# Startup & founder events in Vienna Curated by [foundercal.com](https://foundercal.com/). Only events worth a founder's time: conferences, demo days, founder dinners, meetups and workshops. Generic networking filler is filtered out. Updated daily. - City page (HTML): https://foundercal.com/cities/vienna - Calendar feed (ICS): https://foundercal.com/cities/vienna.ics - All cities + usage guide for AI agents: https://foundercal.com/llms.txt 18 upcoming events as of 31 August 2026. ## Vibe Code Wednesday - Date: Wednesday 2 September 2026, 17:30 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Meetup - Price: Free - Venue: weXelerate Plaza, Praterstraße 1, 1020 Wien - Organizer: [weXelerate](https://foundercal.com/organizers/wexelerate) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vibe-code-wednesday-2026-09-02 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9097?p=md Every Wednesday evening weXelerate turns its Plaza into a free, no-agenda room for people who want to build something. No registration, no keynote, no pitching: bring a laptop, take a seat, and finally move the side project you keep postponing. The crowd runs from first-time AI tinkerers to… ## UX Vienna Mornings: Product Management and User Experience Breakfast 🌄 - Date: Friday 4 September 2026, 08:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Dinner - Venue: The Breakfastclub, Schleifmühlgasse 12-14, Wien - Organizer: [UX VIENNA: Free In-Person User Experience Events 👩🦸‍](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ux-vienna-free-in-person-user-experience-events) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/ux-vienna-mornings-product-management-and-user-experience-breakfast-308455543 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9326?p=md Are you interested in product management and user experience? Are you an early bird? Join us for UX Vienna Mornings, a casual breakfast meetup. Meet like-minded people, discuss interesting topics, and expand your professional network in a great atmosphere. Our agenda: 1. Introduce yourself: Share… ## Founders Running Club :: Vienna - Date: Sunday 6 September 2026, 10:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Superbude Brenner, Perspektivstr. 8, Vienna - Organizer: [Founders Running Club :: Vienna](https://foundercal.com/organizers/founders-running-club-vienna) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/founders-running-club-vienna-315776540 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9707?p=md Founders Running Club (FRC) brings founders, investors, tech, creative people and startup enthusiasts together for weekly easy runs and networking. We like to be comfortable when we run and finish with coffee and conversations. Choose your pace or follow a pacer, pets, friends, family, are welcome.… ## HARDWIRED Vol. 03 | Building for Safety-Critical - Date: Thursday 10 September 2026, 17:30 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Meetup - Organizer: Personal - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/hardwired-vol-03-building-for-safety-critical-O9CUCZi1tf9gHHh - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9696?p=md HARDWIRED is the TU Wien Robotics Club's meetup series for the people who actually build things, robots, machines, medical devices, and the systems that aren't allowed to fail. For Vol. 03 we're guests at the Vienna office of Ketryx. Ketryx builds an AI-native compliance platform for life sciences:… ## Investment Hangout with Vienna Business Agency & Female Founders - Date: Tuesday 15 September 2026, 18:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Workshop - Venue: Expat Center Vienna, Schmerlingplatz 3, 1010 Wien - Organizer: [Vienna Business Agency](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vienna-business-agency) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/investment-hangout-with-vienna-business-agency-and-female-founders-2026-09-15 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9093?p=md A small English-language evening on the one question early teams get stuck on: how do you actually get an investment. Run by the Vienna Business Agency together with Female Founders, so the room is early stage teams and the people who fund them rather than a lecture hall. Capacity is a few dozen… ## How Investors Actually Decide: Fireside Chat with Entanglement - Date: Monday 21 September 2026, 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Workshop - Venue: weXelerate, Praterstraße 1, 1020 Wien - Organizer: [weXelerate](https://foundercal.com/organizers/wexelerate) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/how-investors-actually-decide-fireside-chat-with-entanglement-2026-09-21 