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Brainfood Live On Air Ep410 - Future of Hiring
Free live conversation with Matt Wilson, CEO of Jack & Jill, on where hiring is heading, hosted by Hung Lee's Brainfood community. September 15, 2026, 2:00 PM BST.
Webinar
Building An Entrepreneurial Mindset: From Idea to Action
A webinar on how to build an entrepreneurial mindset and move from idea to action.
Webinar
GatewayHacks 2026
A beginner-inclusive hackathon open to developers designers and innovators of all experience levels worldwide including those with no prior hackathon experience.
Hackathon
GatherVerse Women's AI Summit 2026
The GatherVerse Women's AI Summit 2026 is a free virtual global gathering of women building the future of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, running September 15-17 and September 22-23, 2026, starting 8:00 AM PT each day. Sessions span technology, healthcare, education, business and community work, with a humanity-first focus on experiences, opportunities and what comes next at the intersection of AI and people.
Webinar
Hack for Humanity Summer 2026: AI for Health
Free online hackathon for ages 13+ building AI projects for mental and physical health and concussion recovery, with cash and non-cash prizes and public voting on submissions.
Hackathon
How to Use Google Workspace with Gemini as Your AI-Powered Productivity Partner
Free live SCORE session (sponsored by Grow with Google) on using Google Workspace and Gemini AI tools to boost small-business productivity.
Webinar
UND CyberHawks National CTF Competition 2026
A cybersecurity capture-the-flag competition explicitly welcoming every skill level from complete beginners to professionals.
CTF
WiCyS Security Training Scholarship
A multi-tiered free cybersecurity skills-training scholarship aimed at students and career changers seeking a cybersecurity job within about 1.5 years.
Scholarship Program
1% for the Planet Volunteer Hackathon
A skills-based volunteer hackathon in New York City where participants collaborate with 1% for the Planet Impact Partners to solve real fundraising, storytelling, and launch challenges in 75 minutes.
Hackathon
1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
A free weekly live webinar where startup founders pitch and receive real-time public mentoring feedback from veteran advisor Sramana Mitra. Open to anyone to attend; pitching slots limited to IT/IT-enabled-services startups.
Webinar
2026 Annual Entrepreneurship Assistance Centers Conference
The annual conference of New York's Entrepreneurship Assistance Centers, held Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 9:30 AM to 5 PM at Civic Hall in New York City. The EAC network provides training, coaching and support to new and aspiring entrepreneurs across New York State. Registration is through Eventbrite.
Event
2026 Public AI Summit for Educators
A free, two-day virtual summit on AI in education. Designed for educators at community colleges, public schools and other broad-access settings, with keynotes and participatory workshops on teaching, learning and AI policy.
Webinar
A Generational AI Debate (New York, Sept 23, 2026)
The Sustainable Media Center hosts a live debate at Mintz in New York on September 23, 2026: Gen Z is fluent in AI but anxious about the future it is creating, while Gen X and older bring experience, skepticism, and sometimes more optimism. Free registration on Eventbrite.
Event
Activate AI: Economic Opportunity Challenge (data.org)
Global call for AI projects that help people and communities unlock economic opportunity.
Competition
Agents for Humans Hackathon
A free hackathon (AWS Strands Agents SDK) to build an AI agent that automates repetitive real-world tasks. No purchase or payment necessary.
Hackathon
AI Builders Global Conference 2026
Free virtual three-day conference run by AI Builders Network, 14-16 October 2026, with 300+ planned speakers on building and shipping AI systems in production.
Event
AI for Humanity Report Webinars — Fast Forward
Two free live webinars on the 2026 AI for Humanity Report: a roadmap for philanthropy (Sept 29) and a roadmap for builders (Oct 7).
Webinar
AI Pitch Competition (Connecticut SBDC)
Pitch competition for established Connecticut businesses with a practical way to use AI, data or analytics to solve a current business challenge. Competition November 12, 2026, 6-8pm at SCSU School of Business, New Haven, CT. Applications close October 16, 2026.
Competition
AI Safety & Best Practices — Free Workshop (explainx.ai)
A free live hour with Yash Thakker covering the AI safety concepts every builder and operator needs: the core failure modes to know before hitting them, a live look at AgentBeam catching an unsafe agent trajectory, and a checklist of best practices for running agents safely. Free with email registration; a recording is included.
Training Program
AI-Powered Data Analysis with Excel & Claude (DataCamp Webinar)
A free DataCamp webinar on Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 11 a.m. ET covering how to direct Excel with Claude in natural language, build and change spreadsheets with AI help, and work through a product analytics project. Registration is required.
