austin Female Founders & Friends 08:30 Hack Fair @ Austin Tech Week - AITX & MLOps World Hackathon Showcase 13:00
31 Entrepreneurs Hiking 08:45 · Meetup
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About Austin · October 2026

Late October in Austin is Tech Week, and most of the useful founder events cluster around it. Austin Tech Week runs five free days from Oct 26 at Station Austin, and Entre's Founder and VC Brunch on Oct 28 is the side event to book for investor access. The Grok Bot Hackathon on Oct 19 is the builder pick before it, and MLOps World on Nov 17 at UT's Alumni Center brings 700+ AI engineers together around agentic AI in production.

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