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9098?p=md No presentations, no pitch slots, no deck feedback. Ninety minutes of straight talk on how early stage deep tech capital really works, with John Tadayeski and Kyle Pickens of Entanglement Inc. It answers the questions people in labs usually ask two years too late: who are these investors, what do… ## 75th Deep Learning Meetup: AI Manipulation / Scaling LLM Infrastructure - Date: Wednesday 23 September 2026, 18:30 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Meetup - Venue: 42vienna, Muthgasse 24-26, 1190, Wien - Organizer: [Vienna Deep Learning Meetup](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vienna-deep-learning-meetup) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/75th-deep-learning-meetup-ai-manipulation-scaling-llm-infrastructure-316293951 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9328?p=md Hi Deep Learners, We are happy to announce our first Vienna Deep Learning Meetup after the summer break: On September 23 we'll be hosted by 42 Vienna (in Heiligenstadt) and will feature two exciting topics: AI manipulation and Scaling AI Infrastructure on premise. • Agenda: • 18:15 Arrival • 18:30… ## AAIC – Applied Artificial Intelligence Conference 2026 - Date: Thursday 24 September 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Venue: WKÖ – Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Wiedner Hauptstraße 63, 1045 Wien - Organizer: [AI Austria](https://foundercal.com/organizers/ai-austria) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/aaic-applied-artificial-intelligence-conference-2026-2026-09-24 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2982?p=md AI Austria's annual applied-AI conference, ~600 participants pulling together developers, adopters and the startups/scaleups building real AI products across health, fintech, logistics and industry. Keynotes plus hands-on workshops and a B2B matchmaking zone: more applied/commercial than research,… ## Wien IT Founder und Unternehmerfrühstück - Date: Friday 25 September 2026, 07:30 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Dinner - Venue: IMLAUER Hotel Wien, Rotensterngasse 10, 1020 Wien, Wien - Organizer: [IT Founder und Unternehmerfrühstück](https://foundercal.com/organizers/it-founder-und-unternehmerfruhstuck) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/wien-it-founder-und-unternehmerfruhstuck-313373035 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9327?p=md IT Founder & Unternehmer Frühstück Am Freitag, den 25.09., treffen wir uns wieder in kleiner Runde zum offenen Austausch unter IT-Foundern, Geschäftsführern und Unternehmern aus Wien. Austausch auf Augenhöhe: Kein Networking-Event, keine Vorträge, sondern ehrliche Gespräche über aktuelle… ## AustrianStartups Summit 2026 - Date: Thursday 15 October 2026, 12:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Price: €149 – €299 - Venue: Ottakringer Brauerei, Ottakringer Platz 1, 1160 Wien - Organizer: [AustrianStartups](https://foundercal.com/organizers/austrianstartups) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/austrianstartups-summit-2026-2026-10-15 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2980?p=md Austria's flagship founder gathering, run by the non-profit AustrianStartups in a beer-hall setting that keeps it loose and high-density. The 2026 theme "No risk, no fun(ds)" leans into the bootstrapper-vs-VC tension, with bootstrapped founders, research spinouts, fast-growing scaleups and… ## From Research to Founder: A Fireside Chat with Rupert Ursin - Date: Monday 19 October 2026, 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Workshop - Venue: weXelerate, Praterstraße 1, 1020 Wien - Organizer: [weXelerate](https://foundercal.com/organizers/wexelerate) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/from-research-to-founder-a-fireside-chat-with-rupert-ursin-2026-10-19 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9091?p=md A small closed session with someone who actually made the jump. Rupert Ursin did his PhD under Anton Zeilinger and was Deputy Director at IQOQI Vienna, then founded qtlabs in 2017 and grew it into one of Austria's larger deep tech employers, still entirely privately owned. The format is… ## Vienna Gödel Lecture 2026 with Geoffrey Hinton - Date: Friday 23 October 2026, 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Meetup - Venue: Kuppelsaal, TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien - Organizer: [TU Wien