Webinar
All Day AI 2026
A free, live, online one-day conference on 22 October 2026 with 122 speakers across four tracks: BUILD (building with and of AI), LEAD (managing an AI-native organisation), SECURE (trust and safety) and a business track. Sessions are 30-minute practical implementation talks from engineers and managers at OpenRouter, Microsoft, Accenture, Qualcomm, CVS Health, Mastercard, Anaconda, Illumina and MITRE. The organisers state there are zero vendor pitches. Registration is free; the site also publishes free directories of AI conference dates, deadlines and free virtual events.
Live Event
Alternative Funding for Small Businesses: Grants Crowdfunding and More
Free SCORE session (sponsored by Visa) on non-traditional funding sources -- grants crowdfunding and more -- for early-stage entrepreneurs.
Webinar
Amazon Developer Hackathon 2026 — Build, Ship, Shape
A free hackathon to build across Amazon devices and shape what comes next, hosted on Devpost.
Hackathon
Astronomer: Orchestrate Everything Workshop
Free hands-on virtual workshop on data pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow, run alongside Astronomer's Orchestrate Everything conference.
Webinar
AWS re:Invent 2026 — Free Livestream
AWS re:Invent runs November 30–December 4, 2026. Free livestream registration opens November 9 and includes streamed sessions, guided hands-on labs, selected advanced chalk talks and live Q&A. This does not provide in-person conference access; the standard full conference pass costs $2,499.
Webinar
Beyond the Barcode: Manage Inventory, Navigate Retail Channels and Prepare to Scale
Free SCORE webinar, sponsored by GS1 US, on how barcode data supports inventory management, e-commerce, and scaling across retail sales channels.
Webinar
Boots to Business Reboot (Online)
Free SBA-sponsored entrepreneurship foundations training aimed at veterans and military-connected career changers considering business ownership.
Webinar
Brooklyn Energy Careers Summit
A free afternoon summit at NYU Tandon on breaking into Brooklyn's clean energy economy, with keynotes, employer and workforce panels, and residents training for energy careers. Presented by Brooklyn Org and the National Grid Foundation.
event
Build Your First AI App
A free online AI-application hackathon for eligible students above the local age of majority. Submissions close November 27, 2026 at 5 p.m. Eastern. No paid software, API subscription or purchase is required; Devpost registration and platform eligibility requirements apply.
Hackathon
Business Dads
A curated community for fathers with young children (under 5) who are building ambitious careers in the middle of beautiful chaos.
Webinar
CITRIS Tech Policy Working Group — Fall 2026 application
Application to join UC Berkeley CITRIS's Tech Policy Working Group: research lab-style weekly meetings, lightning talks, skill-building workshops, and an end-of-semester showcase for students working on a technology policy problem. Applications close 11:59 PM Friday, September 18, 2026.
Program
Codegeist 2026: Build with context. Ship with confidence.
Atlassian's online hackathon accepts Forge apps integrating Atlassian products or platform capabilities from October 27 through December 22, 2026 at noon Pacific. Entry uses free Devpost and Atlassian developer accounts. Age, geographic and conflict-of-interest restrictions apply.
Hackathon
Coffee & Career Transitions NYC
A free recurring coffee meetup in New York for tech professionals who have been laid off, are job searching, or are hiring, with a rotating format so you meet several groups in one hour.
Community
Coffee & Career Transitions NYC: Tech & Startups Edition
An in-person networking event in New York City for engineers, product managers, and technical professionals navigating layoffs or searching for their next opportunity, co-hosted with 645 Ventures portfolio startups that are hiring.
Live Event
Controlling your AI software factory — LeadDev
LeadDev event on managing AI coding agents across an engineering team.
Event
CreativeMornings FieldTrips
Free, community-led virtual workshops running five to eight times a week, 60-75 minutes each, led by members of the CreativeMornings community. Recent sessions cover SEO keywords and content repurposing, how AI is changing marketing, client presentations for freelancers, turning your process into content, freelancer client relationships, and reflective sessions on creative blocks. You create a free account and register for the ones you want; the site states plainly that they are free, funded by community donations and corporate partners.
Webinar
CSAW CTF 2026 (Capture the Flag)
One of the oldest and largest capture-the-flag competitions, designed as an entry-level jeopardy-style CTF for students breaking into security, with a September qualifying round and a November final round. Run by NYU's student security group.
CTF
CSAW CTF Qualification Round 2026
An entry-level capture-the-flag competition explicitly designed for undergraduate students trying to break into cybersecurity.
CTF
DEADFACE CTF 2026
A community-run jeopardy-style capture-the-flag competition held in support of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month open to all.
