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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 →
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

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

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

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

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

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

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 →
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

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 →
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

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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