Informatics](https://foundercal.com/organizers/tu-wien-informatics) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/vienna-godel-lecture-2026-with-geoffrey-hinton-2026-10-23 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9094?p=md Geoffrey Hinton gives the annual Gödel Lecture in the domed hall of TU Wien. Not a founder event on paper, but this is the evening the whole Vienna AI crowd turns up in one place, which makes the foyer as useful as the talk. If you are building anything with models in this city, the people you want… ## invest.austria conference 2026 - Date: Wednesday 4 November 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Price: €199 – €799 - Venue: Apothekertrakt Schönbrunn, Grünbergstraße, 1130 Wien - Organizer: [invest.austria](https://foundercal.com/organizers/invest-austria) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/invest-austria-conference-2026-2026-11-04 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9099?p=md The one day a year when Austria's business angels, VCs and private equity people are all in the same building, this time the Apothekertrakt at Schönbrunn Palace. Fifth edition: 60+ speakers across 20+ sessions covering the full funding lifecycle from first angel cheque to growth round, with an expo… ## Lange Nacht der Förderungen 2026 - Date: Thursday 5 November 2026, 17:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Workshop - Venue: Erste Campus, Grand Hall, Am Belvedere 1, 1100 Wien - Organizer: [Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/austria-wirtschaftsservice-aws) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/lange-nacht-der-forderungen-2026-2026-11-05 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9095?p=md Austria gives out a lot of non-dilutive money and the hard part is knowing which door to knock on. For one evening aws, the FFG research agency, the Vienna Business Agency, the WKBG guarantee bank, CONDA and the Erste GründerCenter all sit in the Grand Hall at Erste Campus and answer questions one… ## Future Forward 2026 - Date: Thursday 26 November 2026, 09:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Price: €89 – €499 - Venue: weXelerate Innovation Hub (Design Tower), Praterstraße 1, 1020 Wien - Organizer: [weXelerate](https://foundercal.com/organizers/wexelerate) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/future-forward-2026-2026-11-26 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/2979?p=md A deliberately transactional one-day conference at weXelerate, built around a near 1:1 ratio of startups to established companies so the matchmaking actually closes deals. ~1,000 attendees from 40+ nations, 40 handpicked startups doing five-minute live pitches in front of investors, and 200+… ## Business Angel Day 2026 - Date: Wednesday 2 December 2026, 08:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Venue: Erste Campus, Am Belvedere 1, 1100 Wien - Organizer: [Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/austria-wirtschaftsservice-aws) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/business-angel-day-2026-2026-12-02 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9096?p=md Austria's angel scene has gathered here for seventeen years, and the day closes with the Business Angel of the Year award, nominated by the startups those angels actually backed. The room is therefore the pre-seed and seed cheque writers you would otherwise chase one intro at a time, alongside aws,… ## ViennaUP 2027 - Date: 10 May 2027 – 14 May 2027 - Type: Conference - Venue: Venues across Vienna - Organizer: [Vienna Business Agency](https://foundercal.com/organizers/vienna-business-agency) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/viennaup-2027-2027-05-10 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9100?p=md Vienna's startup week, run by the city's business agency and deliberately spread across the town instead of one convention hall. Around a hundred partner-run events in five days: CEE investor forums, deep tech and life science showcases, impact summits, hackathons, plus a central Homebase where… ## Connect Day 27 - Date: Tuesday 11 May 2027, 09:00 (Europe/Vienna) - Type: Conference - Organizer: [Austria Wirtschaftsservice (aws)](https://foundercal.com/organizers/austria-wirtschaftsservice-aws) - Details: https://foundercal.com/events/connect-day-27-2027-05-11 - Register / official page: https://foundercal.com/out/9092?p=md aws builds Connect Day as a matchmaking machine rather than a talking shop. Four topic blocks (frontier tech and AI, greentech and manufacturing, medtech and life science, urban tech and mobility), six startup pitches inside each, then 1:1 meetings in fifteen minute slots. Corporates do reverse…