CTF
DevDropsDaily Events
A public, continuously updated calendar of events, workshops, hackathons, networking sessions and career programmes aimed at students and early-career people. Each row lists who it is for, the date, the application deadline, the location, the cost and a registration link, with ready-made views for free events, online events, London events and things closing soon.
Event
Events as a Growth Strategy | Supermoon Playbook
A Supermoon Playbook session on using live events as a growth channel: how to design gatherings that build community, generate leads, and compound over time. New York, September 29, 2026, 5:30-7:00pm.
Webinar
Existential Hope Meme Prize
Open prize for images, memes and short media that communicate a hopeful, concrete vision of the long-term future, with published entries and awards.
Pitch Competition
Exposing the broligarchy with Carole Cadwalladr (International Journalism Festival)
Session page and recording of Carole Cadwalladr's talk on tech billionaires' political power, at the 2026 International Journalism Festival.
event
EyesOpenCTF 2026 (7th edition)
A free online jeopardy-style capture-the-flag run as part of the 7th EOCON conference. 20 November 2026, 10:00 UTC to 22 November 2026, 10:00 UTC.
CTF
Finding Grants for Small Businesses (SCORE Workshop)
Free SCORE workshop on October 13, 2026 covering where small business grants actually come from, which ones you qualify for, and how to search federal, state, corporate, and foundation sources without wasting time on scams.
Webinar
ForgeHacks Online 2026
Free virtual hackathon open to students worldwide, run through Devpost with a submission deadline in mid-October.
Hackathon
From Purpose to Action in the Age of AI
Free live Deep Thrive webinar hosted by Professor Pilyoung Kim on turning reflection about AI-related changes in work and life into action. November 19, 2026, 6–7 p.m. Pacific; registration required.
Event
From surveillance to governance: recentering human rights in the UN AI agenda
Access Now hybrid side event during UNGA81 High-Level Week on human rights in AI governance.
Event
GarysGuide NYC Tech Events
A long-running free listing of technology events, meetups, talks and job fairs in New York City, updated continuously.
Website
Ghost in the Machine — PBS Independent Lens
A PBS documentary that reveals how the human values, biases, and power structures behind artificial intelligence are shaping our world — and its societal and environmental consequences.
Website
Global Hack Week: Hacktoberfest
Major League Hacking's week-long online community event for Hacktoberfest, starting October 9, 2026. Free registration on the MLH site.
Live Event
Google Cloud — Discover CodeMender Virtual Event
A free Google Cloud OnAir session on CodeMender, an AI agent that scans, verifies and fixes software vulnerabilities with developer review.
Webinar
Google Quantum AI — Verifiable Quantum Circuit Compilation (Kaggle)
A Google Quantum AI prediction competition on Kaggle about reducing the resources quantum applications require. About three months remained to enter as of late October 2026; joining requires a free Kaggle account.
Competition
GURU Conference 2026
Free virtual email-marketing conference on November 12–13, 2026. Registration requires personal information; the page discloses sharing registration data with sponsors and partners for marketing.
Event
Hack.coms 2026
Free, beginner-friendly, in-person 24-hour hackathon hosted by RIT's Golisano College of Computing & Information Sciences, part of the MLH collegiate hackathon league.
Hackathon
HackCamp 2026
Canada's largest beginner-only hackathon, run by nwPlus on November 7-8, 2026, built for first-time hackers with hands-on workshops and no coding experience required.
Hackathon
HackRPI 2026
Free, 24-hour, in-person hackathon at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, with free food and swag. Open to college/university students from any school, plus high schoolers (minors need an adult present and can't stay overnight).
Hackathon
HackRPI 2026: In the Clouds
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's student hackathon, held in person in Troy, NY, on November 7–8, 2026. Registration via Devpost. Devpost page blocked automated checks; hackathons like this normally have no entry fee.
Hackathon
HerHack 2026
Devpost-hosted hackathon encouraging women's participation in technology; teams of 2-5 build a project and submit online.
Hackathon
HKCERT CTF 2026 (Qualifying Round)
Free jeopardy-style capture-the-flag qualifying round from Hong Kong's CERT, with an Open division alongside student categories; top teams advance to an in-person Hong Kong final.
CTF
How to Build an AI Marketing Agent That Produces Better Content
Free live SCORE webinar teaching small business owners how to build an AI marketing agent for better content output.
Webinar
How to Empower the Manager Layer on Your AI Strategy (Section live webinar)
A free one-hour online session on September 28, 2026 (1–2 p.m. ET) about helping middle managers turn a company's AI plans into everyday team habits. Speakers: Michael Domanic (Head of AI, Section) and Monika Saha (Chief Commercial Officer, Articulate).
Webinar
How to Stop Babysitting Your Agents (webinar, Oct 7, 2026)
Unblocked's free webinar on giving AI coding agents the right context so they produce mergeable code the first time.
