Where the academy meets the field.
XFA Events keep the conversation moving between cohorts through speaker series, hackathons, masterclasses, cohort kickoffs, and industrial visits for alumni, applicants, and the curious.
Event Themes
9
Regions connected through one events playbook
5
Primary event formats designed around live participation
Event Types
Built for momentum between cohorts
Free · Live + recorded
Future Fridays
A weekly speaker series where CAIOs, regulators, and sovereign-AI architects unpack what they are shipping right now.
Open preview sessions
Cohort Kickoffs
Open launch events that let future applicants feel the pace, faculty energy, and operating context of a live XFA cohort.
Teams · prizes · mentorship
Hackathons
Multi-region hackathons with faculty mentorship, university partners, enterprise prompts, and shipping-grade prototypes.
Open enrollment
Masterclasses
Focused 2-4 hour deep dives on Sovereign AI, Red Teaming, Industrial AI, and frontier engineering taught by one practitioner.
Limited seats
Industrial Visits
Inside a working AI lab. Not a tour, but an operating-context experience for people who need to see systems, teams, and workflows up close.
Featured Upcoming Events
A calendar designed to stay useful, not just decorative
Prioritized upcoming events with cleaner structure, stronger signal, and actions that match user intent.
Future Fridays: Governing Multi-Agent Systems
A sharp practitioner session on how multi-agent systems change governance, reliability, and operational control.
Date
24 May 2026
Location
Global
Audience
Architects, risk leaders, CAIOs
Builder Cohort Kickoff — Dubai Intake
Meet the faculty, understand the capstone rhythm, and see what the first week of a builder cohort actually feels like.
Date
31 May 2026
Location
Dubai + virtual
Audience
Applicants, alumni, new cohort members
Industrial AI Masterclass: Digital Twins in Production
A practitioner-led working session on digital twins, industrial data flows, and what production readiness really demands.
Date
07 June 2026
Location
Bengaluru
Audience
Builders in manufacturing, energy, smart cities
Global Agentic AI Hackathon
A multi-region build sprint with mentorship, live reviews, and working prototypes designed to survive beyond demo-day energy.
Date
21 June 2026
Location
Multi-region
Audience
Students, builders, faculty-led teams
Upcoming Calendar
Upcoming events across region, format, and track
Event Type
Industrial Visit
Date
14 June 2026
Region
UAE
Track
Leadership + Builder
Format
In-person
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