​Howdy Amigos!

​Please come join us as we host our 3rd Annual Texas Venture Fest Houston - The AI Edition at The Innovation Hub at 801 Travis powered by invincible in Downtown Houston.

​TENTATIVE AGENDA

​8:30 AM to 10:30 AM - Cup of Joey Texas Venture Fest Houston Edition

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​11 AM to 12:30 PM - Lunch at Understory

​Grab a friend or make new friends over lunch as we take the tunnels to Understory.

​1 PM to 3:20 PM - The AI Edition

• ​1 PM - Welcome

• ​1:10 PM - The State of AI

• ​1:40 PM - AI Developer Ecosystems

• ​2 PM Investing - How Investors Build Venture Ecosystems

• ​2:20 PM - Energy & AI

• ​2:40 PM - Healthcare AI

• ​3 PM - Finance & AI

​3:30 PM to 5:30 PM - AI Salon Houston Launch: AI and the Art of being Human.

​We'll have a few books to raffle away too.

​6 PM to 8 PM - The Houston AI Club presents: AI Governamce and Cyber Panel

​The next AI challenge isn’t adoption. It’s responsible adoption.

As organizations move from experimenting with AI to deploying it at scale, new questions come with it:
→ What data can teams safely share?
→ Who decides which tools and models are approved?
→ How do you create guardrails without slowing innovation?

Join us for a panel discussion with Michael Farnum, Tommy Todd - CISSP, Salim Gheewalla, and Joe Alapat on AI Governance & Cybersecurity. We will be exploring how organizations can balance AI’s opportunities with the security, governance, and risk considerations that come with them.

AI adoption is happening. Now comes the work of doing it responsibly.

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​Biketoberfest 2026

​🚴 ~5:30-6 PM: wheels up
🍻7:00 PM Oktoberfest beers at the Second Draught
Bring your bike. Bring your friends. Grab a beer.

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​Checkout last year's event here to see the archive. Follow Texas Venture Fest on LinkedIn & Instagram to stay up-to-date and check out TVF: Houston 2025 here.

​​​⭐ TEXAS' SIGNATURE INNOVATION EVENTS:

​The Lone Star State shouldn’t have lone star founders. The Texas Venture Fest is a day of networking and programming highlighting the ecosystem of entrepreneur support. More than 15 cities simultaneously host this statewide phenomenon, across our small towns and the nation's biggest metropoles, 3,500+ Texans gather to help innovation flourish.

​This event is part of the Texas Startup & Tech Week (9/28-10/2), the state's flagship innovation week. The sister signature event is the Texas Venture Gala & Forum, the largest convening at the Texas State Capitol & awards dinner in downtown Austin for innovators and investors from across the state.