Event
How to Stop Babysitting Your Agents (webinar, Sept 23, 2026)
Free online session with Brandon Waselnuk of Unblocked on giving AI coding agents real context so they produce usable work the first time, including a live before-and-after demo and two open-source tools to try.
Program
IBM AI Builders Challenge + AI Builders Conference (Sept 16, 2026)
Free monthly AI building challenge from IBM SkillsBuild and BeMyApp: learn the tooling, submit an AI project for judging, and attend the AI Builders Conference on September 16, 2026 with IBM experts and developers. No cost to register or participate.
Competition
Idealist Workshop: Craft Your Professional Image Online
Idealist lists a free online workshop about building an online presence that reflects career goals and skills. The listing says Matthew Chavez will discuss digital first impressions, online content, and meaningful connections; it also says registrants can receive a recording if they cannot attend live.
Event
ImpactHack 2026
Free online hackathon focused on building technology that addresses real-world community and global challenges, organized by the GIS Engineering Club.
Hackathon
InIt CTF 2026
8-hour online jeopardy CTF, teams of 1-4, explicitly described as 'free and open to participants across India and internationally.' Marked 'casual' by organizers. Runs Nov 14, 15:30-23:30 UTC.
CTF
Intro to AI for Small Business Owners (SCORE)
Free SCORE Zoom workshop on AI for small business owners, November 5, 2026. Note: this session had reached capacity when checked; the registration form offers a waitlist.
Live Event
Kaggle Competitions
Google-owned platform hosting data-science and machine-learning competitions, many with cash prizes. Free to enter; a strong way to build a portfolio.
competition
Lampedusa Keeps Happening: Refugees and the Power of Tech to Harm or Heal
Free registration webinar on how technology is used both against and in support of refugees and people migrating. 1 October 2026, 12:00 PM US Eastern Time.
Webinar
Latino AI Summit NYC 2026
Two-day in-person AI summit in New York, November 9-10 2026 at Borough of Manhattan Community College, bringing together Latino leaders, builders and professionals for responsible-AI talks and hands-on workshops. Seating is limited.
Live Event
LeadDev Events
LeadDev's event listings for engineering leaders. Free meetups and online workshops run year-round; the LDX3 and LeadDev conferences are ticketed.
Event Listing
LeadDev: What Are Durable Leadership Skills in 2026?
LeadDev session on which engineering leadership skills hold their value as tooling, team structures, and AI expectations shift.
Webinar
Let's Talk - The IBM Z USA Apprenticeship Program - Free
A free live conversation about the IBM Z USA Apprenticeship Program — learn how the program works, who it's for, and how to apply.
Live Event
Life After Data: The Conference on De-datafication — Program
Program for Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy & Technology conference on "de-datafication," held October 6, 2026, with sessions on the threats data collection poses and paths toward reducing reliance on mass data collection.
Event
LinkedIn Events Directory
LinkedIn's directory of live and upcoming professional events - webinars, audio rooms, panels, and hiring sessions you can register for and attend from anywhere.
Website
Machine Learning Zoomcamp (DataTalks.Club)
A free four-month, hands-on machine learning engineering course covering Python, regression and classification, XGBoost, deep learning with TensorFlow, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud deployment, with homework, projects and a Slack community. The 2026 cohort started September 14, 2026, and you can still start now.
Course
Medium Day
Free virtual community gathering from Medium with over 100 sessions of writing and publishing insight from writers, editors, and experts, plus live product demos, writing workshops, and meetups with Medium staff and writers. Speakers include Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and writers such as Zulie Rane.
Event
Meta Global AI Developer Hackathon
A virtual hackathon running October 26–November 4, 2026, with Meta models and a stated $1 million prize pool. Entry is free for selected applicants; applications close October 25 or earlier if the 20,000-participant cap is reached. Selection and eligibility requirements apply.
Hackathon
Mimic CTF
Online jeopardy-style capture-the-flag cybersecurity competition, November 7-8, 2026 (from 12:00 UTC). Listed on CTFtime.
Competition
MLH Global Hack Week: Builders Week
Free week-long online hackathon from Major League Hacking, November 6–12, 2026, themed around building whatever "builder" means to you, with live challenges and a Discord community. Open to anyone, anywhere.
Hackathon
MLH Global Hack Week: Hacktoberfest
Major League Hacking's week-long online Global Hack Week, 9-15 October 2026, themed around Hacktoberfest and open source. Daily workshops streamed live, mini-events in the MLH Discord, and social, technical and design challenges you can complete solo or with others for points.
Live Event
Name That LLM (Kaggle Competition)
Kaggle featured code competition in which participants identify which language model produced a given text.
