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Austin, Texas / ACM + IEEE

Build what’s next.
Share what works.

A monthly gathering for engineers working across AI, data, cloud, and security. No vendor theatre. Just useful ideas, honest trade-offs, and people who ship.

See upcoming eventsSubmit a talk ↗
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Austin, Texas / ACM + IEEE

Build what’s next.
Share what works.

A monthly gathering for engineers working across AI, data, cloud, and security. No vendor theatre. Just useful ideas, honest trade-offs, and people who ship.

See upcoming eventsSubmit a talk

Next session

August Tech Talks & Community Showcase

Wednesday, August 26 · 6:00 PM

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1,689+Austin members
12events each year
4.8/5community rating
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The calendar

Upcoming events

Technical talks, practical workshops, and a community showcase. Free to attend, food included.

All events ↗
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The calendar

Upcoming events

Technical talks, practical workshops, and a community showcase. Free to attend, food included.

All events
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Call for speakers

Have a system worth dissecting?

Share the architecture, the decisions, and the lessons learned with Austin’s engineering community.

Propose a session ↗
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Call for speakers

Have a system worth dissecting?

Share the architecture, the decisions, and the lessons learned with Austin’s engineering community.

Propose a session
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People behind the work

The community is the product.

ACM Austin is run by practitioners who believe the best technical conversations happen in the room, with the context and candour that slides leave out.

Past speakers

All accepted speakers ↗
Akshay Mittal

Akshay Mittal

AI & civic tech

Kavitha Thiyagarajan

Kavitha Thiyagarajan

Data platforms

Tarun Reddy Nukala

Tarun Reddy Nukala

Cloud engineering

Community speaker

You, perhaps?

Your next talk

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People behind the work

The community is the product.

ACM Austin is run by practitioners who believe the best technical conversations happen in the room, with the context and candour that slides leave out.

Past speakers

All accepted speakers
Akshay Mittal

Akshay Mittal

AI & civic tech

Kavitha Thiyagarajan

Kavitha Thiyagarajan

Data platforms

Tarun Reddy Nukala

Tarun Reddy Nukala

Cloud engineering

Community speaker

You, perhaps?

Your next talk

Sponsors who make it possible

Venue sponsor

CGCS

Food sponsor

Community powered

Technology partner

ACM / IEEE

Past sponsors

More coming next release
Atlassian
MongoDB
Chainguard
CodeRabbit
Technoventions LLC
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Make it happen

Our volunteers

A great event is built before the doors open. Meet the crew that welcomes people, shares the word, and keeps everyone fed.

Volunteer signup

Join the volunteer crew

Open form ↗
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Make it happen

Our volunteers

A great event is built before the doors open. Meet the crew that welcomes people, shares the word, and keeps everyone fed.

Volunteer signup

Join the volunteer crew

Open form

What to expect

Engineering, without the vendor deck.

Tech talks

Three or four focused talks, with questions that go past the slides.

Workshops

Bring a laptop and leave with a working prototype and new friends.

Showcase

Members demo what they are building. Your first talk belongs here too.

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The regular room

The Center for Government and Civic Service

1218 West Ave, Building 3000
Austin, TX 78701

Doors 6:00 PM · Talks 6:30 PM · Wrap 8:30 PM

Open in Maps ↗
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Akshay Mittal, Ph.D., IEEE Gen AI and ML User Group chair and Austin Meetup organizer

Meet the organizer

Akshay Mittal, Ph.D.

Akshay is Chair of the IEEE Gen AI and ML User Group and the Austin Meetup organizer, bringing engineers together for practical conversations about AI, data, cloud, security, and the systems they actually ship.

View portfolio ↗Connect on LinkedIn ↗
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Live calendar

Find us on Luma

Browse upcoming ACM Austin events and save your spot directly through our Luma calendar.

Open full calendar ↗

Luma calendar ID: cal-HidBA3hMcIwKB1L

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The regular room

The Center for Government and Civic Service

1218 West Ave, Building 3000
Austin, TX 78701

Doors 6:00 PM · Talks 6:30 PM · Wrap 8:30 PM

Open in Maps
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Akshay Mittal, Ph.D., IEEE Gen AI and ML User Group chair and Austin Meetup organizer

Meet the organizer

Akshay Mittal, Ph.D.

Akshay is Chair of the IEEE Gen AI and ML User Group and the Austin Meetup organizer, bringing engineers together for practical conversations about AI, data, cloud, security, and the systems they actually ship.

View portfolioConnect on LinkedIn
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Live calendar

Find us on Luma

Browse upcoming ACM Austin events and save your spot directly through our Luma calendar.

Open full calendar

Luma calendar ID: cal-HidBA3hMcIwKB1L

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Sessionize / ACM Austin

Speakers who share the real work.

Explore the talks and practitioners shaping our monthly engineering community.

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The people

Speaker directory

View on Sessionize ↗

Past speakers

Request your certificate

If you spoke in person at an event, submit the certificate request and email chair Akshay Canodia at akshaycanodia@gmail.com to receive your certificate.

Submit certificate request ↗

The program

Sessions

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The people

Speaker directory

View on Sessionize

Past speakers

Request your certificate

If you spoke in person at an event, submit the certificate request and email chair Akshay Canodia at akshaycanodia@gmail.com to receive your certificate.

Submit certificate request

The program

Sessions

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