— Field guide · 44 cities
AI meetups, labs, and civic dispatches, city by city.
Each city page covers the local AI economy, public-sector pilots, risks to watch, and opportunities worth showing up for — plus a live feed of upcoming meetups. Built for organizers, builders, researchers, and civic leaders.
Africa
3 cities
South Africa
Cape Town
African south AI
Cape Town AI meetups, University of Cape Town research, and South Africa's growing AI and data-centre cluster.
Kenya
Nairobi
Silicon Savannah
Nairobi AI meetups, Safaricom M-Pesa ML, iHub, and Silicon Savannah's AI scene.
Nigeria
Lagos
West African anchor
Lagos AI meetups, Nigerian fintech ML, Flutterwave, Paystack, and West Africa's largest tech ecosystem.
Americas
13 cities
United States
San Francisco
The frontier-model capital
Discover AI meetups, research labs and vendors shaping San Francisco. Find Bay Area events, hiring trends, and the civic impact of frontier AI.
United States
New York
Applied AI at enterprise scale
Explore NYC's applied AI scene: finance, media, healthcare and public-sector deployments, plus meetups, labs and vendors across the five boroughs.
United States
Austin
Silicon, startups, and SXSW
Austin's AI scene spans silicon, startups, and state policy. Find meetups, research labs, and vendors from UT Austin to East Side coworking spaces.
Canada
Toronto
Where deep learning was born
Toronto is the birthplace of modern deep learning. Find AI meetups, Vector Institute research, and Canadian AI vendors across the GTA.
United States
Boston
The academic backbone
Boston's AI scene - MIT CSAIL, Harvard, biotech-AI startups, and the Kendall Square research corridor. Find meetups and get involved.
United States
Seattle
The hyperscaler home base
Seattle AI meetups, research, and employers. Home to Microsoft AI, Amazon ML, Allen Institute for AI, and the University of Washington.
United States
Los Angeles
Creative + applied
Los Angeles AI meetups, studios, and research. Where generative media, defense AI, and Hollywood production meet.
United States
Pittsburgh
Robotics row
Pittsburgh is America's robotics capital. CMU, Robotics Row, and the national AI talent pipeline meet here.
United States
Washington, D.C.
Where the rules get written
Washington DC AI meetups, federal policy, DARPA, and the defense-AI corridor. Where the rules and budgets get written.
United States
Chicago
The applied Midwest
Chicago's AI scene - trading, fintech, supply chain, and the Midwest applied ML community. Find meetups here.
Canada
Montréal
The deep-learning capital
Montréal is the spiritual home of deep learning. Mila, Yoshua Bengio, and a dense research community anchor Québec's AI scene.
Canada
Vancouver
Canada's Pacific AI port
Vancouver's AI scene: UBC research, Amazon/Microsoft satellite offices, and a Pacific gateway AI community.
Mexico
Mexico City
Nearshore capital
Mexico City AI meetups, nearshoring, fintech ML, and the fastest-growing Latin American AI scene.
Asia
11 cities
Japan
Tokyo
Robotics, language models, and aging society
Tokyo pairs robotics, manufacturing, and Japanese-language LLMs. Find AI meetups, research labs and vendors across Shibuya, Minato and Bunkyo.
Singapore
Singapore
Smart Nation, SEA-LION, and regional hub
Singapore's AI scene links Smart Nation programs, AI Verify, and Southeast Asian LLMs. Find SG meetups, labs, and vendors across the island.
India
Bangalore
India's AI capital
Bangalore is India's AI capital - find meetups, IISc research, and vendors across Koramangala, Whitefield, and Indiranagar.
South Korea
Seoul
Chaebol AI labs
Seoul AI meetups, LG AI Research, Naver HyperCLOVA, Samsung AI, and Korea's frontier-model programmes.
China
Beijing
China's model capital
Beijing AI meetups, Tsinghua research, and China's frontier-lab cluster - Zhipu AI, Baidu, and the Chinese model ecosystem.
China
Shanghai
Commercial AI capital
Shanghai AI meetups, Alibaba DAMO, SenseTime, and China's commercial AI capital.
China
Shenzhen
Hardware meets AI
Shenzhen AI meetups, Tencent AI Lab, Huawei Ascend, and the hardware + AI ecosystem of China's southern tech hub.
Hong Kong SAR
Hong Kong
The bridge city
Hong Kong AI meetups, HKUST research, financial-services ML, and the city's role bridging Chinese and global AI.
Taiwan
Taipei
The silicon backbone
Taipei AI meetups, TSMC ecosystem, NVIDIA partnerships, and Taiwan's role in the global AI supply chain.
India
Mumbai
India's financial AI
Mumbai AI meetups, Indian banking ML, IIT Bombay research, and Reliance Jio's AI programmes.
India
Hyderabad
India's R&D corridor
Hyderabad AI meetups, Microsoft India engineering, Google India R&D, and the Hitec City applied-AI cluster.
Europe
11 cities
United Kingdom
London
Research depth meets regulated industries
London's AI scene spans DeepMind, the AI Safety Institute, fintech, and the NHS. Find meetups, labs and vendors from King's Cross to Shoreditch.
Germany
Berlin
Open-source Europe
Berlin's AI scene blends open-source research, Mittelstand buyers, and EU AI Act compliance. Find meetups, labs and vendors across the city.
France
Paris
Europe's frontier lab
Paris is Europe's frontier AI capital. Mistral, Meta FAIR, H Company, and a dense research community live here.
Netherlands
Amsterdam
Europe's applied-ML hub
Amsterdam AI meetups, applied ML at Booking and Adyen, and the Dutch AI Coalition's national programme.
Ireland
Dublin
EMEA HQ city
Dublin AI meetups and tech HQs: Google, Meta, Microsoft, Stripe, and the Irish government's AI policy leadership.
Switzerland
Zürich
Swiss precision ML
Zürich AI meetups, ETH research, Google Research Zurich, and Switzerland's AI engineering depth.
Sweden
Stockholm
Nordic applied AI
Stockholm AI meetups, Spotify ML, Klarna fraud AI, and the Nordic applied machine learning community.
Germany
Munich
Industrial AI capital
Munich AI meetups, industrial ML, and Bavaria's AI engineering cluster - BMW, Siemens, TUM, and the MCML.
Spain
Barcelona
Mediterranean supercompute
Barcelona AI meetups, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, MWC, and Spain's fastest-growing AI community.
Poland
Warsaw
CEE engineering power
Warsaw AI meetups and the Central and Eastern European AI engineering cluster. Polish NLP, Google, Samsung R&D.
United Kingdom
Edinburgh
NLP heritage city
Edinburgh AI meetups, the University of Edinburgh's NLP and ML tradition, and Scotland's AI scene.
Global
1 city
Middle East
2 cities
Israel
Tel Aviv
Startup nation
Tel Aviv AI meetups, startup-nation ML, AI21 Labs, and Israel's density of AI-native founders.
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
Gulf AI capital
Dubai AI meetups, the UAE's national AI strategy, G42, Falcon LLM, and the Gulf's largest AI investment push.
Oceania
3 cities
Australia
Sydney
Finance, mining, and Pacific research
Sydney's AI scene spans banking, mining, and research. Find meetups, labs, and vendors from the CBD to Redfern and Macquarie Park.
Australia
Melbourne
Academic south
Melbourne AI meetups, University of Melbourne research, Monash ML, and Victoria's AI policy scene.
New Zealand
Auckland
Kiwi AI
Auckland AI meetups, New Zealand's tech exporters, Xero, Soul Machines, and the country's AI strategy.
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