Competition
NASA International Space Apps Challenge 2026
A free global hackathon on November 14–15, 2026 using NASA and partner open data to address space and Earth challenges. Participation is available at in-person or virtual local events and through a virtual Universal Event. An account and registration are required; minors have guardian requirements.
Hackathon
NASA Space Apps Challenge 2026
A free global hackathon on November 14–15, 2026 using NASA and partner open data to address space and Earth challenges. Participation is available at in-person or virtual local events and through a virtual Universal Event. An account and registration are required; minors have guardian requirements.
Hackathon
Nebius x NVIDIA Global AI Hackathon
A free global AI hackathon to build on open infrastructure, hosted on Devpost with Nebius and NVIDIA.
Hackathon
NJ State Data Center 2026 Annual Network Meeting — Registration
Registration form for the New Jersey State Data Center's Annual Network Meeting on 29 and 30 September 2026. The State Data Center is New Jersey's official partner in the Census Bureau's programme for making population, housing and economic data usable locally; the network meeting is where affiliates and data users are brought up to date.
Live Event
NODES 2026: Engineering Better Intelligence
Neo4j’s free 24-hour online conference on November 12, 2026 covers AI engineering, multi-agent systems, applications and graph-based context. Registration is required to attend.
Event
NRF Foundation University Retail Challenge
A free student case competition from the NRF Foundation: teams solve a real retail problem for scholarship money and a trip to NRF's annual event.
Competition
NYC AI Week (Pulse NYC)
Pulse NYC's calendar of AI Week events in New York City. The page loads its calendar in a way the automated check could not read, so dates and ticket prices were not confirmed.
Event
NYC Economic Snapshot — September 2026
NYCEDC's monthly data briefing on the city's economy as of September 24, 2026: private-sector employment down 12,900 in August, unemployment at 4.8% after six straight monthly declines, labor force participation at 62.1%, median asking rent near $4,000, plus office visitation, tourism, and transit numbers.
Report
OpenCV AI Competition 2026
A free competition to build computer-vision systems with OpenCV 5 and AWS, with cash prizes. Hosted on Devpost.
Hackathon
Opportunities for All: A Virtual Career and Networking Event
A free virtual career fair from CareerCircle on November 17, 2026 (12:00–3:00 PM EST) where job seekers meet recruiters and hiring managers from participating employers. Registration is required.
Event
Orkney AI Tech Talks Series
A free public talk series in Stromness, Orkney bringing residents together to discuss what AI is, what it changes and what it could mean for the community. The opening session on September 29, 2026 features Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mei Fong, Chief Storyteller at the Windfall Trust, on why AI is different from past technologies and how the Trust stress-tests its potential impact on jobs, income and communities. Sponsored by Aquatera; no cost is listed to attend.
Event
Out in Tech — Career Talks H2 2026
Out in Tech's career-talks event series for LGBTQ+ tech professionals, with sessions on job searching, interviews and career growth.
event
PatriotCTF 2026
A free capture-the-flag run by George Mason University's Competitive Cyber Club, played in teams.
CTF
PayPal AI Hackathon
Online hackathon run by PayPal on Devpost: build something new with PayPal and AI. $67,500 in cash prizes. Submissions close November 12, 2026 at 12:00pm Pacific.
Competition
plz dont kill us — Creator Bootcamp on AI Risk
An experimental bootcamp in Berkeley, California, where creators post short-form videos about AI risk every day. The first cohort of 57 creators (July 2026) tracked 112M+ views; the next is tentatively January 2027, with rolling applications.
Training Program
Primary's NYC Tech Summit
Annual gathering for builders, backers, and operators shaping the future of technology and business.
Webinar
Public AI Summit for Educators (Sept 16-17, 2026)
Free two-day virtual professional development summit on AI in education, co-hosted by the AI Pedagogy Project and the Data Nutrition Project: keynotes, hands-on workshops, course policy, assessment, and career readiness. Sept 16 12:00-3:30pm ET and Sept 17 1:00-3:30pm ET.
Webinar
PyLadiesCon 2026
The fourth global online PyLadies conference, 5-7 December 2026, free and run across multiple timezones in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and Chinese. Tutorials, open-source sprints with project maintainers, panels on Python and career growth, open spaces and networking.
Live Event
Qloo Agentic Hackathon
Global online hackathon for building AI agents with Qloo, Gemini and Google Cloud tools. Official rules state no purchase or payment is necessary. Open to legal adults and eligible teams or organizations, with geographic exclusions; submissions close October 30 at 11:45 p.m. Eastern.
