What we’re about
Dallas AI is the largest 501(c)(3), nonprofit AI forum in North Texas with a community of 10,000+ professionals distributed over meetup and LinkedIn. Its mission is to help Dallas Fort Worth and Texas become a vibrant hub for AI via providing quality avenues for professional learning and networking. In the last 7 years, the forum has conducted over 80 educational talks and workshops, partnering with top companies and academia at the forefront of AI research, including Hugging Face, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Verizon, MIT, University of Texas, UNT, Southern Methodist University and more.
Dallas AI is steered by local MIT Alumni leaders, backed by a strong board packed with C-level leaders and supported by a team of dedicated volunteers - all passionate about giving back to the community with their time and expertise. The large membership base of 8,000+ is very diverse, including professionals from a variety of industry verticals at different levels of their career journey - from C-level leadership to fresh graduates.
The Dallas AI forum is not tied to nor endorse any brand, vendor or product, thereby promoting unbiased, intellectual conversations, professional networking and learning without any sales aspects. Past speakers include: CTO of Hugging Face, Head of MIT CSAIL, the largest AI lab at MIT, Chief Data & Analytics officer of Travelers, Chief Revenue Officer of Qualtrics, Chief Technology Officer of VXI, Former Research Director of NSA (National Security Agency), Former Head of AI Research at Meta and many more.
In addition to joining us over meetup.com, we encourage you to visit our website and sign up for emails at www.dallas-ai.org, follow us over LinkedIn and join our discussion group.
Thanks to UT Dallas Office of Research & Innovation and Richardson IQ, the premier research & tech hub, for providing us space and promoting AI innovation in North Texas.
Upcoming events
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Building Your First AI Agent
smu, Collins Executive Education Center, 3150 Binkley Ave, Dallas, TX 75205, Dallas, TX, USIn our “Building Your First AI Agent” workshop, led by Aamer Charania, Babar Bhatti, and Jeffrey Liu, you’ll get a practical, low-code, and hands-on introduction to what AI agents are, how they differ from chatbots and simple automation, and where they can create real value in modern organizations.
Together, the speakers will guide you through designing an agent around a realistic workflow, clarifying the key building blocks—goal, tools, data, guardrails, and evaluation—and walking through how to prototype and test an agent responsibly, without needing a deep technical background.
By the end of this session, you’ll walk away with a clear mental model for AI agents and a repeatable process you can apply to customer support, operations, analytics, and other high-impact business scenarios.
Attendees are encouraged to bring their laptops to ensure interactive participation.
This event is hosted in partnership with Spears Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership at SMU. Learn more about Spears at smu.edu/spears
***SMU CAMPUS PRE-PAY PARKING INFORMATION***
Prepurchase parking passes is strongly suggested to help reduce backups and allow time to park and get to your event on time.
Attendees can set up a visitor account in the Parking Portal and prepurchase a day visitor permit. [SMU - SMU Parking Portal] Use the login for Visitors and Guests and follow the prompts.
Use a guest code that appears on the permit screen at the gate keypad reader and park on level two of Binkley Garage (Garage 69 on the map, closest David B. Miller Quadrangle).
Parkmobile prepurchase is also an option, because Parkmobile does not feed the license plate over to our parking software, guests must print and display the permit on their dash. A QR code on the Parkmobile permit must be scanned on the Pay Station to raise the gate.
Parkmobile can also be use in pay by space but only for a maximum of 3 hours.
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