Austin AI Developers Group

AI builders night - Austin

Wed, May 20 · 6:00 PM CDT

Sunset Room, 310 E 3rd St, Austin, tx, US

Important: Register on the event website is required for admission. RSVP on Meetup is turned off.

We are bringing together AI engineers, platform teams, and product leaders in Austin for an evening focused on how real-world AI systems actually get built and improved.

​You’ll hear how leading teams are evaluating models, closing the loop between experimentation and deployment, and building systems that hold up outside of demos.

​If you’re building AI systems and want to learn how others are approaching quality, evaluation, and scale, we'd love to see you there.

​Agenda:

• ​6:00 pm - doors open (networking in pre-function area)
• ​6:30 pm - How to build evals for coding agents, Amanda Gilbert, Solutions Engineering @ Braintrust
• ​6:50 pm - Demos and Q&A
• ​7:30 - 9:00 - Networking with F&B

AI Meetup - Scale AI Workflows

Wed, May 27 · 5:30 PM CDT

Coder Austin, 520 E Oltorf St, Austin, TX, US

Important: Register on the event website is required for admission. RSVP on Meetup is turned off.

We are excited to partner with Coder for a special edition of our AI Meetup in May, focusing on Scale AI workflows in productions.

AI is everywhere in development right now. Coding assistants. Autonomous agents. Background workflows. AI-generated PRs. But most teams are stuck in the same place:

• Experiments work, production doesn’t.
• AI writes code faster, but workflows break.
• Agents generate output, but teams can’t trust or scale it.
• And governance gets added too late, slowing everything down.

This meetup is for developers and platform teams who want to understand what it actually takes to move from AI experimentation to production-ready workflows. We’ll focus on how teams are redesigning their development workflows to work with AI, not just adding tools on top. That includes how to structure workflows, manage agents, and introduce the right level of control without killing developer velocity. No hype. No tool comparisons. Just a clear look at why most AI workflows fail and what actually works at scale.

You’ll walk away with:

• - A clear understanding of why most AI workflows break when moving to production
• - Insight into how AI changes the software development lifecycle, not just coding
• - A practical model for structuring AI workflows across planning, building, and operations
• - Examples of how teams are introducing control and consistency without slowing developers down
• - A mental model for scaling AI usage across teams, not just individual developers

Who this is for:
- Beginner → intermediate software developers
- Platform engineers and DevOps folks supporting dev teams
- Anyone using (or wanting to use) AI tools beyond simple autocomplete

Agenda:
* 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, Food and Networking
* 6:00pm~6:15pm: Welcome/community update
* 6:15pm~8:00pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 8:00pm~8:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer

Tech Talk: From AI Experiments to Production: How Teams Actually Scale AI Workflows
Speaker: Dave Ahr, Coder
**Abstract:**AI is everywhere in development right now. Coding assistants. Autonomous agents. Background workflows. AI-generated PRs. But most teams are stuck in the same place: 1) Experiments work, production doesn’t; 2) AI writes code faster, but workflows break; 3) Agents generate output, but teams can’t trust or scale it; 4) And governance gets added too late, slowing everything down.
This meetup is for developers and platform teams who want to understand what it actually takes to move from AI experimentation to production-ready workflows. We’ll focus on how teams are redesigning their development workflows to work with AI, not just adding tools on top. That includes how to structure workflows, manage agents, and introduce the right level of control without killing developer velocity. No hype. No tool comparisons. Just a clear look at why most AI workflows fail and what actually works at scale.

Topics/Speakers:
Check the event website for speakers and topics.
If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Austin and 500K+ worldwide.

AI Developer Workshop - Deploying AI Agents with Pulumi and AWS

Wed, Jun 3 · 5:30 PM CDT

Capital Factory, 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX, US

Important: Register on the event website is required for admission.

Most AI agent demos look great in a notebook, but getting them into production means dealing with authentication, secrets, IAM policies, container builds, observability, and repeatable deployments. The proof of concept rarely covers any of that.

Join us for an evening of practical content on getting AI agents from prototype to production. Expect a hands-on workshop where you'll deploy a real multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with all infrastructure defined as code using Pulumi.

Agenda:

• - 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, food and networking
• - 6:00pm~6:15pm: Welcome + intro to Pulumi
• - 6:15pm~7:30pm: Hands-on workshop: Deploying AI Agents
• - 7:30pm~8:30pm: Open discussion, Mixer and Closing.

What You'll Learn:

• Go from a minimal agent to a multi-tool, multi-agent system on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
• Define your AI infrastructure as code
• Patterns for authentication, secrets, IAM, and observability when running agents in production
• Structure agent workflows that coordinate tasks, call external tools, execute code, and maintain state over time

Who Should Attend:
Engineers, platform teams, DevOps practitioners, and AI/ML developers who want to move past notebook demos and deploy real AI agents to production. Useful for anyone building on AWS, evaluating Bedrock AgentCore, or bringing infrastructure-as-code discipline to an AI workload.

Hands-on Workshop: Deploying AI Agents on AWS with Pulumi and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Instructor: Mitch Gerdisch — Solutions Architect, Pulumi
Abstract: In this hands-on session, you'll go from a minimal agent to a multi-tool, multi-agent system running on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, with all infrastructure defined as code using Pulumi. You'll build and deploy agents that coordinate tasks, call external tools, execute code, and maintain state over time.
You'll walk away with:
- A working multi-agent system deployed on AWS
- Infrastructure as code you can reuse and extend
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Pulumi

Sponsors:
We are actively seeking sponsors to support AI developers community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 8,000+ AI developers in Austin and 500K+ worldwide.

Venue Sponsors:
Thank you to Station Austin for sponsoring Austin AI Developers Group. Station Austin is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They bring together the best entrepreneurs in the state and connect them with their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Station Austin membership, click here.