Hackathon
QNX Global Hackathon
An online QNX 8.0 development hackathon with submissions open November 2–December 15, 2026, closing at 2 p.m. Eastern. Eligible adults can submit applications, components, ports or developer tools targeting QNX. Entry and non-commercial development tools are free; account, licensing and geographic restrictions apply.
Hackathon
Real-Time Data Migration: What Worked, What Didn't
Real-time data streaming for AI: a global chip manufacturer shares what worked, what failed, and what they'd do differently. Includes CIO insights on evaluation, implementation, and vendor selection for enterprise AI data infrastructure.
Live Event
Responsible Tech Summit 2026: From Principles to Power
A free in-person summit at The Times Center in New York on October 29, 2026, on moving from broad AI principles to real-world accountability. Registration is through Luma.
Event
Responsible Tech Summit: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era
All Tech Is Human's Responsible Tech Summit convenes leaders from civil society, research, government, industry, academia and philanthropy on October 29 at The New York Times Center in Manhattan, themed "From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era."
Event
Rethink 2026 (Google Ads & YouTube)
Free virtual Google event on Search and YouTube Ads best practices plus industry and consumer insight for growing a business.
Webinar
Return on Influence Festival '26 (Modash)
Free one-day virtual festival on influencer marketing, with sessions from brand, creator and marketing leads. October 21, 2026, 10am–5pm ET, online.
Live Event
RevenueCat Shipaton 2026
A free global hackathon challenging developers to ship a mobile app and start generating in-app revenue. No purchase or payment necessary to enter.
Hackathon
RightsCon Summit Series
Global summit series bringing together human rights and technology communities. The RightsCon Continues Summit takes place online across the globe.
Event
River Pitch Competition
Pitch competition from the Alabama Entrepreneurship Institute at the University of Alabama for innovators and early-stage businesses. Ten $1,000 prizes. November 17, 2026; registration portal is open.
Competition
RxT: Tech, Data & the Fight for Power
Rights x Tech event on data, technology, and power, held Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
Event
SANS Institute Cybersecurity Webcasts
SANS Institute's calendar of free live cybersecurity webcasts, combining expert speakers with hands-on topics such as threat hunting, incident response and security controls. A free SANS account is required to register; check the page for each session's date.
Webinar
Save the Date: The Edge Dialogues (Tech Policy Press & Georgetown Law)
A bimonthly virtual series from The Privacy Center at Georgetown Law and Tech Policy Press launching October 22 on Zoom. Rather than another "AI governance" conversation, the dialogues dig into questions upstream of tech policy — power, labor, war, justice, privacy, art, community and human consciousness. The kickoff features remarks from Dr. Alondra Nelson of the Institute for Advanced Study; free registration.
Live Event
SBA Webinar — Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026
A no-cost SBA webinar on protecting a small business from common cyber threats: the tricks attackers use, simple security steps, and where to get help.
Webinar
SBA Webinar: Brain in a Box - Teach It, Train It, Trust It
Free Southwest Minnesota SBDC and Vivid Image webinar on teaching AI about a small business and developing repeatable AI workflows. The November 12 session is part of a four-session series; official host registration is free for small businesses.
Webinar
SBA Webinar: SEO & Social Selling
Free Mason SBDC live webinar on local SEO, website optimization, social selling, lead generation and evaluating paid-ad spending. Held online December 9; Zoom access is provided after registration. The official SBA page lists a $0.00 cost.
Webinar
SCORE Series: Navigating Uncertainty
A SC Piedmont SCORE webinar with SBA specialist Earl Gregorich on cash flow, economic trends, tariffs, labor shortages and inflation, using business processes and SBA resources.
Webinar
SCORE Webinar — Mastering Small Business Financial Management
A free one-hour live SCORE webinar on bookkeeping, cash flow, financial statements and getting your books ready for funding. Sponsored by Visa. 22 September 2026, 1:00 pm ET.
Webinar
SCORE Webinar — Year-End Tax Preparation
A 90-minute SCORE webinar with attorney Barbara Weltman on year-end tax moves for small businesses, including new rules, deadlines, deductions and 1099 reporting.
Webinar
SCORE Webinar: When Banks Say No - Alternative Funding Options for Small Businesses
Free live SCORE webinar comparing alternative small-business financing options, their costs and requirements when a traditional bank loan is unavailable. Registration is required; the official page lists the price as free.
Webinar
SCORE Webinar: Your First AI Employee - Put AI Agents to Work in Your Business
Free live SCORE webinar on setting up an AI agent for a small business without coding or technical experience. Registration is required; the official page lists the webinar price as free.
Webinar
Secular Solstice Round Up 2024 (LessWrong)
A LessWrong community thread listing 2024 Secular Solstice gatherings and rationalist megameetups by city, with dates, locations and links posted by organizers.
