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HackathonsOpen now

AI Hackathons (community series)

AICamp

Deadline
Rolling — check calendar
Location
Multiple cities + virtual (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
HackathonsOpen now

Kaggle Community Hackathons & Notebooks Challenges

Kaggle (Google)

Deadline
Rolling — new events posted regularly
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
HackathonsOpen now

AI & Data Hackathons hosted on Devpost

Devpost (various sponsors)

Deadline
Rolling — new events posted regularly
Location
Virtual and in-person, varies by event (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

Kaggle Competitions

Kaggle (Google)

Deadline
Rolling — each competition has its own deadline
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

DrivenData Competitions

DrivenData

Deadline
Rolling — each competition has its own deadline
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

Zindi Competitions

Zindi

Deadline
Rolling — each competition has its own deadline
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

DataKind DataDive & Data Corps Projects

DataKind

Deadline
Rolling — check current projects
Location
Multiple cities + virtual (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

Correlation One Datathons

Correlation One

Deadline
Rolling — check current cohort
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsOpen now

AIcrowd Research Challenges

AIcrowd

Deadline
Rolling — each challenge has its own deadline
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsOpen now

Conference Travel/Diversity Grants (varies by conference)

Various (e.g. PyData, SciPy, NeurIPS)

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by conference (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsOpen now

Path Forward Returnship Program

Path Forward

Deadline
Rolling — cohorts posted by partner companies
Location
Multiple companies, US-based (varies) (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for career changers rebuilding professional experience

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

AWS Skill Builder Data & AI Learning Plans

Amazon Web Services

Deadline
Rolling — self-paced
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
varies

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

Google Cloud Skills Boost (Data & AI learning paths)

Google Cloud

Deadline
Rolling — self-paced
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
varies

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

Microsoft Learn AI & Data Certifications (exam discount vouchers periodically offered)

Microsoft

Deadline
Rolling — self-paced; discount vouchers vary by promotion
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
varies

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

Women in Data / Women in AI Mentorship Programs

Women in Data (WID) / Women in AI

Deadline
Rolling — cohorts posted periodically
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

Correlation One Data & AI Fellowship Programs

Correlation One

Deadline
Rolling — cohorts posted periodically
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for career changers rebuilding professional experience

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingOpen now

Responsible AI Institute Programs & Certification

Responsible AI Institute

Deadline
Rolling — self-paced and cohort programs
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
varies

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →

Upcoming — date not yet announced

Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

NeurIPS (Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems)

NeurIPS Foundation

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically early December
Location
Varies by year (hybrid)
Cost
paid

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning)

International Machine Learning Society

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically July
Location
Varies by year (in-person)
Cost
paid

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

KDD (ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining)

ACM SIGKDD

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically August
Location
Varies by year (in-person)
Cost
paid

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

Data + AI Summit

Databricks

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically June
Location
San Francisco, CA (typical) + virtual (hybrid)
Cost
varies

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

Strata Data + AI Conference

O'Reilly Media

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by year (hybrid)
Cost
paid

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

ODSC (Open Data Science Conference)

Open Data Science Conference

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Multiple regional events (US, Europe, APAC) (hybrid)
Cost
paid

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

PyData (regional and global conferences)

NumFOCUS

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Multiple cities worldwide (hybrid)
Cost
varies

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

SciPy Conference

Enthought / SciPy community

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically July
Location
Typically Tacoma/Austin (varies) (in-person)
Cost
paid

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

Grace Hopper Celebration

AnitaB.org

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically September/October
Location
Varies by year (hybrid)
Cost
varies

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing

CMD-IT

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
September 16, 2026 – September 18, 2026
Location
Atlanta, GA (in-person)
Cost
varies

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Conferences & major eventsDate not yet announced

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Worldwide Conference

Stanford University

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically March
Location
Stanford, CA + regional/virtual events worldwide (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for networking and meeting employers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
HackathonsDate not yet announced

MHacks

University of Michigan

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Ann Arbor, MI (in-person)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
HackathonsDate not yet announced

HackMIT

MIT

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Cambridge, MA (in-person)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
HackathonsDate not yet announced

CalHacks

UC Berkeley

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Berkeley, CA (in-person)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
CompetitionsDate not yet announced

Iron Viz (data visualization competition)

Tableau (Salesforce)

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Virtual qualifying rounds; final at Tableau Conference (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

Google Generation Scholarship

Google

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by program (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

Women at Microsoft Scholarship Program

Microsoft

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
United States (typical) (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

DataCamp Donates Scholarship Program

DataCamp

Deadline
Rolling — offered through partner organizations
Location
Virtual (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Fellowships & Internships

Allen Institute for AI

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Seattle, WA (typical) + remote roles vary (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

Meta Research PhD Fellowship (AI track)

Meta

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Global (PhD program-based) (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

Google PhD Fellowship

Google

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Global (PhD program-based) (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Scholarships & fellowshipsDate not yet announced

AnitaB.org Scholarships & Travel Grants

AnitaB.org

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Tied to Grace Hopper Celebration (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for students seeking financial support

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

PyData Call for Proposals (speaker applications)

NumFOCUS / PyData

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by regional event (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

ODSC Call for Speakers

Open Data Science Conference

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Multiple regional events (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

NeurIPS Call for Papers

NeurIPS Foundation

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by year (hybrid)
Cost
paid

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

KDD Call for Papers (Research & Applied Data Science tracks)

ACM SIGKDD

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by year (hybrid)
Cost
paid

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

Google Summer of Code

Google

Deadline
Not yet announced
Dates
Typically applications open March, program runs summer
Location
Remote (virtual)
Cost
free

Good for portfolio building

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

Data Council Call for Speakers

Data Council

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Austin, TX (typical) + regional events (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

Partnership on AI Fellowship & Research Programs

Partnership on AI

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies (hybrid)
Cost
free

Good for researchers and speakers

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →
Training, calls for papers & speakingDate not yet announced

Tableau Conference Call for Speakers

Salesforce / Tableau

Deadline
Not yet announced
Location
Varies by year (in-person)
Cost
paid

Good for experienced professionals seeking industry visibility

Last verified 2026-07-19View official page →

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