January
January kicked off with our now-famous Spacewalk event. We “sold out” the IMAX theater and more than 45,000 watched the AI panel discussion on YouTube. 

• See a summary, see pictures, and watch it live

February
More than 200 joined us at IBM as the great John Willis delivered an amazing talk and signed books for attendees. 

• See a summary, see pictures, and watch it live

March
We hosted our first-ever AI conference in Durham, NC – and it was unbelievable! More than 2,100 registered and 1,600+ attended from all over the world. 

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• Keynote recordings | AI Builder recordings | AI Engineer recordings 

April
We came back strong in April as Mark Hinkle delivered a fantastic presentation at Bandwidth in the RTP. We hosted a networking social after, which was extremely well attended. 

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May
200+ attended the monthly meetup at Fidelity Investments. The great Brent Laster delivered a wonderful hour-long presentation on “AI 3-in-1: Agents, RAG, and Local Models”. It was substantive and jam-packed with applicable information and demos, something attendees really appreciated.

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June
So many attended June’s meetup featuring William Hill of NVIDIA we had to live stream it. More than 200 attendees were on hand at IBM’s RTP campus. 

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August
We came back strong after a July / summer break. Taylor Desseyn, VP of Global Community at Torc.dev, delivered a 15-minute overview of the current technology jobs landscape titled “Tech Hiring Isn’t Dead”, then he moderated a panel discussion with hiring managers and employment thought leaders from Fidelity Investments, Bandwidth, and Randstad. More than 200 attended. 

• Watch Taylor’s presentation, the panel discussion, and more

September
More than 250 joined us (400 registered) for our first-ever meetup at The Armory in downtown Durham. The topic was a unique one – Agentic AI, Interoperability, and Automation: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future. Dr. Chris Hazard, CTO & co-founder of HowSo, was the featured speaker and did an amazing job. 

• See the meetup event on Meetup.com

September
We designed and made available a brand-new meetup t-shirt – just for meetup attendees! The shirt was extremely well received and has proven to be very popular. 

• See the t-shirt design

October
We hosted “lucky” year #13 of the All Things Open conference. More than 6,500 from all over the world registered and 200+ speakers and sessions were featured. 

• See a summary, pictures, and our take-away observations

November
Building on our ATO momentum we hosted not one, but two meetups in the month. Both featured world-class speakers and content, and both were extremely well attended. 

• See the AI & Linux in 2025 with Jay the linux Guy summary, talk and pictures
• See a summary of the Matt Caswell/OpenSSL “Open Source Post-Quantum Cryptography with OpenSSL” meetup at Cisco’s campus

December
We hosted our final 2025 meetup on Tuesday evening, December 2 on the campus of Lexis Nexis. Brandon Mathis of This Dot Labs delivered a wonderful talk looking at AI-powered coding tools and techniques to a packed house. 

• See the meetup event on Meetup.com

January 2026
We’ll keep the world-class education and networking opportunities going in the New Year with our annual Spacewalk event at Marbles Museum’s IMAX Theater in downtown Raleigh. It’s a unique and memorable venue, and the programming should be tremendous!

• RSVP for Spacewalk 2026 today