Community
Selling to the Federal Market: How to do Market Research - with SCORE
SCORE mentor Karen Williams discusses federal market research, identifying subcontracting opportunities, and marketing products or services to prime contractors in an online webinar.
Webinar
Slides to Startups: What Comes After Consulting
An in-person New York evening (Tue 13 Oct 2026, 6:30–9:30 PM) of drinks and candid talk with ex-consultants from Accenture and McKinsey who moved into AI startups — no panels, just stories about going from advising companies to building one.
Live Event
Speed Pitch: Guaranteed 1:1 Meetings With Investors
The fifth edition of The Startup Station's Speed Pitch in New York: 36 startup spots, each matched into guaranteed one-to-one meetings with investors instead of the usual keynote-and-mingle format. Confirmed funds include New York Ventures, New York Bay Capital, Hexa-AI, Vamos Ventures, Gaingels, Yan Ventures, Lightscape Partners, Valued Ventures, BuenTrip Ventures, Zavo Ventures and Ensemblex Venture. Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 4:30–8:30 PM; registration is by host approval and closes October 15. Investors apply through a separate link.
Live Event
SpookyCTF 2026
A free online jeopardy-style capture-the-flag organised by the New Jersey Institute of Technology. 6 November 2026, 17:00 UTC to 7 November 2026, 17:00 UTC.
CTF
Squares in Squares (Kaggle)
Kaggle playground competition on a classic open problem in combinatorial geometry: pack n non-overlapping unit squares into the smallest possible container across 1,000 puzzles. Partial submissions are allowed, and most puzzles have no proven optimal solution. About nine months remained to enter as of late October 2026; joining requires a free Kaggle account.
Competition
Start Smart (SBA webinar)
Free U.S. Small Business Administration webinar via Zoom on starting a business, October 6, 2026.
Live Event
State Capacity Ecosystem Hackathons
Open build events aimed at government and public-service problems, with past hackathons and what each one produced.
Hackathon
Stay Ahead of AI Threats With the New CompTIA Security+
Free 30-minute Educate 360 webinar on how attackers are using AI and what the updated CompTIA Security+ covers, October 13, 2026, 12:00-12:30pm Central.
Live Event
Staying Human in the Age of AI: Nervous System Regulation for a New Era
Free online workshop from Nervous System Mastery on working with AI without burning out: the four ways of relating to AI, spotting AI-driven dysregulation, and body-first practices between work sprints.
Webinar
SunshineCTF 2026
An 11th-edition online jeopardy-style capture-the-flag competition from the University of Central Florida's Hack@UCF club open to all skill levels.
CTF
SwampCTF 2026
Free 48-hour online jeopardy-style capture-the-flag competition November 20-22, 2026, run by the University of Florida Student InfoSec Team, with challenges in pwn, reverse engineering, forensics, and cryptography.
CTF
Tech Social | Supermoon, Avahi & Concord Visa
An in-person tech social hosted by Supermoon with Avahi and Concord Visa: casual networking for founders, operators, and technologists. September 22, 2026, 5:30-8:30pm.
Webinar
Tech, Human, System: Career Evolution for Engineers in 2026
Free IEEE-USA livestream webinar on navigating career evolution for engineers amid changing technology and workplace demands.
Webinar
Tech, Human, System: Career Evolution for Engineers in 2026 (IEEE-USA)
Free IEEE-USA livestream webinar on how engineering careers are changing in 2026, October 7, 2026.
Live Event
Tech:NYC's Decoded Futures Build Days
A free series of afternoon Build Days in New York City where nonprofit and social sector leaders sit down with technologists to work on practical ways to use AI in their organisations. Run by Decoded Futures, a Tech:NYC program. Sessions run from Thursday 24 September 2026 through 22 October 2026, 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM, in person in New York.
Webinar
TechUnited:NJ Upcoming Events
The running events calendar for New Jersey's tech and startup community: founder meetups, pitch nights, panels and networking sessions.
Website
The Agentic Data Summit (Redpanda)
Free virtual conference on 9 December 2026, 8:30am to 2:00pm Pacific, on running streaming data and AI agent systems in production. Sessions cover streaming plus SQL and agents on one platform, locking down agent access with an agentic data plane, streaming at scale, and open Q&A with the product and engineering teams. Speakers are engineers, architects, customers and industry experts.
Live Event
The Debug Table
A small, recurring in-person meetup for developers, tinkerers, and anyone building something technical — AI, cybersecurity, full-stack development, Linux/macOS, shell scripting, Git, and more.
Community
The Open Door: weekly job seeker session
Free 30-minute live session for job seekers, hosted weekly with a guest recruiter or expert: what is working in the market right now, open sharing, and LinkedIn networking. Cameras optional.
Webinar
The State of Developer Experience in 2026
Atlassian's webinar discusses its 2026 developer-experience report, AI adoption and organizational strategy. Free registration offers November 9–10 sessions, with a recording sent to registrants who cannot attend.
Event
TLN Hackathon 2026: Cybersecurity Challenge
Free two-day online student hackathon building next-generation cybersecurity solutions, with about $6,600 in cash prizes, open to ages 13+ working solo or in teams of up to four.
Hackathon
UGREEN Hackathon 2026 (AI on NAS)
An online competition to create AI Skills for UGREEN NAS using its developer package. Eligible adults in permitted jurisdictions can enter without owning NAS hardware. Round 1 closes November 15, 2026 at 11:45 p.m. Pacific; invited finalists receive limited free remote hardware access and submit by November 30.
Hackathon
Using AI for Financial Management: Balancing AI Tools With Reliable Bookkeeping
Free SCORE webinar (sponsored by Pilot) on responsibly combining AI financial tools with reliable bookkeeping practices.
Webinar
Webinar: Rethinking Data Loss Prevention
PayPal shares how it rebuilt its data loss prevention program around outcomes rather than tools, covering policy-as-code, AI-driven gap discovery, continuous SaaS data discovery, and AI endpoint agents for exfiltration detection.
Webinar
Webinar: The Harder Problem — Proving Action Correctness in the Age of Agentic AI
An AWS-led session on why detection systems miss authorized-but-wrong actions, revisiting the concept of 'repudiation' and applying a correctness framework to securing newly deployed AI agents.
Webinar
Webinar: Your Vendor Passed the Questionnaire. Now What? Rethinking Third-Party Risk for the AI Era
Cisco examines why static vendor questionnaires can't keep pace with AI, cloud dependencies, and fourth-party risk, and makes the case for a continuous, risk-based approach to vendor assessment.
Webinar
Westly Prize for Young Innovators
A free-to-enter prize for young people solving real problems in their communities, with cash awards and no application fee.
Competition
WiCyS — Meet an AI Practitioner with Noureen Njoroge
A free WiCyS AI Affiliate webinar: "Security in the Era of AI: Implications for Cybersecurity Teams," presented by cybersecurity leader Noureen Njoroge. 24 September 2026, 12:00–1:00 pm. CPE/CEU credits available.
Webinar
WiCyS + SANS Introductory Cyber Crisis Exercise
Free introductory incident-response exercise from Women in Cybersecurity and SANS, where participants work a simulated cyber crisis as a team.
Program
WiCyS 2027 — Call for Scholarship Applications
Apply for a scholarship covering WiCyS 2027 conference registration, all activities and meals, plus two nights of shared lodging. Applications run 2–30 September 2026.
Scholarship Program
WiCyS DFW: Lessons Learned - From Military to Cyber
Free virtual session with a U.S. Army veteran and cybersecurity educator covering certifications, veteran-focused training and academic pathways into cybersecurity careers. Eventbrite registration is required; the official listing does not require WiCyS membership.
Webinar
WiCyS Germany Affiliate: What a Hiring Manager at Palo Alto Networks Looks For
Palo Alto Networks hiring manager Fionnuala Zinnecker shares what helps non-technical and career-change candidates stand out in cybersecurity hiring, with a live Q&A on framing your background and leaving a lasting impression.
Webinar
WiCyS Virtual Career Fair 2026
Free virtual career fair for Women in Cybersecurity members on September 23, 2026, connecting attendees directly with WiCyS strategic partners hiring for internships and part- and full-time roles at entry, mid, and senior levels.
Event
Workiva Engineering Intern Information Session (Fall 2026)
Free Workiva webinar for students on landing a software engineering internship: resume tips that clear automated screening, interview tactics, application deadlines, and a Q&A with current interns.
Webinar
World's Biggest Business Competition
A free four-week online business competition starting 24 October 2026, with over $1 million in prizes, live expert support, tools and business playbooks for people starting or growing a business.
Competition
Writing Grants for Small Businesses (SCORE Workshop)
Free SCORE workshop on October 20, 2026 on writing the grant application itself: structuring the narrative, budget, and supporting documents reviewers expect.
Webinar
XPRIZE Active Competitions
Every open XPRIZE challenge with its prize purse, deadlines and entry requirements — multi-million-dollar competitions in health, climate, education and AI.
Competition
ZapConnect 2026 — Zapier's free virtual conference
Zapier's annual virtual conference on September 23, 2026 at 9AM PT: live workshops, keynotes, and playbooks on connecting AI agents to the apps a business already runs on and automating critical workflows.
Webinar